The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-01-17

Jan Is24.-National Western STOCK
July 13-I4-Grand Lodge Session. b
r o. Elks at Denver.
Sept; colorado State Fair at Pu-
lsl5-Last Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver
Montrose voted to establish com
mission form OF government by ma
jority of 172.
Warrants were sworn out at Fort
| Collins charging Denver brewers with
selling in dry territory.
The Colorado State Bookeepers' As
sociation will hold its annual conven-
ton in Denver, Jan. 20 to 81.
David |. Cramer, seventy. promi.
nent FARMER OF Sedalia, died of pneu-
mona at the Colorado sanitarium in
| Boulder.
Manitou lost its title to part OF the
scenic rocks comprising the Garden OF
the Gods by a decision of the Colora-
do Supreme Court.
Two OF Boulder's most prominent
citizens. Capt. Samuel West and Mrs
| Jennie Cattermole, died there each be-
! ing seventy-six years old
! NJ p Capp. former sheriff OF
| Boulder county. has been named war
| den OF the state reformatory at Buena
| Vista, to succeed A. T. Stewart.
Captain Dorm. in charge of the
| militia in the Oak Creek district, took
| possession of two OF the saloons
that of William Doyle and Ray NJ.
| Spears
Claiming that he had been robbed OF
trunk containing antiques valued at
| $4,000, Nils Grandald, minister. ap-
| pealed to the police OF Colorado
! Springs for assistance
Julian Wilensky, forty-four, opera
| singer in Europe and New York for
more than twenty-five years, died at
/ St Anthony's hospital in Denver. the
| result of an operation.
Making a ladder out of blankets and
/ bedding, three women inmates Of the
Pueblo city Jail, one OF them being
| held Tor disposing of cocaine, opium
and other drugs. escaped.
The case OF the United States
against D. C. Beaman for the recovery
of coal lands worth $1,000 per acre
near Walsenburg was dismissed by
| United States District Judge Lewis in
| Denver.
The most unusual Christmas tree
ever seen in Pueblo. appreciated, al
| though tritle tardy, was prepared by
the kindergarten pupils of the Mime
qua school, and the birds We're the
beneficiaries.
f. f. Shumway, fifty-one years old,
died at his home in Denver after an
illness of two weeks. Shumway be-
came i'll shortly after taking charge
OF rescue work following the Vulcan
mine disaster
While assisting Mrs. Eulid Jobe.
eighteen years old. and her baby. to
escape from Hope Cottage. a rescue
home for women in Pueblo, Harry
Harmon OF Fort Collins was arrested
and held by the Pueblo police
Clements knaus, seventy, a wealthy
Boulder county pioneer, died at his
home six miles southwest of Long
mont from cancer. Knaus came to
this section in 1861. He made a for
tune in farming and business enter
prises.
Without sign of emotion Harry E.
Hillen. convicted of killing Thomas
Chase in an attempted holdup. re-
ceived sentence at the hands of Judge
Butler in the West Side Court in
| Denver. The court confirmed the
sentence of death imposed by the jury
and decreed that the young self-con-
fessed bandit shall hang during the
week of April 30
Miss Wilma Meyer, the girl in the
case OF J. K. Dew, whose letters we're
discovered in Dew's pocket when he
was arrested by the Denver police
for attempting to impersonate Adolf
phus Busch. Ill. millionaire heir of
the ST Louis brewer. broke the 81
lence she has maintained at her home
in Portland, Ore, since Dew's arrest
and admitted their engagement.
Claim to the s1,000.o00 estate in the
process of probate in London, Eng
land, in which the living heirs of
| Mary Ann Jones Tonkin are named as
beneficiaries will be filed by Mrs. A.
G. Spears of Central City. Mrs. Spears
is the divorced wife of the husband of
Mary Ann Jones, both of whom are
dead and it is upon this relationship
that she seeks to recover part or all
of the estate
Since the announcement of the plan
proposed by A. c. Carson, for round-
ing up herd of the 10000 starving
elk in Jackson's Hole, Wyo., and plac-
ing them in Colorado foothills, the
governor, state game and fish COM
missioner, the Colorado Publicity
League, several hundred influential
citizens of Colorado and three of the
largest motion picture concerns in the