The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-12-13
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
'estern Newspapsr Cnion News Service
Dates for ComisS Ev<ata.

| Pueblo
Jan l2-15-Colorado Poultry FancIers'
Association Show at Denver
Jan; ls-24-National Western stock
| Show at Denver
Roads Assn at Colorado Springs
Sept 1.-CoIorado State Fair at Pueblo
Juty iS-l4;-Grand Lodge Session. y +
Jan. I5-AnnuaI Meeting Alorado
farmers ia Congress at Agricultural Col
isl5.-Last Grand Council of North
American Indians At Denver.
Six militiamen on duty at Aguilar in
the coal strike field are stricken with
smallpox
/ The Womens club of Colorado
| Springs has started a campaign tC
regulate the billboards
The man killed by freight train
near Tunnel was identified at Grand
junction as Steve Rasnick.
John Bergen, Sr., so years old, was
| found dead in the snow few Yards
from his home nine miles west OF Nor
| rison.
| A golden eagle. measuring almost
eight feet across its wings, was shot
near Edgewater by Postmaster Frank
| H. Miller.
| Make the Colorado potato bring
twice as much wealth to COLORADO as
1t does at present-s10,0e0.0o 900 instead
OF s5,o00.oo0
Ten Wild deer were fed by Mrs.
John Puchert near the front door OF
her home eight miles south OF Idaho
/ Springs on Chicago creek
]
in a row in a rooming house at Colo
rado Springs, by Dan Sullivan, died.
Sullivan is under arrest
George Yerkes, 76, one OF the first
| to enter the fruitraising industry at
Grand Junction, died suddenly of
| heart disease on his ranch.
| A suicide in a lonely cabin on Bull
| Hill during the blizzard became known
| when ten miners entered Victor with
the body OF Mrs. Yes Porter
! Little hope is held at Golden that
John Classen, dairyman, has sur
| yived the storm in which he was lost
when within half mile of home
James H. Kelly of Gunnison has
been elected principal OF the State
| Normal School to succeed C. A Hol-
! lingshead, who resigned in Septem-
! Der.
Jake Bosmitch, Hungarian, was
taken to Buena Vista suffering from
frozen feet as a result of being lost in
the recent storm passing over that
section.
The impossibility of reaching the
] cemeteries during the heavy snow
storm. resulted in the accumulation OF
thirty-four bodies of Denver persons
who recently died
! A hand lying in the snow led to the
| discovery of the mangled body of an
/ unknown man half a mile distant from
/ the hand on the Colorado & Southern
! tracks to Morrison.
| r. W. Smith, a Colorado auto and
I good roads advocate, was elected sec
/ ond vice-president of the American
| Automobile Association al its meet
| ing in Richmond, Va.
James Bonham and a Young son
narrowly escaped death near Idaho
| Springs when a huge snowslide struck
| the cabin in which they were asleep,
wrecking the building
Twenty head OF cattle We're killed
outright near Limon when a Rock Is
land passenger train, backing out of
the snow blockade on the Colorado
Springs branch. struck the herd.
A carload of Greeley potatoes were
| consigned to Victor Carranza, rebel
leader in the Mexican revolution, the
shipment having been ordered through
| one of his agents at Vera Cruz.
The chatham greenhouse at West
Sixth avenue and Inca street in Den
Yer, collapsed for a block of its length
| through weight OF snow The con-
| tents of the building are an entire loss
Mrs. Genevieve V. Whitted. wife OF
E. l.. Whitted, general counsel for the
| the Colorado & Southern railroad, and
| only daughter and heir of the late Al
| len NJ. Ghost. pioneer Denver real es-
tate owners, will receive her fathers
! entire 5000 900 estate.
With the exception of the Clear
| Creek line of the Colorado & Southern
to Idaho Springs and Central City,
and the Morrison line beyond Fort
| Logan. the effects of the big snow
| practically were lifted from train SER
vice in and out of Denver Wednesday.
With the fire department stuck in
an impossible snowbank half block
| away, men and women in their night
clothes fled into the street from the
burning LaNerne apartment house
in Denver Shiverjng and in their
bare feet they struggled through the
deep snow and were promptly given
shelter at the homes of neghbors and
in the wings of the apartment house
which were not in danger FROM the
flames.