The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1909-03-20
STATE NEWS ITEMS

Greeley for the erection of Y. NJ
c. A. building
The fourth class poStoffices of
Cortez and Dolores will be made pres
idential after April 1st, with salary OF
II 100 each
AT Florence on the nth inst forty
teams and fifty men began work on
the Beaver & Northern railway, which
Is to be in operation by May 18th.
City delivery service has been or
dered established June 18th at Colo
RADIO City, with three carriers. one sub
stitute and twenty-five letter boxes.
The Florence City Council has COM
pleted its budget for the fiscal year,
the appropriations totaHng $37,550.
which is about $4,000 less than last
year
The Grand junction Electric line pro-
poses to lease the grounds Of the
County Fair Association for use as an
amusement park next summer. extend
ing its road to the grounds.
Fort Collins is to have a cleanup day
April ID The Woman's club has in
augurated a movement to have all
streets and alleys thoroughly cleaned
on that day.
Arrangements have been made for
two baseball games at Trinidad April
oath and 25th with the Denver West
ern league team. which will play the
local men. recently organized.
While hunting near Pueblo on the
18th inst. Claude Harrison. the 15-year-
old son of J. Fl. Harrison. was accident
ally shot by Frank McColm and died
two hours afterward as the result Of ex
posure and the wound The dead boys
father was In the hunting party.
Fearing repetition of the flood of
1894. on account of the heavy snowfall
during the winter, the directors of the
Pueblo Business Mems Association is
taking steps toward Strengthening the
levees of the Arkansas river and other
wise protecting the city from the flood.
A sawmill is to be set up on the old
Eaton farm south of Windsor. which
was occupied by the late Governor
Eaton in the sixties. for the purpose
Of converting some $4,000 feet of cot
tonwood logs into lumber This kind
of lumber is now being used by the
Great Western Sugar Company in the
construction of its beet dumps.
An chronological department has
been added to the Colorado Museum of
Natural History at City park. in Den
yer Five thousand specimens of bugs
will soon be placed on exhibition. Pro-
fessor Ernest ]. Osler, one OF the best
known entomologists and collectors in
the country, has been appointed cura-
tor of the department.
The Pueblo county branch of the
Farmers Union held a meeting at Pu-
eblo on the 18th inst, and passed res
olutions which indicate that no beets
will be grown In Pueblo county unless
the factories will agree to the contracts
which have been drawn up by the
farmers and which call for flat rate
Of s. a ton.
The motive power for the Gold Run
cyanide mill at Wall Street, in Boulder
county. has recently been changed
from steam to electric power. the cur
rent being supplied by the Eastern
Colorado Power Company. which in
turn is supplied by the Northern Com
pany while the power plant is being
constructed in Boulder canon.
Mrs Marie Moynahan wife of former
State Senator James Moynahan of AL
ma, died suddenly on the 18th inst.
Mrs. Moynahan was married shortly
after the close of the Civil War and
came by wagon across the plains to
Colorado with her husband in the early
days Besides her husband she is sur
vived by two daughters and two sons.
President E. w. Wilcox of The Ar
gentine Central railroad. operating
from Silver Plume to Mt. McClelland.
over Gray's Peak, has returned from an
extended trip east and announces that
the line will open May LIST, having re-
mained Closed since December 1st. The
custom OF closing for the winter will
be done away with this year and here
after and the Argentine Central will
be q year-around line OF railroad
While driving three horses across
the tracks, Chester Wolfe. aged II. was
struck by Rock Island train at Aus
tin Bluffs, five miles northeast of Colo
RADIO Springs on the 18th inst, and sus-
tanned injuries from which he dies in
the hospital three hours later. The
horses were almost instantly killed.
Woods father, who Is consumptive,
has been dismissed as incurable by the
Modern Woodmen sanatOrium at the
Springs, that institution taking only
! durable cases.
The Psychic Science Company has
been incorporated at Denver to erect
$4,000 building, which is to be
equipped with gymnasium. religious
hall. class rooms, consultation rooms.
library and other apartments. The pur-
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