The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-11-28
WEEKS EVENTS
COLORADO

Sixty-eight Shriner candidates were
initiated into the shrine at Ell Jebel
Temple in Denver
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel B. Buchanan
celebrated their 5Oth wedding ami
versary at their home in Denver.
David Lash, 81, was crushed beneath
$500 pounds Of plate glass which was
being transported on a wagon at Pueb-
To-
Search was made in Rocky Ford for
two Mexicans who escaped from the
city jail. They dug hole through
12-inch brick wall.
The Denver police have been asked
to find William Alexander Layman.
who disappeared seven years ago from
his home in Oxnard, Calf.
Regular daily passenger service on
the Denver & Rio Grande railroad be-
tween Salida and Alamosa will be re-
sumed on Thanksgiving Day.
The four elections held in Denver
during the current year cost, in round
numbers $4,000, according to figures
compiled by City Auditor Markey.
The four-day membership campaign
Of the Y. M. C. A. closed In Denver
with an increase of 1896 members
Nov. the total membership was 23.-
033.
Miss Helen Franks, one OF the
teachers in the Walden high school.
| died very suddenly at her home at that
place, after an operation for appendi-
citis.
Unless Colorado City can show good
cause why such action should not be
taken, it's postoffice will be made
substation OF the Colorado Springs Of
| flee on or about Dec l.
| His neck caught in deadfall
when the heavy lid of a refrigerator
car ice bunker dropped into place, an
unidentified man suffered a terrible
death on q Rio Grande freight train
near Minturn.
| Edward Robe. captured while in the
act Of blowing the safe Of the Moser
& Parker office at Greeley six weeks
ago, was convicted Of burglary and
sentenced to from twenty-five to thirty
years in prison.
Roy Ragan, formerly . wellknown
| Ox@AeAA4 wight U0AOAp VIM Aho 4ukt
| the ring and become identified with
the temperance crusade, occupied the
pulpit In the Lake Avenue Baptist
church at Pueblo.
After attempting to kill his wife,
Mrs. Loretta Wade. from whom he had
become recently estranged, Harry 8.
Wade. blind man, committed suicide
by shooting in rooming house, 1914
Larimer street in Denver.
That Christmas this year may be
one of the most memorable In the
history of Denver. a movement to COM
bine all commercial and charitable or
ganizations of the city. was begun at
a meeting called by the Advertising
Club of Denver.
Within two days two residents Of
tho Old Ladies' Home in Denver. have
died. On Saturday Mrs. Mary D. Sui
livan was stricken with apoplexy and
died within few hours. and on Sun
day Mrs. Mary Lapham succumbed to
complications due to old age.
Mrs. Gwendolen G. Macey. who took
her own life in London following the
declaration Of war last August, when
she and her son were elected from
hospital in Antwerp, left an estate val.
| ued at approximately $500. She left
no will and her husband applied to
the County Court In Denver for letters
| of administration.
After he had been knocked down, he
says, beaten and then elected from the
Trades and Labor Benefit Association
in the Quincy building in Denver, w.
j.. OLeary. 3S. bookbinder, fired a
shot through the door. which struck
Joseph Leath. a member of the board
of directors OF the organization, and
severed an artery in his left arm
Turkeys, cranberries, sweet pota-
toes and all the other Thanksgiving
"trimmin's" were more plentiful and
cheaper this year than ever before,
and about everything needed on an ap-
petizing menu may come from Colo
rado. The Colorado farmers have
raised the best and bigges. crops Of
turkeys this year in their history.
The $4,000 appropriation made by
the Legislature in 1909 to pay part of
the cost of the West Colfax viaduct in
Denver may be turned back into the
state general fund and cease to be
available for its original purpose un-
less the city meets certain require
ments before Nov. 30, according to
State Auditor Kenehan and State
Treasurer Leddy
Sybil Stark, II years old, who was
held by the federal authorities In Den
yer in connection with charges pre-
ferred against Roy de Ford of Okla
homa, was released. She departed for
Oklahoma accompanied by her mother
Ford left for Oklahoma in the custody
Of deputy United States marshal
where he is to be placed on trial. He
is charged with having abandoned his