The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-12-12
COLORADO
STATE NEWS


The city council has ordered the
paving with concrete of four block in
Longmont
Governor Ammons reappointed j. NJ.
Dunleavy a member of the state racing
commission
The addition of an aviation corps
to the state militia is being planned by
officers of the guard
Charles Cowan, sixty-five, Paonia
coal mine operator, was killed while
inspecting his mine in an unloaded
tram car
total of $32269 was obtained in
collections for the Red Cross fund
taken up in the public schools in
Denver
Mrs. Clara NJ Eddy, wife of w. II.
Eddy, who died in Boulder on Nov. 70,
left an estate worth approximately
$4,000.
An exhibit of county farm products
is to be a feature of the farmers short
course, which will be held at Pueblo
during the week of Dec. IS.
The executive committee of the
Colorado Good Roads Association will
meet in Denver to make plans for the
convention to be held In January.
An alleged plot to make wholesale
delivery OF prisoners at the state pen
itentiary was revealed to Cripple
Creek authorities by officials at Canon
City.
Four hundred Thousand trout eggs
from the state fish hatchery in Den
yer have been placed in the Boulder
hatchery by Superintendent Daniel
Lambert.
Edward p Bohannan, 40, promi-
ted suicide at his home, 1910 Race
street in Denver, by shooting himself
In the mouth.
Despondent over failing health and
financial matters, Rio Grande Station
Agent G. F.. Garland of Villa Grove
committed suicide by shooting himself
with shotgun.
Prof. George A. Barker, head of the
department of geography in the State
Teachers College at Greeley, has in
stituted the only course in climatology
offered in the state.
The progressive spirit is manifest
ing itself strongly in Colorado City
and movement is now under way to
build an athletic club as an adjunct to
the Commercial Club.
John Easter, 50, one Of the most
widely known pioneers of the West
who is said to have built the first
house on the present site of Denver,
is dead in Goldfield.
1t is stated that from seventy-five to
one hundred saloons will close in Den
yer, rather than pay the $500 semi
annual license, and that as many more
will close next June.
The tax levy in Denver, for all pur-
poses, in 1915, will be 1850 mills, un-
less further changes than those now
contemplated by the city commits
sioners are made in the budget.
Prof. George M. Chadwick, head of
the department of music at the Uni
versity of Colorado at Boulder, is as
sisting in the organization of branch
of the German Red Cross Society in
Colorado.
A record run from police headquar-
ters in the motor ambulance proba bly,
will save the life OF Norvan Eads, IA
months-old son of John Eads, who fell
from a second-story window in Den
yer hotel
George P. Steele. chairman of the
Republican county central committee
at Denver, filed his report In the Of
flee of the county clerk which shows
that it cost ST. 7,60S.96 to conduct the
county campaign at the recent elec-
ton
Relieving that the suffering caused
by the European war will be prolonged
and that it cannot be alleviated by one
big gift, the members of the Boulder
Red Cross Society are appealing for
monthly contributions. So far, Boul-
der has given more than $4,000 for the
relief Of the war victims.
Judson r. West, son Of Mrs. Sam
uei West Of Boulder and brother of
Deputy Attorney General Frank West,
has declined proffered professorship
in the university maintained by the
Chinese government at Tientsin in or
der to continue his work as chief en-
gineer of the port of Seattle.
AS result of the sudden death of
Ruth Merriweather, nineteen, South
Denver girl, at her home, 93l South
Pennsylvania street. her mother lies
at the point of death, her sister,
Dorothy, is critically ill, her fiance, DIR.
r. j. Mason, was arrested by the po-
lice of Chicago. and DR.. F. w. Noble,
who treated the girl before her death,
is held in jail by the local police as
the result of an inquest and it is said
an information will be filed against
him by District Attorney Rush of Den
yer