The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1909-05-01
COLORADO ITEMS

gath, $4,000 in bonds were voted for
new school buildings, one in town and
two in the country.
Judge James Garrigues at Greeley
has approved the petition for issuance
Of $3.000,O00 in bonds by the Henry
lyn Irrigation district.
NJ. Craffey has begun the erection in
Denver of the largest broom factory
west of the Missouri river, represent
ing an investment of 100000.
r. X. Ingledow, employed in the Clio
rietta shaft of the Vindicator No. 2
mine at Victor, was caught in cavein
on April 23rd and sustained very Sc
rious injuries.
Denver is to try a new preparation
to lay the dust and furnish surface
to the macadamized roadways. 1t is
composed of asphalt, petroleum. soap
and water.
Vernon McKelvey, a ranchman, has
begun the construction of small
reservoir to cost $1,000 on his ranch
near Lucerne. The water will be used
to irrigate COO acres of land.
Former Adjutant General Bulkeley
Wells has been given recognition OF
his services to the state by being
placed on the retired list. with the
rank of brigadier general.
A memorial has been received from
the Democrats and citizens Of La
Plata county by Governor Shafroth,
deploring and regretting the failure OF
the last Legislative Assembly to pass
the Democratic platform measures and
petitioning him to call an extra ses-
sion.
The executors of the Stratton es-
tate have turned over to the trustees
for the Myron Stratton home about
$6,000,000 worth of securities, all OF
the estate except 100000, which is re-
tanned in view of the litigation still
pending. The action thus taken in
court means that the Myron Stratton
home will soon be built. A site for the
home is now being selected.
Two appointments have been made
and five retirements ordered in high
places In the Colorado National Guard.
Adjutant General John Chase, with
the approval of Governor Shafroth.
named Charles B. Carlisle, son OF
James Carlisle, former state treasurer,
to be inspector general, and DIR. T. E.
Carmody to be surgeon general The
appointments take effect at once.
At Colorado Springs April 26th, the
bill of the late Gen. William j. Palmer
was admitted to probate on petition or
the three daughters. The estate Is
valued at upward of $5,OO0,OO0, SO that
. uta To leo nrnyihpd for
by the law recently enacted by the
Legislature will shortly appraise the
property to fix the state inheritance
tax. This will approximate $4,000.
Governor Shafroth has signed Sen
ate bill 80 by Senator Campbell. de-
signed to abolish a social evil. The
fight over this bill was one OF the
sharpest of the session. 1t is said that
the men against whom it was aimed
and who can now be sentenced as fel-
ons where before they could only be
adjudged vagrants, raised fund OF
several thousand dollars 10 defeat it.
Never in the history OF northern
Colorado was there as much snow in
the foothills as now. IrrigationlstS
who have been investigating the depth
say streams will run bankfull by carly
summer. and fill every reservoir in the
entire region. In Estes Park and at
the headwaters of the Poudre snow is
banked five to ten feet deep In the
foothills and farther back it is twenty
to thirty feet deep.
At Greeley April oath the Wel6
County Fair Association elected thir-
teen directors and the stockholders
recommended that Chester Blunt be
made president and ID. J. March, man
ager. The association will be capital
lied at $25,0O0 The plan is to make
the fair an annual event, and to pu,
the association on strictly business
basis This years fair will occur Sep
tember 1st-4th, when the Northern Col
orado Circuit race meet is scheduled
at Greeley.
Governor Shafroth has signed S. B.
PIT, by Senator Irby, making it obliga-
tory for railway corporations which
have named their general headquar-
ters in their articles of incorporation,
if filed in Colorado, to keep them here
afterward The bill is intended to pre-
vent the removal of the general offices
of the Colorado & Southern Railroad
Company from Dsnver by the Bur,
lington, since it's absorption by that
road 1t is applicable as well to other
roads coming under the provisions OF
the act.
Governor Shafroth has signed the
Drake-Jones bill allowing the forma-
nf droj ~ diStrictg the
same plan as irrigation districts. He
has also signed the bill to create
Board of Examining Architects, the
bill making the Colorado School for
the Deaf and Blind an educational in