The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1915-04-03

Chicken thieves are reported busy
at Fort Collins.
John A. Cross has been named post
master at Loveland.
The second Zancanelli trial at Trini,
dad started Wednesday
A chautauqua will be held at Love
land beginning June 90
Hotchkiss park at Hotchkiss is 70
be purchased by the city.
Hotchkiss expects to have cream
cry in operation by May /.
B. F. Stapleton succeeded J. II. Har-
rison as postmaster at Denver, April l.
A contract to build the new Weld
county court house has been let fol
sI3I@55.
The Gold Crown Mining Company
has started active work in it's mines
near Onray.
Up 10 Saturday night eleven jurors
had been agreed upon in the Heela
mine cases.
Grand Junction farmers are cooper
atins with the weather bureau TO
warn against frost.
Since Monday the House is holding
three sessions daily in order to finish
business by April 10.
The directors and farmers of the
Northern Delta Irrigation district
signed petition asking for a receiver
for the district.
More than 3S4 acres of choice irri-
gated land near Denver were sold to
John l., Brock, Decatur, Ala, capital
ist, for SIS 900.
Members of the grand jury ex-
amined witnesses concerning viola
tions of the law in rooming houses
and cafes OF Denver.
John ], McGinnity, for years one OF
the most prominent lumbermen of the
state, died at his home in Denver from
yalyular heart disease.
Despondent because the state went
dry" at the last fall election, Joseph
Meyer, 43, brewery worker, shot him
self to death in a rooming house in
Denver.
Steve Johnson, charged with the
murder OF Cecilio Gurule. was ac-
Quilted by jury in Judge McHen-
dries division OF the District Court
at Trinidad.
The Denver police are searching for
fashionably dressed young woman
who dropped the body of day old
baby girl into Cherry creek from the
Bannock street bridge.
Tableaux, dances, drills and song
formed the program of the grand his
torical pageant given In the Denver
Auditorium by 1900 school children of
the Denver public schools.
Mark Raftry, a prominent Elk and
one OF the most popular men in Colo
rado Springs, had a narrow escape
from death when a meat hook fell on
him. striking his head above the ear
San Francisco officially has asked
Denver as a sister city to designate
the ninth anniversary of the coast
city's earthquake and fire, April is,
as thanksgiving day to commem-
crate the triumphs of the pursuits OF
peace
Considerable interest is being mani
tested by the coal men of the state in
the announcement that the Colorado
School OF Mines, following the prece-
dent established last year, will again
on April ) open its doors to working
coal miners.
After. deliberating for forty-two
hours, jury in the Federal Court re-
turned verdict of guilty in the case
oi X. f. Lufbery, member of the Den
Yer Athletic Club, and George w. Du
Bois charged with conspiracy to make
counterfeit coins.
With farewell letter to his wife
pinned over his heart, Edward Lapine,
tWenty-eisht, OF Carter, Mont, stood
before mirror in a rooming house in
Denver and fired a bullet into his
brain. He was dead when the police
reached the room
The Grand Junction Woodmen of
the World lodge, Book Cliff Camp No.
81, will send a delegation of twenty
members to the great Woodmen meet
ing in San Francisco in connection
with the Panama-Pacific International
exposition next August
Mrs. Elizabeth Kent Richardson,
mother of George L. Richardson,
superintendent. of the county Door
farm, died in the home of her son at
Henderson, Colo. She was widely
known in Denver, and would have
been ninety-six years old April 26.
L. G, Price, who owns nice orch
ard of fifteen ;acres north of Grand
Junction, can't see such a blueness in
connection with his 1914 crop. He
figures up his years totals and finds
that he made clear profit above ex-
penses of $500 on the fifteen acres.
;;sHeweysC. Bailey, United States mar
shal of Colorado. will not give up his