The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-01-21
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth Telling.

Milliken is preparing to establish
sian we'll
Colorado sheriffs want a change in
the laws governing the fees paid into
their offices.
After fight Of nearly two years
rural free delivery has been secured
for Arvada.
A movement is on foot to establish
a commission form Of government in
Fort Collins.
The annual convention of the Colo
RADIO Retail Merchants Association
was held in Greeley.
John Bostrom was fined $50 and
costs by Judge Hatch, at Greeley for
stabbing his brother.
Over 200 dairymen of the state
gathered at the Windsor hotel in Den
YER in annual meeting.
At meeting of the Farmers Union
it was voted to proceed with plans TO
put in a store at Windsor.
Articles OF Incorporation OF the In
at 1000, were filed in Boulder.
Mack F. Bebee. pioneer Of the
state. died at his home in Denver. Mr..
Bebee was in his eightieth year.
The first annual exhibition OF the
Western Slope Poultry Association
Miss Alice Morrison, who has been
for the past twenty-eight years a
teacher in the Denver schools. is dead.
The Great Western Sugar Company
been contracted for the Greeley fac
tory.
Joe Anstead, a miner about so years
old, was found dead in a cabin in
Longfellow's gulch. four miles east of
Salida
Neil F. Graham of Fort Collins, has
been appointed to succeed Judge Gar
rigues OF Eighth Judicial District
Court
The Colorado & Southern has sold
s1.400.000 worth of its refunding and
extension bonds to Proctor & Borden
of New York.
James A. Hill, the Denver banker,
who has been serving five-year term
in the pententary for fraud, has been
released on parole.
There were number OF snow
slides "on the run recently on both
the Sneffles and the Red Mountain
roads, near Ouray.
All the water companies in north
ern Colorado have petitioned Governor
Shafroth to appoint Emmett c. Nc
Anelly OF Fort Collins, state engineer.
A movement is on foot to organize a
Western Slope Teachers Association.
composed of the educators from the
seven counties of the twelfth normal
district.
II the dispatches from Washington
are correct, the Uncompahgre valley
project has been allotted the total sum
Of 900. in the recommendation
from the army board.
Many wholesale and retail lumber
dealers attended the eighth annual
convention OF the Colorado-Wyomin
Lumber Dealers Association in Den
YER.
Without a dissenting vote. land
holders to the number of forty-two
decided to form the Poudre valley
Weld county irrigation district, EN-.
bracing $4,000 acres to be irrigated by
flood waters.
Nebraska wants to adopt an anti
Gt si 70 ha Iraf ni ut
the grasshopper convention in Greeley
recently for determination of grass
boppers and which has been intro
duced in the Colorado Legislature.
There seems to be a fight on over
the postoffice in Georgetown. There
are two candidates, Thomas H.
Hamill, who has held the office for the
last three terms, and w. S. McGintie,
deputy district attorney.
A telegram was received by Jim
Flynn, the Pueblo heavyweight fight
er, offering him bout with Jack
fTwin) Sullivan, the light heavyweight
of Cambridge, Mass. Flynn is offered
a guarantee of $4,000 for battle, pro-
vided Sullivan will agree to met his
old rival, the Pueblo fighter.
Colorado will have decidedly the
largest and most attractive exhibits
at Omaha, which will consist of pota-
toes, cereals. grasses and fruits grown
in the state. In addition there will be
3 model sixty feet long of an irriga-
ton plant. This model will be paper
maehe reproduction of a section of
Colorado with an irrigation system in
operation.
If the proposed plan submitted by
the Northern Colorado Power Compa-
ny to the merchants of Boulder for the
installation of a lighting system along
the four principal blocks, consisting OF
thirty-two poles, each carrying two
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