The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1915-05-29

wood Springs
June ls-July 2.Colorado Fair and
Aug Sl-Sept. 2-Grand Lodge, X of p.
at Colorado Springs
Aug, 26-2S.-Fali Festival at Flagler.
Sept 27-oct. s-Meeting international
Dry Farming Congress at Denver
The trout season opened May %.
About 100 troops from Fort Logan
left Denver for the coast.
Denver is going after on eof the
big political conventions OF 1916.
Reports from Greeley state that the
damage to crops during the recent
storm and cold spell was not great.
Freddie Pellegrina. two-year-old son
of John Pellegrina of Denver. choked
to death at his home on prune seed.
The Public Utility Commission has
issued an order directing general
reduction of passenger fares all over
the state.
One hundred candidates were mi
tiated into the Denver lodge of the
Modern Brotherhood of America at
the l.. o. 7. NJ. temple,
One of Tellurides richest strikes
was made at the third level of the
Black Bear mine, owned by the Colo
RADIO Superior Mining Company.
The failure of L. B. Sylvester and
brothers to meet their obligations on
outstanding cattle and sheep loans
created considerable stir in Monte
Vista
William Prhtny. 80 years old, farm
err living near Lakewood, was serious
ly injured when he was thrown from
a load OF hay, following the runaway
OF his team.
Secretary of Agriculture David F.
Houston will be the guest at compli-
mentary banquet to be given by the
Chamber of Commerce at Colorado
Springs, June /.
Two hundred Italian residents of
Denver have responded to the call of
the mother country and will leave
tlefields OF Europe.
George Matthew Wheeler. a pioneer
stage coach driver and freighter OF
Georgetown and Leadville, died in Den
yer of bronchial trouble which he con
tracted while mining.
Smart society received a little jolt
at Colorado Springs when news was
learned of the divorce OF Mrs. Ruth
Taught from George NJ. Taught on the
grounds of extreme cruelty.
Crashing to the ground and carry
ing more than 100 persons with 1t, a
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ton picture show at Platteville fell
and several people were injured.
The city attorney of Denver made
application to the District Court for
the appointment OF a receiver for the
Denver Tramway Company. Action
on the application will be taken within
twenty days.
The famous Doctor mine on Spring
creek is expected to come to the front
this summer by the Aspen lessees who
have opened what they describe as a
tremendous body of zinc-carbonate ore
in the old workings
The congressional committee now
inspecting the government reclama-
ton projects will be in Colorado h.
tween June IS and July >. and will
go over the two federal irrigation en-
terprises in Colorado.
According to announcements the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
and Enginemen will hold its conven-
ton in Denver in June. 1916. 1t is de
clared that more than 1900 delegates
and their families will attend
Immediate construction will begin
OH the laterals Of the Grand Valley
High Line canal. furnishing employ
ment to hundreds of orchardists and
others, according to an announcement
by Sydney p. Williamson, chief OF
construction of the United States re,
clamation service.
A total of SiS4.704 as indemnity for
deaths and injuries suffered by en-
ployes in the metalliferous mines OF
Colorado will be paid under the pro.
visions OF the woramens compensa.
ton law during the next three years.
according to estimates made by Fred
Carroll, state mine commissioner.
The death of Mrs. Maude Schutheis
a month ago in Fairplay, just dscoy-
cred by the district attorneys office
in Denver, will give back freedom TO
Mrs. Loretta Wade, who has been
lying in the county Jail for the last
two months waiting trial on the
charge of shooting her blind husband,
Harry Wade, last November.
Harvey Sanderson, one of the old
est residents of Pueblo, died at the
home of his daughter, Mrs. G. l.. L.
Gam He was SO years old and was
one of the pioneers and empire build
ers OF the West. For years Sanderson
was member Of the Sanderson-Bar-
low Overland Stage Company, which
ran stage coaches from Kansas City