The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1907-06-01
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

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Denver will have 100 voting ma
chimes at its next election. Heretofore
two have been doing the work.
Three Colorado couples were wed in
Cheyenne in one day recently. It's a
wonder Colorado people wouldn't pat
loniZe home industry.
The commissioners of Mesa county
have purchased eighteen voting ma
chimes which will be used in future
elections. They cost 5000 each.
Because her husband insisted that
she go to work on the day following
her marriage, Mrs. Mary Calbert OBJ
tained divorce at Trinidad and had
her maiden name destored.
Ault claims a larger population than
Eaton. The school census, just taken.
shows 1919. of which SO are males and
l03 females With the usual multiple.
PIG. this makes the population of Ault
700.
Peter Leonard, aged siXty-five. died
of injuries which, it is alleged, were
inflicted by John Bowling. proprietor
of a saloon at Blende. 1t is charged
Downing kicked him. lie was ar
raigned and held for trial
While drinking with l.. + George
and Thomas Thurston Patrick Riley.
a, Pueblo, aged 23. is said to have con
fesscd to stealing mail sack from the
railway station at Green River. Wyo-
ming. Riley was arrested He says il
was only joke.
While working on the top of a 40-foot
ladder on the roundhouse of the Den
yer 4 Rio Grande at Grand Junction,
Harry Wilbur, young machinist,
tainted and fell to the ground, being
rendered unconscious. His condition
is serious.
A charivari party attacked the home
of Sid Butler at Rifle the other night
to make Sid who had just been mar
ried. set EN- up" Sid paid no atten-
tion to horns. COW bells. etc, but when
one of the party began to sing he
"loosened" quickly.
AT meeting of the Denver Trades
and Labor Assembly it was decided to
have the different unions assist an
antitrust oil company which is buck
ing the Standard Oil Company in Den
yer, and has already succeeded in low
ering the price of oil.
The Young Mems Christian Associ-
alton fund at Cripple Creek has passed
the $l4, 900 mark. At a meeting of
siXty-tive representative citizens fur
ther support was pledged and the $25,
900 required for the establishment Of
an association building is practically
assured.
The first case of a dairyman being
arrested for selling milk at Pueblo not
up to the standard came up in the po-
lice court when A. Robinson was fined
$25 for violation of the city ordinance
requiring a certain test for milk. The
case will be appealed.
Mrs j. A. Davis, wife of j. A. Davis
of the White-Davis Mercantile Com
pany of Boulder, died suddenly from
heart disease while preparing to take
train for Denver. She was fifty years
old and had been a resident of Colo
rado for thirty-four years.
For seven days Quincy Brown. a
Colorado d Southern brakeman. who
sustained fractured skull by being
knocked from top Of car, has been in
an unconscious condition. During all
of this time he has taken no nourish,
ment, but in spite of this the physi-
clans in attendance hold out hope for
his recovery.
AT "A meeting of the Tri-County Fair
Association, comprising Pitkin, Gar
field and Eagle counties, the old Off
GERS were re-elected-W. S. Copeland
president, and Charles Daley, secre
tary. October 1st, I'd, Sd and 4th was
selected as the time of giving the fair.
A large executive committee to make
arrangements was appointed.
About half of the thirty resorts fined
for violating the Sunday closing ordi.
nance were closed at Silverton. The
other half remained open. as was their
usual custom The Italians, in trying
to resent the action of the enforcement
of the law bought several kegs of beer
on Blair street and imbibed freely Of
the liquor in open air
Frank White. colored. became en-
ragged at Scott Williams. another negro,
in a ball game at Colorado Springs
and. it is said, struck him on the head
with stone, inf1ctng serious wounds.
White tried to make his escape and
was pursued by a mob of 200. He
was caught while hiding under the
bed in a rooming house and was ar
rested.
The jury in the Samuel Shawcross
case at Cripple Creek, after being
locked up for twenty-five s.hours re
ported inability to agree and was dis
charged by District Judge Morris. The
defendant was charged with larceny
of precipitates and zinc shayings worth
$1,000 from the Anaconda mills. The
defendant was released on $500 bond
pendin5 new trial.
Tuesday afternoon, June 4th, will
witness the last baseball game OF the
season on the Gamble field, when the
Colorado College team and a nine rep
resenting the University of Colorado
will play an exhibition game. The
event is right in the middle of com.
mencement week and number of the
members OF the alumni as well as the
friends of the university will be pres
ent to witness the contest
The Eaton sugar factory is adding a