The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1915-12-10

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! Jan. l7-1s.-Meeting Colorado Retail
/ Grocers' and Butchers Association
Jan, Is-22-western Live Stock Show
! at Denver.
| March 2o-April &c olorado Retail
! Merchants Associations Food and
/ Industrial Exposition at Denver.
| Western Slope beet growers will
get $3.50 per ton in 1916.
/ Governor Carlson's economy plan
is now to be put into effect.
! Harry C. Davis was elected presi-
dent of the Denver Bar Association.
The railroads have rescinded their
recent order. and will make the usual
/ holiday rates.
/ The Marquis and Marchioness Of
! Aberdeen. lately viceroy and vicereine
/ OF ireland, will be in Denver Dec. IT.
| The Supreme Court denied a re-
/ hearing in the Denver Juvenile Court
I Jurisdiction case, and Lindsey loses
| adult trials
! Oscar Cooks appeal for a rehearing
vas denied by the Supreme Court.
| and he is to be executed during the
week OF FeD. z.
| II is stated that the state will re-
1 'und sGSG0 upon licenses for sale OF
/ liquor when the dry law becomes
/ effective Jan /.
/ A total appropriation of s5,S40,o63
1 for city. county, school and state pur-
! poses in 1916 was formally submitted
to the Denver council.
| Recall petitions against Judge
| Burke and Attorney Won Brandt OF
the Sterling district were quashed by
Secretary of State Ramer.
| The Bear Canon highway will be
dedicated by delegations from the
Denver Motor Club, the commercial
organizations and civic societies.
| The body of Charles Anderson, "a
years old, prospector of the early
days, was found at the bottom of a
20O-foot precipice three miles from
Ouray.
/ The death OF Capt William Hamil
ton Green, who helped lay out Pueblo
and Canon City, makes William II.
( Clark of Denver Colorado's oldest pio-
neer resident
/ Under the auspices of the Federation
OF Agricultural Clubs of Morgan coun-
ty. series of farmers institutes will
be held on the circuit plan during the
week Of Jan. 1915.
| According to the November report
OF the department of public health,
Colorado Springs had an exceptionally
low death rate for the month. The re-
| port gives a percentage of "a
Herbert Allen, the 1s-yearold boy
who shot his sister, Estelle, mistaking
! her for burglar at their home in
/ Denver, was completely exonerated by
the girl of all blame in the matter.
A search for Charles II. Maloney, a
! prospector. is being conducted
throughout the West by his Denver
brother, Tufford, 3l0G South Sherman
. that he is one of the heirs to the
estate of his father. Tufford Maloney
| of Sioux City.
On hearing that the Colorado SUI
| preme Court had sustained the prohi-
| bition law. making the state dry
! after Dec. 81, Governor Carlson said ::
| Il am highly pleased to know that the
will of the people has been sustained
by unanimous decision of the Su-
/ preme Court"
| Pneumonia, induced probably by ex-
posure while riding to Denver in the
automobile of j. F. Bennett, under
sheriff of Arapahoe county, and not
: the beating administered by George
Reichert, well-to-do Fort Collins cat
tleman, caused the death of Miss
Louise Mansfield, according to testi-
mony before coroner's jury in Den
YER.
II Colorados plum pudding and
mince pie for New Year dinner are to
| be favored with brandy. the brandy
/ will have to be purchased the DAY be-
fore-the close of the open season on
Intoxicating liquors in this state 1t
will do no good to plan a substitution
of branded peach juice for the ordi-
nary or garden variety of brandy, for
the distilled juice of the peach in 1916
will be considered in the eyes Of the
dry" law as just plain booze.
| The marital status of Mrs. Carolina
Palmer Travis Davis, who is u years
old, was finally fixed by Judge Perry
OF the District Court in Denver BY
| the granting of decree annullng the
marriage Of Mrs. Davis to Henry T.
Travis, which took place at Ironton,
Wis. in 1SC5. Mrs. Davis had thought
that Travis was dead for nearly fifty
years. had remarked again, been di-
vorced, and then suddenly discovered
that Travis was still living.
1t has cost between $1,000, 900 and
| $1,5O0,000 to operate the receivership
of the Denver Reservoir Irrigation
Company and its allied concerns since
| their failure on June 6. 1910, accord