The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1915-03-20

Two homes in keenesburg We're de-
stroyed by fire, together with sum
OF money and some valuable jewslry.
The citizens OF Denver during 1914
paid s7,lS2.6oG.20, or 5000 per capita
for tramway, gas, electric and tele-
phone service
The persons named by Judge Lind
sey OF Denver in his charges that a
conspiracy to defame his chara ter
exists made denial OF his accusations
Joseph l.. Gray, deputy fish and
game commissioner has been adv .sed
OF IA large mountain lion having been
trapped and killed in the Laramie
river
Mayor Thompson of Aurora has be.
gun d campaign TO secure much
needed improvements on the ColfaX
avenue road through that city 10
Denver.
Judge II. McGarry of Colorado
springs was formally chosen president
at a meeting OF the new director OF
the FL Paso Consolidated Gold Mining
Company.
parade and patriotic exercises
were held in Denver on St Patrick's 5
day, the days events closing with the
thirty annual dance given by
HiDerniau clubs.
The Denver. Boulder & Western
railroad has announced an increasc Of
20 per cent i'll freight and passenger
rates on its line to E,ldora and Ward
Tourist l.
BY unanimous vote of the House OF
Representatives sixty members voting
and five absent, Representative w. ".
Ho"Iaud was expelled from the House
March Is, and his seat declared
vacant
hat the case OF Robert J. Mason,
charged with conspiracy in the mur.
der OF Ruth Merri" Gather. be set for
March %. was the request made by
Mlson's counsel, in the West Side
Court in Denver
Grace Wells Rose, 1, died OF scarlet
fever at the University hospital in
Boulder while her mother, Mrs. Lillian
Rose, and her aunt, Mrs. Eunice Ba.
ker, were lying dangerously i'll with
the same disease at their home in
Salina.
one year and one day in the fed
erai prison in Leavenworth Kan, was
the sentence pronounced in Denver on
Il +. Lounsberry by Federal Judge
Robert +. Lewis. Lounsberry pleaded
guilty to charge of using the United
States mails to defraud.
l.
ming the Arkansas river and the Den
yer & Rio Grande and the Santa Fe
railroad tracks at Canon City, which
has been under construction during
the past five months, is completed and
thrown open to travel
Justifiable homicide was the verdict
rendered in Denver at the coroner's
inquest into the killing of r. f. Sho-
walter of Loveland by Clayton Patti
son, in a Curtis street rooming house,
where Pattison had found Showalter
aud Mrs. Pattison together.
One day after her release from the
Denver county jail, where she was
sentenced by Federal Judge Robert f.
Lewis for raising United States postal
money orders, Claudine Stokes. 90,
alias Dora Carney. was arrested for
the same offense, according TO Post
office Inspector F. T. Frawley.
Unless "a compromise is reached
within the next few days a contest
will ensue over the will OF the late
James w. Hair, wealthy retired coal
operator, whose death six weeks ago
at the home of Mrs Rose Deahl in
Denver revealed that he had led a
dual life for more than twenty years.
Railroads serving Colorado have
announced tourist rates for the COM
ing season. effective June l, and good
until Oct /. The same favorable rates
as have been in effect during the tour
ist season for many years will be in
effect this year, despite the general
tendency to raise passenger rates
throughout the country.
Commenting the members of the
House OF Representatives for their
action in purging their membership.
the ilrst time on RECORD that ma
JoIity has expelled a member of its
own party, Governor Carlson delivered
| in person a message to the Twentieth
General Assembly and urged speedy
accomplishment of the pledges of the
Assembly and the administration.
John Fl. Ballenger, the man who
originated the city directory business
in Colorado and who published the
| first directory of Denver more than
forty years ago. when only 5000 per-
| sons could be found along the Platte
river to fill the pages of the book, died
at his residence in Denver after a pro
| longed illness. Ballenger was n
| years old and came to Denver in 1872
Six thousand dollars was introduced
as evidence in the trial of three sol.
| diers charged with connection with a
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