The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-05-16
COLORADO NEWS
CATHERED FROM
All Parts of the State
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES FOR CcIING EVENTS.

May 27-Log Rolling Contest. W.o. W.
June 16-ls-state Sunday School Con-
ventiou at Denver.
June l3-July Race Meet Denver
July 1-11-Race Meet. Pueblo
July s-Cherry Pie Day. Manzanola
July 13-f9--GraEd Lodge Session. p T
.. Elks at Denver.
July 22-2s-Cattle emens Day. Gunni-
aug, ls2l.-Prowers Co. Fair. Lamar
Aug, 27.-santa Fe Trail Day. Las An.-
Aug 2s---Farmers' Fair at Fowler
sept 80 n a $ Valley FAR
Sept. 3-watermelon Day. Rocky Ford
SEPT 2-2-F Farmers ard Stockmen
Sept i-4-Morgan Co. Fair. Fort Nor
Sept I-4-Larirner Co Fair. Loveiand
Sept s-ii--crowley Co. Fair. Sugar
Sept s-ll-cheyenne County Fair at
Sept IIou,asugar Day, sugar city ityy.,,o
sept lS-is.-Lincoln County Far al
Sept ls-2s-Race Meet. Denver,
Sept. u % -- Inter County Fair an0
=. Race Meet AZ Limon.
Sept 22-25.-Western Slope Fair. Mont
Sept 22-25-Montezu-na County Fair
Sept. 22 25-Trinidad Fair Trinidad
Sept. % 2e.-El Paso Co. Fair. Calhan
~ ! '-cIpi daO- .hNN'NS 49,
Isi5-..ast Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver
Clean up, Paint, Keep it up! Is
the watchword in many towns.
After June lst, Craig and Hayden
are to have daily train and mail ser
vice
The Denver National has been
named as one of the reserve banks un-
der the new law
Sunshine Inn" the Cheyenne noun
tain tourist resort at Colorado Springs,
was destroyed by fire. Loss, $4,000,
Following an illness Of two days,
Mrs. Armenian E. Epley, pioneer OF
Denver. died at her home, 2s45 How
ard Place. Death was caused by
pneumonia.
Ardourel's bill for the levying of an
income tax TO pay military e&-
perses was killed by the House of
Representatives by vote of 23 to IS.
many members refraining from voting.
Jacob Schmidt, a pioneer saloonman
OF Colorado City, committed suicide by
shooting on his ranch near Canon
City. His despondency dates from the
time that the old town" went dry,
two years ago.
Two thousand persons assembled on
the campus of the University OF Colo
rado at Boulder to witness the annual
May Festival and the coronation of
Miss Lille Johnson of Longmont as
Queen of the May.
The real estate section of the Cham
Der Of Commerce of Colorado Springs
the directors of the organization in
an effort to devise some means for
settling the coal strike in Colorado.
4 friend of Colorado college at Colo
rado Springs. whose name is not made
known by President Slocum, has pur
chased what is known as the Mont
gomery House" one of the handsom-
est homes in the city, and presented
it to Colorado college for use as an
administration building.
Users of lump coal in Greeley will
be saved 30 cents ton after June 10,
vi Notdi vi Sp,>f i d yCdIr tut Sthto
railroad commission. in a decision hav-
ing ordered the Colorado & Southern
and Union Pacific to reduce their
freight rates in the sum mentioned
above on or before that date.
hdjutant General Chase declared at
a reception at Boulder attended by a
Boulder militia troop returning from
the strike field, that unless the courts
and the district attorneys of the state
prosecuted as traitors to the state the
men who had led the strikers. it would
again be necessary for the militia to
take the field when the federal troops
leave.
Greeley junk dealers are adding
boilers tubs and other washing para.
phernalia to their places of business
following an edict by the State Board
o. Health to the effect that all rags
must be washed and disinfected before
being sent out of town. Housewives
too, are warned that they must not
sell old rags which have not been
washed.
Mrs. Elizabeth Daily, the oldest liv-
ing resident of Boulder county, died
four miles west of jamestown, at the
age of 100 years and months Mrs
Daily was horn in Toronto, Can, Aug.
>. 1913, and came to Colorado more
than fifty years ago She is survived
by three sons. Joseph, John and Mark
Daily, all wellknown miners of BouI
der county.
Charles Dennison Cobb, for fifty-one
years resident of Denver and sew.
eral years ago Democratic candidate
for mayor, died at his home, 1l44 Pearl
street. He was one of the oldest pio
neers in the city, coming to Denver in
1863. For several years he was post
| trader in Wyoming and was the hero
of m h6.I: of IIadiaI, fisxl,tr :s,