The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1915-09-10
COLORADO
S TATE NEW S
COMING EVENTS.

Colorado State Editorial Association
at Glenwood Springs.
Sept 27-Oct. International Dry
FARMING Congress. Denver .t.
Oct 2-s.--Fair and Race Meeting at
Oct Is.-odd Fellows Annual state
Convention at Colorado Springs
Ninety-seven babes were born in
Denver hospitals in August
Former Iowans will picnic at Wash
ington park in Denver, Sept. IL
Four persons were hurt in three
cycle accidents in Denver Sunday
There are 17,236,ll4 acres OF public
land available for settlement in Colo
rado.
An exceptionally heavy yield OF
beans is reported in the Loyeland dis
trict
Ten men were taken in a raid on
an alleged gambling den in Engle'
wood
Seized with an attack of heart dis
ease, Mrs. l.. b Well GA. pioneer resi-
dent OF Denver died while at work in
her kitchen
Mrs. clara Bledden OF Denver, who
was robbed and attacked by negro,
Is aiding the police in searching for
her assailant
The boom in tungsten property is
gaining force and volume every day
and Nederland is now the center OF
observation among mining men OF the
state
H. w, Risley has filed a demand
for s20S 80 for the printing commits
sioners salary for August. He was
suspended Aug 8 by the governor,
Governor Carlson has ordered all
offices in the state house to remain
open until O'Clock on Saturdays
thus ending the summer half holiday
Work OF improvement on the build,
ings at Elks park for the Trinidad
Las Animas county fair, which will be
held there Sept. 2l-2i, is going on con
stantly.
That the Fort Morgan sugar cam
paign will begin the latter part of the
month and continue 800 days, is the
way the management is figuring at
this time
Approximately $4,000 will go to the
German and Austrian consuls for the
widows and orphans Of soldiers killed
at the front from the volksfest held
in Denver
James c. Bulgar announced that he
is a candidate for president of the
Colorado State Federation of Labor.
The convention is to be held in Den
yer, Sept Is
With score OF 9s.1 points. the
county won the annual first aid con
test at Walsenburg. given by the Vic
tor-American Fuel Company
Charged with an attempt TO SNUG.
gle three large hack saws into the
county jail to be used in general de
livery, Jesse Hiram, 20 was arrested
by Sheriff Frank Kane at Trinidad,
Mary Crosivich, 9-year-old daughter
OF John Crosivich wealthy Austrian
groceryman. was perhaps fatally in
jured when she was pinned beneath
her fathers automobile on the Santa
Fe trail, east of Pueblo
The big Boulder county fair
opened at Longmont with 1000 pres
ent. The bumper crops this year
have produced numerous spectacular
exhibits-the most wonderful patrons
of the fair have ever witnessed,
Durward Banton 1S-year-old Den
yer boy. committed suicide in a San
Francisco hotel because of love for a
15-year-old schoolgirl, Miss Dorothy
Hatch, to whom he had been forbid
den 70 write affectionate letters.
Colorado's state flower-the colum-
bine-should become the national
flower, according to S. l.. milford.
landscape gardener in the office of
the bureau of horticulture, a branch
OF the Department OF Agriculture
The following trustees to the Tiff
School OF Theology were named: X.
F. Watkins. H. l.. Shattuck Edward
Wilcox. u. c. Dodge the Rev. w s.
lift, w T Scott, the Rev. D. D. For
syth, C. X Durbin and Mrs Elizabeth
Warren
Commissioner OF Finance Pitcher
acting as ex-officio assessor of Den
yer, presented to the city commits
sioners his assessment for 1915
1910. 1854. 0O0 The commissioners ac-
cepted the assessment without a dis
senting vote
The actual launching of the big In
ternational Soil Products Exposition
and Farm Congress- which will oper
its gates Sept. 26, took place when q
bottle of Manitou champagne was bro
ken over the foundation of the first
building aracted in the grounds il
Denver and a nail made from GOLD
taken ont of the Gregory Roohtai
mine was pounded into the wooder
structure
For Aug, Is, on basis of 100 pei
cent as normal, Colorado truck croI
grnMerS show a SeaSnu standing as