The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1915-07-17
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COMING EVENTS.
Aug. 12-l+.-Frontier Days and Who
West Features at Grand Junction
Aug. 13.-Pickle Day at Platteville,
Aug SIS Sept. 2.-Grand Lodge. h. OK e.
at Colorado Springs.
sept 27-oet s.-Meetinx international
Dry Farming Congress at penSef
Oct 2-s.-Fair and Race Meeting ~
An automobile show will be Tea
ture of the State Fair at Pueblo.
A large number of horses have been
entered for the races at the State Far
at Pueblo
Moses Hoover has been named wa
ter commissioner to succeed James
NJ. Platt IN the Boulder district.
The State Public Utilities Commits
sion has issued an order that railroads
must provide every passenger with
seat.
Half million dollars is to be dis
tributed among the depositors OF the
defunct Mercantile Bank at Pueblo as
the first dividend
A protest was filed with Secretary
of State Ramer against his accepting
the referendum petition Of the medl-
cal bill passed by the last General AS
sembly.
mo, could not kill my friend de-
clared TseNe-Gat, the Ute Indian,
when asked if he slew Juan Chacon,
at his trial in the Federal Court in
Denver.
Miladys wrist watch branded as
germ-conductor, is under the ban at
ST. Lukes Hospital in Denver. where
the edict went forth against its fu-
ture appearance.
The condition of Kenneth Rubidge,
who fired bullet into his head be-
cause he was disappointed in love
affair, was said to be improving at
St. Anthony's Hospital in Denver.
According to word from Glenwood
Springs, Frank La Vote of Grand
Junction, committed suicide by leap
ing from the railing of the viaduct
bridge over the Grand River at Glen
| wood.
| The Denver Trades and Labor As
sembly voted to send three delegates
to the convention of the State Fedora
| tion of Labor, if it is held in Denver,
and two delegates, if it is held in
Saida
While other counties were rushed
with suits as the old divorce law was
| expiring and the six months statute
going into effect, only one case was
| filed in the County Court at Colorado
| Springs.
That the cost of compensation in
curance to the operators will add at
least 25 cents per ton to the cost of
coal to the consumer next winter is
the prediction made by Colorado
Springs coal producers.
Within twenty-four hours after the
burial of his mother Mrs. Caroline
Brenner. an old resident of Denver,
| Charles w. Brenner died at the home
of his sister, Mrs Joseph Nozek, S2S
Galapago street, in Denver.
Blaz Ortega. Mexican laborer, ac-
cused of Staying his employer, Don
Jose Romero on the latters ranch
north of Longmont, during a quarrel
over money, gave himself up to the
authorities and denied that he fired
the shots.
Anticipating the biggest business
they ever have done, the alfalfa mills
in Pueblo County have in several in
stances purchased new machinery to
make possible greater output of al
fafa meal The season at most of
the mills will open about Aug /.
Startled by the sound of an explo-
| sion in her home at Salida. Mrs. H.
E. Johnson, wife of a mining man of
| st. Elmo, rushed into an adjoining
room and discovered that her 5-year-
old daughter Elizabeth had blown off
her left hand with percussion cap.
Crushed between the end of the
combination coach and the boiler of
| the engine, and scalded by gallons of
escaping steam and boiling water,
Earl Keith, fireman on the Denver
Boulder & Western, met a terrible
death in wreck on the Switzerland
Trail at the Black Swan curve just
below Salina.
Five million dollars is needed to es
tablish pension for the aged mini
ters of the Methodist Episcopal
church in this country, according to
the Rev. E. c. Clemans, field repre-
sentative of the board Of conference,
who was in Denver en- route to the
Church Pension Congress in San
Francisco July 21-22
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