The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1915-08-14

Aug 81 Sept 2.-Grand Lodge. K of p.
Aug. 81 Sept. Melon Festival at
Rocky Ford.
sept I0-II-FalI Festival at FIagler
| Sept 27-Oct. s-Meetlng international
| Dry Farming Congress at Denver
OCT 2-s-Fair and Race Meeting at
! Oct ls.-odd Fellows Annual state
Convention at Colorado Springs.
Denver Labor Day exercises will be
held at Lakeside park.
Colorado will dedicate Rocky Noun
tain National park on Saturday,
Aug. IS.
Albert Brewster, prominent min
ing man Of Cripple Creek died in Den
yer following a nervous collapse.
The Italian government now wishes
TO become customer of Colorado TO
obtain all sorts of goods for use in its
army.
The Denver Union depot handled
fifty flour carloads of excursionists
Sunday. in addition to the regular
trade.
Fred Peterson, SO years old, was
found dead on the pavement within
block OF his home at Pueblo by
newsboy
Heart disease caused the death OF
Charles E. Hogle Of Denver, an EN-
ploye Of the United States reclama-
ton service.
The first snowfall Of the season was
seen on Mount Evans Monday morn
ing and all Denver was conscious OF
waning summer.
Colorado coal operators have organ
lied a mutual insurance company in
order to comply with the workmen's
compensation act.
Eighty-two rescues from drowning
In two months constitutes the record
of guards at Denver's two municipal
bathing beaches this summer.
Miss Katherine A. Gardiner, teacher
in the University Park school for the
last twenty one years, died in st.
Luhe's hospital in Denver.
| Praise of Colorados new divorce
law was given by Judge Daniel f.
Bird of the Circuit Court OF Kansas
City, who was in Denver for visit.
Mrs Ruth McManus, sister OF
Charles d. Wood OF Denver, with her
! four children are among the Ameri-
cans marooned in Mexico City.
The Denver police have been asked
to search for Hamilton Wilson, son
of ]. B. Wilson, of Lyons, who has
been missing from his home since
Aug !.
W. c. Batten, 81 years old. mer-
chant tailor of Sterling. received in
iuries that may prove fatal when he
fell from moving Seventeenth ave-
nue. car in Denver.
Mrs. Elsie Vandegrift Benedict,
former Denver newspaper woman, has
oeen selected as one of the speakers
on the official programs of the New
York suffrage campaign.
The findings of Secretary of State
Ramer. who refused to refer to the
people, for referendum vote. what Is
known as the medical bill. will be re-
newed by the District Court.
The first three accidents reported
under the workmen's compensation
act, which went into effect Aug. l,
were injuries received by employees of
companies that elected to carry their
own insurance.
A 100000 contract has been signed
up by the Doctor Leasing Company of
Aspen for the marketing Of the i'm
mense body of zinc ore that was
opened in the Doctor property at AL
mont early last spring
Neil Thorburn, IS. of Pittsburg, Pa,
staggered into the police station at
Denver and told the police that he
had been beaten by two men and
robbed of $50, gold watch a Sc tie
pin and IS ring, while on his way
to the Union depot shortly before
midnight to buy ticket to his home.
Marion F. Head. SIS years old, OF
Denver, who was shot four times when
he went to the home of his former
wife, now Mrs. George w. Griffith, on
a ranch near Ebert Colo is consid
erably improved. Physicians who at
tended him in his room where he
went on his return to Denver, re-
moved three of the four bullets
Zell Wheeler OF Erie who was re-
Gently convicted Of perjury in the Dis
trict Court at Boulder on charges
growing out Of his testimony at the
Hecla trial. was lodged in Jail at
Greeley to face an accusation brought
by George Stevens of Erie. his bonds
man. on behalf of his 15-year-old
daughter
The Denver Trades and Labor AS
sembly charged Commissioner Alex
ander Nisbet with Partially in his or
ders enforcing the ordinances of the
city. Resolutions recommending .
charter convention and a mayor form
of government by amendment to the
charter were introduced also. and re-