The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1908-04-25

counts mas been Med in District Court
at Durango against Charles E. McCon-
nell. president Of the defunct Shelter
City State bank,
Pains famous Carnival and Naples"
and Eruption OF Vesuvius" will be the
big night attraction at Overland park
in Denver during the Colorado inter
state fair and exposition. September
18th to 18th.
The executive board of the Farmers
Educational and Cooperative union has
named S. z. Schnech Of Pueblo as rur-
chasing agent. He will buy all sup
plies at wholesale rates and deliver
them to the members OF the union
Pardon Saylers of Ell Paso county was
named as organizer.
While riding horse through a gate
on the ranch of his uncle between
Pueblo and Colorado Springs, April
18th. Roy Doud, aged twenty-five, was
killed. The horse SHE'D and Doud was
thrown of, his head striking a gate
post. The force of the blow was such
that his skull was crushed and he
lived but a few minutes.
The cornerstone OF the pavilion be-
ing erected at the Jewish Consump-
tive Relief Society's sanatorium at
Edgewater in the suburbs of Denver
by the New York Ladies' Auxiliary at
cost of $4,000 was laid April Goth.
The pavilion will accommodate twenty
patients. Only those unable to pay for
treatment are admitted to the sana-
forum, and those in all stages of tu-
berculosis are taken.
Following is the program at Fort
Logan, near Denver: Regimental pa
rades will be held at 4:45 p. m, Fri
day of each week, instead of Wednes-
day. Guard-mounting at 1880 a. m.
daily excepting Sunday, when it will
be held at $50. The Twenty first in,
fantry band will play open air concerts
after moons at $50 and in the post
gymnasium at 7:30 every Tuesday ev-
ening until further orders
Henry Burd, who was charged with
shooting and killing George S. Dubois
at Balarat some time ago, was re-
leased at Boulder on motion of District
Attorney Van Horn. Later evidence
secured, 1t is said, showed that Dubois
fired two shots before Burd fired Two
bullets supposed to have been fired in
Burd's direction were found and both
fitted Dubois revolver. One was in
the wall and the other in a meal bag
Doctors testified at the preliminary ex-
animation that Dubois could not have
fired after receiving his wound.
The jury in the Taylor case at Glen
wood Springs April 18th returned a
verdict of guilty of murder in the sec
ond degree This verdict carries a
penalty of from ten years to life i'm
prisonment IN the penitentiary. The
crime with which Taylor is charged
was the killing of his wife at Coal
Bason, Pitkin county, July 10, 1907.
He was given a trial at Aspen. the
jury disagreed and change of venue
was taken to Garfield county. A hard
fight was made to clear Taylor on the
ground that the woman had committed
suicide.
At q meeting in Denver details were
completed for the formation Of a new
Colorado organization to be known as
the Merchants association. The Colo
RADIO Manufacturers association Is be-
hind the new organisation, which
Is formed to make war on
the mail order houses which
are constantly invading the ru-
raj districts to the detriment Of small
merchants. Every merchant in Colo
RADIO will be eligible for membership
and the aim of the association will
be to cut out the catalogue houses of
the East from Colorado. A committee
was appointed to arrange for perma-
nent organization. consisting Of c. D..
Grifnth, A. d. Lewis, l.. B. Bridaham,
r. Hardesty. Fritz Thies of Denver and
c. J. Haines Of Pueblo.
This dispatch was sent out from
Colorado Springs on the 18th inst:
Although their combined ages aggre-
gate 142 years and the prospective
groom is embarking on his fourth and
the bride-to-be on her third matri-
monial venture, c. A. Gordon and Mrs.
Eva McCoach today secured a license
and will be married tomorrow. Cor
don is eight-six and is employed by
the street car company. He has lost
three wives, been around the world
four times. is a veteran Of the Civil
War and OF two East Indian wars, in
one Of which he was an English army
ofhcer. He was married the first time
when only sixteen and has been a res
ident of Ell Paso county forty-nine
years. Mrs. McCoach is fifty-six and
has two divorced husbands living.
Because the Colorado Humane So
ciety failed to use up all its appropria-
ton from the Fifteenth general as
sembly before the Sixteenth assembly
made an appropriation. State Auditor
George d. Statler refused to pay the
unused balance of $3.50 and the HUI
name Society secured writ of man
damus before Judge Bliss of the Dis
trict Court at Denver requiring him to
transfer the money. The Fifteenth AS
sembly appropriated $4,000 for the HUI
name Society for the years 1905-l906,
the last year ending In December. 1906.
In his petition for a writ of mandamus
Secretary Whitehead alleged that he
has vouchers for the balance unspent
when the Sixteenth Assembly made it's
appropriation Of $4,000 for l907-0S and
that this balance was all contracted for
before the Sixteenth Assembly's ap.