The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1915-12-31
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
'estern Newspaper Union News Service
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS,

Jan 3S--Farmers' Annual Congress
at Fort Collins Agricultural College.
Jan. t-s--Coiorado Kennel Club SHOW
Jan. s-Io-sixteenth annual show Of,
Colorado Poultry Fancisrs' Associa-
Jan I7-ls.-Meetins Colorado Retail
Creeers and Butchers' Association
Jan. ls.Gsixth Annual Convention Of
Colo Good Roads Assn at Denver.
Jan. i6-e?.-Western Live Stock Sho~
Feb Injecting Republican state
Central Committee in Denver.
Feb. le.1s-sports Carnival at Steam
boat Springs-
March 20 April 2.-Cotorado Retail
Merchants Associations Food and
industrial Exposition at Denver.
Delta is to have q 600-ton sugar fac
tory.
Grand Junction is to have another
big elevator early the coming sea
son
The s5o00 900 mark in bank
clearings. goal anticipated for sew
eral weeks, came to the Denver banks
as a Christmas gift
Creation of 81 100000 fund for the
promotion OF Colorado manufacturing
was authorized at meeting of the
Denver Manufacturers Association
Investigations are being made by
the State Public Utilities Commits,
sion to determine whether Colorado
railroads are running trains on time.
Mrs. Louise p Amber, pioneer
resident of Colorado Springs. died at
her home, 22l East Uintah street
She was In her ninety-first year and
was the widow of the late Judge Amb-
Ter.
Mrs. Helen NJ. Buchtel, daughter OF
the late p. T. Barnum, famous circus
man. left an estate valued at approx
mately 100000. Her will was filed
in the Denver County Court for pro
bate.
Between s5.000,000 and $4,000, 900
will be paid in dividends by Denver
corporations at the close OF the years
business. This estimate was made
Tuesday by men high in the financial
world
All sections of Colorado and most
parts OF Wyoming are at the thresh-
old Of almost unprecedented prosper
ity. according to the reports contained
in the December bulletin on general
conditions just issued by Denver
bank
Grant McFerson OF Boulder is the
legitimate bank examiner OF Colo
RADIO and f. E. Drach is holding the
office without right or authority &C
cording to decision handed down in
the District Court of Denver by Judge
Allen.
An estimate OF the amount OF liqu0r
that Will have been sold in Denver
during the month of December, made
Tuesday by one we'll informed re-
Specting the stocks carried, places the
total expenditure at the astonishing
figure OF 100000.
The grand champion baby of the
National Western Stock show at Den
yer will receive $50 for being not only
the best example OF physical develop
ment shown in the contest but also
the most efficient in mental equip
ment and in temperament and type.
Seven prisoners now in the state
penitentiary may be released and
brought back to Denver for trial in
the West Side Criminal Court as the
result of the recent decision OF the
State Supreme Court depriving the
Juvenile Court of Denver of jurisdtc-
ton over adult offenders against the
law
Thomas F. Mcclure, slayer of Harry
r. Montgomery, whom he shot and
killed July 5, and who was sent to
the Denver County Hospital Nov. 16.
to die, as it was then supposed, has
been removed to the county Jail where
he is now. locked up in bankers
row. in the west wing of the Jail,
Just across the corridor from Col.
James c. Bulger, also charged with
murder
More than score OF Denver mel
and women. among them laborers,
dressmakers and rooming house keep
ers, gave accommodation notes to
John $ Cusack, former cashier of the
First National Bank at Wellington.
which later involved Cusack in trans
actions for which he is on trial in the
United States Court at Denver on a
charge of embezzling $4,000 of the
institutions funds.
The suit Of the State Board OF
Equalization, which seeks to compel
Clair = Pitcher, Denver county as
SCISSOR. to raise Denver's valuation
$55.00o.00o, will be fought in the Dis
trict Court on the ground that the
raises made by the Colorado Tax
Commission on the property involved
were made arbitrarily. capriciously
and unlawfully and as matter of
guess and chance according to the
answer filed in the case by the city
attorneys office.
A nocket Of gold az MIRO that ~ CON