The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-02-11
u1rLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
state Worth Telling.

Lamar has good prospects for new
sugar beet factory.
Mrs. Mary Grabmaier. pioneer. died
at Central City.
Recent fire in Ludlow did damage
estimated at 10000.
Plans are on foot to light marble
cave near Canon City.
The Oldest bible in the world Is IN
Possession of Greeley citizen.
Plans are on foot to issue $4,000 book.
lets advertising Boulder county
The farmers of Eaton have taken
firm stand for IS per ton for beets.
Mrs. Irene Robinson. resident OF
Weld county for thirty years. is dead.
The first death in the town OF Glade
Park. two years old, occurred recently.
A cooperative store with capital
ct s25 900 has been organized at Grow
er.
Chas. Jones of Plateau raised oats
that weighed sixty-eight pounds per
bushel.
The Haines apple orchard OF 129
acres, near Grand Junction, has been
sold for 100000.
The Denver Athletic Club boxing
and wrestling tournament is fast ana
entertaining affair.
In order that the range may be KEEP.
from scabies, ca:tle in the Eaton VI
cinity are being dipped.
Cars of potatoes shipped from
broken into and stolen.
Greeley has sold more Red Cross
stamps than any town of its size in
the state.
Two troops of cavalry from Wyo-
ming to Nogales, Ariz., passed through
Denver recently.
DR.. T. J. Esti,l, a prominent ply
sician and pioneer of Colorado
Springs. is dead.
The corner stone of the new federal
building in Denver will be laid in the
near future,
Denver has San Francisco, 1915"
club, probably the first organized in
the country.
Fourteen thousand two hundred ar
rests were made by the Denver police
department in 1910.
The Farmers Institute at Long
mont has closed and great good re-
suited from the meeting.
The safe of lumber concern at
Gilcrest was cracked by yeggmen
but no money was secured.
carried out. Mllikep will have to-
nato cannnery costing $4,000.
The two-year-old child of J. PIerson
of Greeley swallowed ten-penny nail,
but has suffered no bad effect.
In the Rifle country in 1910. 1,000,-
thirty-seven and one-half acres of
land
Northern Colorado farmers have
begun prospecting for grasshopper
eggs by plowing around the edges of
their fields.
Fulton Alexander, negro known in
Denver police circles as Steamboat"
is in Jail in Castle Rock charged with
horse stealing.
The dates of the Western Slope De-
velopment Congress, to be held at
Grand junction, have been changed to
March 90 and "a.
{. Work soon will begin on the new
flour mill at Milliken and it will han
die this years crop, with capacity of
l25 barrels a day.
Change of venue in the damage suit
against the city of Pueblo by the Pueb-
le Water Supply Company for $780,
600 has been denied.
The San Luis Oil and Gas Com
pany struck oil of excellent quality
at depth of $50 feet eight miles
northeast Of Alamosa.
The loss resulting from the burning
of the shaft house of the Frank Hough
mine above Animas Forks in San Juan
county is estimated at s175.00O.
Because of a government regulation
that no one can be postmaster who is
suffering from tuberculosis, George
Hamilton of Num- has resigned.
DR.. Samuel d. Hopkins. reputed
of the best neurologists In the West
and leading member of the medical
profession in Denver, is dead.
Finishing touches are being put on
the lines which will complete the
great high tension loop of the North
ern Colorado Power Company.
Seven beautiful pictures. copies OF
old masters, have been presented to
the Agricultural college for the deco
ration of Guggenheim hall by the
Woman's Club OF Fort Collins.
Jack johnson, negro, champion pugi-
list Of the heavyweight class, stopped
over in Pueblo two hours on his way
to San Francisco. Johnson arrived un-
heralded and without notice.