The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-07-11
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| Dntes for Coming Events.
| July 22.-stste Progressive Assembly
| at Colorado Sprinsn
| July 2-zs-catt!em=n's Day. Gunnl-
July so-Democratlc State Convention
Aug Midsummer meeting colo-
| rado Editorial Association, DenF
Aug i-kepubiican Assembly at PEN
Aug s-Crowley Day at ordway
u Aus a3-kroTsfs a3-kr ,ns era saIt, ioeFe .e'a4.d I'd
| Uniform Rank Encampment. Pue DO
Aug 29-2s-Bent Co FAIR. Las - mas
Aug 27.-ssnta re Traii Day. Las AH4-
AGg ?s-Farrners. Fair a. Fowler
sept - i sas Valley ar
| sept 22-annuai Harvest Festival at
Sept. 3-watermelon Day. ROCKY Ford
Sept. Ii Morgan Co. Fair. Fort Nor
Sept i-5.-Larimer County Fair. Love
sept, 3,5-sedgwicis County Far at
| Sept 7-Kiowa County Fair at Eads
sept s-ll.-koutt County Fair al hay p
Sept s-Il.-crowley Co. Fair. sasa-
Sept, s-li-Cc,hegenne County Fair at
Sept l4-ls-CoIo State Fair. Pueblo
Sept. ls 2G--Kace Meet. Denver
| sept cl-23 Inter Co. Fair and Race
sept 20 24-AppIe Pie Day at Rlfle.
Sept e2 25--Western Slope Fair. Mont
Sept % 25.-Montezuma Co Fair at
sept 25,2s-El Pa-o Co. Fair. Calhan
Sept. 2s- oct Central Colorado FAR
at colorado springs.
Oct 3IGrand County Fair al
oct, s-g"colio New Mex Fair at Du-
laI5-l.ast Grand Council of %orth
American Indians at Denver
Fourth of July accidents in Colora-
do for TWO years; 1919, nine injured;
1914, eighteen injured.
Charles F. Steinbach. a commercial
traveller, in an open letter announces
his candidacy for gubernatorial honors
on the Republican ticket.
Cash prizes amounting to $4,000
will be offered at the Western Live
stock Show next January. If the plans
of the committee are realized.
John A. Martin of Pueblo. former
congressman, has announced his cand1-
dacy for the United States senatorial
nomination at the pleasure OF the Dem
ocratic assembly.
Plans for the sale OF 250,000 acres
of land held under lease from the state
and through the provisions of the
Carey act we're consummated by the
State Land Board.
State Chemist John B. Ekeley Of
Boulder has announced his intention
OF asking for appropriation funds 10
analyze water used for drinking pur-
poses throughout the state.
There were 3,s5G,GSl packages ham
died in the parcels post department OF
the Denver postoffice for the year end
ing June So or 5,7s3 tons. The parcels
received totaled /, l,5sS $50 and the num-
ber sent out was 2.25S,oil.
A request for $1,000 from the city
Of Denver to aid in the construction
of Colorado building at the Panama
Pacific fair in San Francisco next year
was presented to the city commission
ers by Denver business men, headed
by E. l.. Scholtz and the Colorado i'm
migration bureau.
Frank Irwin. one Of the owners OF
the Irwin Brothers Wild West Show
attacked and probably fatally wounded
Charles Johnson, a member of the,
show, with an iron bar, in view OF
mere than 10000 spectators of the
closing Semi-Centennial celebration
races at Prospect park al Fort Collins.
Mrs Anna NJ. Scheurn has filed suit
in the District Court in which she
asks $4,000 damages from the Jack
sen Realty and Investment Company
for injuries she alleges she suffered
Dec -, 1913, when she slipped and
fell on an icy sidewalk in front OF
property owned by the firm at Colfax
avenue and Fourteenth street in Den
Yer.
Alta Gillespie, fifteen years old, mar
rowly escaped death in Denver when
a twelve-year-old boy discharged a re-
eolver he thought contained blank
cartridges. The bullet passed through
the girls left hand and entered her
breast Just above the heart Doctors
say the girl would have been killed il
the bullet had struck her an inch
lower.
A hitching contest. in which only
young women can compete, has been
announced as one Of the features of
the big Grange picnic, which is to be
held at Platt's grove, east of Boulder,
on July Il. Keen interest is being
taken in the novel event, and a sharp
rivalry has sprung up between the
girls of the Nalmont and NiWot neigh
borhoods.
The Supreme Court declared uncon-
stitutfonal the proposed issue by the
City of Denver of $4,000 900 in bonds
for the construction Of the Moffat tun-
mel under James Peak. and affirmed
the judgment of death against Harold
Francis Henwood, slayer OF S. l.. Won
Phnl and George E Cnneland order.