The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-12-27
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service
Dates for Coming Events

ASS at Colorado Springs
I Jan. l5.-Aunuai Meeting Colo Farm
ers Congress at Agricultural col
lege. Fort Collins.
Jan. i5-1s.-Meeting Mountain Division
Colorado the-Gulf Highway AssG-
citation at Colorado Springs
I Jan. Injecting Colorado Associate
rado Springs.
Jan. 1s-24-National Western Stock
July is-ia96irand Lodge Session, b
p. .. Elks at Denver.
Sept. colorado State Fair at Pu-
lsi5.-Last Grand Council Of North
American Indians at Denver
For the second time in twenty-six
months. Nora and Ernest Lapsiey Of
Pueblo have been divorced.
The provisional battery of artillery,
in command of Capt. John Donovan,
departed from Trinidad for Denver
The Chicago Society OF Etchers has
placed on exhibition at the university
at Boulder 100 of its master pieces
Augustus G. Black. prominent Pu-
ebloan, sixty-six, dropped dead at the
steel works. where he was employed
Peter James. fifty years old. sec
ton hand. was found dead in bed at
No4Ol siA4b IA 44Ato- EhNNtt
was the cause OF death.
Grand junction is promised another
railroad now, the Albuquerque, Cortez
& Salt Lake, which has been building
on paper for two OF three years.
The Grand Junction Fruit Growers
Association shipped barrel Of cram
berries by parcel post. the cost being
about half OF what it would have been
by freight
Negotiations for the consolidation
of all the fruit shipping associations
Of the Grand valley have been re
sumed. and prospects are for the final
amalgamation-
Last year the forest service dis
tributed 1890 baskets willow cut
tings: $4,000 10 forest schools, 10000
to agricultural experiment stations,
and $1,000 to individuals.
Santa Claus visited s.279 coal
miners children, many of them for
the first time in their lives. through
arrangements completed BY the
United Mine Workers.
Prof Henry W. Lamb, assisting in
the department Of metallurgy at Col
| orado college for many years, died at
Colorado Springs OF pneumonia at the
! age of sixty-nine years.
! Prof. F. R Sehrader. who Is eaten-
siyely engaged in the poultry business
at Longmont, made a clean sweep at
the Kansas City poultry show with his
! fancy Rhode Island Red birds.
| Samuel B. Morrison, well known in
business circles of the west, killed
himself at Colorado Springs by shoot
/ ing himself with revolver in his
room at Glockner sanatorium.
At the morning service at the Meth
| odist church at Montrose a mortgage
! OF s1,100 on the new church building
site was burned on platter in the
/ presence OF a large congregation
| That temperature of fifteen de-
grees below zero is worse than sixty
| six below in Alaska was the state
ment made by Joseph Montgomery
who Is visiting relatives at Greeley.
| The Palisade growers are planning
to establish drying and vinegar plants
| posed consolidation with the Grand
Junction Association having fallen
| through.
The Rev. Strange Brooks. aged
ninety-one, an old soldier and sur.
veyor of the Quantrel massacres, died
at the home of his daughter at Grand
| Junction. He was active on his ranch
until two years ago,
| Nearly $4,000 was spent on coun
| ty roads bridges and state highways
in Morgan county during the last
| year, according 10 the report Just
made by County Clerk John A Muir.
ray to the state highway commission
The colonization OF thousands OF
acres OF semi-arid and newly irrigated
| lands, bordering Denver on the east
! was given impetus by the purchase OF
| $500 acres lying under the Antero pro
| ject by a syndicate OF Fort Worth
| Tex, capitalists for a consideration OF
$3.50. 200.
! The Greater Colorado bureau of the
| Denver Chamber of Commerce is
| sending out circulars to the agricul
| tural districts of the state urging the
| farmers to send in the best exhibits OF
| corn they can supply to be forwarded
! to Dallas. Tex, for the sixth annual
| corn exposition. which opens in that
| city Feb. 90.
| Ben Tucker, a well known restau
ranteur of Colorado Springs is in a
serious condition and three chauf
| feurs are nursing cuts and bruises as
result of clash with police Off
cials Of Colorado City and Ramona
the latter a wideopen town of half q
| dozen buildings at the edge of Colo
| RADIO City.
Thomas NJ Hunter of Denver de
| livered the memorial address at the