The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1909-07-03
COLORADO NEWS

More ore is being shipped from Ou'
ray at the present time than for sew
eral years before.
The Union Pacific railroad has Sc
| cured nearly all the property necessary
for its right of way through Fort Col
| Inns.
Thirty blooded Percheron Norman
mares from France are to be brought
! TO Greeley for breeding purposes at a
cost of $4,000.
/ The work of decorating the inter
| ior of the Denver Auditorium will be
/ begun soon after the adjournment of
| the National Educational Association.
| The Stratton estate contemplates
| improvements Of about $500, 900 on the
! Brown Palace hotel in Denver. which
will begin next fall, after the summer
season.
Milo MCGOWAN, a young real estate
| dealer at Limon, was struck by light
| ming June 25th and instantly killed,
while working at his homestead twelve
miles from town.
X. c. johnson, representing the Kan
sas-Colorado Construction Company, is
settling the accounts of creditors at
Pueblo, after which it is said that
work on the road will be rushed.
A promising gold discovery has
/ been made in Routt county on Rock
creek near Whitley in the Rabbit Ear
range which is said to be an exten-
sion Of veins running through the Gore
range.
1t is now DR.. Shafroth. The Uni
versity of Michigan on June oath con-
ferred the honorary degree of L. l.. D.
| upon Gov. John F. Shafroth of Colo
rado. graduate of the law school in
1875.
Upon the requisition of Gov. B. B.
Brooks Of Wyoming, Lieut.. Gov Fitz-
garrald issued extradition papers for
oscar Berg. wanted for horse stealing.
Berg was found working in the mines
at Lake City.
c. B. Nix sold his farm OF 100 acres
near Eaton few days since to Chris
Nelson for $4,000. Nix bought it last
fall for $16,50O He retains two-thirds
of this years crop and estimates his
profit at $500
Work has begun on the new bath
pool of the Steamboat Springs Town
site Company. 1t will be fed by nat
urai hot springs, is to be 100 by $50
feet and will be similar to the large
pool at Glenwood Springs.
r. A. Ballinger, secretary of the inte-
rior in President Taft's Cabinet, and
Congressman E. i. Taylor of Colorado
are among the important public men
who will address the Denver Chamber
OF Commerce at series of luncheons
planned for the late summer and early
fall
While c. W. Gilbert, proprietor of
the Gilbert drug store at Loveland.
and his assistant. Mr.. Brown, were
charging a soda fountain tank, it ex-
ploded. and the upper portion was
thrown across the room, knocking
Brown down and breaking Mr.. Gill
bert's left forearm near the elbow.
A chapter of the Daughters of the
Confederacy will be organized In Den
yer within the next few weeks. At
meeting OF fifteen women Of Denver,
all former residents OF southern states,
AANAN ~ ehS EAiOdhy holCi, a pCtIllOu III
charter was signed. The meeting
was called by Mrs. A. J. Emerson of
Berkeley. formerly OF Virginia.
X. Matsubara, japanese consul at
Chicago. was a recent visitor In Den
yer, coming as the guest of the jap
anese Association of Colorado and DR..
A. l.. Bennett, state inspector OF Or
ientals. A banquet was given to M.
Matsubara and DR.. Bennett by the Jap
anese Business Mems Association Of
Colorado.
George Easton, a wealthy lumber
man charged with timber trespassing
at Fraser in Grand county, confessed
judgment in the Federal Court in Den
yer. and gave the court his check for
S613.5O and costs. The amount paid is
at the rate of s. per 1000 feet for the
timber, which he was charged with cut
ting from government land.
Prof. Abram Gideon of the State
Normal School, has been appointed on
the advisory council of the simplified
spelling board Of the United States.
Two other Colorado men are on the
board-President Anderson of the
School Of Mines, and Doctor Pershing
of Denver. Ther are twenty lecturers
on the board, of which Doctor Gideon
is one.
About 10 o'clock on the night of
June 25th. two masked men entered
the store Of James A. Fenlon at Un-
compahgre and. after severely beating
Fenlon and leaving him tied and help
less. looted the store, taking $25 in
cash, knives and tobacco. Fenlon put
up lively fight but was knocked
down with revolver and over
powered
A verdict for $500 for little Clayton
Kerr, the seven-year-old son of Harry