The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1915-09-24
COLORADO
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ewspaper Union News Service
MING EVENTS.

armlnK congress. Denver.
Oct 2s--Fair and Race Meeting at
Denver.
Oct Is.-odd Fellows Annual state
Convention at Colorado SPRING.
Denyer's new postoffice will be Off
ciaIly dedicated Nov. Is.
Indications of mineral have been
found near Genoa
Mrs Agnes Roberts, widow OF Pres
ton Roberts. died in Denver, aged So.
The Rocky Mountain Baptist Asso-
citation held . three-day session in
Denver
Mrs. VIM. Bevar OF Fort Collins
was kicked by a wild horse and seri-
ously injured
Thirteen Denver boys, aged II TO
%, were arrested on a charge OF rob
bling drug stores.
A get-together meeting OF the Off
GERS OF the F. M c. A. in Colorado was
neld at Manitou.
II. Lovsee. 10, was critically hurt at
Fort Collins on his way from Love
and for jury duty.
The Arvada tiremaking plant has
been completed and has commenced
the manufacture of tires.
District Attorney Rush OF Denver
has asked the grand jury to investi-
gate the Prof. Garvin 'sacking" case,
William |. Swint OF Denver was held
up by three masked highwaymen with
in block OF his home and robbed OF
$185.
The State Land Board held spe-
cial sale of public land at the State
Capitol More than 5000 acres were
sold
John Wolf, one of the Oldest OF
Mesa county pioneers. aged IS years
and ! month, died at his home near
Molina
NiWot's ghost mystery has been
solved Scientists find marsh gas is
cause OF lights that have scared the
villagers.
The state of Colorado, by the end OF
this month, will have paid off all in
debtedness on the state capitol build
ing and the state museum.
Mrs. Isabella Wagner Of Denver
who sued Fred Schumacher, demand
ing 100000 for alleged SANDER. con
tented herself with 81 damages.
The case of 12-year-old Neil Wright,
self-confessed slayer Of his father,
John A. Wright, was continued until
Oct IA by Judge Lindsey at Denver.
The assessor of Weld county dc
clares he will refuse to add the $7.S04.
600 to tax valuations in that county
ordered by the State Tax Commission
until directed by court to do SO.
Three directors OF the Denver Union
Labor Association, charged with
keeping gambling devices, pleaded
| guilty and the association was fined
$50 and costs, amounting to SAP.
Farmers OF Delta and Montrose
| counties who are working land under
the Uncompahgre irrigation projec'
will receive assistance in the future
from the federal government and the
state.
Without a dissenting vote the city
1 commissioners OF Denver refused tt
comply with the recommendation O
the Colorado Tax Commission ant
raise the 1915 assessment of certain
classes Of property in Denver by $55,
40S 1870.
coroner's jury absolved the Colo
RADIO & Southern Railway Company oil
blame for the death of Mrs. Ella A
Porter, an aged woman who died oil
injuries suffered when she was run
down by one of the company's engines
in Denver.
After twenty-three years in Denver
as the pastor of the Boulevard Con
gregational church, the Rev. Charles
H. Pettibone has resigned and will
leave Oct. l for Florida for the sake
of his wife's health
/ According to President Charles H
Roper of the Omaha Lincoln Denver
Good Roads Association, over LOOT
cars loaded with tourists from othel
states pass over the road every day
during the tourist season
A clue which it is said may lead t
the capture of the slayer of Isaac
Solomon. Denver pawnbroker, heater
to death in his Larimer street pawn
shop a few weeks ago, was sent Il
NJ Solomon, son of the dead man. b,
Gus Appelman, prisoner in thu
Brighton jail. Appelman claims tt
have seen a number of gypsies in thu
store few days before the murder.
The new compensation law, the 81
rest of Horace n Hawkins of Denve
and Fred NJ. Clark of Trinidad. o
charges of subornation of perjury, tn
industrial relations committee, tn
militia and state constabulary, an
the case of John r. Lawson, were tn
principal subjects discussed in the ar
nual report of John McLennan, pres
dent of the Colorado State Federation
of Labor, read before its twentieth al
nual convention in Denver.
| Divorced from Fred C. Rohlev a