The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1910-01-15
STATE news ITEMS

when the old building will be torn
down and new Masonic temple, to
cost about $4,000, will be erected.
The next examination for non-grad-
uate veterinary surgeons will be held
at Denver January cath. Application
for blanks can be made to the secre
tary. room is. Capitol building.
The seventh annual Denver Food
and Industrial Exposition will be held
In the Auditorium from March 80 to
April IL. There will be 100 food ex-
hibits and fifty industrial exhibits.
The fact that few or none OF the
fashionable apartment houses in Den
yer will admit children has led to a
movement to erect such building ex-
clusively Tor families with children
sublime and Myrtle lodges of the
Knights of Pythias at Colorado Springs
have been cons soidated into Colorado
Springs Lodge No. "a. 1t is planned
to erect Pythian temple at cost
of about $4,000.
1t has been decided to build the new
Normal school building at Gunnson
with Gunnison granite, on a founda
tion OF brick. From the water table
up 1t will be trimmed with Gunnison
white sandstone.
The Pueblo City Council settled the
saloon license matter by granting 80
of the l04 applications for saloon and
wholesale licenses and refused H.
ccnses TO three saloons long charged
with violations of the law.
During the last three years there
have been 800 cases filed in the Dis
trict Court in Weld county. of which
$500 We're civil and 1,4OO criminal
UP to two years ago 100 cases filed a
year was the average, but since July l
last the court docket shows record
OF LOG new cases.
At recent meeting of representa-
tives of all Presbyterian churches in
Denver, campaign to raise 100000
for Westminster University was or
ganized. The money is to be made by
the sale of 900 lots belonging to the
institution and situated in the vicinity
of the school. The price of each lot
will be 500.
Canning factory crops promise to
be important in Weld county this
year. With new cannery at La
Sale. enlargement of the Platteville
and Fort Lupton plants and the Gree
ley cannery running at full capacity
crops from 4.5OO acres. bringing an in
come of 100000, will be made into
canned goods.
A new system of feeding lambs will
be inaugurated on the Zeigler ranch in
Larimer county. Watson Zeigler, in
an address to the short course stu
dents at the Agricultural college
stated that the present method of
separate feeding Of hay and grain
would soon give way to the new meth
cd of grinding the alfalfa and grain
together and feeding the mixture.
What is termed by the instructors
of the Colorado Agricultural college as
the most successful short course ever
eld by any school In the United States
was brought to a close at Fort Collins
on the 8th inst, when a public demon
stration of tuberculosis was given.
A cow, affected with the disease. was
dissected, showing the effect of the
malady upon every organ.
The Longmont Sugar Factory fin
ished it's work for the season on the
Sth inst. 1t is expected that large
force will be kept busy overhauling
old machinery and installing new for
the next campaign. The average daily
run this year has been about the esti-
mated capacity. being between 1900
and 1900 tons Of beets every twenty
four hours for the campaign of 1872
days.
At the meeting of the Cripple Creek
Mine Owners Association it was fig
ured that $250,0O0 worth of ore has
been stolen during the past year by
''high-graders." 1t was claimed that
| not less than thirty high-grade
'fences'' existed in the district. A
sharp campaign Is to be waged
against them. Four convictions were
secured during the year and the men
are serving terms in the penitentiary.
At Denver on the 5th inst the Colo
RADIO State Grange, Patrons of Hus-
bandry, elected the following officers:
John Morris of Golden, reelected,
master; Rudolph Johnson of Niwot.
overseer: c. Sway of Edgewater.
elector; X. S. Rhea of Littleton, stew
ard; c. F. Schooner. assistant stew
ard: Levi Booth, chaplain: c. H. Pc
terson, treasurer: A. Riddle. secretary,
reelected. Steady growth aud pros
perity were shown by the reports.
The highest price ever paid for a
quarter section of land in the Greeley
district is said to be that paid a few
days since for the Sol Hopkins farm.
one and one half miles of Lucerne.
when w. H. Henderson purchased it
for $4,000. The land has been culti-
waited for twenty years and gives a net
annual income of S40OO. Two years