The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1915-10-01

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The new Mercy convent at Aurora
has been opened.
The Fruita flour mill is running
day and night
The school baseball nine at Evans
has girl manager.
Work has begun on Craig's new
100000 waterworks system.
Glenwood Springs musicians are or
ganizing choral society
Petty thieves have been bothering
business houses of Trinidad.
The Trinidad City Council has Civ
en- it out that gambling must go.
Telluride Episcopalians are provid-
ing themselves with a church build
ing.
A fine gravel road has just been
finished between Loveland and Berth
oud.
The Meeker town council has or
dered signs at street intersections a la
metropolis.
The Burlington Record issued
daily edition during the Kit Carson
county fair.
Trout fry to the number OF 273,000
have been deposited in the streams
around Marble.
Otto Sauer. pioneer, grocer. mining
man, banker, died in Denver at the
age Of IT years.
Prominent citizens Of Fort Morgan
are trying to figure out how to raise
funds for a county hospital.
Brush is to have an opera house. A
new bank and numerous residences
have been built there this year.
Eric Lugon was drowned near Oak
Creek while out hunting for a stray
calf which had wandered away.
Yampa farmers will petition the e1-
tension division OF the State Agricul
tural College for a farmers institute
The "all-star" American and Ma
tional League teams will play at
Greeley Oct 90 on their way to the
coast.
C. s. Nolan, section foreman for the
Colorado & Southern at Nola, blew
out his brains He was lately from
Missouri.
The Commercial Club of Wiley has
| designated October II as Buttermilk
Day. 1t is proposed to make it an
annual event
| The State w. c. T. u conventfSa,
sitting in Denver, has announced its
determination to fight the cigarette
to its determination in Colorado.
Sixty Italian reservists left Trini-
dad for the war front at home This
is the fourth detachment to answer
the call from southern Colorado
The 17-months-old child of Mr. and
Mrs. j. p Ostermiller, near Fort Nor
gan, was drowned while trying to
cross the Morgan ditch on plank.
Trains between Durango and Silver
ton have lately been compelled to
slow down on several occasions to
prevent killing deer on the track.
Carlyle Very OF Brush, while out
hunting with another boy, was shot
through the leg Medical help not be-
ing available at once, he died a few
hours later.
Citizens of Arrba have complained
to the State Public Utilities Commits
sion of their train service They want
Rock Island train each way to stoI
there daily
One hundred tons of scrap metal
property of the Book Cliff Railroad
Company. which has been accumulat
ing for twenty years, has been shipped
10 an eastern ammunition firm which
will make shrapnel of it.
The company operating the alfalfa
mill at Hartman is preparing to In
stall an electric plant which will also
run the mill at Bristol. A proposition
will be made the town off Hartman
to furnish electric light
R. Guida of Firestone and George
Hall of Frederick We're each fined in
the Weld County Court 5000 and costs
for selling liquor on Sunday. On .Au-
gust II the same parties were as
sessed $500 and costs each for the
same offense.
A section man probably saved the
life of the five-year-old daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. George Williams at Lead
vile by pushing her from the D. &
r. G. track with his foot as his car
rounded a curve and bore down upon
her on a grade.
John Zondek brought suit in the
| Denver District Court against the I'm
ion Pacific Railroad Company for the
sum of $4,000, alleging the loss of four
toes in aightng from a train on
which he had been permitted a free
ride
The Montgomery ranch near Derby
produced over 40 bushels of wheat to
the acre and over so bushels of oats.
One field of wheat averaged 60 bush
| els to the acre.