The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1915-07-24

aug lE-l$--frontier Days and Wild
West Features at Grand Junction
Aug. l3,-Pickle Day at Platteville.
Aug. 3Isept z--Grand Lodge. K Of r..
at Colorado Springs
Aug :s-2s-Faii Festival at FlaEis-.
sept 1I-Oct- 8--AestinE Inter tional
Dry Farming Congress At Denver
oct 2-s--Fair and Race Meeting al
Denver.
According to the government census
report there are l.4s2 Indians in Colo
RADIO.
Leslie Pettyjohn OF Pagosa Springs
was killed in an auto wreck near Fort
Garland.
| Arrangements are being made for
the Prowers county fair at Lamar,
Sept 2s3O.
Fred D. Hopkins, 81. an electrician
we'll known in Pueblo. was instantly
killed at Billings. Mont
| Prof John Hunter of Boulder has
been appointed deputy oil inspector
under James Duce. state inspector.
II, c. Cossun has been appointed wa
ter commissioner at Aguilar. District
| No. IS. and Jacob Desserich commits
sioner at Pine Grove, District No. %
Within the past year ending July /,
2.266 criminal cases were lodged In
the criminal courts and the justice
courts in Denver.
After 'phoning farewell, Ivah Lucille
tombstone of Denver failed to end her
life with pistol fired as she stood
on Inspiration Point
Governor Carlson has issued a proc
lamation designating Aug. as Colo
RADIO Day at the Panama-Pacific Eek
position at San Francisco
a coroners jury found that Archie
Briscoe shot Frederick Wallace with
felonious intent at Skaters Crossing
after being ordered out OF the Wal
lace home.
The Iron Mask mine at Red Cliff
| heaviest producer In Eagle county and
| one of the most valuable mines IN
the state. has been taken over by the
Empire Zinc Company
Attorney General Farrar advised
Secretary of State Kramer that he can
not accept and file the referendum
petition on the prohibition penalty bill
that was presented to him.
Preliminary surveys to secure data
for specifications from which con.
tractors may compute bids for the
construction of a new water system
for Denver will be begun at once
Announcement is made OF the prob
ability that former President W. H.
Taft will deliver ~ olectures in Den
yer in August under the auspices of
the alumni OF Yale University.
| Grief over the death Of her son, Efn-
est c., who committed suicide two
months ago by firing a bullet into his
brain, caused the death of Mrs Ida
Kaiser, 70. at her home in Denver
Every available ranger in the Co
| chetopa national forest with aid from
the Gunnison forest adjoining and
men from Salida. Gunnison and other
| towns, engaged in fighting the fierce
| forest fire in the dense timber on
| East Middle creek, on the divide
| toward Poncha Springs.
Steps were taken for the establish
ment Of another important govern
ment office in Denver, when P. st. ].
| Wilson. assistant director of the de-
| partment of good roads, irrigation and
drainage. leased four rooms in the
Tramway building for the use of the
department offices to be located in
| Denver
Thomas F. Mcclure. charged with
the murder Of Harry r. Montgomery,
July 5, must seek defense other than
insanity, commission of alenists ap-
pointed by District Judge Perry filing
report in West Side Court in Denver
to the effect that, in their opinion,
| Mcclure shows no indication OF men.
tai disease
The telephone directory and build
! ing permits show that Denver is grow
| ing steadily The March directories
have a total OF 1850 subscribers
| against $500 in 1914. The last issue
| published in July, shows a total of 40,
| 700 against 1900. The building per
| mits to June 80 amount to sl.464,44O
against s1.2s6,02O for the same period
last year.
After a desperate struggle with hel
husband, Charles Brennan. and driv
| en- temporarily insane by believing her
son lost. Mrs. Anna Brennan of Den
yer gained possession of a butcher
| knife and cut her throat three times
| and once across each wrist. The son
Charles Brennan Jr.. watched his
father wrest the weapon from hi.
mothers hands twice.
According to an estimate furnished
| by A. L. Boyd, purchasing agent for
the United Reclamation service. the
| Headquarters of which were recently
established in Denver. the govern
ment will spend approximately S4.-
| 100000 for lumber, oil, nails, wood pre-
sentative, wire. steel framework, hard
ware and commissary supplies during