The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1910-01-29
COLORADO NEWS

torium February 23rd to 26th.
Walter A. Peterson has been ap-
pointed Swedish vice consul at Den
yer to succeed H. R. Salgaard. re-
signed.
miners of Georgetown and the first
park commissioner Of Denver. died at
the home of his son in Denver on the
18th inst.
A Milwaukee dispatch says that
Deacon" Koehler. coach at the Uni
versity of Denver, has matriculated
at Marquette University as medical
student
Services were held in st. Johns
in commemoration Of the founding Of
the Episcopal church in Colorado fifty
years ago.
A. F. Wuensch, a prominent Colo
RADIO mining engineer of Denver, died
suddenly of heart disease in the lobby
Of the Alvarado hotel at Albuquerque.
New Mexico. January 22nd.
State Auditor Roady Kenehan has
appointed Norvell H. Cobb to the posi-
office. Mr.. Cobb was previously in
the employ of the Adams Express Com
pany.
At one o'clock on the morning Of
January 25th a fire broke out in the
basement of the office of the Star
Journal at Pueblo and was only ex-
tinguished after inflicting about 81, 500
damage.
The coroner's jury at Central City
in the case of the recent wreck on the
Moffat road. when three men were
killed. rendered a verdict generating
the Denver. Northwestern & Pacific
Railroad from all responsibility, being
satisfied that it was an unavoidable
accident.
The poultry show at Denver was
highly successful and plans are al
ready on foot for larger exhibit next
year. An appropriation Of $4,000 will
be raised to further the poultry indus
try Of the state and an attempt will
be made to secure the Auditorium for
the 1911 exhibition.
The Palmer estate has filed q plat
in Ell Paso county for the Randall
reservoir, to be built at some future
time. at an estimated cost OF $4,000.
The reservoir, which will have a ca
pacity of 100000 gallons, will draw
its water supply from Jimmy Camp
creek, near the Palmer home at Glen
Eyrie.
The Otero irrigation district has let
a contract for widening its ditch. Ce-
ment headgates will be constructed
and it is intended to make the capaci-
ty 500 cubic feet per second, which
will supply $4,000 acres. The farm
ers recently voted for a bond issue OF
$150,000 with which to enlarge the
canal and build a storage reservoir.
Several parties OF Union Pacific
engineers who have been working on
surveys for a new line from Denver
to Fort Morgan are reported to have
completed their labors and to have
finally selected the route. This line
will cut thirty-eight miles from the
distance from Denver to Chicago via
Union Pacific and will serve an unde-
veloped country in Colorado immedi-
ately to the northwest of Denver.
At meeting held in the Pueblo
Chieftain office at which eleven cities
were represented. the Colorado State
Baseball league was launched with the
election Of A. D. Runyon of Denver as
president. and o. F. Nelson Of Pueb-
league will be composed OF eight
towns. which are Denver. Pueblo. Colo
RADIO Springs. La Junta, Trinidad. Fort
Collins. Cheyenne and Cripple Greek.
At the meeting Of the Retail Msr-
chants Association of Colorado at
Fort Collins, w. r. Cherrier of Den
yer was elected president. The other
officers are: First vice president. s.
D. Carlton. Pueblo; second vice presi.
dent. John B. Thomas. Gold Hill;
third vice president, C. w. Zepp, Fort
Collins; fourth vice president, A. E.
Wadsworth, Grand Junction. Greeley
was selected as the next place Of
meeting.
Figures compiled in the office of the
state superintendent Of public instruc-
:tion show that the school land sales
of the past year have swelled to such
an extent that there will be an in
crease of $S7.252.92 in the school ap-
portionment for the first year of the
present administration over the appor-
tionment for the last year of the ad-
ministration preceding it. The appor-
tionment for 1908 amounted to $221..
267.9S. That for 1909 amounts to $685..
5000.
In order to ascertain what Greeley
needs in the way of new postoffice.
Senator Guggenheim has asked the
supervising architect of the treasury
to make a report upon conditions and
has also written to Attorney H. E.
Churchill at Greeley for a statement
showing the need Of the building and