The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-08-08

SEPT l-5.-Larimer County F.
A 60 .O0O-ton silo for the American
Beet Sugar Company at Rocky Ford
is nearing completion.
The grand lodge of Colorado
knights of Pythias will hold its an
nual meeting at Pueblo, Aug. 25-
On Sept 90 Florence will hold an
election TO determine whether the city
shall own its own electric light plant.
An advance of 80 cents a ton on
southern and Routt county bituminous
coal was announced by coal dealers.
The site of Denver's new water
plant will be selected within two
weeks, according to the expectations
of the utilities commission.
The Boulder Street Car Company
has two crews Of men at work placing
new ties, one on Walnut street and
the other in Newland's addition.
Florence Brown, the fourteen-year
old Denver girl who drank carbolic
acid because she was disappointed in
love, died at the county hospital.
Clarence Land, twelve-year-old son
OF Jasper Land of Denver, broke his
arm, and the same afternoon, Eva, his
fifteen-year-old sister, was drowned.
A saving of about ten miles is effect
ed by change in the routing over
the Pixies, Peak ocean-to-ocean high
way between Calhan and Limou.
Mrs. Jennie Vigil. twenty-three OF
Fort Collins shot herself in the temple
during a fit of despondency at Raw
Inns. Wyo., dying within half an hour
Lucille Ravenscroft, twenty-five, of
Denver is believed by her father, w
T. Ravenscroft, to be in Holland. prac-
tically the only neutral state on the
continent.
Denver's new union station is as
sured through the purchase OF the 81,
100000 of bonds needed to make the
improvement, by the Union Pacific
Railroad Company out of it's own
funds.
A general call to Australians to
rally to the support of the fatherland
in the war which now threatens al!
Europe, was issued in Pueblo by spe-
cial agent of the Austrian consulate
in Denver.
Wilbur Samuel Raymond, for thirty
three years a resident of Colorado
and prominent in the business life of
Denver. died at his home, 1881 York
street. Death ended a four-year search
for health in many parts of the
world
Na1ljn rTaylnr ('hinn nrnran6z
ings in the County Court in Denver to
have her marriage with Kay w. Chinn.
a Chinaman, annulled on the ground
that when she married him in 1912 at
Granger. Wyo., he had wife living
from whom he never had been di-
vorced.
When James c. Bulger shot and
killed Lloyd F. Nicodemus May 6 at
the Savoy hotel in Denver, Bulger was
insane, according to examinations
made and conclusions arrived at by
Dr. Edward w. Lazell. alienist called
to testify for Bulger in his trial at the
West Side Court
Formal notice has been given by
DIR. A. BourQuin. the French consul in
Denver. for all Frenchmen in his con-
sular district who are liable to mill
tary services, to go at once to New
York city. There they will be regis
tered and provided with free transpor-
tation to France.
The Misses Catherine and Mary
Gamble, sisters of Judge Harry P
Gamble of Boulder, are among the
American travellers who are marooned
in Europe. They have been on the
continent for almost year and had
planned to sail from Genoa Italy, on
Aug. 10 on the return trip.
Following romance of college life,
Clifford Spencer Geitz, for several
years connected with the State Uni
versity as student and instructor.
and Miss Helen NJ. Wann, a junior in
the liberal arts college, were married
in Denver. the Rev. Charles H. Mar
shall of st. Barnabas' church officiat
ing.
Thomas r. Smart charged with
Fleeing residents of Alamosa, Colora
dc Springs, and Oklahoma cities out of
hundreds OF dollars in a faA.-aS
scheme. was arrested at Idaho ESE~
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