The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1915-12-03
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
v..tern Newspaper Union News Service.


DATES ron COMING EVENTS.
lee s11-Annual Exhibition pixies
Peak Rabbit and Fet Stock Associa-
tion a Colorado Springs.
jan annual convention Colorado
Farmers Congress at Fort Collins
Jan. 3-l0-SiNteenth annual show of
Colorado Poultry Fanciers' AssociA-
tion at Denver.
Jan. l7-Is.-Meeting Colorado Retail
Groeers and Butchers Association
Jan. Is-22.-westsrn Liv. stock Show
at Denver.
March 2o-April oIorado Retail
Industrial Exposition at Denver
The Denver Club has posted dry"
order. effective Dec. 81.
Miss Louise Bruning was chosen
queen of Denver's electric show.
BILLY" Beardsley. an Ault boy, had
his finger crushed in tumble from
chair.
The rise in silver has resulted In
the reopening of the Yellow Pine sill
yer mine at Boulder.
A drop OF more than so per cent in
the city tax levy has been ordered by
the city commission OF Pueblo.
Governor Carlson has declined the
Tolu ltdliOh ~ JUN Sh0
peace party on its trip to Europe.
The strikers in the Arizona copper
fields are to receive financial aid from
the Western Federation of Miners.
Canon City opened its fall fete with
big auto parade, and Queen Electra
headed the throng through brilliantly
lighted streets of city.
Thomas Mullican, shot in the stom-
ach by Henry NJ. Rocket at Lake
George. Park county. died at the Sis
ters' hospital in Victor.
Henry LETTER, aged 100 years and
Is days, Civil war veteran. died at
the home OF his son at Hereford. after
only few days illness.
State Treasurer Stocker distributed
$59,21S to counties In which there are
federal forest reserves, as the states
share OF the years earnings.
Sixty-two Mexicans were arrested
by Denver detectives in an effort OF
the police to end series Of stabbjngs
that have been reported nightly for
more than two weeks.
Secretary of the Interior Franklin
X. Lane ordered survey Of the
Mount Evans region for the purpose
OF locating and defining the proposed
Denver National park.
The Colorado Kennel Club will give
its eleventh annual dog show, under
the auspices OF the American Club, at
the Denver Auditorium, in conjunction
with the Poultry Show. Jan. 4 to 8.
Grand functions chapter Of the
Sons CT American Revolution was pre-
scented with charter by c. p. Top
ping. state president Of the order A
banquet followed the presentation.
The snowstorm which began ON the
9th ult., proved to be the heaviest
in the month OF November since the
United States weather office was o.
tablished at Grand Junction in 1899.
Henry Roth, German. one of the
most prominent citizens OF Loveland.
is believed to be dying from wounds
inflicted with an AK welded by l. C.
Patterson, in row over a debt of u.
At meeting of Denver people in
the offices of the French consul, DR..
A. Bourquin. committees were organ.
lied to aid in the relief work OF the
French emergency hospitals in Brit
tany
The Supreme Court granted TWEEN
ty-five-day stay Of execution In the
order issued by District Judge Allen
directing the authorities Of the state
insane asylum to receive patients
from Denver.
Mrs. Nellie Herbertson Quinn of
Denver, wife Of George Quinn, SEN
fenced to be hanged in January. Is
circulating petitions asking that her
husbands sentence be committed to
life Imprisonment
BY granting a communication of sen.
tence to R. L. Whitehead of Las Ami.
mas county. who has been serving
life term in the penitentiary, the State
Board OF Pardons. in effect declared
its belief that the man is innocent.
When Clarence l.. Ayres. young
Colorado miner, discovered his 1S-year-
old bride. Edna, had been arrested try.
ing to give away her baby on the
streets of Denver, he returned quietly
and took back the girl and the child.
new mineral which has come into
recognition because of the increasing
demand for tungsten and its allied
products is the basis of a new indus
try in Colorado. The name that has
been given it is wurtzeite. which,
though not exact, is descriptive. IT.
has been found in Garfield county
The November production from the
mines of Cripple Creek district, as Of
ficially reported out from the mills
and smelters, amounted to $3.50 tons,
with bullion value of $1.297,441. AS
compared to October, the average
value per ton is higher and an in
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