The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-02-14

Feb. u" ashinSton Day banquet al
March lO-II-Eleventh annual con
ference. Colorado Daughters OF Amer
lean Revolution at Colorado Springs,
July 13l4-Grand Lodge Session. =,
= o Eiks at Denver.
Sept. 7.-Colorado state Fair at Pu-
eblo
lsIS-I.a.t Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver.
cutting affray west of La Junta
took place at a Mexican camp and re
suited in the death OF Gabino Ribera.
The knights OF Pythias of Denver
will hold their golden jubilee celebra-
ton at FL Jebel temple Thursday, Feb.
19
The first train from Leadville for
eight days reached Breckenridge on
Tuesday. The road is now clear to
Denver.
Hans Hort twenty nine, dairyhand,
hanged himself in barn in Arapahoe
county, according to report received
by Denver police authorities
Charles Rhodes, fifty years old WAS
ground to bits in Denver in the sight
of fellow workmen at the plant OF the
Western Chemical Company, where he
was foreman.
Nine fat women, OF average weight
247 pounds, are ready and willing to
again appear in court to disproye the
reducing qualities of the Hamilton
Cunningham simplex" method at
Denver.
Mrs. Mary S. l.. Short. seventy-fiye.
was found dead in the kitchen of her
home. in Denver. by Mrs. NJ. p. John
son, Il neighbor Fear caused by the
bursting of water pipe is believed to
have caused her death
Neuman Erb, president of the Den
yer & Salt Lake K. r.. paid the city
sI7 500 for his share of the proposed
$4,000 bond issue election, at
which he hopes the city viii vote 80
600, 900 to help him dig the Moffat tuu
mel
That the illness of Mother" Jones.
which was reported recently at Trinl-
dad was framed up in order to create
sympathy on the eve OF the consrcs-
sional investigation. is declared by the
military authorities in charge OF the
strike district.
A conference of Western governors
to devise new financial plans for stim-
ulating the growth of new irrigation
projects and effecting solidity of eN-
isting irrigation securities in the West
is proposed by Secretary of the In
terror Franklin X Lane in letter re-
ceived by Governor Ammons.
The congressional subcommittee be-
gan it's investigation of the Colorado
coal strike and indicated that it would
go into both political and social con-
ditions in the coal fields to determine
whether conditions are such that the
provisions of the constitution and the
law can be and are observed
The first suit to be tried in Colo
RADIO under the new Interstate Com
merce law governing the stealing from
freight cars containing articles des-
tined for interstate commerce resulted
in the conviction of Edward Murphy.
thirty-five, in the United States Dis
trict Court at Denver.
The gross earnings of the Mountain
States Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany for the year ending Dec 81, 1913.
were 1880, ,210.90. an increase OF $685.
G2465 over the preceding year &C
cording to the report of the company
submitted to the stockholders at their
annual meering.
John Roy Dew. the ladies' man,
heart breaker and impersonator of
Adolphus Busch III. of St Louis is a
married man and has been for two
years. This came out in the West
Side Criminal Court in Denver, where
he was sentenced by Judge Charles c.
Butler to serve one to two years in the
peuitentiary. f.
Marrying her stepson within a few
days after divorcins his father Mrs.
I.enora Otto now lives in Denver as
the wife of John S. otto, whom she,
eight years ago, established a mothers
protection over by marrying Christian
Otto, wealthy sheepman of New Mexi-
co and widower of cousin OF the sec
ond wife.
Declaring that he had seen an Italian
strike breaker shot and killed in the
Nictor-American mine at Delagua in
December, and that the body was car
ried out by four soldiers. Sam Valenti,
Sicilian, told his story to the House
coal strike investigating committee.
Valenti said he did not know who
shot the Italian. He was. for three
| years, a soldier in the Philippines.
| The Lonsmont Farmers Protective
Association has adopted a resolution
| rejecting the offer OF the Great West
ern Sugar Company of s475 a ton for
| beets for the coming year. The mem
bers of the association are willing to
accept s4.75 ton for beets containing
| twelve per cent sugar content as
basis. but demand sliding scale in
crease for all beets containing more