The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1916-12-08
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

Show at Denver
Feb, 2-4-Y. NJ c. a. Annual Consen-
tion at Colorado Springs
Delta will have a community Christ
mas tree.
Fifty-one thousand tourists visited
he Rocky Mountain National Park
asst summer.
a total coal tonnage of ,03S.263 was
mined in Colorado for the month OF
October, 1916.
The sum of s3o.295 will be expended
n Colorado Springs during 1917 for
park maintenance and improvements.
The Denver. Laramie L. Northwest
arn railroad will go on the auction
block for the seventh time early next
year
Former Judge Edward c. Stimson
was elected president of the Denver
Bar Association to succeed Harry C..
Davis.
The eighty-first regular meeting OF
he Colorado branch of the American
Society of Civil Engineers. was held at
he Denver Athletic Club.
The commissioners of Crowley
county have purchased the holdings
OF the Crowley County Agricultural
Fair Association for $11 900.
An order for $4,000 tons of steel
rails TO cost more than 81 800 900 has
by the Missouri Pacific railroad.
farmer in Pueblo county who
raised twenty acres of beans threshe d
$4,000 pounds, which brought him
81 900 in cash for his seasons work.
Miss Cora Cowperthwaite, for more
than twenty years a teacher in Den
yer schools and widely known among
Colorado educators. died in Los An.
geles.
The State Industrial Commission
has announced general increase in
the wages of miners in the Leadville
district, recently requested on the
grounds of the increased cost of liv.
ing.
The jury in the case of w. S. Van
SAINT, former manager Of the Copeland
Ore Sampling Company. on trial in
the District Court at Cripple Greek
for alleged embezzlement, was dis
charged.
Plans for the establishment in Den.
yer of a distributing plant to be oper.
ated by the farmers themselves were
initiated at a meeting of committee
of the Colorado Milk Producers Asso
citation.
The city council of Trinidad has
passed ordinances for the widening OF
Maple street between Main and First
for the covering of the Kansas avenue
arroyo and for the purchase of new
fire cart.
Denver merchants whose propert!
was damaged by the Cherry creek
flood four years ago will not be able
to recover damages. according to ar
from the State Su
preme Court.
Death claimed w. H. Stridiron OF
Denver, otherwise known as Affinity
Bill" man of many wives and more
affinities, expounder of the matri
monial ad. trifler with hearts and
pocketbooks.
Another advance in the price of Goa
was announced on the Denver market
Routt county lump, which sold last
summer for s. a ton. and has since ad
yanced to Sc ton. now has gone te
1925, the highest price of the year.
l.,
requested the school board to gram
raise in salaries, estimated at abou
SIS a month on an average for each
teacher. The request is embodied in s
resolution of their association passed
unanimously at its last meeting
A movement to have the business
men of Denver and northern Colorado
join with the government in the pro
per development of Rocky Mountain
Nadona! park was inaugurated in
Denver as a result of the visit OF
Stephen T. Mather, assistant secretary
of the interior
Under the supervision of the Unit
ed states Bureau of Education, classes
for the education of. immigrants are
being organized at Greeley. Fort Col
Inns, Fort Morgan. Sterling, Walsen
burg, Trinidad, Oak Creek. Lafayette
Salida, Gorham, Colorado Springs
Canon City, Rockvale and Leadville.
William n Vale. formerly first lieu
tenant in Company A, Colorado Ma
tional Guard. infantry. has resigned
from the army service and has re-
turned to Denver 1t is understood hi
will be appointed to the vacancy OF
the District bench caused by the ele
walton of Judge George W. Allen to
the Supreme Court.
Exclusive and original jurisdiction
in all cases involving rate-making ane
service of public utilities rests solely
with the State Public Utilities Com.