The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-11-22


Meeting Colorado Good Roads
ASSOCIATION at colorado Springs
American Indians at Denver.
The skip-stop service was voted
down unanimously by Denyer's com
missioners.
reduction of 80 cents ton on
steam coal was made in Denver by the
large coal operators of the state.
Mayor Cherrington announced he
would use the work pile to put an end
to bootleggirg in Grand Junction.
The Denver e. Rio Grande and Mid
land railroads have commenced the
confiscation OF coal from the Cameo
and Garfield mines.
George w. Thompson. county com
missioner from the Clifton distric-.
has disappeared and a month search
has failed to locate him.
George J. Langman, landscape
eardener, forty-fiye, was caught under
his overturned automobile at Colora-
do Springs and instantly killed.
Chicago people will see a peck of
fine Greeley potatoes which will be
placed with the Colorado exhibit in
the Burlington depot in that city
Morton Rogers, son OF Joseph F.
Rogers, pioneer and probably the
wealthiest man in Park county, was
drowned in a we'll on the Rogers
ranch at Howbert.
Six people narrowly escaped death
when two automobiles collided Al
Eighth avenue and Logan street in
Denver, known to automobilists as
Dead Mans corner"
Fort Collins farmers were paid
$3.50 900 for their October delivery OF
sugar boets. OF the 100000 tons raised
this year all but about 10000 tons
have been delivered.
For the first time in history, moy-
ing picture film, taken in Colorado,
is to be used by military authorities
to prove who took part in a battle be-
tween strikers and their foes.
Asphyxiated by gas, the body OF
Mrs. Beda Lind. twenty-nine years old
was found in her bed In the home Of
William A. McCutchen. in Denver,
where she was employed as maid.
Ten thousand dollars is the price
placed on a number" Of stolen kisses
by Daisy Reese. nineteen-year-o
cashier in suit filed in the Denver
District Court against S. c. Hoover
The Colorado State fair for 1914 al
ready is being considered, and the di
rectors elected have commenced the
task OF arranging to present the best
exposition ever held in the state at
Pueblo next autumn.
With a bullet hole through his head,
r. y. Woodford, grading contractor,
was found dead in the alley between
Twenty first and Twenty-second. Lar.-
mer and Lawrence streets in Denver,
by Patrolmen Hamlin and Mann.
Miss Dolores Worrell is lying near
death at St Luke's hospital. the result
of runaway accident at Eighteenth
and Stout streets in Denver Her
skull is fractured and the attending
physicians hold out little hope for her
recovery.
The Queen City Foundry Company
OF Denver will extend its operations
to the manufacture o. steel castings
after January !. A huge steel e
verter. with a daily capacity of 10000
tons, will be installed within the next
few weeks.
Phillip Madron. for twenty years a
resident of Cripple Creek, prominent
in Socialistic circles and candidate
for many state and county offices on
that ticket, committed suicide by
shooting himself through the heart
with rifle.
From five field crops alone-pota-
toes. wheat. corn, barley and cats
Colorado farmers this year viii re-
ceive more than $4,000, 900. according
to the estimates made by the United
States Department of Agriculture is
sued from Washington.
The coal operators sent letter to
the editors of the state accepting the
terms proposed at the editorial con-
ference for a settlement of the strike.
At the same time the policy commit
tee of the United Mine Workers sent
letter positively refusing to consid-
er the proposition.
Although large percentage of the
teachers present will be from the Pu-
eblo city schools, it remains fact
that the rural school is to come in for
a big proportion of attention during
the coming State Teachers conyen-
tion, which will be held in Pueblo dur.
ing the week beginning November %.
Postal savings depositors may ex
change deposits for government bonds
by making application at the office is
suing their certificates on or before
December l. 1913. The registered or
coupon bonds will be issued in denom-
nations of 500. 500 and $500, bearing
interest from January |, 1914, at ~
rate Of 21a per cent, payable semi-an-
nually.