The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1915-05-15

June ls-July 2.-Colorado Fair and
Racing Association al Denver.
sept. 2l-oct- s.-Meetins International
Dry Farming Congress at Denver
| Colorado Fair Date. for 1918.
Aug. lS-20.-island Grove Driving Club.
Aug; 2i-27.-Bent County Fair Assoei-
AT alton Las Animas
aug. z1-2T---Forr Collins Racing AsSo-
citation. Fort Collins.
Aug. 3l-Sept- 3-Arl1ansas Valley Fair
Association. Rocky Ford.
Sept 7-lo.-Crowley County Fair As
sept. .7-1e.-st Vrain valley Fair AS
ISOLATION, Longmont
| Sept. Il -2f.-Trinidad-La Animas Co.
| Far Association. Trinidad
cct 2-S-Colorado Agricultural ran
| ana Racing Association. Denver
The jitney buses gave up the ship
at Pueblo
Mrs Anna Mellicker. "A. was burned
to death at her home in Pueblo.
| George W. Alexander, fifty-eight, a
former lumberman OF Denver, died in
the county hospital from paralysis.
| State Auditor Mulnix has appointed
J. w. d. Stoyall of Colorado Springs
building and loan inspector in his
| office
| When the Liberty bell is received
in Denver early in July, an effort
will be made to make it possible for
every school child in the city to view
! it.
The threatened strike of plasterers
in Denver has been postponed for nine
ty days. during which time the CON
tractors will consider the demands of
the union.
Lindon w. Bates. Jr., son of Lindon
W. Bates of New York and nephew
of DR.. Mary Bates OF Denver, is re-
ported among the missing passengers
Of the Lusitania
A search is being made for the rela-
tives OF Mrs. Della Farrell, who is in
st. Joseph's hospital in Denver at the
point OF death She is suffering from
cerebral meningitis.
The Denver Trades and Labor AS
sembly wired to President Wilson a
copy OF resolutions adopted which say
that labor does not want war with
Germany or any other country.
That nation is in a bad way whose
homes prefer poodles to babies" said
the Rev. Ernest Neal Orr in his Moth
er's day sermon in the First United
Presbyterian church in Denver
Congressman Charles B. Timberlake
of Sterling, representing the Second
congressional district of Colorado is
recovering from an operation OF
serious nature at Beatrice, Neb.
Approximately so per cent of the
freight rates on coal in Colorado are
reduced in decision in the coal rates
case, affecting all railroads in the
\ state, handed down by the State Pub
! lie Utilities Commission.
Charles Irving. twenty-eight. Gold
en- Cycle employe, died in the Red
Cross hospital at Victor of burns re-
ceived when he accidentally stepped
on wire charged with 22,Oo9 volts
Of electricity.
| Edward l.. Seiwald, confessed part
ner of Oscar Cook in the shooting of
Patrolman Mcpherson and Andrew J.
| Lloyd in March, 1912. was sentenced
to life Imprisonment in the West Side
Court in Denver
Edward B. Morgan whose appoint
ment to the Colorado tax commission
was announced by Governor Carlson
took the oath of office and assumed
his duties He >ucceeds j. Frank
Adams
The sum OF s35U00o to be spent by
the United States reclamation service
will go directly into the pockets of
Grand valley farmers who are to be
employed in constructing laterals on
the High Line canal project.
Motherhood the greatest of all
gifts to womankind, was honored in
all the churches in Denver. regardless
of creed. Music, sermons and let
tiers We're sung, preached and dedi-
Gated to the mothers of the world
An estate estimated to be worth be-
tween 100000 and $780, 900 was left
by the late Rodney Curtis, pioneer
Denver real estate man and one of
the founders of the Denver Tramway
Company, who died in San Diego, Cal
April 90
Mrs. Harry Bethany, formerly Miss
! Fredericka LeFevre. daughter of
Judge and Mrs Owen LeFevre and a
member of Denvers smart set, is
mother OF pound baby daugh-
ter brought into the world under the
Twilight Sleep method
The report from England that $780,
600 in gold collected in the United
States for the Belgian Red Cross fund
by Nine. Marie De Page went down
with her in the destruction of the
Lusitiania is not believed by Jean
Magnolet, Belgian consul in Denver,
who helped collect the amount raised
in Denver for the fund
Receiver +. A. Chapman of the