The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1915-07-03

| at Colorado Springs
| Aug. &c 2s-Fal Festival at FIagle-
| Sept 27-oct s.-Meeting International
Dry Farming Congress at Denver
The National Association of Station
AIRY Engineers held its annual picnic
at Eldorado Springs.
After June 80 the penalty runs
against those who are subject to the
federal income tax and who failed to
pay it.
At Eaton, Irving Carr, 10 years old
lost two fingers of his right hand il
an accident while repairing an auto
mobile.
While preparing to retire shortly
after 8 O'Clock, Samuel Thomas, 65
dropped dead from heart disease ir
his room in Denver
While playing on her fathers farm
near Broomfield, 2-year-old Ethel Ferr
Towner. daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs. A
Z. Towner, fell into an irrigation ditct
and was drowned.
Firemen of Gilpin and Jefferson
counties held their last annual picnic
at Lookout Mountain park. The pic
mic took the place of tournament
which had been held in former years
Dead for ten minutes, Murtha Carr
the G-year-old daughter of City Detec
tive Peter Carr. was brought to life
by the efforts OF physicians and
nurses in ST Joseph's hospital IL
Denver.
Under the direction OF County Agri-
culturalist w II. Lauck and four stu
dents of the State Agricultural Col
ege. a farm management survey is
being conducted throughout Ell Paso
county.
Rates for workmen's compensation
insurance in the state fund will be
announced on July 10, according to
statement made by Chairman Nc
Laughlin of the Colorado Industrial
Commission.
Colorado railroads are rushing their
new passenger tariff sheets for filing
as the new rates go into effect Thurs
day. July l. in compliance with the
recent order of the State Utilities
Commission.
That wild animals in the foothills
land are more in evidence than ever
before is the concensus of opinion
among those who spend considerable
time in the hills
While his 5-year-old son, Myron,
stood a few PAGES away and watched,
Clarence F. Bergen, 50, proof clerk
for the Woodmen of the World, shoot
and killed himself in the bedroom of
his home in Denver.
Following the decision OF Denver
merchants, Colorado Springs retail
stores enforced a rule that no mors
womens clothes would be sent from
their stores on approval and that such
goods purchased would not be ex
changed
A crowd of more than | 900 person;
watched score of volunteer rescuers
save the life of Roy Kendall, an as |
phalt worker who was pinned fifteeI |
minutes between a street car and { !
steam roller at Fifteenth and Tremon'
streets in Denver.
The next convention of the Brother |
hood of Locomotive Firemen and En- |
ginemen and the ladies' auxiliary O |
that organization will be held in Trim |
idad during the month of August |
1916. according to the decision of the
convention which ended after three
days session at Pueblo.
The purchase of the Blue Bird Min |
ing Company's property in Cripple |
Greek and the construction of low |
grade ore plant with capacity o |
about 200 tons a day is being con |
sidered by O. H. Shoup and B. II |
Hopkins of Colorado Springs and Mel |
son Franklin and w. ]. Price OF Grip |
pie Creek
The annual ten-day conference
the Seventh Day Adventist church O
Colorado closed at Boulder. AT tn,
final business session it was an |
nounced that $4,000 had been sub |
scribed by persons attending the con |
ference for foreign missions. There |
were three subscriptions of 81, 900 ant |
several of $500
Adam McGregor, the Denver you'll |
who went to Scotland last fall to en-
ter the English army, and who has |
the last two months, is among thJ
missing in the Tenth Liverpool Scot |
fish regiment. which he Joined in De |
cember, according to a cablegram re |
ceived in Denver
Margaret Much, the 15-year-old |
North Denver High School girl who, |
according to the story told by her |
companions, was kidnapped from a |
buggy by group of Fort Logan sol
diers Friday night. and who was
found wandering in dazed condition
Saturday morning. was still delirious
Monday from the shock of her expe-
rience, and unable to cast any light
on the identity of her abductors.
Mrs Minnie Howard, a negress, 81
years old, living on farm near Pu