The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1915-07-31

! Aug. l2-14--Frontier Days and vic
West Features at Grand Junction
] Aug. l3,-Pickle Day at Platteviile.
| Aug 1s-2o.-Old Settlers meeting al
| Cope
Aug 81 Sept Grand Lodge. Il o, P
at Color ado Springs.
Aug IS 2s-FalI Festival at Fiagie-
sept 2I-oct S-Aeettng Internatio . al
Dry flaming Congress az Denver
| oct, 2-9-Fair and Race Meeting at
| Denver.
Many enjoyed fine Strawberries at
the Steamboat Springs festival last
week
Women are barred from Den, er
downtown cafes by order of Chief OF
Police Duffield
The 1916 national convention of the
lambda Alpha lambda Sorority will
be held in Pueblo,
Mrs. f. b. Eyeritt, 50 years old and
a pioneer resident of Denver, died at
the home of her sons in Mosca, Colo.
Mrs. r. Leavy OF Walsenburg' was
injured when the automobile which
her husband was driving rolled into
ditch two miles from Fountain
The United States Civil Service
Commission will hold an examination
for stenographers and typewriter
both men and women-on Aug. rs, for
the field service.
Miss Daisy Seymour Fuller, former
~ OF Denver but for the last three
years a resident OF Thermopolis. Wyo,
died in Denver following a brief Illness
from blood poison
Miss Lucille Woodland of Sterling
agriculturist for Logan county. Her
work is to organize clubs of women
to study home economics.
Robbers entered the j. p. Redick
residence at Telluride and got away
with nearly $1,000 worth of jewelry
belonging to Mrs. Redick and her
daughter, Mrs Frank b. Thomas.
The pioneers OF Kit Carson county
are planning a particularly strong
Old Settlers meeting this year, which
will be held at Cope, thirty miles
north of Stratton. Aug. IS, 10 and 20.
Serving as electrician on the Unit
ed States submarine Alert, which is
endeavoring to raise the Inflated FL,
is a Denver boy, Harry Corson, who
left the city year ago last Apri! to
join the navy. -.>Aa ~
George Sindelair brother OF Mrs.
William Lonhart OF Longmont and his
wife and five children were drowned
in the Eastland steamer accident in
fbicapn FOL m rpcaivQ6 nv Mrs
Lonhart informed her of the deaths,
and stated that the bodies of all had
been recovered and identified.
After the questions of the court had
been transmitted to him by means OF
the sign language, Edgar Fru Watson.
deaf highwayman, pleaded guilty to
four different robberies in the West
Side Court in Denver. He was known
as the Candy Kid No. 2, and initiated
David Tyler's series of robberies.
Michael p. Fox, Jr., eldest son OF
Mrs. Elizabeth Fox, who died in Den
yer July s, has filed suit in the Dis
trict Court at Boulder to obtain what
he claims is his rightful share in his
mothers $4,000 estate. The defend
ant is David Evans, Denver. whom
he charges with having induced his
mother to disinherit him.
Recommendations that leniency be
shown Jacob II. Sherley have been
made to the State Board of Pardons
by Walter NJ. Morgan, the district at
torney who prosecuted Sherley for
hn of oh Pol N
aged Brighton jeweler, and by Charles
Mccall. formerly district judge who
presided at the mans trial.
The Denver tramway and gas COM
panies paid into the city treasury
$685., 437. SO, the full amount due for
taxes on the property of these corpor-
atoms for 1912. 1913 and 1914 under
the compromise effected between
them and the city OF this amount
the tramway company paid $685.
0G6.33 and the gas company, $261,
371.05
A check, drawn on fictitious bank
in Oklahoma for $40 and passed at
clothing store in Denver, resulted in
verdict of guilty for George A. Bur
nett of Kansas City in the West Side
Criminal Court. When Burnett was
arrested several weeks ago he had in
his possession 200 unsigned checks,
aggregating $4,000. drawn against
the same fictitious bank
Locking one of the officials of the
MeXico-Wyoming Petroleum Oil Com
pany in a vault in the Equitable build
ing in Denver, other officers of the
company are charged with having thus
prevented the serving of an Injunction
issued by Judge Butler of the District
Court in a suit that involves Wyoming
oil properties said to be valued at
about 81 100000. Deputy Sheriff O'Neil
makes the charges against the CAPT