The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1909-09-18
COLORADO ITEMS

First snow OF the season fell in the
mountain region Sunday.
President Taft day at Denver will
be a rouser, from all Indications.
Wilkie Edwards. Colorado Springs
club man. recently died at San Fran
cisco.
Light frosts are reported from all
over the state on night of September
18th. No great damage was done to
crops.
A. w. Powers. merchant at Or
rado Springs Monday because his
wife did not love him." Funeral at
Orlondo
The chief attraction at the Canon
City Fair was the giving away OF five
tons of fruit to visitors. This was
accomplished from a stand erected for
the purpose under a large tent near
the entrance to the grounds.
By the first of the coming year
there will be in operation in Denver
a new life insurance company. organ
lied under the laws of Colorado. with
paid-up capital of s250,000 and IA
board of directors composed entirely
of residents OF this state.
Having saved 81 900 out of wages
and tips received while a bellboy at
the Northern hotel for two years, at
Fort Collins. Arnold Stecher, aged
nineteen. left for Boulder to enter
high school in preparation for the
State University.
Major Cochran. father-in-law of
Frank DeMantel, proprietor of Peters,
burg, and Henry Cook, deputy mar
shall OF Petersburg, were each fined
s25 and costs by Justice Stewart for
resisting Colonel MacAlexander, a
game warden, two weeks ago.
Disappointed in love, Miss Maggie
Hoover, the 19-year- old daughter Of
Mrs. Clara Hoover, former matron at
the city Jail. in Pueblo, took strych-
nine and died as she was being rushed
to St. Marys hospital. She was found
on the floor in commissions by her
brother Frank, and DR.. PEARS, city
physician, was called.
Because of lack of funds, st. Paul
NJ. e. church, South, Denver, has been
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the institutional field and build a new
church with clubrooms. library, gym
nasium and home for working girls.
A new church will be built. but on a
smaller scale. 1t will be located some
where on Capitol hill.
Gen. Edward Moody McCook. twice
territorial governor Of Colorado, The
man who paved the way for Sher-
mans march to the sea, and former
minister to Hawaii, died in Chicago
| Sept. .. The end came at the Chi
| cago Baptist hospital, after long suf-
ferring from Brights disease. His
brother, Gen. Anson G. McCook of
New York, was at his bedside.
Believing that her eighteen-year-old
daughter was buried alive while in a
state of coma, Mrs. J. H. Pfaff, wife
of a dairyman living one mile east of
Globeyille, asked the city health de-
partment of Denver what she could
do to relieve her mind of the horri-
bic doubt hanging over it. She was
advised to have the body disinterred
from its grave in the Riverside ceme-
terry.
The body of William Eoherty, a
well known ranchman of Trinchera.
who was drowned near that place.
was recovered several miles from the
scene OF the drowning Doherty and
his brother attempted to cross an ar
Ioya near their home, when the rig
was overturned and both were thrown
into the current After desperate
struggle, Joseph escaped. but his
brother was swept down with the
flood. He was % years old and is
survived by seven brothers and five
sisters.
Land adjoining Gill, sold Tor $3.50 an
acre. without water. The purchaser
was man who had been a tenant on
the land for years and he will quit
farming and do market gardening
Fifteen years ago Gill and the sur
rounding territory was open range. 1t
is now a station on the new Union
Pacific line. The Union Pacific is
erecting a depot and business men OF
Greeley are building big warehouse.
Contracts have been signed in Den.
yer by the Greeley-Poudre irrigation
district and the Laramie-Poudre Res
ervoir & Irrigation Company for the
construction of the greatest irrigation
system In the West, not excepting
government projects completed or un.
der construction. 1t will require ex-
penditure OF about $5,OO0.0o0. This
is the largest enterprise undertaken
by D. A. Camfield of this city, his as
sociates OF Denver and of the East.
The project has been fully financed
and construction of the reservoirs,
bitches and the great tunnel through
the Medicine Bow range to bring
alter from the Laramie river into the