The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-10-11
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Nov. s-s-Thirteenth Annual Conven-
ton Of Rocky Mountain Hotel Men:
Association at Denver.
Jan l2-l5.-Colorado Poultry Fanciers
Jan. National Western Stoel
1el5NI.sst Grand Council OF Nortt
American Indians at Denver.
The grand jury at Littleton indicted
two former county officials.
The new $4,000 Y. w. C. A. home
at Colorado Springs has been com
pleted.
Sugar beet money for this year,:
crop viii begin to circulate through tho
state in a short time.
Mrs. P J. Johnson. who came to
Colorado in 1869 from Sweden. died
at Boulder of old age.
At meeting of taxpayers and citi
zens it was decided to install sewer
system at Fort Lupton at a cost OF
SIS 900
Miss Kate Erickson of Nj Wot wa.
the victim OF an "unloaded' gun at
Boulder and received about dozen
birdshot in her face and neck.
The new ST. Louis Catholic church
at Englewood was dedicated witt
Bishop Matz. Father Donovan. Father
Donnelly and Father Hagus offici
ating.
Denver is expected to send several
delegates to the annual convention oil
the Electric Vehicle Association ol
America to be held in Chicago Oct
~ and IS.
Robert Harris, sentenced to death
for killing Marshals J. b. Craig and
Jacob Ripper at Rocky Ford, has
been granted new trial by the ST.
preme Court.
Ovid Plum. for forty-three years 4
resident OF the Greeley district ami
who lacked only one week of being
ninety years old. died at his home af
ter a long Illness.
Sheriff Sanford T. Buster of Boul.
der has some sleuthing to do on his
own account. as some miscreant stole
his kit Of tools and the buttons off the
electric lights of his automobile.
Ida Wilk OF Windsor. eleven year:
cid. has confessed TO the police thai
she has taken bits OF ribbon, jewelrs
and valuable trinkets from the homes
of neighbors for the last two weeks.
For the fourth time in the last two
months Mrs. Irene King. twenty-foui
years old, made an unsuccessful at
tempt to commit suicide by swallow
ing bichloride tablets in her room ir
Denver.
Mrs. Jacquemena Russum who ap
peared in the District Court at Colo
RADIO Springs as co-defendant witt
Francis W. Keeler, Denver broker
obtained further postponement of the
trial until Oct. l3
Five more Arapahoe county Officers
We're placed on the roll of those in
dicted by former grand jury sitting
in Littleton. when warrants wert
served on the mayor and four towI
trustees of Sheridan.
William G. Evans. for years presi
dent of the Denuver City Tramway
rendered his resignation at a specia
meeting of the board of directors it
the Tramway building. and his resig
nation was accepted.
Too i'll to sit up, Miss Bernice
Shirley of Denver was married al
Coloado Springs 10 Henry James. g
New Mexico ranchman, eliminating
romance begun on her husbands
ranch two years ago.
Friends of ]. 5. Dreyfuss appeared
before Commissioner Nisbet of Den
yer and gave bond for his appearance
at the West Side Court on the charge
of swindling the Hamilton Nationa
bank out of more than $4,000.
The Septc cmber report of Denvel
postoffice business shows an increase
OF 1873 over the receipts of a year ago
Last month the business of the post
office were s105,575.65. In Septem
ber, 1872. the receipts We're s93.5s2.O4
Grief, occasioned by the loss of his
fortune during the panic of 1898
caused Jacob H. Smissaert fifty
eight, ex-inember of Hollands roya
family, to end his life by SWALLOWING
morphine and inhaling chloroform
at Denver
The Colorado tax commission recon
mended to the State Board of Equaliza
~ that the assessments returned BY
" assessors throughout the state
be increased s1SG,551 ,G5s, and that o;
this amount Denver county be in.
creased sl01 .902.0SS
capped convict and the suspected muir
derer Of Walter Irwin. a ranch hand
near Cripple Greek year ago. was ar
rested by Detectives McAuliff and
Hollearin, Humane Officer Ransom
and Marshal Everhardt of Edgewater.
Although he had not heard from
his wife for score of years, John A.
Feeley, coal merchant of Hotchkiss.
learned quickly enough that she had
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