The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1915-08-21
IN Newspaper Union News Service.

charged Will SHOpilitiHe.
| Clay Monson will tender to the
President his resignation as postmas-
ter at Steamboat Springs.
| Colorado hunters are making the
most Of the fifteen-day open season
on doves allowed them by law.
| Pedro Perez, a Mexican bean pick
er, is at the Longmont hospital with
| a self-inflicted bullet wound in his left
lung.
| Denver's 5000 little home gardeners,
from the forty-four school districts Of
the city, celebrated their Harvest fes-
tival at City Park.
Ex-President William II. Taft spent
| a short time in Denver Tuesday. He
was on his way to Salt Lake. and from
there goes to the California exposi-
tons.
Juan Romero, 20 years old. accused
of staying his stepfather, Don Jose
Romero, beet rancher. near Long
mont. last month, was taken into Gus
tody at Boulder.
Miss Theodosia Sothower Of Den.
yer, student at the University OF Wis
consin, was chosen as one of six
young women to typify the American
college girl at the Panama-Pacific ex-
position
The drill team of Denver camp No
!, Woodmen of the World won the
first prize of $1,000 in the drill con-
test held in San Francisco at the sill
Yer anniversary celebration of the Pa
cific Woodmen.
Alfred Douglas, Boston millionaire.
is now Colorado property owner
the resident of fashionable Brookline
/, having purchased 160 acres of i'm
proved apple and peach land in Delta
county for $4,000.
| After a six months search OF war
stricken Belgium for his niece, Miss
Mary Lorang, a school teacher. John
| Lorang OF Boulder located her and
they reached New York on the way
| back to Colorado.
| Homer Hagan, SO, rancher living
| five miles south Of Glenwood Springs
was killed and the top of his head cut
off in an automobile accident at the
| Three-Mie bridge, three miles south
| of Glenwood Springs
George Daniel, who has just as
sumed charge of his new office as
postoffice inspector in charge OF the
Denver district. is a Denver man, al
though for years he has been located
In New York. ST Louis and Cheyenne
Mrs. Mary A. J. Crees, II. who was
| a daughter of James Patrick Cald
we'll one OF the three survivors OF the
American ship Chesapeake, sunk by
the British frigate Shannon in the war
of 1872. died at her home in Boulder
She came to Colorado in 1861, living
first at Central City
Praying for death, after once having
died" and been restored to life, Rob
ert Burns. 80 years old. whose rea
name is Robert Goodman. Jr, of Ro
chester, n. Y, passed away in the
county hospital in Denver Death re
suited from the effects of double
dose of carbolic acid which he drank
during a fit of despondency
Sweethearts in youth. friends when
each had married another after they
came of age. sweethearts again after
each had been bereft of spouses
Ralph Eugene Wood and Mrs. Flora
f. Barnes sent John G. Wood. a broth.
er of the bridegroom-tob to the
court house in Denver to secure
marriage license in order that the
couple might marry.
Beneath a lonely tree two miles
west of Manhattan beach the police OF
Denver found a cache of $3.50 in coin
and bills and several valuable pieces
of jewelry. 1t was the plant" of
Meriel McGrady, 10. alias Frank
Crume. confessed burglar The youth
disclosed to the police plans for
series of robberies of Denver homes
and confessed to breaking into two
houses. The money ana jewelry dis
covered were stolen from the home OF
Herman Rothman in Englewood.
Frederick Emerson, hermit of the
Colorado & Southern railroad yards
and man of mystery for more than
twenty years, died at ST Joseph's hos.
pital in Denver with his lips sealed
as to his identity and the whereabouts
Of his relatives.
After search lasting five months
during which he offered a reward OF
$1,000 for any Information concernine
his 4-year-old daughter, Thomas McIn.
tire of Denver by accident located the
child in the Juvenile Court just as pa
pers for the little ones adoption were
being prepared.