The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-01-10
WEEKS EVENTS
COLORADO
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.

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Jan i5.-Annual Meeting Colo Farm
sIs tss. GnenEress eng Gs,, at Agricultural Col
Colorado. to, the Gulf Highway Asso-
jan Injecting Colorado Association
of Commercial Executives at Colo
| Jan 20-Annuai banquet Colorado
Pioneer Printers, Society at Denver.
Jan; ls-24.-National Western stock
July ls-l4-Grand Lodge Session. B.
81, Q Eias lh;oIa,d at penxer n,.,. - ., Pm.
lsl5-Last Grand Council of Sorth
American Indians at Denver.
Denver is to be the headquarters for
new Rocky Mountain branch of the
Playground Association. If the pans
of the national organization material
ize.
Child Labor Day is Sunday. Jan.
%. Throughout the nation churches
will consider the subject OF child In.
Dor at the instance OF the national
child labor committee.
A grand jury was called at Central
City at the request of District Attor-
ney s. W. Johnson, Jr., to investigate
the finding OF three dead infants in
house near Blackhawk several months
ago.
After imprisonment in the county
Jail since Sept 20. Frank Goodwin and
John West, charged with attempting
to bunko L. G. Davis out of 10000
were brought TO trial in the West side
Court In Denver
Fori Logan broke all enlistment rec
ords IN December, since ii become a
recruit depot in 1909 From the terri
tory under Fort Logan 306 men We're
enlisted for United States army sery-
ice during the month.
Withdrawal of mineral lands with
radiu bearing ore must be ly con
gressional enactment, according to an
admission made by Secretary of the
Interior Lane to congressman TAYLOR
and Senator Thomas.
The largest crowd ever gathered at
a horticultural institute In Fremont
county met in the District Court
room at Canon City. for a two-day
session. More than 500 fruit growers
and their families were present
Mexican citizens of Alamosa have
complained TO the state superintendent
of pubic instruction that the school
board of Alamosa has shown class dis
tinction in building a separate school
house for the Mexican children
Warden Thomas ]. lyman Of the
state penitentiary at Canon City has
ordered the purchase OF the buildings
at the fair grounds near that city and
intends using the lumber for the con-
struction OF an amphitheater within
the prison walls.
We must capitalize our resources
for all they are worth. When We do
there will be no state more prosper
GUS than Colorado" said Governor
Ammcns al Lamar at the conclusion
| of the days festivities marking the
opening of the Helvetia Condensed
MIX CCmpany's plant.
Judge Peter A Simmons, one of
Cclorado's pioneers. died at St. Luke's
hospital in Denver. Judge Simmons
was born in Newberg, now a part of
| Cleveland. Ohio. in 1929. When he
| came to Colorado after trip over the
plains in a prairie schooner in 1859.
| Denver boasted two houses The 9TH
| er ha bitaticns were dugouts and tents.
William J. Sweeney. the Colorado
| mining man who fell to his death from
| fourth stcry window of a Chicago
| hotel, took the plunge with suicidal
! intent. according to the verdict of a
corcner's jury. 1t was held that he
was temporarily insane through worry
| over the condition of his wife who has
been critically i'll in Denver since
| Christmas.
A snow ball battle between bathers
in the open-air swimming pool and
crowd of watchers on the lawn now
| covered with a foot of snow. featured
| NeN Year jollification at Glenwood
| Springs which the city challenges any
| other place in the country to dupli-
cate. large crowd OF swimmers In
the warm water kept the crowd dcdg-
ing snow balls.
AS the result of a conference be-
tween State Highway Commissioned
Ehrhart. President f. f. Sommers OF
the Denver Motor Club, Calvin Morse
and John Gaffy, held in the statehouse
1t was decided to hold a meeting of
the advisory board of the highway
commissioners of the state, the state
highway commission and the board OF
governors OF the Denver Motor Club
| in Denver.
roundup and drive of 1000 of the
starving elk in the Jackson Hole
country in Wyoming and their ship
ment too Denver for the Indian pa
geant OF 1915 is the proposition ad-
vanced by Manager A. C. Carson of
the Orpheum theater as publicity
stunt for the pageant at Denver, In
ciaentally the elk would replenish
Colorado's mountains and foothills