The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1915-02-27
STATE NEWS
OF INTEREST TO ALL
c O L o r A DO
PEOPLE

| "A $Zo,UDp warehouse Will De built al
Grand Junction.
| The Geo. A. Moore residence at Oak
Creek wss destroyed by fire.
w. G. Hubbelf has been appointed
| postmaster at Fort Lupton.
Extensive development of coal mines
near Cedarredge is promised.
| More than $50 has been raised in
Pueblo for the Italian earthquake re-
lief fund.
Some OF the beet growers OF Colo
rado and Montana now plan collective
bargaining.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Yardley of Den
yer celebrated their fiftieth wedding
anniversary.
1t is estimated that cantaloupes will
be raised on 10 or so acres near Lafay-
cite this season.
The Bartholomew Lumber Com
panys mill on Crosho lake. near Oak
Creek. was badly damaged by fire.
Word was received in Denver of
the death OF Oscar Mayo. former dean
of music OF Denver university. at
Modesto, Cal.
The police are searching Denver for
some trace of Mrs Ed Shumway OF
Alton. Okla. whose husband is re-
ported near death
LIB Ranch No. /, National Order OF
Cowboy Rangers, gave a Washington $
birthday patriotic entertainment at
odd Fellows hall in Denver
on April 6 La Junta will vote on a
proposition TO issue $4,000 in bonds
for the purpose of building munich
pal electric light plant.
Seven prisoners confined in the
Washington county Jail, three negroes
and four white men, cut through the
iron bars to freedom at Akron
OF a total OF 626 bills introduced in
the House, about two-thirhs. or 400 or
more will be cast into the limbo where
all bad and Indifferent measures go,
Major Thomas Daugherty, said to
have been the first public school
teacher in Colorado, died at Allen
town, Pa. He was seventy-eight years
old
Send a Letter Day" will be OBJ
N'i ''h tli Wal VI j DS the tiliZtIS vi
Colorado who wish to advertise the re-
sources, climate and advantages o.
this state
Nearly 10000 people witnessed the
patriotic celebration at the Auditor
um in Denver in commemoration OF
George Washington and Abraham Lin
coin
Za1 .f
from fractured rib, a sprained
shoulder and several body bruises. as
the result of a load of hay falling on
him when his wagon overturned
Miss Ruth Nelson, daughter OF
James Nelson, known as the Western
slope cattle king" and one OF the
most expert horsewomen on the West
ern slope, having ridden wild horses
since she was a child, is to be mar
ried shortly to Boyd Simmons. a
Young chauffeur of Grand Junction.
Sam DeJohn, former striker ar
rested in connection with the La Veta
mine murders. testified for the prose
cution at Pueblo In his story on the
witness stand DeJohn said that he was
member of the party that attacked
the automobile party, killing four He
implicated five of the defendants.
The payment of strike benefits to
union miners in Colorado has ceased, |
according to the district officials OF
the United Mine Workers of America. |
Now the organization will supply only
the absolute necessities. said President
John McLennan. The union has paid
approximately s4,00O,0Oo in benefits
since April 1910.
August Warenbourg a member of |
the ways and means committee of the |
Louisville Coal Miners Union is at
his home at Louisville in a critical con-
dition, as the result of a knife wound |
inflicted in a row in Bodhaine's sa-
loon at Louisville, and Fills Chausart, |
also of Louisville. is in the county jail, |
charged with assault.
The resignation of Joseph X Har.
rison. postmaster, will be in the hands |
of the Postoffice Department at Wash. |
instcn not later than Feb. "a If Ben.
iamin F. Stapleton S name is not sent
to the Senate and confirmed before
that time Charles F. Trottor, assistant
postmaster, will look after the duties
of the office.
Mining men returning from Lead
Vile insist that the progress made in
that camp in the last few months has
been almost as important, if not SO
spectacular, as in the big producers of
the Cripple Creek district and presage
year OF prosperity, especially if pres
ent prices for zinc hold up. Enorm.
ous bodies of ore are constantly being
discovered. and while most of it is Of
low grade as regards the precious
metals, it is Of high value considering
the price the baser metals command
and the quantities taken out