The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1915-02-13

The city OF Montrose has just paid
q 10000 water bond.
The first prospectors' school in the
United States opened in Golden with
thirty-eight pupils.
Governor Carlson appointed H. W
McQueary to be county commissioner
of Grand county, vice Fred Feltch. re
signed.
John j. Richie. an aged Boulder
county miner, was buried at Pueblo
He was a brother of Mrs Cudahy OF
Chicago.
Men OF all ages appeared at Golden
10 register for the three weeks short
course for prospectors, started by the
State School OF Mines.
community welfare conference
VIII be conducted BY the Extension
Division of the University OF Colorado
al Gunnison, Feb. 25-2s.
A bill for the creation OF new
county out of the east end of Adams
and Arapahoe counties. and part OF
" Washington and Elbert, was intro
duced into the Legislature.
The Colorado Alfalfa Meal Com
pany's plan, in the Newdale district,
near Rocky Ford, is working full time
and is now turning out forty-five tons
OF alfalfa meal every day
Retail sugar prices advanced 25c to
40c per 100 pounds in Denver, with in
dications, according to several large
suit Of a rising market in New York.
A charter has been granted by State
Bank Commissioner Drach to a new
bank to be located at Louisville, incor-
porated under the name of the First
State Bank of Lauisville.' with CAPT
tai of $4,000
A present there are six convict road
making camps in the state and about
three hundred prisoners from the
penitentiary are employed in connec-
ton with them in the construction of
public highways.
|. S. Nichols, fifty-two, for the last
twenty-three years agent for the Den
Yer e. Rio Grande at Colorado City,
died there after two weeks illness.
He was member of the school board
there for the last twenty years.
Theodore Dakin, the young man who
vas arrested at Telluride for taking a
$3.50 money package from the local ex-
press office, pleaded guilty before
Justice of the Peace Maddox and was
bound over to the District Court
President Livingston Farrand and
Professor Osborn of the University of
Colorado at Boulder will go to Lamar
on Feb. Goth to deliver addresses be-
fore the farmers of that district, who
will be holding a Farmers Day. on
that date.
busses in Pueblo already have cost
several employees of the Traction com
pany their jobs and promise to result
in other men being thrown out of
work, the Pueblo City Commissioners
were told
AS result OF the creation OF the
Rocky Mountain National park the
mountain scenery of Colorado will re-
ceive advertising this year, without ex-
pense to the state or the people Of the
state, that could not be purchased for
$1,OOO000.
Joe Felles. an Old Mexico Mexican
cook at the Santa Fe saloon, lies at
the point of death in San Rafael hos
pital at Trinidad as the result OF two
knife wounds inflicted by Ismael
Lopez in the saloon kitchen. Lopez is
in the city jail.
After delberating twenty-five hours
the jury in the case of Mabel Fisher,
charged with perjury in the trial of
c. w. Scott for white slavery in Den
yer, returned a verdict of guilty. Ac-
companying the verdict was a recon-
mendatiop to the court for clemency.
With a membership of 275 progress
i've citizens, representing all profes-
sions and lines of industry OF the San
Juan basin, and substantial founda-
ton fund of $500. the Durango EX-
change was organized at an enthusi-
astic meeting held in the Durango
Club rooms. The Exchange is con-
solidation of the Durango Board Of
Trade, the Durango Club, and includes
many who had never been connected
with either organization.
With the filing OF another caveat to
the will of the late William Barth,
pioneer real estate man, the contest
over the aged millionaire's estate will
assume a three-cornered aspect Carl
F. Grass, formerly an employee of the
German American Trust Company,
through his attorney, served notice
upon the executors and attorneys for
the estate that he would oppose the
probation of the will when the docu-
ment is presented to County Judge
Rothgerber
Probably what is the biggest
single step ever taken toward the de-