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The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-01-27
THE WEEKS NEWS EPITOMIZED

Johnny Coulon. bantamweight cham
pion of the world, knocked out Harry
Forbes. the former champion, in the
third round of scheduled ten-round
fight in Kenosha, Wis. The end came
when the round was two minutes and
thirty-four seconds old, a right swing
to the Jaw and counter to the stom-
ach doing the work.
There is a chance that real inter-
national battle for the featherweight
championship will be arranged some
time this year between Abe Attell, the
present holder. and Jem Driscoll, the
British champion. Some time ago Jem
announced that he would retire from
the game, especially after his match
with Owen Moran was called off. but
low he writes he has changed his
mind and expects to visit the United
States again early in the spring.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-01-27
COLORADO STATE NEWS

| turned into the Milton reservoir near
| Platteville.
| At Walsenburg. recently. robbers
stole the United States mail sack from
the rear Of the postoffice in daylight,
| and rifled it.
rev. Greer A. Foote. pastor OF the
Presbyterian church at Glenwooo
Springs, died following an operation
for appendicitis.
A bill has been introduced in both
Houses OF Congress for the removal OF
the Federal Court from Montrose to
Grand Junction.
A mountain lion weighing forty
pounds and measuring eighteen incnes
long was trapped by Arthur Hunt near
Georgetown recently.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union began it's campaign for 1912 by
circulating petitions calling for anoth-
er prohibition election.
Fifteen hundred dollars worth of
good whisky was wasted when rum
away team dashed into a plate glass
window of a saloon in Pueblo.
The Jackson Resort Company, about
eight miles east of Boulder, sustained
loss of $4,000 when their main build
ing and several smaller ones burned.
There was considerably more snow
in the mountains at the end OF De-
cember than at the same period year
before, according to the snowfall bull
letin.
Rev. Elmer E. Higley, pastor OF the
Grace NJ. E. church. Denver, has an
nounced that weekly moving picture
shows will be given at his church until
March
The State Board of immigration has
elected l.. C. Paddock of Boulder to
be immigration commissioner, succeed
ing Alfred Patek, who recently re-
signed.
| A dehydrating plant, to cost in the
neighborhood OF $4,000, and which
will handle fruits, vegetables and beet
pulp, will be built in Grand Junction
this summer.
Rio Blanco county commissioners
have appropriated money for the pur-
pose of changing the course Of White
river a distance of mile below
Meeker. thinking this will prevent iur-
ther damage from ice gorges.
Frank L. Hart, who has been prom
inent in Leadville and Cripple Creek
mining business for thirty-five years,
and well known throughout Colorado.
died at Victor.
state will meet in Colorado Springs
February to consider the organiza-
ton of highway association to boost
the Golden route.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-01-27
Minor Mention.


A new bank building is being erect
ed in Boulder.
A recent fire in Cripple Creek
caused damage of $4,000.
Greeley's car seal factory will be in
operation within thirty days.
W. D. Snow, aged sixty-eight, pio-
neer OF that district. died in Ault.
The new Knights of Pythias' hall at
Rocky Ford has been formally opened.
The Knights of Pythias of Rocky
Ford have dedicated their new build
ing.
John F. Morgan has been appointed
to third term as postmaster OF COLO
RADIO City.
The Rock Island railroad is contem-
plating numerous improvements IN
Colorado.
A masked robber entered saloon
at Ieadville recently and carried
away $3.50.
Mrs. Fred Allen, a farmers wife,
living near Wray. killed herself by TAX
ing strychnine.
A vanadium alloy manufacturing
plant is in prospect for Denver IN
the near future.
Rev. Father Richard De Palma,
widely known in that section, died in
Trinidad of cancer.
The machinery for the new ice plant
at Rocky Ford has arrived and will be
installed at once.
Charles L. Hill. pioneer mining op-
orator, OF Colorado. died recently at
Santa Monica. Cal.
Beginning February /, the mint at
Denver will coin nickels for the first
time in its history.
The "Old Time Cowboys reunion
was held in Denver recently and
closed with a big banquet.
The Eaton High School basketball
team defeated the Denver Y. NJ. c. A.
team by a score of 35 to 16.
The ninth annual convention of the
Colorado Lumber Dealers
Association was held in Denver.
Boulder Troop D. of the Colorado
National Guard has begun campaign
for an increased enlistment.
Mangled beyond recognition, the
body of Anton Manzarita, an Italian.
was found on a railroad in Pueblo.
John NJ. Dunn. one OF the old-timers
of Meeker and the White River val
ley, died recently at Goldfield, Nevada.
D. NJ. Collins of Lamar died in hos
pital at Albuquerque, n. NJ, as re-
suit of having an arm and leg cut
off.
The Denver-Greeley irrigation prof.
ect has been completed and water
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-01-27
Railroads to Aid Farmers.

Denyer.-Ten million dollars will be
poured into the laps of Colorado farm
ers and fruit growers through in,
creased crops this year. if the plans OF
Rio Grande, Union Pacific and Burling-
ton railroad officials are successful
The traffic experts intend to show
the agriculturists how to raise more
and better produce of all kinds. and
will spend millions to accomplish this
result and so swell their tonnage in
this state.
Each system proposes to establish
its own state commission of agricul-
ture, employing the most capable men
who can be found TO aid the farmers
and fruitgrowers of Colorado in every
possible way to increase and improve
the quality of products.
President 3. F. Bush OF the Rio
Grande, President Darius Miller and
General Manager George W. Holdreg
of the Burlington and A. l.. Mohler.
vice president and general manager OF
the Union Pacific, are equally inter
ested in the plan to develop produc-
tion and freight.
Chemists will conduct laboratory eS-
periments with soils and water. Bull
letins will be issued frequently. Farm
ers having difficulties with crops will
be visited by practical scientists and
advice freely given them. No efforts
will be spared to insure as many sue
cessful crops as possible in all parts
Of the state.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-01-27

try in this district has such a large
acreage been contracted for at this
time Field Superintendent Timothy
reports 1000 acres pledged to the
Eaton factory. 6.00O to Windsor. $500
TO Greeley and that 10000 acres for
the three factories is easily in sight
Heretofore it has been the custom to
make special trips to interview pros
pective beet growers, but this year
many farmers have notified the fac
tories of the acreage they wish 20
grow. 1t is estimated that 1000 farm
ers will grow beets in Weld county
next year. close to 10000 acres will be
grown by farmers in the western por-
ton for Fort Collins, I-oveland and
Longmont factories and in the east
ern part for Fort Morgan and Sterling
Only prime land will be planted and
it is expected to bring the average
yield to seventeen tons per acre with
a sugar test OF seventeen per cent
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-01-27
GEN ERAL.

During the first fifteen days OF jan
uary the fire insurance companies Of
the country became liable for SIS .000,-
900 in losses.
Cyrus E. Woods of Greensburg, Pa,
has been nominated by President Taft
as minister to Portugal to succeed Ed
win " Morgan.
Fearing a condition of chaos in Pc
king and northern China the powers
have agreed not to recognize the
Chinese republic.
DR.. Harry Elgin Webster, who con-
fessed to the murder of his wife, Bes-
sic Kent Webster at Oregon, ILL.,, was
sentenced to life imprisonment.
Witnesses who are expected to
throw light on explosions on the Pa
cific coast are to appear before the
federal grand jury in Indianapolis in
the investigation of the dynamite con-
spiracy.
In the strike of $4,000 textile work
ers in Lawrence, Mass, both manufac-
turers and strikers are remaining firm.
While 5000 strikers voted almost unan-
imously to eject proposition to meet
the mill owners in separate commit
tees the various mill officers said they
would not deal with the strikers as
one body.
A bill that will cause much excite
ment in the ranks of baseball men is
to be introduced in the New York
State Legislature by Senator James
J. Frawley, one of the Democratic
leaders and author Of the new law for
the regulation of boxing. 1t is Sen
/ ator Frawley's plan to tax the gross
receipts of baseball clubs exceeding
a certain limit. the money thus col
lected to be turned over to the play.
| grounds in the leading cities and
| towns.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-01-27
New Pueblo Ditch Project.

Pueblo.-A 100000 irrigation com
pany was launched here by 7. II. De
vine of this city and two New York
man and articles of Incorporation OF
the Pueblo Irrigated Farms Company
have been filed. Devine and his asso-
ciates have secured 10000 acres OF de-
sirable land from the Pueblo-Rockv
Ford Irrigation Company tract OF So
600 acres, south and southeast of here
1t is proposed that the land for which
water rights have been secured be laid
out in small tracts and settled at once
by homeseekers from the East who
will be brought here by the COLOMBIA
ton process.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-01-27
WASHINGTON.

Steel tariff revision Is occupying the
center OF the stage in the House and
the long expected fight is on.
Aerial mail carriers are entirely
practicable, in the opinion of Joseph
Stewart, second assistant postmaster
general, who has charge OF the trans
portation end Of the postal business.
The Hayburn subcommittee which
has been investigating the election of
Senator Isaac Stephenson Of Wiscon-
sin. unanimously agreed that the
charges OF corruption and bribery
have not been proved
President Taft has decided to send
Congress a message recommending
that an international inquiry be un-
dertaken into the cause Of the in
creased cost Of living. 1t will be the
most comprehensive inquiry ever un-
dertaken.
Promoters OF fraudulent schemes
who had obtained SIT 1000. 900 from the
public were put out OF business dur
ing the fiscal year ending June 80 last,
according to the annual report OF
Robert S. Sharp, chief inspector of
| the Postoffice Department.
DR.. Harvey W. Wiley. chief OF the
Chemistry Bureau of the Department
of Agriculture, the storm center of the
food administration controversy last
summer, is given clean bill OF health
in the report of the House committee
hat investigated the charges and
counter-charges.
Peat, the only domestic fuel of the
masses in Ireland from the traditional
time when the forests of that country
were cleared away, may be used ex
| tensively in the United States few
years hence. in the opinion of Charles
A. Davis. peat expert of the Federal
Bureau of Mines, who has been max
ing extensive Investigations of the
matter.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-01-27
Taft viii Veto Steel Measure.

hington-President Taft init
mated to Congressman Payne. Dalzeu
and Mccall, minority members OF the
House ways and means committee,
that he would veto the Democratic re-
vision of the steel schedule unless the
tariff board reports in favor Of it. The
Senate public lands committee has IA
voraby reported the Borah bill re-
ducing the term of residence before
issue CT patent upon homesteads from
five to three years.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-01-27
HILL AND NUDGE
Deny RUm0R
STORY THAT BURLINGTON WILL
PURCHASE GOULD LINES
is FALSE
TRAFFIC ALLIANCE SURE
SUCH ARRANGEMENT is OBJECT
OF NEGOTIATIONS
NOW ON.

western Sewspapcr Union News Service.
New York-Of the rumor that the
Burlington is considering purchase OF
an interest in the Gould roads, James
j. Hill. who is in New York, said that
there was absolutely no truth in it,
He added that the Burlington would
not undertake to buy control OF any
road west OF Denver, but that, as for
some years, it would continue to ex-
change traffic with these roads. He
also characterized as nonsense the re-
port that the Great Northern will
take over the Northern Pacifics in
terest in the Burlington
Mr. Hill did not have anything TO
say regarding a traffic alliance be-
tween the Burlington or its subsidi-
ary, the Colorado & Southern, and
the Rock Island on one hand and the
Western Pacific on the other
Such traffic arrangement is the
true object of the negotiations that
are on affecting the Western Pacific
and its attainment is regarded as al
together probable by persons best in
formed on Hill railroad affairs.
The probability OF such an arrange
ment has been the basis for the re-
cent recovery in Denver 4 Rio Grande
and for the present strength in Rock
Island.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-01-27
Children Save Train; Are Rewarded


San Francisco-One hundred dol
lars each was the reward sent to sew
eu-year-old Aileen Martin and her
folrteen-year-old sister, Alma, who
prevented a Southern Pacific passen-
ger train from being wrecked by a
broken rail near Alta. Jan. 10. The
reward was sent by e. E. Calvin. vice
president and general manager of the
Hartman lines in California, and II
was accompanied by a letter express
ing the appreciation of the company
for the quick witted action OF the girls.
Little Aileen. who is a daughter OF
a section foreman, was walking along
the track when she detected the rail,
broken in three places. She knew that
a passenger train was soon due and
she telephoned the agent at Towie,
telling him to notify the train crew.
He told her that the train had gone,
and she started down the track to
signal il. On the way she met her SIS
ter and the two children succeeded in
having the train stopped. Railroad
men said that had the train struck the
broken rail bad accident would have
resulted.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-01-27
sURPRIsED DOCTOR,
illustrating the Effect Of Food.

Ehe remarkable adaptability Of
Grape-Nuts food to stomachs 10 dis
ordered that they win reject every
thing else, is illustrated BY the case
Of q woman in Racine, Wis.
1.-TWO years ago." she says. II was
attacked by . stomach trouble 20 80
rious that for . long time could not
take much Of any sort Of food. Even
the various kinds prescribed by the
doctor produced most acute pain.
I'VE then got some Grape-Nuts food,
and you can imagine my surprise and
delight when found that 1 could eat
it with relish and without the slight
est distress.
me to take several small portions each
day. because he feared would grow
tired Of it as had of all other food.
But to his surprise. land that Of
everybody else). did not tire Of
Grape-Nuts, and became better day BY
day. till, after some weeks. my stom-
ach entirely recovered and was able
to eat anything my appetite craved.
my nerves. which had become 80
weakened that I feared 1 would be-
come insane, were also restored BY
the Grape-Nuts food in connection
with Postum which has become our
table beverage. appreciate most
gratefully and thankfully the good that
your food preparations have done me,
and shall be glad to answer any letters
inQuiring as to my experience" Name
given by Postum Co., Battle Creek,
Mich.
Read the little book, "The Road to
Wellville," In pkgs. There's q rea-
son."
Ever read the above letterS A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine trues and full Of huMaa
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-01-27

Badly mutilated, the bodies OF Felix
Broussard. his wife and three child
ren, aged eight, six and three, negroes,
Charles. La, making the second whole
sale negro murder in this state within
a week and the sixth within the year.
A blood-stained axe was found be-
were found in their home at Lake
lay.
Five persons we're killed and more
than a score injured when Seminole
Limited No. running fifty miles an
hour crashed into the rear and tele-
scoped passenger train No. 25 stand
ing at the station at Kinmundy. Ill.
Among those killed were J. T. Hara-
han, former president of the Illinois
Central and F. o. Melcher, vice presi-
dent of the Rock Island.
The result OF a conference between
Wilbur Wright. Capt. DEF. Chandler
and other officers Of the signal corps
at the army's aviation camp in Au-
gusta, Ca, will. 1t is stated, be the
development OF a machine capable OF
carrying a greater amount Of army
equipment of necessary use in mill
tary aeronautics and OF flying success
fully in winds which the present ma
chine cannot navigate.
Some idea of the rapid growth and
present magnitude Of the Forest Serv-
ice is given in the annual report Of the
forester for the fiscal year 1911. From
a modest beginning only few years
to be one of the largest bureaus IN
point of the number Of its employees.
maintaining an establishment in Wash
ington alone costing almost $500,000
annually; it expended last year more
than $6,500.000, and now exercises au.
thority over an area 16S.165,163 acres
in extent. In 1911 it collected over
100000 in grazing fees, and sold
timber from national forests for about
half as much more.
Sentence OF death was passed upon
Joseph Ferrone as, bound hand and
foot. and strapped to litter to pre-
vent his repeating his sudden attacks
on himself or others. he was taken
into the court Of general sessions in
New York to hear the penalty fixed for
killing his wife, Kate Ferrone, Oct "a,
1911.
Three persons suffering from inhal-
ing gas were restored to consciousness
at Chicago by the use Of a new oxy.
gen machine which, with bellows at
! tachment, forces oxygen into the lungs
and draws out poisonous gases.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-01-27
WESTE RN.

TWO women jurors in Seattle swung
ten men into line for verdict oy
which woman was convicted OF as
saulting man.
Dynamite exploding in business
house at Grand Forks, y. d. result
er in the destruction of the Masonic
temple and several stores.
By the remarkable enrichment OF
the Manhattan Big Four mine at Man
haitian, New, Joseph A. and Mahlon u.
Thatcher of Pueblo, Colo, are credlteo
with cleaning up nice profit.
Much excitement has resulted from
gold discoveries at Dunlap, IN the
Sierra Nevada mountains, Calf. Min
ers are rushing to the new fields ana
a tent city has sprung up. Rich
pockets" found by prospectors start
ed the rush.
Miss Leona Mary Jewell, daughter
of Jue Sue, one Of the wealthiest of
Portland's Chinese merchants, will
soon receive a commission in the
Chinese revolutionary army and will
lead a company OF soldiers in the
field.
A. F. Martell. president OF the de-
funct Market Street bank, San Fran
cisco, was sentenced to five years in
San Quentin prison. Martell was con-
victed of having issued false state
ment regarding the financial condition
of the bank in August, 1906.
Rutherford Page, aged twenty-four,
a graduate of Yale, 10. flying as one
of the Curtiss aviators, fell $50 feet
to his death on Dominguez field. Los
Angeles, few minutes before the
close of the third days programme OF
the third international aviation meet
During the annual meeting OF the
South Platte Millers' Association al
Lincoln, Neb., three newspaper report
ers who had been taken for mill own
ers sat through the proceedings and
heard all arrangements made for con
trolling the price of flour milled this
year.
Pavlof volcano, on the Alaska PENN
sula, west of the Shumagin Islands, is
in violent eruption. Andrew Grosswa aid
storekeeper at Sand Point, sixty
miles from Pavlof, sends word that
discharge of stones from the crater
can be seen and that lava and smoke
are issuing.
Special agents Of the United State:
| Land Office in Denver are conducting
hearings at Reno, New, seeking to re
| cover for the government from The
| Southern Pacific and Central Pacific
| railroads, mineral lands valued at $35,
| 600 900. The charge is made that the
| lands were secured through illegal pat
| ents
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-01-27

Fifty-three of the crew OF the Brit
ish steamer Wistow Hall were
drowned when the steamer foundered
on the Buffers of Buchan. off the
coast OF Aberdeen, Scotland.
A score Of fires swept across the
southern half OF Osaka, Japan. famed
by a strong wind. According TO Of
iicial figures, 5.26S buildings had been
destroyed and 10000 people rendered
homeless. During the first four hours
the flames consumed 1900 houses.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-01-27

II tried to cure this for eighteen
months. but it gradually got worse. A
doctor advised mo to have my tonsils cut
out, but l did not like the idea. Another
doctor examined me. and told me the
ame thing. I finally got bottle At
Peruna, and after had taken one bottle
ny throat was better. bought and used
dozen bottles. and saw was going to
get well, and I did"
Ask Your Druggist for Free Psru0s
AImanac for 1912,
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-01-27
Pleads Guilty to Forgery.

Fort Collins.-Pleading guilty TO for
gerry on eight counts. X. c. Merrifleld
told the court that he must have been
out of his mind when he committed
the crimes. that he had only ten or
twelve years more of active life, and
begged for leniency in order that he
might during that time, make repara-
tion for the offenses. He was sen
fenced TO net less than seven nor more
than ten years in the penitentiary.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-01-27
To ORGANIZE Pest District.

Canon City.-The Fremont County
Horticultural Society is taking steps
towards the formation of a pest dis
trict. including all the orchard terri
tory adjacent to Canon City This ac-
ton is being taken in pursuance or
the new law which gives the majority
OF the fruit growers in any territory
the right to organize a pest district
by which the ravages of insects may
be controlled in the whole district.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-01-27
cannery Makes Contracts.

Greeley-Contracts are being taken
for the canning factory here and Frank
Young reports that probably l,5oo
acres will be grown to peas and beans
for factory uses within four miles of
this city next season. Beans proved
a money making crop last season and
reas gave fair return. Probably close
to 1000 acres will be contracted to
garden crops on land adjoining Gree
ley next season.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-01-27
A Feed Of Hay.

A Feed Of Hay.
"Once upon q time," c. NJ. Thurnausr
served upon a murder Jury. For hours
and hours the body deliberated-11
agreed upon q verdict. but the twelfth
obdurately refused to change his po-
sition. Finally q court oficer raped
at the door and inquired a. to the
prospects OF agreement
None in sight" responded the thor
oughly disgusted c. NJ.
Perhaps l had better bring in II
suppers. then" suggested the omcer.
NO" said Thurnauer. glaring VI
ciously at the unpersuadable member.
bring in IL suppers and one feed Of
hay.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-01-27
After the Party.

After the Party.
We'll. George. hope you are
pleased with yourself"
Suffering Samson, what have
done now"
"Oh. nothing, Of course. What did
you say to that aristocratc Mrs. Pin
gleton?"
well. what did say?"
And right after warned you
against your awful breaks. You said
to her: How time flies! I suppose
your young hopeful will soon put on
long trousers.
well. what's the matter with that3
Friendly. wasn't it?"
friendly! Mrs. Pingleton has but
one child, and she's q young woman
Of 20!"
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-01-27
BAD CASE
OF GRIP
Caused Sore ThrOat and Ton.
Suits. Restored By

Mr.. W. II.
q o q . e y
Q resn Y lie.
en- ne . see,
writes:
Five years
~ I took .
ssry Sc re
pold which
result ed in
b grippe. II
never was %
bad o 4. /
ns In bed
Q . ' . r Q ]
weeks, and
Y b e n I did
got up / had
10 ms silitis
An d so re
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-01-27
SPORT.

The University of Iowa led the
Western Intercollegiate Rifle Shooting
League in the first weeks shooting,
registering score of 951 out OF pos
sible 1000 points.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-01-27
To Prosecute Butter Trust.

New York.-Just after 3-cent drop
in the price of butter in New York
announcement was made that District
Attorney Whitman will Immediately
begin an investigation of the charges
that the price of this commodity is
being manipulated by combination OF
produce merchants.