The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1909-09-04
STATE NEWS ITEMS

shipped $50 boxes OF fancy apples to
the eastern market. This is the old
| est orchard in Colorado.
Twenty-nine carloads Of fruit were
shipped from Grand Junction on Sat
urday. according to q statement issued
by the Grand Junction Fruit Growers
! Association.
/ Five families have been quaran-
tined in Louisville owing to an cpl
demic OF smallpox. which has had a
/ pronounced run in the mining town
! for the last two weeks.
The noted 3-R ranch. embracing
1895 acres and twenty-six cubic feet
of water right. located near Beulah.
was sold by r. F. Weitbrec to former
Senator Hume Lewis for $125.0OO.
The opinion OF farmers of Logan
county and others fully competent to
Judge of agricultural conditions. is
that that section OF the state will
/ yield the greatest crops ever known.
/ A match dropped on the floor by
his wife caused a fire in the home OF
/ Davis S. Miller, a prominent real es-
tate dealer of Grand Junction. and
caused damage that may reach $1,000.
/ The loss is covered by insurance.
Branch H. Giles. law partner OF
/ Judge e. C. Stimson and one of the
most prominent members Of the Den
/ yer bar. died Sunday night at his
home, 1445 Race street. He had long
/ been a sufferer from tuberculosis. He
was unmarried and Is survived by a
/ father and sister.
Charged with robbing . passenger
of $l25 and a ticket to the coast.
tourist car porter, Clifford Reed, was
arrested at the union station at. Pu-
eblo He denied his guilt but became
nervous when $50 OF the money was
found, hidden. in the stove. He s be-
, ing held.
Jim Flynn, the Pueblo fighting fire
man who is to meet Bill Pettus at Pu-
eblo on September 22nd in ten
round bout for the benefit Of the Pu-
.blo baseball club, has arrived from
California and will open up training
quarters soon. Pettus is expected to
I arrive soon and start training.
Among the most completely irri-
gated counties in the state is Morgan
county, through which runs the Platte
river, Fort Morgan canal. Bijou Jack
son Lake and Riverside systems. and
now being entered blythe Nile. Beaver,
Badger and Fort Morgan irrigation
system. The crop yields under this
great system. covering many thou
sands Of acres, is greater this year
/ than ever before.
nnnrarcaA with foor that aono mia.
fortune had befallen her father. John
| TRULY. Mrs. Stella Brilliant made the
trip west from Pennsylvania, arriving
at Greeley a week ago. She found him
in good health, but three days later
| he suffered an attack OF appendicitis,
| and his death occurred at the Greeley
hospital. He was sixty-nine years old,
| and was well known there. He is sur
vived by a widow, two daughters and
| son.
Three furnaces are now in operation
at the big plant Of the United States
Zinc Company at Pueblo while the re-
naming seven are undergoing repairs.
| They will be blown in from time to
time and it is expected that the plant
will be running full capacity by Octo-
| ber 1st There Is no evidence OF a
strike at the plant whatever and the
company declares it Is finding no trou-
BILE in securing men as soon as they
need them.
Joseph Haughton, q years old, OF
Victor, Colo, was killed at Grand
Junction by being run over by west
bound Rio Grande passenger train.
Haughton. with a brother and a
chance travelling companion, were rid
| ing from Glenwood to Grand Junction
| on the tender of a light engine. Un-
noticed. he slipped from his precarious
| perch and lay on the tracks just above
| Clifton, probably unconscious. until
| the regular passenger train which was
q short distance behind ran over him.
Ed lillian. notorious horsethief and
| ex-convict. who escaped from the Del
| ta Jail July 2Sth. has been recaptured
in Monticello. Utah. When he escaped
| lillian had a hand-to-hand encounter
with Sheriff Williams, whom he near.
ly murdered. Extraordinary efforts
were made by officers in all of this
| inteT-mountain country to find the
man. HiAan was recognized by a for.
mer pal, who gave the officers a hint
| OF his whereabouts, his rearrest result
ing. Sheriff Williams will leave to
| night to bring him back.
The Santa Fe railroad will have to
pay its annual license to the state OF
Colorado or quit running its trains
across the state line. This, in effect,
was the decision OF Federal Judge
| Lewis in Denver, when he sustained
the demurrer filed by the attorneys
for Timothy O'Connor, former Secre-
| tary of State, holding that the tax OF
81 fer every $1,000 Of capitalization OF