The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-10-17

audience at the Labor hall in Walsen-
burg.
I A force of men and teams began
Bowie.
The total amount collected by the
Women's committee of the Denver Red
Cross chapter is $4,244.25.
Chas H. Browning was found guilty
of forgery and obtaining property I'M
der false pretenses by a jury in the
District Court at Boulder.
William Duncan of Scholl won the
championship of northwestern Colo
radO and $50 first money in the buck
ing contest at Kremmling.
Candid Cordova shot and seriously
wounded C. Marquee, Walsenburg
miner who was paying attention to
his wife. Cordova is under arrest.
Fred Wrage of New York, dairy
man, AZ years old, was arrested by Il
detective in the Colorado National
bank in Denver on charge OF passing
a forged check
Mrs. Emma T. Kruger was declared
'h' iiSHeiui o"HtI vi tiSlty atiSo Vi
land adjoining Loveland by United
States District Judge John A. Riner,
sitting in Denver.
Luke Hammel, wellknown Glade
Park ranchman, was taken to Grand
junction and placed in jail on a
charge Oh attempting to shoot Oliver
Redd, another farmer of that section.
r
sembly indorsed legislative ticket
which contains the names of eight
Democratic and four Progressive can
didates for the house of representa-
tiyes.
A former Denver newspaper woman,
Miss Elsie Vandegrift, has charge OF
the field of woman suffrage in Ne
braska, where the question will be put
to the test in the election there next
month.
Mrs. Julia H. Murray, 81 years old,
died at her residence in Denver. Mrs.
Murray was born in Greenport, l.. l.,
and came to Denver in 1891. Her
husband was one Of the builders Of
Brooklyn.
clever apparatus to prevent the
binding glare of automobile lamps, in
accordance with the new city ordi-
nance, has been devised by L. N.
Zalinger of Denver, a former news
paper man.
william P. Calvin, wealthy stock
man of Rifle. was killed near Military
Junction. three miles south of Peters
burg, when he was dragged fifty yards
beneath the wheels of a Colorado &
Southern passenger train.
Mrs. Ellen A. Piper, for forty-one
years a resident of Colorado. died at
her residence in Denver. Mrs. Piper
was u years old and was born in
Canterbury, N. H. She was a cousin
of John Greenleaf Whittier.
The 422d anniversary of the discov.
cry of America by Christopher Colum-
bus was celebrated by Americans and
Italians in Denver. The city hall and
courthouse were closed and patriotic
exercises were held in the public
schools.
The annual "husking bee and har-
vest ball'' of the Denver Shriners was
given at Ell Jebel temple. Scores of
Shriners and their ladies' wandered
through the rustic basement wherein
were farm yards and typical farm
yard attendants.
The Red Cross Knitting Guild of
Colorado, which was organized by the
women's committee of the Denver Red
Cross chapter under the direction of
Mrs. Regis Chauvenet, has commenced
the garment making for the European
war sufferers.
Damage suits of number of Boul-
der people against the Colorado &
Southern and the Denver, Boulder &
Western railroads for the destruction
of property by the explosion of car
of dynamite during fire in the rail
road yards in 1907 have been renewed
In the District Court.
Attorneys for James C. Bulger, sen
fenced to die for the killing of Lloyd
Nicodemus in the Savoy hotel, in Den
yer, filed a formal motion with the
State Supreme Court, asking that tri
bunal to order the Denver District
Court to pay the expenses of a bill of
exceptions in behalf of Bulger
c. J. Blanchard, statistician, and H.
T. Cowling, chief photographer of the
United States Reclamation Service,
recently spent several days in differ
ent sections of Colorado gathering
data and taking pictures to be used
in the daily exhibitions to be given
by the reclamation service at the
Panama-Pacific exposition in San
Francisco next year.
Because he wrote another mans
name to several checks. William Mil
Ter must spend a portion of the next
few years behind the walls of the
state reformatory at Buena Vista.
That was the decision of Judge Ora