The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1915-06-12

| record at Breckenridge.
Greeley is to have an oid-fashioned
Fourth of July celebration.
The Farmers Union will build .
grain elevator at Longmont.
VIM. E. Manhood. a prominent ort
Collins stockman, died at Diller. Neb.
Frost in various parts of the state
Sunday night broke all previous rec
ords.
Auditors have been employed to
check the books of the officers of
Arapahoe county.
A fight is being made in Denver to
save Harry Edgar Hillen. the boy
bandit. from the gallows.
B. Emden. a loyal Texas of Houston,
presented Governor Carlson by mail
with tiny chain carved out of Texas
watermelon seeds
Grand Junction postoffice will be
raised to first-class rank ON July 1, as
result of stamp sales exceeding
100000 the past year.
| Out of total enrolment of ninety
eight in the Platteville public schools
there was an average attendance the
past year of ninety-two.
A dividend of $3.50 1000. amounting to
IS per cent OF the deposits Of the
Mercantile National bank of Pueblo.
will be paid depositors.
| Miss Margaret Reed of Boulder and
Miss Clara Ruth Mozzor. OF Denver
have graduated from the Univerity
| of Colorado law school
| The number of saloon licenses In
effect in Denver was 4O5 on May II
this year. as compared with 40 on
Oct. 81 Of last year, a decrease of 65.
At the graduating exercises OF the
Massachusetts, Institute of Techn-
ology, held in Boston. three Denver
boys were among those who received
honors.
Chalmers Hadley of Denver was
nominated for second vice president
of the American Liberty Association
at the annual convention held in San
| Francisco. -
Dr.. William H. Sharpley, newly
elected commissioner of social well
fare, was elected mayor Of Denver at
the first council meeting under the
new administration.
| Mrs. Alice Harrison Of Denver has
passed the century mark in years and
while she is of an optimistic turn Of
mind. she told friends that she lived
just twenty years too long.
c. W. Scott, convicted Of white
slavery, was sentenced to serve from
three years to five years in the peni-
Tertiary by Judge John A. Perry in
the West Side Court in Denver
| Lauro Garcia. a Mexican, under SEN
tence to hang for the murder of G. E.
Brockman, town marshal of Fort Col
Inns, has been granted new trial by
a decision of the Supreme Court
| The Colorado Jurisdiction of the
Federation of Colored Women's Clubs
held convention in the House of Rep
resentatives hall at Denver and were
welcomed by Governor Carlson. About
200 delegates were present.
A rumor of three attempts, suppos-
eddy on the part of Indians, to kill
Capt Stephen Olop, superintendent of
construction of the new school on the
| oOuLHcIA plc T0SeTfdt1OH dI NdNduO
Springs, has reached Cortez.
The Denver municipal excise depart
ment will issue saloon licenses until
Dece. 81, 1915, according to a decision
by Commissioner of Finance Clair J.
Pitcher, based upon an opinion rem
dered by City Attorney I. N. Stevens.
A reward Of $500 has been offered
| t,,Fo 80
and conviction of Frank Pollock, who
deserted from the United States army
| at Fort Logan ten days after the muir
der Of Frederick c. Matson, the young
lumberman who was shot to death
April 6 in his little shack near the
fort
In hand-to-hand battle with a
burglar whom she discovered in the
bedroom of her home, 304O West For
| ty-fourth avenue, Denver, Mrs Joseph
| c. Wagner fought with her assailant
until the arrival of her husband from
an adjoining room, and prevented the
theft Of $4,000 worth of jewels which
were within the robbers grasp.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leopold Seeds and
Mrs. Cora Bethel were arrested in
Denver. The police say Seeds is one
of the men who obtained $4,000 from
J. W. klinkerman, a rancher of Las
Animas. several days ago in Excelsior
Springs, Mo. The method used to ex-
tract the $4,000 from Mr.. Klinkerman's
pocketbook was bet on horse race
that never was run. Klinkerman has
identified the trio.
Discouraged and respondent be-
cause his wife would not become re-
conciled to him after five months
separation, Kenneth M. Hegg, twenty
two, killed himself by swallowing
cyanide in his wife's apartment in
Denver.