The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1909-08-14
COLORADO NEWS

Mrs. Maude Ballington Booth and
her sister. Mrs. Barclay. visited the
penitentiary at Canon City on the Sd
inst
The total net assessed valuation OF
Pueblo county for 1909 is 326.74o..
9s9.O1. The valuation for 1908 was
s26.s23.63s.
One thousand laboring men expect
to leave Colorado Springs in special
train September 9Th to attend the La
Dor day celebration at Pueblo.
During the first week in this month
the Cripple Creek drainage tunnel was
advanced 119 feet. making the full dis
lance from portal to heading 1924
feet.
w. E. Goddard. 73 years old. and a
prominent pioneer Of Montrose county
died at Montrose ON the 3rd inst, as
the result OF injuries sustained in a
runaway.
The comptroller Of the currency has
approved the conversion OF the Farm
ers' State Bank Of Center. Colo. into
the First National Bank Of Center.
with 100000 capital.
The Arkansas Valley Fair will open
at X. cky Ford August 31st and con-
tinue through the first three days OF
September. Watermelon day will be
celebi ated September I'd.
The compression house at the Cal.
Hope mine, three and one-half miles
from Ouray. burned on the night of
August Sd. and although q few thou
Yd 1lor ,nyin xhA al
money loss. enforced suspension Of
work in the mine and in the drainage
tunnel will entail extensive losses.
Charles Hull will have to spend
from three to four years in the peni-
tentiary for stealing $1.37. He pleaded
guilty in the West Side court at Den
yer to a charge of burglary. He broke
into the home Of Judge o. B. Liddell.
August 9Th, and stole a pocketbook be-
longing to Margaret Brothe.
The famous Elberta peaches from
the Grand Valley will be served on
the presidential table at Beverly,
Mass. President c. E. Cherington of
the Grand Junction chamber OF COM
merce recently received an order from
Thomas F. Walsh to ship a box Of FL
berta peaches to Mrs. William H. Taft.
While Ernest Holmes. aged ~. son
Of George Holmes. was hunting rab-
bits near Montrose with his brother
Arthur. aged IA, the latter accidental
ly shot his brother Ernest in the leg.
cutting an artery. Ernest lost SO
much blood that he died a few hours
later.
According to q decision by Judge
Cavender in the District Court at
Leadville. q sheriff Is entitled to mile
age for each prisoner taken to the
state Industrial School at Golden, al
though he may take more than one
prisoner at time. but in such cases
the officer is entitled to but one, mitti-
mus fee for the lot.
A destructive fire occurred at Hart
man, Prowers county. on the night of
the 9Th inst. entailing a loss of nearly
900. The fire started in a one-story
stone building occupied jointly by l.
II. Johnsons grocery store, and Appel
Brothers clothing store, and before
assistance could arrive both stocks
were reduced to mass OF debris.
The directors Of the Conejos Co
Operative Mills Manufacturing Com
pany met at Conejos few days since
and voted to build mill in Antonito
to replace the old mill which burned
at Conejos June &c. The company has
its water plant at Conejos and will
operate the new mill by electricity. as
it has the contract to furnish Antonito
with electricity.
The sale of 11,352.41 acres of dry
land in Weld county from the estate
Of an Illinois man to w. l.. Cornett
of Denver is reported. The considera-
ton, was $4,000, and the land is fif-
teen miles east of Greeley. 1t is un-
derstood that steps have been taken
preliminary to irrigating this land,
and it is expected to be the home of a
large colony of Illinois people in the
next five years.
Seven persons were seriously hurt
and large number Of others sus-
tained bruises in the wreck of the
Missouri Pacific passenger train No. 2,
one mile east of Avondale, Pueblo
county. on the sth. inst. The smoking
car and chair car were overturned
and every car left the rails. Lloyd
Brown of Ordway had an arm broken
and Ollie Moore and Ellen Hammers
ley Of Pueblo received bad bruises.
Showing what advances have been
made in the treatment of cancerous
diseases, George H. Stover, an X-ray
expert, with offices at 1443 Glenarm
street. has just returned to Denver
from Boston, where no less than thir-
ty cancerous sores. caused by pro-
longed exposure to X rays, which
threatened death, were cured by DR..
Charles Allen Porter. an old-time