The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-01-03
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.

jan l5-AnHual Meeting boip- a.
ers' Congress at Agricultural Col
lexe. Fort Collins.
Jan. I5-Is.-Meeting Mountain Division
Colorado to -the-Gulf Highway Asso-
citation at Colorado Springs
Jan 1I.-MeetinF ,io Colorado Ass9eiGaellon Golol
Jan. 2e-Annqal banquet nsnlor Colorado
poneey smSasionai TintSas s9sie' Western Stock
Show at Denver. s u
July I3-l4-Grand Lodge Session. b.
r o. Elks at Denver.
Sept, Colorado State Fair at fu-
1si5-Last Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver
Harry W. Brown, Go. who came to
Colorado in 1873, died at the residence
OF his daughter in Denver.
j. C. McQuinston 60 years old, was
struck by a Union Pacific train and
killed, between Keota and Stoneman.
Several hundred farmers gathered
at Pueblo to participate in the mid
winter exposition at the Mineral pal
ace.
Denver clubdom staged many
watches on the evening Of December
81, and a number OF receptions on
New Years day.
Platteville's town board has fixed
the levy of the municipality at Is mills
on a total valuation OF $219.o0O, by
which it is expected to raise $3,2S7.
The Grand Junction Ministerial Alli-
ance inaugurated campaign to In
duce every resident Of Grand juno
ton to attend church on Sunday, Jan.
I.
James W. Murphy. sixty-two years
old, son of the second white man to
settle on the present site OF Milwau-
kee, died at the home Of his eldest son.
W. A. Murphy, in Denver.
More than 400 editors in Colorado,
Utah, Wyoming, New Mexico and Mon
tana have accepted the Denver Press
clubs Invitation to attend the Brand
Iron" dinner to be held January 15 at
Denver.
For the loss Of his sense of smell
and the Disagreement Of his nose.
Michael Lynch. a coal wagon driver
of Denver, demands damages OF &c.,
026 from the Denver & Rio Grande
Railroad Company.
That Fort Lupton is one of the most
prosperous towns in Weld county Is in
dicated by the fact that not one piece
of property within the corporate
limits Of the town was listed for sale
for delinquent taxes.
| Agitation for the exclusion OF op-
cratic music in the Catholic churches
Of Denver has begun. According to
the decree OF Pope Plus X, in 1906.
such compositions as the famous MO
Fart masses are illegal. The new
music calls for male voices. soprano
parts being taken by boys.
"A man has no right to marry and
bring into the world a family of chill
dren without having reasonable pros
poets of being able to provide a home
for them, and means for feeding and
clothing them" said the Rev. David
Utter, pastor OF Unity church, Denver,
in delivering his New Year sermon.
Plans to provide additional state
funds for highway construction in Col
orado will be one Of the principal sub
jects discussed at the fourth annual
convention Of the Colorado Good
Roads Association, for which Presi
dent Leonard f. Curtis has issued the
call to meet in Colorado Springs JAN
uary Is and 16
Mrs. Sophie Gertrude Stratton, who
claims to be the widow Of the late
Winfield Scott Stratton, millionaire
mining man, and who Is endeavoring
to obtain a half of his estate, institut
ed suit in the District Court in Den
yer, in which she seeks to eject the
owners of the Brown hotel, which Is
part Of the Stratton holdings.
When motions to quash the infor-
nations against Jerome Dreyfuss.
whose confession last September dis
closed the fact that he had swindled
the Hamilton National bank out Of
$29,7GO by false salary assignment
slips, came up in the West Side court
in Denver, Judge Charles c. Butler
ordered Dreyfuss to appear in court
with an attorney.
Lamar, in the Arkansas valley,
promises to become the largest dairy
center in Colorado and one of the
largest in the entire West. Begin
ming January /, farmers living in a
forty mile stretch OF territory along
the Arkansas river, of which Lamar is
the center, will milk nearly 10000
cows every morning. The milk thus
produced will approximate 100000
pounds daily.
Officials of the United Mine Work
ers of America, the Western Fedora
tion of Miners and the Colorado State
Federation of Labor met in Denver
Monday to decide what steps should
be taken to force Congress to investi-
gate the attack upon Charles H.
Meyer, presiden, of the Western Fed
Grafton. and Charles H. Tanner, his
aide, at Hancock, Mich. Meyer was
| shot and hnth he and Tannor haatan