The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-12-26


Jan z9-zi zi--C'oIorado Good Roads -As-
ISOLATION Meeting. IN Denver
\ Farmers Union will be organized
in the Grand Valley on Jan. : al q
mass meeting to be held in Grand
Junction.
The 10000 clubhouse erected bg
the Portland Gold Mining COMPANY al
Cripple Greek for its employees is nov
occupied BY the miners
Weld county has one automobile %
every nine families. or one for every
thirty-six residents OF the county, &C
cordiug 10 the report of the county
clerk
rhe Evans Comlercial Club and the
town board are planning to get the
creamery plant that is 10 BE- estao=
lished some place along the Union Pa
cific railroad.
After Timothy Rcadon. 2s years old,
had attempted to wreck his home in
Denver his wife tied him TO the bed,
where she kept him several hours be
fore she called the police.
While whiting on d piece OF pine
board Edward Cunningham of Mill
OF the entire fleshy part of his hand
alongside the little finger.
Popcorn and peanuts raised by the
children il their own garden decorat-
ed 4 Christmas tree that was the cen
ter Of attraction at party AT the
Minneqaa kindergarten at Pueblo.
The Christmas offering OF the Great
Western Sugar Company TO the farm
eTs OF Colorado in the form OF pay
ment for beets delivered to the faeto-
riess Of the state. amounted to $2I65,-
600.
Two hundred fathers and their sons
attended the Father and-Son" banquet
given at the Y. NJ C. A, at Colorado
Springs, movement being started to
get the boys and their fathers better
acquainted
4 physical examination OF the school
children OF Greeley discloses the fact
that 2ose OF the 1,10Q students of the
public schools are afflicted with scme
physical defect that interferes with
their studies.
New mine legislation will be one OF
the important topics considered Jan.
II, when delegates from thirty coun-
ties Of Colorado attend the annual con
yention of the Colorado Metal Mining
Association in Denver
The death of Miss Emma McCallen
in ItGY "a fnl ipx <,f
monia, is the fourth that has come to
the McCallen home within two years.
During this time four of the five Nc
Callen sisters have died
disappearing in mems clothing,
pretty eighteen year-old Mollie Ullery.
formerly waitress in an Alamosa ho-
tel, was arrested at Trinidad when
she arrived with J. W. Trent, former
ly clerk at the same hotel
Because he thought that dynamite
caps should be thoroughly cleaned OF
all grease and dirt before being used,
A. Bahula, farmer near Masters, is
minus thumb and index finger and
may lose the sight OF one eye.
A. ]. Randall. ninety-two. editor.
former professor in the Georgetown
high school. and recently an heir to
SO. .o0u, and his former wife, eighty
five, from whom he was divorced in
1867, We're remarked in Kansas City,
Saturday, according to word which
reached Georgetown.
Col. James c. Bulger, condemned
slayer of Lloyd F. Nicodemus, who is
awaiting III the county Jail in Denver
the result OF a petition for a new trial
now before the Supreme Court, is pre-
pairing an application for permission
to be removed to the penitentiary at
Canon City pending the decision OF his
case.
After lying twenty-four hours with
his skull beaten in by a beer bottle
and his brain exposed through the
wound before medical aid was sum
moned or the police notified, George
Jackson OF Eaton died at the County
hospital in Greeley without gaining
consciousness, two days after the in
jury was received
A gang OF poultry thieves is operat-
ing in the kersey district, using
wagon 10 carry off their plunder and
taking as high as four dozen chickens
from one place at a time. Mrs. Hart
ford lost dozen turkeys in broad day
light. while she was visiting at the
neighbors and several others have
lost chickens and turkeys
L. Grant Danford. former City treas
urer of Cripple Creek, who fled, June
II, 1913, when shortage of s2s,6 in
his accounts was discovered. has been
located in Honduras, sixty miles inland
On the railroad from Porto Cortez. ac-
cording to information which has been
received by the Denver authorities.
The town is a Central American min
ing camp and is about midway be-
tween Porto Cortez and San Salvador.