The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1916-04-21


Denver
Telluride is to have a new post
office building
over 1000 voters registered on
the first registration day in Denver
Governor Carlson designated Fri
day. April 81, as Arbor Day
Anna c. Vaughan has been ap,
pointed postmistress at Castle Rock,
The laying of the corner stone for
the new federal building at Grand
Junction was big event
About 100 Pueblo painters and
decorators went on strike for a raise
from 81 to $40 per day.
Glenwood Springs will hold its
nineteenth annual strawberry fest
val and carnival, June II.
1t is stated at Marble that Rec
stone and Placita are to have coke
ovens capa BILE of turning out 100 ton
day.
Two hundred members of X. +
lodges in Denver went to Greeley to
assist In comforting the degrees on
fifty candidates
One thousand and twenty-six teach
ers and principals in Denver schools
received their contracts for the 1916
II school year.
Trampled by runaway team,
Charles p Cayis. "a years old, resid-
ing in Denver. was almost instantly
killed in iampa.
Every article of food or refresh
ment used at the smoker given by the
Denver Law School in Denver was
a Colorado product.
Fifteen days after she took bichlor
ide OF mercury in her home in Den
yer, Mrs. Rae Shakelas, aged 40. died
at the county hospital
Attorney General and Mrs. Fred
Farrar are the parents OF baby Cir
The new conner weighs six pounds
Both mother and daughter are doing
well.
Elitchs gardens, Denvers Oldest
amusement and recreation park
which was founded in 1889 by Mrs
Mary Glitch Long, was sold under the
A force of men from the engineer
ing department OF the Denver & salt
Lake railroad began stalking route
for branch of that road into the
tungsten belt at Nederland
Denver's population is on the in
crease. Compilations in prospect for
the 1916 city directory indicate from
, to per cent increase over 1915,
when the estimated population was
100000.
The value of the physical property
of the Mountain States Telephone and
Telegraph Company in Colorado is
fixed at sl5,22o, 633 &c, as determined
by the experts in the employ of the
company
The finding on the street at Colo
RADIO Springs of a 16-year-old girl in
a hopelessly intoxicated condition re
suited in police raids which landed
q dozen people in Jail on varied
charges.
inexpensive and simple gowns that
VIII bring back the memories of the
old-fashioned sweet girl graduate
are to be worn at this years gradu-
yer high schools.
Congressman Edward T. Taylor Sc,
cured a favorable report from the
Judiciary committee of the lower
House of Congress in Washington pro-
viding for a term OF the Federal
Court insDurango.
While in what the officers say was
fit of jealous rage. superinduced
by too much liquor. Mrs Lena Gaber
shot and seriously wounded her hus-
band. Jacob Gaber, Leyden coal
miner, after the couple had quarreled
for more than an hour in their Ley
den home.
Mrs. Florence O'Neil and James E.
O'Neil, brotherin-law and sister-in-
law, secured a license to wed each
other in Denver. Mr.. O'Neil di-
vorced his former wife IN February,
1915, and Mrs. ONeil divorced her
second husbands brother in March
of last year.
That her brother. the only support
of their aged parents, may leave his
home to join the British army, Mrs.
Mona Curtain, %, the wife of James
Curtain, land owner of the Brigh-
ton district, left Denver for Castle
bar. Ireland, where she will care for
the old folks until the end of the war.
Colorado, with its sunshine and
mountains and cordially, so won the
hearts OF the distinguished suffra-
gists in Denver on the suffrage spe-
cial" that several OF the party an
nounced that they were seriously
thinking OF taking up legal resi-
dence in order to acquire the fran
chise.
Congressman Edward T. Taylor 30
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