The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1909-06-12
STATE NEWS ITEMS

PRESIDENT Fisher OF the ColOrado
Springs Chamber of Commerce has
appointed committee to raise funds
for the erection Of a public monument
to the late Gen. W. J. Palmer.
Fifty homeseekers are travelling
daily via the Moffat road to Routt
county where 100000 acres of govern
ment land are now open to entry. They
come from the East and are from all
parts Of the United States.
The commercial value to Trinidad Of
the new state highway was illustrated
when the Santa Fe reduced freight
rates between Trinidad and La Junta
from % cents to IS cents per hundred
weight Teamsters had been making
contracts for hauling freight between
the two points at Is cents per hun
dred
Boulder Elks have rendered the use
of their building as headquarters for
the officers of the grand lodge at the
state conclave Of Knights Templar,
which will be held at Boulder the last
week in September The home viii
also be used as headquarters for the
State Realty Association, which meets
in July.
Contracts have been let to Fort Nor
gan home contractors for two two
room ward school buildings, each to
cost $3.50. This addition to the
school capacity will help accommodate
Fort Morgan's growing school popula-
ton, and two frame structures are to
be built outside the city limits, to meet
the requirements of the rural district.
The old Presbyterian church at
Evans, used for eighteen years as
saloon, until saloons were abolished
two years ago. is about to be restored
to its former dignity. Liquor signs and
parts of the bar remain in the build
ing. These are to be torn down, pull
pit built and the walls repaired by the
Presbyterian mission board
Seventeen governors of western
states and territories have promised to
be in attendance at the Trans -Missis-
sippi Commercial Congress at Denver,
August 18th to 21st and four others
hope to come. Only one, Governor Gil
lett of California, has announced that
it will be impossible for him to attend
Many cabinet officers. senators and
congressman are coming
1t is now stated that a building to
cost $125,000 will be built in Denver
by the Denver Chamber of Commerce
and the Colorado Traffic Club, the
idea Of erecting a building to house
jointly the five commercial organiza-
tions of the city, including besides the
two named, the Manufacturers asso-
citation, the State Commercial associa-
ton, and the Real Estate exchange,
having been abandoned
The State Supreme Court has
handed down a decision denying the
application of Henry E. Woklcke for a
writ of supersedeas, which went up
from the District Court at Boulder.
which held that the election held in
Nederland April Sth, when the town
voted to become anti-saloon territory.
was legal. The writ was applied for
in behalf of saloon which will now
be closed
John H. Kinney. the first mayor of
Black Hawk. in 1866, was recently
rendered reception and banquet by
the Black Hawk City Council and a
number of old-timers, several of whom
rode up from Denver to attend. The
honored guest was presented with a
handsome gold-headed ebony cane. on
which was the inscription: Presented
to our first mayor, John H. Kinney,
Black Hawk, Colo'
County Judge Lille Of El Paso coun-
ty has appointed w. S. Jackson, presi-
dent of the Ell Paso National bank, ap-
praiser of the Palmer estate to fix the
state inheritance tax due, which is sup
posed to approximate $360,0OO. The
last Legislature provided for state ap-
praisers. but Attorney General Barnett
has ruled that the law was not in force
when General Palmer died, and his es-
tate comes under the provisions of the
old law
A call for Denver college graduates
who wish to take up philanthropy as a
life work was received about a month
ago by Miss Izetta George of the Den
yer Charity Organization Society from
DR.. Thomas J. Riley, director of the st.
Louis School Of Philanthropy endowed
by the late Russell Sage, and was pub
lished extensively Although scholar
ships ranging from 5000 to $500 were
offered to Denver young people who |
wished to take up the work, not sin
gle response was received.
Pine Grove. jefferson county, dis
patch OF the 7th inst, says: Heavy
rains that approached a cloudburst oc-
CURED this afternoon here and at Buff !
[alo park, as we'll as other points up !
the Platte canon. Near Pine Grove one |
or two wagon road bridges are reported |
out and at Stone Spur about 100 feet |
of Colorado & Southern track was COW
cred with mud and sand Much rain
has fallen here the last few days and |
Mrs. NJ. s. Mcfarland had hard work
10 save her valuable fishing pond. in