The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1910-03-12
COLORADO ITEMS


as water commissioner for Water Dis
trict No. So.
Harry NJ. Mason, Jr.. Of Denver. has
been appointed as engineer in the for
est service with station at Denver and
salary of $1,000 per annum.
About 1.40O acres has been pledged
by Greeley farmers to crops for the
cannery. including 1,1o0 of peas. 200
each of tomatoes and beans. and about
100 of cabbage.
1t is announced that the new federal
building at Colorado Springs will be
occupied by the postoffice and for
mally opened for business Monday,
March 14th.
By its decision in the case of w H.
Murray and H. Putnam VS. katherine
Aull. the State Supreme Court has
upheld the law which says that a gam
bling debt cannot legally be collected.
Owing to insufficient foundations the
walls SO far constructed of st. Johns
new Episcopal cathedral in Denver
will have to be torn down and rebuilt
at cost OF $4,000.
AoS oPpiOAAlAotCly SlopDDu may OC
collected from estates upon which the
inheritance tax never has been paid
is the opinion of Assistant Attorney
General Rogers, who is engaged in Sc
curing data relative to several estates
of Colorado men. long since dead.
An aviation meet for Denver is
planned to take place about May 2sth.
The main feature will be an endurance
balloon race in which eight local bal
loonists are expected to take part. Ell
forts will also be made to secure an
exhibition of aeroplanes.
Louis Reiter. stenographer to Mayor
Robert W. Speer Of Denver, has been
awarded damages of $4,000 by the
State Supreme Court for the loss of
one OF his legs while he was an en-
ploye OF the Denver & Rio Grande
railroad five years ago.
Senator Barela, the Las Animas
county statesman, celebrated his sixty
third birthday on the 4th inst. He is
known as the perpetual SENATOR" hav-
ing represented the county in the up
per house of the State Legislature
since away back in territorial days
After a conference with the board of
trustees Of the State Normal school.
Governor Shafroth advised them that
they cannot let a contract for a prac-
tice building to cost $123.0OO, when
the appropriation for building, para
phernalia and furnishings amounted
only to 100000. The board agreed to
readvertise.
Professero W. H. Olin. formerly q
member of the faculty of the State Ag.
ricultural college at Fort Collins, has
been commissioned by the Colorado
Midland Railway Company to write o
book which will be entitled "Soil and
Products" pertaining priciapally to
the magnificent potato raising country
in the neighborhood Of Carbondale.
The United States government has
paid $1,000 to each of the six widows
who lost their husbands in the Gunni-
son tunnel disaster few weeks ago.
In the event a person is killed while
in the employment of the government.
who has no wife, the amount of his
salary for one year will be paid to
anyone dependent upon the deceased.
Mrs. Helen Grenfell. formerly state
superintendent of public instruction,
has been secured by the National Wo-
mans Suffrage Association to lecture
for their cause in the twelve Eastern
colleges, among them the University
Of Chicago, University Of Cincinnati,
University of Michigan. Olivet college
and Oberlin.
The city Of Greeley won a sweeping
victory in the opinion OF Federal
Judge Lewis. which upholds the city
in the suit against it by the Greeley
& Northern Railway & Utility Com
pany to test the validity Of the fran
chise granted the company and which
the city has held to be invalid.
According to the tariffs now being
distributed the homeseekers' rate from
Chicago to Denver. Colorado Springs,
Pueblo and Trinidad will be $50, and
this rate will apply at various stated
intervals during the spring and sum.
mer. From st. Louis to Colorado com.
mon points the homeseekers' fare will
be $3.50. while from Omaha. Kansas
City and st. Joseph it will be $19.
With all the previous records bro.
ken, there have been more than LOO
land entries filed in Weld county since
the beginning Of the year and in one
day forty-two filings were made by as
many different persons. More than
half the entries have been on half sec.
tions, and three-fourths Of them are
on land in northeastern and southeast
ern Weld county.
Marcus 8. Meade. one Of the first
conductors to take a train out of Den.
Yer. died on the 4th inst at st. Luke's
hospital in Denver. He was one Of the
four conductors who ran on the old