The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1915-01-30
STATE NEWS
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Inc fort Lupton commerce tlup
has been reorganized.
William Gentry was declared the
chapmion baby at the Denver show
The postoffice at Stone City, Pu-
-uary 10.
the industrial commission bill was
Introduced by Senator William X.
t:ator OF Denver.
Civil service and cigarettes will be
abolished in Colorado il two bill in
iroduced in the House OF Representa-
ives are passed.
Elias Kessler, sixty-four. a farmer
of Morrison. died OF ptomaine
poisoning after he had eaten cove
oysters in Denver.
The Senate confirmed these Colo
ado postmasters: Grand Valley,
lanes Brennan. Aspen, Mary Farrell:
'arbondale. d. w. Shores.
Frank LaLone and wife and four of
heir children are dead as the result
of mysterious tragedy at the family
'anch near Karvel, thirty miles from
Hugo.
Aaron B. Page, 81 years old. died
II the county hospital in Denver, the
-esult of being struck by an automo-
ollie driven by Mrs. r. A. Harding. lie
vas former mining man.
mass meeting of the citizens of
Stone City, in the northwestern cor
ler OF Pueblo county. was held for the
purpose of protesting against the clos
.ng of the postoffice there.
The ii st sign of insurgency In the
,ienerai Assembly was evidenced when
l Lii Was introduced practically re
pealug civil service as affecting the
employees of the Legislature.
Frank L. BeIlan, 76, pioneer Leadvnle
aiming man and Denver bond dealer,
who lad been resident of Colorado
since 1880, died at the Mayo brothers
hospital al Rochester, MINI.
A deal completed by George w.
Skinner. Jr., president OF the Skinner
and Tabor ranch in Pueblo county.
will add 800 TO that property, which
already contains 10000 acres.
Mrs Grace Schmidtler, IS, wife oi
August Sehmidtler, foreman of a
saddle company. living at Pueblo
committed suicide by taking chloro-
form. She leaves two daughters. aged
two and twelve.
The shaft house and all the surface
buildings belonging to the Big Four
Mining Company on Breeze hill, at
Leadsille. were destroyed by fire
The damage is estimated at $4,000.
partially covered by insurance
| In the division of the 1915 state
| school fund OF $l67,736, Denver re-
ceived s39.15l as her pro rata of the
| full amount; Pueblo received 12,792:
1 FL Paso s9,l5T; Las Animas sS.o61 ;
4 Weld 1854. and Boulder $685..
| The first legal ENHANCEMENT OF
| Governor Carlson's administration is
promised in an injunction suit TO be
| instituted by holdoyer employees under
| the previous Democratic administra-
| tion who claim civil service rights
! As the result of an injunction is
sued by District Judge Harry G. Glass
| of Brighton. work is suspended on a
| sleeping porch in process of construc-
| ton on Sands house, a sanatorium To-
| Gated in Englewood. The Sands House
| Association is also restrained from
moving patients into the building.
Through several members of the
| Colorado Retail Merchants Associa-
tion now in the State Legislature the
| association expressed its intention of
| the opening session OF the fifteenth
annual convention in Denver OF intro
| ducing bills in the Legislature for the
| protection and benefit of the grocers
| of the state.
| DenYer's city government is one of
| the largest, if not the largest. employ
| ers of labor within the corporate
| limits of the city. according to the
| completed reports of the civil service
| commission. On Jan /. ISL men
and women were on the city's pay
| rolls the report states. This number
| does not include employees of the
| Juvenile, County and District Courts.
On Feb. 10 the Monte Vista Hog
| Growers Association is going to hold
! its second annual pig roast and ban
qUet. Pig roast day at Monte Vista
| thus creeps into the calendar with
melon day at Rocky Ford, potato day
at Greeley, trawberry day at Glen
wood Springs and a half score of 9TH
er days each telling of some speciality
in agriculture or stock raising which
has made some sections of Colorado
{. b. Jones, postmaster at Rodley.
Baca county, has resigned and the ap-
pointment of George n Ballou is an.
nounced. The following Colorado post
office appointments also were made: :
Carr. Weld county. Ernest F. Martin;
Cherrelyn. Arapahoe county, Ann
Dunn; Loretto, Arapahoe county,
Catherine Nooning; Num-, Weld coun-