The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-11-07
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

Colorado has closed.
Wilbur B. Dague, eighteen. and
Stella NJ. Early. sixteen-year-old school
girl, were married in Denver.
Albert and John Church living in
Denver. received word of the suicide
OF their father. Charles E. Church, in
Springfield. Ill.,
Halloween was fittingly celebrated
In Denver with a costume dance at the
Elks' clubhouse. which about 200
couples attended
News of the death of Carl Paddock,
a widely known newspaper man Of
Denver and Colorado, in Duffield, Va,
was received In Denver.
A new company of infantry in the
Colorado National guard is to be mus
tered in at Sopris, Las Animas coun-
ty. according to Adjutant General
Chase.
Mrs. Genevieve Chandler Phipps,
Denver society woman is contemplate
ing purchasing a tract of land con-
sisting of 100 acres above Troutdale
for summer home
Plans for big bazar were made by
$50 German women of Denver and by
some of their Austrian and Hungarian
sisters to raise funds for the Red
Cross and war relief
Speeding of motor cars and motor
cycles in Denver came temporarily to
stop as the result of orders COM
manding the prompt arrest OF all who
violate the speed ordinances.
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absence from Denver. w. G. Evans is
expected to return to resume his per-
manent residence there. according to
word received by his friends
John Foster. twenty-one son of J.
G. Foster, retired capitalist of Omaha.
Neb.. received serious injuries when
his auto turned over on the Jefferson
avenue boulevard near Arvada.
The city of Denver won in a suit
against it brought by Mark Amter for
$10,999 by IA jury in the District Court.
Amter slipped on an icy sidewalk last
winter, breaking his leg and spraining
his wrist.
Forty thousand persons saw William
Heth, aviator for the Berger Aviation
Company, spiral, dip. glide and race
before and against the wind in two
successful flights over the City park
race track in Denver.
A reduction of $372,450 has been
made in the valuation of the city of
Grand Junction and s664,402 in the val
uation of the county. according to fig
ures completed by Assessor John T.
Brown and his office force
Fred M. Ferrel sued the Longmont
Milling & Elevator Company in the
District Court for $4,000 damages for
injuries he received in November, 1912,
when he fell through a floor of the
companys mill at Longmont
The Denver chapter of the American
Red Cross Society has collected ap-
proximately $500 for the relief of
sick and wounded in the European war
zone. according to reports made at a
meeting of the executive board
The city commissioners and 1000
motorists are expected to take part in
the ceremony of raising the national
and state flags at the summit of Gene
see mountain in the city of Denver's
new system of mountain parks.
The receipt in Pueblo of a check
from the Wabash railroad. in payment
of claim for overcharges on a ship
ment of overalls, indicates that Pueblo
has won the case presented to the In
terstate Commerce Commission Oct.
3.
Donald c. Multabarger. a stenog-
rapher. lost control of his motorcycle
and collided with a tramway car at
Thirteenth avenue and Broadway in
Denver. He suffered severe scalp
wound and was taken to Mercy hos
pital.
r. S. Ruble. assistant general pas
senger agent of the Union Pacific
railroad, announced that the company
would operate a special Christmas
baggage car from Portland to convey
gifts to New York for shipment
abroad, Nov. 10.
Judge John A. Perry denied the
motion of attorneys for Edward Sic
wald. charged with having been impli |
Gated with Oscar Cook In the killing
of Andrew J. Lloyd in his saloon in
Valverde on the night of March 8,
1912, when Patrolman William Mo
Pherson also lost his life, when they |
moved in the West Side Court in Den
yer to quash the murder Indictment.
According to a statement issued by !
Postmaster Harrison of Denver, the
war in Europe has proved boon to
postal savings in this country, and in
Denver particularly. He declared that I
the amount of business transacted at |
the Denver office during the months
of August and September of this year !
exceeded that of the same months Of
the preceding year by 55 per cent in
new accounts opened and AN per cent