The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1910-02-12
COLORADO ITEMS

cleared SeNenty-SeNen cases from Lue
docket last month.
News Is received that President d.
H. Moffat has ordered twenty new To-
comotives for the Moffat road.
A bald eagle measuring six feet one
inch from tip to tip was recently cap
tured near Fort Collins in coyote
trap.
Contracts amounting to $4,000 have
been made for free band concerts in
the City Park at Denver next sum
mer.
Tie Colorado Fuel and Iron Com
pany has officially given out the num-
ber of deaths in the Primero coal mine
explosion at seventy-five.
State Humane Agent O'Connell is
making close inspection of grading
camps and arresting all foremen who
violate the state humane laws.
The wife OF President Taft mas sent
a handkerchief to the South Side I'm
provement Society of Colorado City to
be sold at a bazar to be given by the
ladies of the society.
Canon City automobilists have taken
up the movement for the Arkansas
valley automobile boulevard, and viii
join Pueblo in extending the road from
Pueblo to Canon City.
Surrounded by her family and
friends, Mrs. Abigail Durham, the old
est member of the Society of Union
Colony pioneers, celebrated her nine
ty-third birthday at Greeley on the 9Th
| inst.
Andrew Carnegie has written Rev.
| G. B. Stewart, pastor of the First M.
E. church at Colorado Springs. that he
will give 1900 toward the fund being
raised to buy new pipe organ, which
will cost $3,50O.
In the case at Denver of the Cen
trail Business college VS.. A. w. Ruth
erford, the State Supreme Court de-
cided that the mere fact that the
| guests at a dancing party are negroes
does not make the affair disreputable.
1t is stated that as result of the
recent visit of the inspection board
of the Modern Woodmen of America,
at least $4,000 will be spent in I'M
| provements on the Sanitarium north of
Colorado Springs. A new tent colony,
to cost $4,000, will be put up.
Gen. Joe Wheeler Camp No. of the
War, has been installed at Denver
with Dr. W. c. X. Berlin as command
er and r. H. Silvers as adjutant. This
is said to be the first camp of the Or
der named for Southern general.
Richard R. Burke has relinqushed
control of the eating houses and din
ing cars operated along the Moffat
Road to Clark Gregg, former superin-
tendent of dining car service@on the
Denver & Rio Grande, and later stew
ard of the Colorado Traffic Club in
Denver.
In order that the new towns OF
Briggsdals and Fosston on the eastern
edge of the Crow Creek district, may
have telephones, the top wire of a
barbwire fence extending for miles in
that locality will be utilized by the
Northern Colorado Telephone Com
pany.
The county commissioners Of Prov
crs county have granted a permit for
the organization of the Holly & Grana-
da Irrigation district, for the reclama-
tion of $4,000 acres south of the two
towns. The water supply will be
taken from Rule creek, west of La
mar. and be stored in large reser-
voir.
| Unless a further appeal is taken
| from the decision of the State Su-
preme Court, DIR. William NJ Bonnet
of Denver must pay Emma E. Foote
| do mo I'M n
treating her for fractured thigh bone.
DIR. Bonnet appealed the case from the
District Court of Denver on a writ Of
error.
By decision rendered in the State
| Supreme Court, Henry Young will be
given another chance to prove that he
acted in self-defense when he killed
| Charley Wilkinson in Montrose county
during October, 1907. The opinion up
holds the prisoners contention that
the jury was not properly instructed
| with regard to the meaning of the
| term "self-defense."
At the annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Portland Gold Mining
| Company, held at Cheyenne, the old
board of directors was reelected by a
majority of about four to one. Accord
| ing to the report Of President Peck,
there has been a gross production of
| S3,90S tons, with gross value of ST.
43S,G50, yielding net earnings of $425,-
| 444.42, of which $330,000 has been paid
| in dividends.
Without dissenting vote the Hen
rylyn irrigation district voted bonds
of $4,3S7,0OO and ratified the action of
the district board in letting the con-
tract for construction of the system to
the Camfield Development Company.
The entire bond issue of the district
is taken by Farson & Son of Chicago
and the International Trust Company
of Denver will act as trustee for the
Henrvlxn district The nlanS nrnYid =