The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1919-01-31
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

| SSAN'
pieted $3.50 pieces OF work and 81
400 was handled by the chapter.
A proposition has been made Il
the city of Fountain by private cap
iraI to install a $4,000 electric ligh
plant.
| Gorton E. Rushton. pioneer o
| Pueblo and owner of the largest Jew
| elry establishment in the Arkansa
valley. died Tuesday. following /;
/ long illness
| The X. o. T. c. and military train
I ing will be continued at the Univer
! sity OF Colorado. both Governo
/ Shoup and Acting President NorliI
| told students gathered at assembl,
in Boulder
Prof. c. NJ. Heron of La Junta en-
/ tered several of his Single Cont
! Buff Leghorns in the Chicago Ma
| tional Poultry Show and won frs
i prize on hen. first on pullet and sec
ond on cockerel.
VIII Mathieson. a farmer of tn,
| Timnath district. accidentally killed
his ls-months-old daughter by back
ing his automobile over the child
Her neck was broken and she diec
within a short time.
The Myron Stratton Home Corpor
alton, As the holding company own
ing the Colorado Springs and Inter
urban Railway Company. has agreed
to sell the street car lines to Colo
RADIO Springs. but NO price has beef
named.
The Apex Company is now under
full operation at the improved rein
cry at LOOMS. six miles east Of Boul
der The plant is one OF the finest il
he West and is producing practically
all the gasoline handled by the Apel
Company in its extensive retailing
business In Denver.
Action by the Railroad Administra
lion on the suggestion OF shippers
backed by state officials OF Colorado
hat the government take over anc
operate tho Colorado Midland railroad
which has been sold to be dismantled
Is being withheld until . definite
proposition is submitted.
memorial avenue of elm trees ts
built this spring by the park commits
sion Of Colorado Springs to com
memorate the soldier and sailor dead
of Ell Paso county The trees will
extend through Monument Valley
park for three blocks.
C-uv{,h ;rSlrn,ro t1oL tol1 al
2,S7l lives in Colorado up to Jan. l
All together 44.s03 persons were
taken down with the disease. accord
ing to official reports from county
health officers to the State Board Of
Health. In other words. of every 10t
persons who contracted the disease
6.43 died.
Platteville's commercial club hat
received definite assurances from the
kuner company that the next fac
tory for putting up pickles and othe,
vegetables which the company estab-
fishes will be at Platteville. but tina,
the sudden ending of the war has dis
arranged their plans SO that it is NOT
likely to be this year.
A million-do copper enterprise
| for western Montrose county was an
nounced by James n, Mcbride. rep
resentative OF a syndicate OF Michi-
gan and Colorado mining men who
have obtained an option on the old
Cash In mine. long owned by Mich
| igan widow. Mcbride Is on his way
to the mine to arrange for a flota-
ton mill which will employ 500 tc
| 1000 men. The mine ia the only
one with a native vein OF copper In
Colorado.
Some $4,000 is to be expended in
betterments on the United States pos,
road between breckenridge and
Kremmling this season
| David Mulvaney. brakeman on the
freight train from Laramie. which
was held up at Greeley and eighty
one pints of contraband booze taken
from the caboose. pleaded guilty In
Judge Ewing's court and was fined
5000 and costs.
Prof. Lowell J. Thomas. holder OF
the chair of public speaking In
Princeton University, a native of Vic
tor, Colo. was shot and seriously
wounded in riot in Bremen. Ger
many, when an attempt was made
TO assassinate him for an alleged at
| tempt to split the Spartacan forces
| n the national elections.
Freight rates on coal from Pals.
ade and Cameo to Grand Junction
are the subjects Of an appeal to the
Public Utilities Commission by two
Palisade and Cameo producers OF
coal. They charge that the rates are
discriminatory and force Grand
Junction consumers to buy from coal
producers in Somerset and Bowie.