The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1909-01-30
COLORADO ITEMS

ument VIII be opened February LIST,
A gymnasium will be added to the
Young Woman's Christian Association
building at Denver.
The uext annual meeting of the Colo
RADIO Federation of Club Women will
be held in ieadville.
The schools at Evans opened again
Monday, after being closed for three
weeks because of the diphtheria scare
A society has been incorporated to
build another Christian Science church
in Denver to be located on the South
side.
The Latimer Chemical Company with
a capital stock of $50 1000. will erect a
factory at Grand Junction for the man
ufacture of an acid spray.
A report of the census of Engle-
wood, Denver's growing suburb, has
been filed with the secretary of state.
1t shows the population to be 2.332.
A half grown coyote, which had
crept into the hencoop, was killed with
brick by II. H. Wister of Colorado
City Monday morning as the animal
was chewing a squawking chicken.
lie OlueSl "Olldn III Welu COultN
to make final proof on homestead
is Mrs. Martha Downing, who has
just been made owner of 160 acres
seven miles east of Eaton. Her age is
seventy three.
The Chamber of Commerce, the
Monday Club and other Fort Morgan
organizations are using every effort
to secure the location of an institution
for the feeble-minded. The Monday
Club has guaranteed a site costing
$4,000
A recent test OF the propeilers to be
used in a flying machine invented by
j. M. Cage at Denver, though inter-
rupted by an accident. is claimed to
have shown that the propellers will
| furnish abundance of power to lift and
propel the machine.
Charles j. Hughes. Jr.. newly elected
United States senator. has been for
many years a professor in the Univer-
sity of Denver law school and men,
ber of the board of trustees of the uni
versity. He is also a lecturer on min
| ing law at Harvard University.
The snowslides have greatly disar
| ranged the long distance lines of the
| Colorado Telephone Company in the
mountain districts, especially between
Carbondale and Basalt, Silverton and
Ouray and Denver and Grand Junction.
| The company is rushing repairs.
The annual report of the Young
Mems Christian Association of the
State University at Boulder shows that
| sixty-one per cent OF the student body
Of 1,025 are church members and that
fifty three per cent. of the men and
seventy-three per cent. of the women
belong to some church. Those who
are either church members or have a
church preference number eighty per
cent.
At a meeting in Pueblo the Elks
Reunion Association of Colorado Sc
lected as the date for the annual
gathering next October 18th. 18th and
14th. In Pueblo. The committee
changed a custom which has hither-
to been followed in having the state
| gatherings before the national conven-
tions of the lodge and the one this
year will be in the fall some time
after the meeting at Los Angeles.
/ At the annual meeting of the Nor
| gan County Fair Association the sec
retary and treasurer reported that it's
real estate is worth more than it's cap
| italization of 10000. The associa-
ton has held only two fairs and each
has been decided success. Instead
| of declaring dividends. the policy of
the directors is to improve the grounds
until they are in first class condition,
with buildings to accommodate all ex-
| hibits,
At Pueblo Sunday Clarence j. Stet-
I son, aged fifty-seven years, promi-
nent Democrat and president of the
| Arkansas Valley club, was found dead
| in bed at o'clock in the morning by
his little son. with whom he was sleep
Ing. Mr.. Stetson was employed for
years as chief engineer of the Pueblo
water works, having come to Pueblo
in 1874. He was formerly chairman of
the Democratic county central com
mittee and was active in politics
Rear Admiral Robley d. Evans, re-
tired. known all over the country as
Fighting Bob" will give lecture at
Colorado Springs probably March 10th,
under the auspices of an Eastern Ly-
ceum bureau, on From Hampton
Roads TO San Francisco. in Command
OF the Atlantic Fleet" Mrs. Nina f.
Zevely Of Colorado Springs is a sister
of Admiral Evans. The Admiral is
scheduled to lecture in the Denver Au-
ditorium March Sth.
1t was learned that W. w. Bryan is
the real name of the man who died at
Colorado Springs recently from a hem
orrhage of the brain as a result of
fall. He was born near Denver forty
seven years ago and participated in
Indian fQhfs AiS