The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-04-27
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.


were planted in Denver.
The President nominated Walter !.
Burke as postmaster at Sterling
VI. c. Mckenzie, a rancher of Yuma
county, died at hospital in Denver.
In Boulder hereafter express will oe
city.
The Loveland Civic Extension Club
has plans on foot for beautifying that
city.
The ministers of Colorado Springs
are still at work on the proposed Sun
day closing ordinance.
A considerable quantity of seed has
been delivered to the needy farmers
of the Sterling district.
There will be at least a quarter OF
Otero county this spring.
The first annual banquet of college
men of the Western slope was recently
held at Grand Junction. Colo.
DR.. II. W. Kirby of Georgetown as
been appointed to the state board OF
a3'aitii W tIcs'l hOi oiidiioth
The first Labor Temple west of
Omaha is being planned by the Trades
and Labor Assembly OF Pueblo.
Peter Campon. nineteen years old,
was drowned while swimming in the
lake at Central park in Trinidad
Forty suspects arrested in couec-
tion with the Globe Express robbery
at Grand Junction have been released.
The Moffat road, it is reported, has
let twenty-six-mile tracklaying con
Miss Margaret O'Hearn, a teacher
OF Johnstown. is under arrest charged
with whipping a ten-year-old boy with
a horsewhip.
A small tornado swept the coun-
Try near Sterling recently and de
stroyed considerable property and
killed many chickens.
Apples in the vicinity of Boulder
have been damaged Is per cent by
freezes, and cherries and other fruits
are said TO be total loss.
Subscriptions to date to the Com
merce Investment Company for the re-
lief of the destitute farmers OF East
ern Colorado total ss,2G1.5o.
Work on the excavation and founda-
ton OF the new opera house at Idaho
Springs is progressing rapidly with
big force OF men and teams
That Pueblo is to have new $780,
900 Pantages theater is the statement
made by Harry Beaumont cf Denver,
district manager of Pantages circuit.
The Senate public buildings commit
tee reported favorably Senator Gug-
genheims bill appropriating 100000
for public building site at Monte Vista.
In a report TO the Board of County
Commissioners Jack Kent OF Num-
recommends that the county send $500
to supply farmers of that section with
seed
If a special election held six years
ago. at which it was voted TO bond
Johnstown for a 800 900 water plant is
valid, that town will at once install
the plant.
The fruit growers of the Uncompah-
gre valley are to be forwarned against
the coming of Jack Frost this spr,ng
through the efforts OF the Uniled
States weather bureau.
AT meeting of the Weld county
baseball league, held in Greeley with
representatives from six teams pres
ent, a schedule which embraces thir-
ty games was arranged for the season
~f n
Larimer County Fair Association have
been filed in the office of the county
clerk at Fort Collins. The capital is
10000. divided into 1000 shares at
$40 each.
Owing to crowded District Court
docket at Fort Collins. Judge Graham
has called upon District Judge Teller
of Denver to assist him. and two coul Is
will be held until the docket is
cleared.
Mrs. Maggie Stoneking, widow OF
James Stoneking, electrocuted by acci
dent March 81 at Greeley, has filed
suit for $4,000 damages against the
Home Gas & Electric and Northern
Colorado Power companies.
Dry land farmers in the vicinity of
Num- have sent representative 10
the county commissioners to petit IN
for funds for seed. The farmers ask
for Mexican beans, millet, corn and
cane, and believe $500 will purchase
sufficient seed.
The federal authorities have just
brought about the arrest of NJ. E. and
L. A. Hill--known as G.. l.. Lee & Co.
in Salida, Colo. They are charged
with using the mails to sell marked
cards, loaded dice, "holdouts" and
"waxed palms"
Denver is to be the gathering place
during the next few weeks of members
OF the Industrial Workers of the