The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1915-09-17
STATE NEWS
OF INTEREST TO ALL
c o L o n a DO
PEOPLE
western Newspaper Union New. Service.
COMING EVENTS.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
Sept. 27-Oct International Dry
Farming Congress. Denver.
Oct Z-s.-Fair and Race Meeting al
Oct. is..odd Fellows. Annual state
Convention at Colorado Springs
Trinidad Elks have purchased site
On which to erect q home.
The Craig City Council has awarded
contracts for municipal water works
Colorado Springs expects the Santa
Fe to erect a $115. 200 station In that
city.
An elevator with 10000 bushel ca
pacity, to cost $4,000. is being built
at Craig.
Lack of sufficient classrooms ham
pers the Boulder university as enroll
ing begins.
Canon City will celebrate the COM
pletion OF the state road between that
point and Salida. Sept. 81.
Frank Taylor and Oscar Schwartz
were arrested near Alamosa on
charge OF rustling cattle.
John White, 27, was shot by William
Boston, an old-time resident and for
mer cowboy. living near Elizabeth.
Fifteen thousand children thronged
the state fair grounds at Pueblo
when the fair was formally opened.
Eastern Colorado is prosperous.
Never before in Its history has the
vast section had such bountiful crops.
At Colorado Springs William C. Bos-
ton was held on a charge of murder
for shooting John C. White at Eliza
beth.
Patriotism is to be the keynote Of
the Investment Bankers convention,
which will be held Sept. 20 to 23 in
Denver
DR.. Newton A. Bolles OF Denver was
fined 5000 in Police Court for prescrib
ing drugs to habitual users Of cocaine
and morphine.
Charles S. Gilman, 60 years old and
mining man Of Denver, died at his
home OF paralysis, from which he had
suffered for ten years.
Fort Collins men have bought
large number of lambs in wyoming to
feed this winter. Prices range $la
l.25 higher than year ago.
The State Bureau OF Child and Ami
NAL Protection has started q campaign
to raise $4,000 with which to main,
tain the bureau for the next two years.
Miner. the newest OF Routt county S
towns. is lively place. and promises
to become an important center in the
coal fields of the northwestern part OF
the state.
Mrs. Hattie Wigton of Pueblo has
filed suit for divorce against W. L..
Wigton. She names Mrs. Bessie Car.
rigan as correspondent, AMI asks $780,.
600 alimony.
The first decorations OF Denver'e
streets in preparation for the Inter.
national Farm Congress and Soil
Products Exposition, which will be
held from Sept &c to Oct. u, have
appeared.
a big navy and a standing army OF
10000 men-"a decimal of a reserve
army subject to Calls the program
advocated by Henry D. Estabrook of
New York. lawyer, wit and statesman.
in his address at the city auditorium
in Denver on The Preparedness of
the Nation.'
Andrew p. Smithers and Dewitt c.
Weber were both seriously injured
when big touring car driven by Mr.
oh nI
dropped over a ten-foot embankment
a short distance the other side of
Midway, eight miles from Denver, on
the Morrison road.
Governor Carlson testifying before
the State Civil Service Commission in
connection with his charges against
Harry w. Risley, state printing com.
missioner, submitted evidence intend
ed to prove that Mr. Risley had per.
mitted trick bidding for state print
ing contracts and had awarded such
contracts In the interests of the bid.
ders.
Tony Archulita, well known Mexi-
can resident OF the Jungles, often
prosecuted for bootlegging and re-
the county Jail following his convic-
ton on charge of keeping a disor-
derby house. made a successful break
for liberty from the gang of prisoners
working on the court house lawn at
Fort Collins
James c. Bulger, soldier of fortune.
under sentence Of death for the STAY
ing o: l.. F. Nicodemus of Denver,
armed with a razor, made an attempt
to take the life of another prisoner at
the Denver county jail. He succeeded
in slashing the prisoners arm and
was in turn beaten by twelve other
inmates of the federal ward until a
guard interfered
A reduction of twenty per cent has
been made by Assessor Fellows in