The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-09-13
STATE NEWS
OF INTEREST TO ALL
c o L O r A DO
PEOPLE
..rn Newspaper Union New. Service.
Dates for Coming Events.

Western Newspaper Union New. Service.
Dates for Coming Events.
Sept. Zs-2s-Mesa County Industrial
Sept s-l1-weld County Fair at
seR Eee,inK iii2csSs.y a; ssssr cIty Ts,r and Race
Sept s.l2-Morgzn County Fair at
Sept. s-i2~Delta County Fair at
>, Sept ll-12-Eighth District W. C. T,
Sept 17-1s-Annual Meeting order
Eastern star at Grand Junction
SEPT le-ls--western slope Fair at
Sept. Is le--Annual Masonic Meeting
Sept. Is 2o.-coIorado state Fair at
Sept 2s-colorado New Mexico
Fair and Indian Carnival at Du-
Sept 23-2s Trinidad-Las Animas
SSonn'y Seni y Far "a a, Trinidad , at
Sept s-sO-In,er-county Fair Il,
oct. i-3-s,ate w c. T. u. Conven-
ton at Fort Collins.
Oct 2-4-Sedgw County Fair al
Oct 2-iNEi paso County Fair at Cal
oct. 7-12-Mee,ing ysociety of Amerl-
can Indians. at Denver
Oct; 2l-Colorado State Baptist Asso-
Oct 30. Nov. I-Color.do Kennel Club
Show at Denver.
Jan l2-l5.-colorado Poultry Fanciers
Assoc ion show at Denver -.
Jan; educational Western Stock
SHOW, at Denver -
lel5--Last Grand Council OF North
American Indians. Denver
Briggsdale's second annual harvest
home celebration attracted many yisl-
tors.
Secret divorces are taboo in Den
yer hereafter 4" decreed the five DIS
tIict judges OF Denver. sitting en- banc,
Pioneers from all parts of Colorado
attended TIE funeral of Morse II. Cot
fin, Colorado pioneer, who died at his
ranch near Longmont.
James Austin Shreve. for fifty-three
years a resident OF Denver, died at
his home, 1850 Franklin street. Death
was due TO pneumonia.
An unsuccessful attempt to kiduap
ten-yearold Elizabeth Wilson Weckei
was made at Fruita by her mother,
Mrs. ID. W. Stewart of Grand Junction.
One hundred and fifty-three girls,
including ninety-one from Denver en-
tered the Colorado Woman's college
IL Montclair at the opening OF the iall
term.
The National Terra Gotta society,
composed OF manufacturers OF archl-
tectural terra Gotta in the United
States. held its annual meeting in
Denver.
Margaret, the fiften-year-old daugh-
oh.
rancher on the lower Cucharas, disap-
peared suddenly from her home at
Walsenburg.
Nine bridges below Box Prairie and
the road in Bist canon were carried
awy by cloudburst in the Buckhorn
valley, part of the same storm which
swept the st. Nrain valley.
Four hundred scientists who keep
their fingers on the pulse of the
United States opened the annual
meeting OF the American Public Health
Association at Colorado Springs.
George Vorhees, veteran OF the
Civil war fell on the sidewalk at
Grand junction and crushed his skull.
He is stirl unconscious and is not ex-
pected to live. He is Gghly Years oil
age.
When the motorcycle he was riding
collided with one ridden by j. T.
Thornton. at the Intersection Of East
fhirty-second avenue and Gilpin
street in Denver. William Davidson
was instantly killed
An information charging Mrs. Nor
ma Pumphrey, who shot and killed her
husband in their home in Denver, with
murder, was filed in criminal district
Court by Assistant District Attorney
Charles Mahoney. The woman is in
the county jail
Fifty Swedish ministers of Colorado
and neighboring states held their
twentieth annual session at the First
Swedish Methodist Episcopal church
in Denver The delegates to the six
day session are ministers OF Methodist
Episcopal churches.
Reports at Lyons indicate that the
damages done by the cloudburst over
Allen park and the subsequent rush
OF water down the St. Nrain river was
not nearly as great as reported, al
though portions OF the Estes park road
are washed away.
That a happening OF more than
twelve years ago when he was ac-
cused of killing a COW on a farm rear
Paducah, KY, entered the demented
mind of Joseph H. Thomas, foreman
of the White Bear ranch near Craig,
and caused him to end his life. is the
belief OF the Craig authorities.
The largest anti-saloon mass meet
ing ever held in the Pixies Peak re-
gion was broken up at Colorado
Springs by severe electrical and