The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1916-08-04
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
.s,ern Newspaper Union New. s.r.ic,

H.e' roSressiVe state Convention
Aug lo-i2-Womans Party Conference
at Colorado Springs.
aug. l4-Grand Lake Yacht Races
aug lf-ColoFado Federation of Labor
meeting at Colorado Springs
aug. s-i9-Pickle Day and Fair a:
Aug. 2l-Celebration of the opening Of
the new State Highway between Del
Norte and Pagosa Springs. at Du
Aug -25-Annual Convention. Grani
Lodge X of T.. at Greeley.
Aug, Sl-sert. Apple Pie Days at
Sept. 5-s-Boulder County Fair at
LOngmont.
Sept. 5-s-Frontier Days celebration
at Fort Morgan.
Sept 1l-Meeting Midland Trail Ass n
in Denver.
Sept. 15-ls-harvest Festival at Mum
Sept. 81 Estate Convention b. p. o.
at Trinidad.
There are 34,261 motor cars in
Colorado.
Larimer county claims a population
OF 10000
Many new residences are beins
built at Fort Morgan.
A Fraternal Day picnic will be
held al Glacier Lake. Aug. 90.
Snow slides in July were reported
in the mining region near Fulford.
A quarter of a mile north OF Milne
a discovery of coal has been made
Clarence Chaffee. IS years old, wa.
drowned In the Fountain river at Pa
eblo.
The Arkansas Valley Fair at Rock
Ford will celebrate it's silver anniver.
sary this year.
A $40, 900 bond issue has been voted
by Nederland for the construction OF
a city water system.
Especially heavy ore shipments
from the La Plata mining district are
reaching the Durango smelter.
Estimates of Colorado's sugar beet
crop this year are 100000 tons. as
against 244. 449 tons last year.
Denver is to have new apartment
hotel to cost $4,000 at Fifteenth
street and Cleveland place.
One hundred and seven men were
given places within fortnight by
Officers OF the grand castle of Col
orado knights of the Golden Eagle.
Will meet in Denver, Aug. 10 and II
There are now 500 Denver house
maids enrolled on the books OF the
Domestic Workers Industrial Union
The receipts at the Denver pos Of
flee for the month OF July were 5 o.
77S. This indicates gain of 1925
over the same month last year, or
4.eS per cent.
A stamp cancellation die which
prints the information that thu Rocky
Mountain National Park Is open to
visitors is now used on all outgoing
mail from Denver.
Private Floyd Norris, OF the field
hospital corps, and Miss Alice Baker,
of the Ladies' First Aid Corps, were
married at the Colorado mobilization
camp at Golden.
will arrive in Denver the morning of
Aug and will be on exhibition on
the tracks in front OF the Union sta
ton on that day and the following
day
Word was received at Lamar that
f. j. Cheland. 3s years old. pros
porous farmer. had been drowned in
the Arkansas river, just below the
head gate OF the Amity canal in
Prowers county
Colorados oil output in 1915 &C.
cording to the Geological Survey was
20S,475 barrels The average price OF
this oil at the wells was IS cents a
barrel and the total market value OF
the output was $1s3,475.
The town of Manitou, located in
the heart of the mountains, six miles
west of Colorado Springs, was hit by
cloudburst. Ruxton creek, flowing
through the town, became a raging
torrent, the force of the water cut.
ting away the banks
The first couple to be married in
Colorado after it became a state.
forty years ago. were Mr.. and Mrs
William J. Hammill. Mr.. Hammill
died six years after his marriage.
we were married in ST. Mary's ca
thedral," said Mrs. Hammill, who OBJ
served her wedding anniversary in
Denver and the states birthday to-
gether.
Because OF the rapid growth of the
sugar beet industry, the federal gov
eminent is employing experts to dis
cover the best means of developing
tho industry. The Civil Service Com.
mission has announced an open com.
petitive examination for agriculturists
in sugar beet investigation to fill a
vacancy in the Department of Agricul-
ture. 1t pays $1,000 to s2,1oO a year
Two days of heavy downpour left
practically every road out of Denver
heavy and slippery. One bridge that