The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1915-09-03
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COMING EVENTS.

| Sept l4-I7-Morgan County Frontier
PAYS and Harvest Festival at Fort
Sept. l5-17.-Elks Annual Reunion at
Sept. I7-Is.-Midsummer Meeting OF
Colorado State Editorial Association
ga. at Glenwood springs. NV
Farming Congress Denver
Oct, 2-s.-Fair and Race Meeting at
Oct. ls.-Odd Fellows Annual State
Convention at Colorado Springs
Fort Collins has put bar on child
rem driving automobiles.
A federal grand jury has been called
for Oct. 4, to meet in Pueblo.
Rocky Ford had 25.ose red. plump
watermelons for Melon day on the
last day OF the Arkansas Valley Fair.
Surplus supplies now stored in the
old Denver postoffice building are be-
ing removed to the new federal build
ing
! Recommendations will be made TO
the State Board Of Charities and Cor
rections that new county jail be
built in Sterling.
John Friedman. SO years old, lost
his right arm when his shirt caught in
a cog and his arm was drawn into a
dough mixing machine in a Denver
| bakery
Arthur O'Connor, a switchman, was
killed in Denver when he was run
over by a freight car on the Union
Pacific tracks under the Twentieth
street viaduct.
After an allnight search, the body
of Jay S. Myers, IS years old, of Den
yer, who was drowned in Fairview
lake, was located by Coroner Woods
of jefferson county
That the United States Department
OF Justice has been investigating the
Colorado National guard situation was
brought out before the military board
of inquiry appointed by Governor
Carlson
President Thomas B. Stearns OF the
named Henry Van Kleeck, c. c. Ben
nett and J. d. Hitch as delegates TO
the National Irrigation Congress to be
held in San Francisco.
The output of the Cripple Creek dis
trict for August as reported by the
several treatment plants totals s4.-
500 tons, with gross bullion value
of sl,242,264 The average value per
ton of all grades Of ore treated was
$1465
Plans have been presented to the
Denver school board for the organiza-
ton of the Americanized Swiss sys-
tenn of citizenship training in the high
| schools with the ultimate aim OF In
Producing the system in the schools
throughout the state.
The dismissal of the entire official
board OF six members and orders for
the selection OF new one followed
the attempted resignation of the Rev.
d. Adam Brown, pastor OF the Chris
tian church. at the conclusion OF Sun
days services at Sterling
Believing that the sons OF Colorado
who fought in the Southern army
should have a fitting memorial, the
Colorado Confederate Monument AS
!. sociation has been organized for the
purpose of erecting a suitable monu-
ment, at an estimated cost of about
$4,000
Following a search which lasted for
seventeen years and extended through
out the United States, Barney Wei
born. an employee of a Denver hotel,
received a letter from his father. d.
l.. Welborn, a wealthy contractor OF
Scranton, Pa. whom he supposed was
dead
| TWO hours after she had planned to
board a train for Denver, Mrs. Rena
Kemp who for several years has
made her home at a Denver hotel,
committed suicide in a Dallas, Tex,
hotel, where she had been visiting her
sister. Mrs. John Williamson. the past
two months
His body so injured that he never
expects to walk again. Joseph Koloff
filed suit in the District Court in Den
Yer to recover from the Oakdale Coal
Company the sum of $500 80 for the
injuries, which he asserts were
caused by the company failing to
properly use stops and stays in its
mine
Edward F. Welles, former Denver
man, who, according to dispatches
from Vera Cruz to Washington, was
shot and killed with other passengers,
when bandits blew up train upon
which he was travelling in the interior
of Mexico, was a cousin by marriage
to President Wilson
| Paul Barth of Englewood had three
brothers in the German army. He
wanted to join them but could not
arrange his transportation back to the
fatherland. So worry led him to take
a fourth brothers revolver. ride to
Paramount cemetery and fire three
shots. two of which entered his body
near the heart, death coming shortly
afterward