The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-12-20
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service
Da,-. for COMING Event..

ASSOCIATION Show at Denver S,ock
Jan Is-24.-National Western slocN
Jan l5-1s.-Meeting Colorado Good
sept S.ScoIorado 10 state Fair al PUEBLO.
July 13-14-Grand Lodge Session, b /.
Jan. I5.-Annual Meeting Colorado
Farmers Congress at Agricultural COL
lege. Fort Collins; 49,,
ls15--Last Grand Council OF Nortn
American Indians at Denver.
The Ambrose greenhouse in Denver
was almost wholly destroyed by fire.
A telegram was received at Grand
Junction announcing the death at
Kissence, Fla, of s. S. Carroll, Mesa
county pioneer.
The large dining hall on the confer
ence ground of the Western Y. NJ. Z.
A., at Estes Park collapsed from an
overweight of snow.
Andrew C. Wikoff wants to be di-
vorced, SO that he can sleep. His suit
against Gertrude L. Wikoff was insti-
tuted in the County Court at Denver.
The city of Greeley is preparing
municipal skating pond for the chill
dren. a section Of Lincoln park imme-
diately opposite the city hall being
utilized
Patrick Kirley, superintendent of
the Pueblo smelter and in service
there for thirty years, was found dead
in bed by his wife. He was fifty-five
years old.
Logan county will witness its first
murder trial in fifteen years next
March. A coroner's jury held Jim
Posto for the murder Of Gay Smith,
who was shot at Willard
Archbishop jeremiah j. Harty. first
American bishop of the Philippines,
arrived in Denver from San Francisco
as the house guest of the Rt. Rev
Bishop n. C. Matz for several days.
Mrs d. C. Armitage, wife of the
commissioner of public works of Fort
Collins. died in Washington, where
old daughter in an effort to restore
her health.
The false pfetenses charge against
C. G. Shelley, Denver bridge contrac-
tor, brought by the Arapahoe county
grand jury, was nolle pressed by Dis
trict Attorney Johnson in the District
Court at Littleton.
The reincorporation of the Colorado.
Publicity League, with capitalization
of at least s1,000,000, probably will be
provided for at the first annual meet
ing of that organization, to be held on
January 13, in Denver.
Returns from two cars of Newton
oh hn
ley to Liverpool and London mar
kets showed a new market for Colo
rado fruit, the apples netting the
grower at Grand Junction 81 a box.
After having allowed all bills of
the Mountain States Telephone and
as rendered to the city by the COM
pany, the Denver city council held up
the December telephone bill OF s723.
1t is estimated by the highway COS
missioner's office that the snowstorm
LEFT 10000 wagonloads of snow on the
business district of Denver from I'm
lou depot to Broadway and from -Four
teenth to Eighteenth streets, inclusive.
E. B. Dupree, Deputy State Dairy
Commissioner, under Prof. G. E. Nor
ton, has moved from Denver to Fort
Collins, his work now being done at
the State Agricultural College. He is
a newspaper man and formerly pub
lished the Ebert County Banner and
the Parker Post
Payrolls and bills for the mainte-
nance of the state militia in the coal
strike district, up to and including
Dec. 25, will be paid with certificates
of Indebtedness which will be cashed
Immediately upon presentation to the
Denver Clearing House Association
and allied banks.
Ernest Strohmeyer of Peetz is Lo
gan county's champion boy corn
raiser. AS member of one of the
Logan county corn clubs, of which
there were fifteen, he grew the best
acre of corn and wrote the best story
on How l Raised My Acre of Corn
and Disposed of It.
Federal Judge Robert E. Lewis de-
MED the petition of the Mountain
States Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany for an injunction to restrain the
city from enforcing the terms of the
Brown telephone ordinance The de-
cision holds that the city has power to
regulate rates under the ordinances
terms.
John P. White, William Green and
Adolph Germer and James Battey of
the United Mine Workers voluntarily
went to the clerk of the Federal Court
in Denver and gave bonds of $4,000
each for their appearance for trial on
the indictment returned recently by
the federal grand jury charging them
with violating the antitrust law by
conspiring in restraint of trade.