The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1916-06-16
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union New. Services.


DATES ron COMING EVENTS.
June 2225-Colo. Christian Endeavor
Aug; i-celebration Colorado's Forti-
eth Anniversary of Statehood. at
Aug. National Convention of Rep
resentaiives OF Negro Race at Den
| YER
Aug. s-Democratic State Assembly at
AUG. ls-ls-Pickls Day and Fair al
| Platteville.
Lodge h. of T., at Greeley.
Sept 5-s-Frontier Days celebration
at Fort Morgan:
| at Trinidad
| A Jury was secured and the Slaugh-
ter trial at Pueblo started on Tues
day
Eighteen additional men have been
put to work in the Denver postof'
flee.
A hail storm at Englewood did con
siderable damage to flowers, yege'
tables and fruit.
The G. A R. men of Colorado and
| Wyoming were welcomed at Pueblo fol
their annual meeting.
! A company has been formed tc
/ operate lease on the Prince Albert
mine at Cripple Creek.
/ Scarcity OF men Is the only handi
/ cap in the Nederland tungsten dis
trict according to S. T. Weller.
| The President nominated George r.
Painter postmaster at Telluride and
| George B. Wick at Las Animas.
The fourth annual session OF the
| Colorado Sociological Conference was
held in the state house in Denver.
| J. G. Crobbe. formerly of Kentucky,
| has been named head of the Normal
school at Colorado Springs to succeed
| Prof Snyder
| Frederick Won Holdt, an expert on
| forestry matters. is advocating the
planting of a grove of walnut trees on
| the plains OF Colorado.
| The school board of Arvada has
| been authorized to call q special
bond election for a $4,000 bond issue
to provide funds for . new high
school building.
Nearly 1000 persons are camped
in Rocky Mountain Park In North
| bShNCl a. thC ooi
conference OF the Colorado Seventh
Day Adventists.
Unconscious. his nostrlls clotted
with blood. d. d. Collins. clerk OF
| Camp No. 5, W. o. w, OF Colorado
| Springs, was found in his office by
his sister and mother.
Two hundred Sir knights from
| Colorado will attend the thirty-thrd
triennial conclave, centennial ami
versary. grand encampment of
Knights Templar at Los Angeles
| Prohibition is heartily favored by
| the Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire
men and Enginemen, although not as
political issue. according to a state
ment from the Denver meeting.
| Denver has had a gain OF 5000 i'll
| its population within the last year,
as shown by the new city directory.
| This represents an increase of per
cent and gives the present popula-
| ton as 235,00O.
! Clearings of the Denver banks for
| the week ending on the Sth broke all
records when they advanced to $15,
| 413, 900, marking an increase of APT
| per cent over the corresponding week
| of last year.
Mystifying circumstance surround
| the discovery of body, believed to be
that of William Waddell, marooned in
the brush on small island in the
Platte river at the foot of Eighteenth
street in Denver
Be careful of eating game out OF
season, for Uncle Sam might "getchu
il you don't watch out" So says Wal
ter B. Fraser. state game and fish
commissioner, when he talks enforce
ment of the game laws.
AS the result of being run over
by taXicab on the night of Feb. 20,
May E. krebs, a trained nurse, has
started suit in the District Court in
Denver against the Denver Omnibus
& Cab Company for 100000 damages.
At Bendermeer lodge, in the
shadow of Mount Evans. the Denver
Rotary Club and its guests, $50
strong, will celebrate a mountain-top
high jinks" on June "a. 1t will be
the annual outing of the club.
The Loveland Cherry Growers As.
ISOLATION, independent of the I.oveland
Fruit Growers Association, was or.
ganized at a meeting of orchardists
held at Loveland for the purpose of
solving marketing problems attending
the probable harvest of so 900 crates
of cherries in the Loveland district.
Mrs. Gertrude Sophia Chellew OF
Denver who recently lost out in the
County Court at Colorado Springs in
her effort to prove that she was the
widow of Winfield Scott Stratton,
and as such entitled to a share of
the Stratton millions, has renewed
her fight to get share OF the money.