The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1909-05-15
COLORADO NEWS

Street cars have arrived for the new
Grand junction electric line and May
18th has been Set for the formal open
ing. Free rides will be given the first
three days
Another municipal playground has
been opened in Denver, at Lincoln
Park in West Denver. and 5000 chill
dren took advantage of it on the open
ing day.
The county commissioners OF Boul-
der county have voted not to issue
license to conduct bar in the hotel
at Eldorado Springs. No licenses will
be granted anywhere in the county.
While carrying a quantity OF dyna-
mite through drift of the Yak tunnel
at Leadville, Andrew Person, aged for
ty-two, fell and with sufficient force
to explode the powder. which killed
him instantly.
The Rev Father Francis A. O'Neil.
for six years pastor of st. Dominic's
church, and one Of the most popular
Catholic priests in Denver, died at his
home in Denver on the 9th inst. from
valvular disease of the heart
The Sterling Municipal Civic League
observed cleaning up day May 10th,
and the town was thoroughly reno
waited. The work was under the di-
rection of President Mrs. c. B. Tim
berlake and Vice President Mrs. H. B.
Davis.
Steele, Ovid Plumb and B. D. Sanborn
have taken action to continue the cor
porate life of Union colony at Greeley
for twenty years, made possible by a
law passed by the last Legislature. 1t
is kept up to correct errors in deeds
and for the purpose of keeping sa-
looms out OF Greeley.
The F. f. Edbrooke Architect Com
pany has submitted to the Board OF
Capitol Managers at Denver plans for
a 100000 museum which will prob
ably be erected in the civic center.
about Fourteenth and Acoma, oppo-
site the new public library. The new
building is extremely artistic and will
be fitting companion piece to the Ii
brary.
Word was recently received at Fort
Collins by DR.. George H. Glover, head
of the veterinary department of Colo
RADIO Agricultural College, that the de-
partment would be given class A rat
ing by the committee appointed to in
spect all schools. This will put the
college on a par with the best veter-
inaian institutions of the United
States.
The congregation of the First NJ. E.
church at Colorado Springs will ten
der an elaborate reception June s in
honor of DR.. James B. Gregg, who re-
Gently resigned after twenty-seven
years continuous service, to live with
his children in Boston. Mayor Spur
geon, President Slocum of Colorado
Springs and President Dodge of the
Y NJ. c. A. will speak.
At the home of former Governor
Jesse Mcdonald in Denver on the 10th
inst Miss Sarah Nichols died from
the effects of the bullet wound in her
head inflicted March 29th by John
Collins, Mrs. McDonald's father and
Miss Nichols brother-in-law. In a sud
den violent impulse Collins, whose
mind had become affected by illness,
shot Miss Nichols and then killed him
self
Plans are completed at Greeley for
the new training school to be erected
on the State Normal school cam
pus east of the library. This building
will cost 100000 and will be COM
pleted by the fall of 1910 The State
normal has the largest enrolment now
in it's history, having about 1900 pu-
pills. DR.. R. E. Winship, editor of the
New England Journal of Education of
Boston, will deliver the graduation ad-
dress.
In the District Court at Colorado
Springs Judge Morris sentenced C. H. |
Curl, convicted of receiving stolen
goods, to one year to fifteen months
n the penitentiary and gave the same
sentence to Laura v. Donal, convicted |
of receiving stolen goods, on the tes-
timony of twelve-year-old Tillie Wat
son, who was found in the dry goods |
store which the Donal woman had in
structed her to burglarize. The Wat
son girl is in the Industrial school.
Edwin A. Brown, a wealthy Denver |
man, who Is interested in the estab-
lishment Of municipal lodging houses,
visited Pueblo, represented himself as |
poor man out of work and was cour-
teously received at the ''bull-pen" and
given nights lodging in what he af-
terward described to Mayor Fugard as
the most damnable place he had ever
seen outside OF Mexican prisons. He
believes that the Mayor will be sue
cessful in securing municipal lodging
house.
The largest individual bond, as we'll
as ons of the most unusual ever filed !
in the County Court at Colorado !
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