The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1909-04-17
COLORADO NEWS

cottages at Coal Creek.
A large delegation from Colorado
will attend the convention of the Ma
tional Retail Grocers, to be held in
Portland. Ore, June 2nd to 7th.
st. Pauls NJ. E. church (South) of
Denver has raised the $4,000 building
fund required for the erection OF new
institutional church
Over $4,000 apple. peach and plum
trees have been planted this spring in
the new Beaver Park section of Fre-
mont county. or nearly twice as many
as last year.
The new Christian Science church at
Florence was dedicated on Easter Sun
day. 1t is one of the finest church
buildings in the city and is entirely
free from debt
S. P. Ferguson, expert of the Blue
Hill Observatory, Boston, is in Colo
rado Springs to make experiments on
Pixies Peak. He will fly kites as a
means of determining atmospheric
conditions.
Every one of the forty-five teachers
of the Greeley public schools has been
reelected for the ensuing year. The
financial plans are being talked over in
order to build 100000 high school
building within the coming year.
The formal transfer of the state re-
formatory at Buena Vista from War
den A. c. butcher to Felix O'Neil of
Denver, the new appointee, was made
by the commissioners on the 7th inst.
Mr
his home in Colorado Springs.
While Roy Dunning, a photographer.
was attempting to take a picture of
the Penitentes in Longs canon, six
miles west of Trinidad, he was fired
at three times by one of the guards,
but not hit. He hurried away, fell and
broke his camera.
Some religious fanatic in defiance OF
the law Of the state mas painted the
following precept with green paint in
Cliff Dwellers' canon, near Manitou:
You must repent to be saved; Jesus
died for YOU" The canon is private
property and the proprietors have no.
titled the authorities. The offenders
will be prosecuted il found.
The farmers living under the Hol-
brook canal north OF La Junta have
petitioned the county commissioners
that an irrigation district be formed
there. They want to buy the canal
from the Holbrook heirs, build more
reservoirs and enlarge the one already
built from 1900 to 10000 acre-feet.
The district will be bonded
Jack Brady OF Colorado City. who
lost his right leg in a train accident
while brakeman for the Colorado Mid
land eleven years ago, has received
check for $9.400 from the company.
Brady sued for damages, and the state
Supreme Court recently sustained a
former decision giving him $1,000. also
allowing him interest, nearly doubling
the original sum.
The directors of the newly-organize
Country Club of Fort Collins have de-
cided to purchase tract of 256 acres
of state land two and a half miles
north OF town for club purposes, if the
State Land Board appraises the tract
at a satisfactory figure. Golf links
/ and tennis courts are to be laid out
at once and bids will be received for
the erection of a club building.
A temporary injunction restraining
w. W. Degge, head of the Wellington
system, a land and mining promotion
| company, with headquarters in Boul-
der. from making any further use OF a
list of names secured from the Mining
Investor Publishing Company by al
legged fraudulent means. was issued
on the 7th inst. by Judge George w.
Allen in Division Four of the District
Court at Denver.
The Colorado & Southern railroad
will build an extension from its line
at Sopris to the property of the Woo
ten Land and Fuel Company, accord
ing to a statement given out at Trini-
dad by Col. J. A. Owenby, president
| OF the Wooten company, who says
work will be started Immediately on
the road. The distance is about twen-
| ty miles and the line will tap several
| coal veins which are not developed.
The State Normal School board met
at Greeley and reorganized on the 9Th
inst, choosing L. W. Markham of La
mar, president: A. ]. Stary, secretary;
and John Petrikin. treasurer The 9TH
| er members are j. H. Thatcher and
| Mrs. Thalia Rhodes. Denver; NJ P.
Welch, Delta: George Houson, Gree
ley. Mrs. Grenfell not having accepted
| appointment to fill the Turner va
cancy. Charles Ward of Boulder was
| appointed.
Advices from Washington received
| in Boulder state that the new tariff bill!
/ provides for 20 per cent. ad valorem
duty on tungsten ores on refined pro-
I,,<,
sten metal. At the present time there
is no duty on either tungsten ore or
the metal and the tungsten producers
are forced to compete with the cheap
| labor of Portugal, Peru and Australia,