The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1916-04-07

Aug. s-Demoeratic state Assembly at
Denver.
Cecil Conner was elected president
of the Denver Ad Club.
A food show will be held at Colo
rado Springs, April 29May 6.
The old spaulding hotel at Colora-
do Springs has been sold for $4,000.
Floyd, the 14-year-old son OF Mr..
and Mrs John McGinnis. committed
suicide at Cripple Creek.
Fifty U. S. witnesses are reported
ready to testify in the case of Banker
w. b. Slaughter at Pueblo
Mrs. John Wilson, 35 years old.
wife of laborer. died at Estes Park
from wood alcohol poisoning.
Ben B. Lindsey of the Juvenile
Court was threatened with death in a
letter he received in his courtroom in
Denver.
Governor Carlson has appointed F.
J. Radford of Trinidad a member OF
the advisory board of the State High
way Commission
The value of the physical property
of the Mountain States Telephone
Company in Colorado has been fixed
at $15,220,633.66.
Two prisoners attempted to saw
their way out of the Denver Jail in
order to take part in an elopement
previously planned.
Because of the high price of lead.
tho American Sypalt{nu and Roffn-
ing Company has increased the pay
of all its employees.
Motor car service has been installed
on the Great Western Railway Com
pany's lines between Longmont and
Loveland and Eaton.
Donald McGregor. shot to death by
Villa in Minaca. Mex. Is believed to
be Don P. McGregor. formerly en-
ployed on Denver newspaper.
Sydney w. Strut. known among
friends and associates in Denver for
fifteen years as s. W. Clayton
dropped dead in his rooms in the Den
YER Athletic Club.
The State Supreme Court upheld
the act Of the State Board of Equali
zation in ordering an increase of $55,-
40s,952 made in the total assessed
valuation of Denver.
Twenty-Five steers marketed by
A. Streed of Wheatland, Wyo., sold
at 1915, the highest price paid in
Denver this season and the record
price for a number of years
Receipts from the sale of stamps
and money orders at the Denver
postoffice for March were $12S,497.17,
an increase of s6.2640S over those for
the corresponding month of 1915.
Pending an examination of the
brain of William B. Denton, whose
body was pulled out of the bed of the
Arkansas river fifteen miles below
Pueblo, the coroner's jury will with
hold its verdict until report has
been made by DR.. C. W. Maynard
A search to find John West and
Frank Goodrich, convicted confidence
men. probably will result from the re-
fusal of the State Supreme Court to
grant them a new trial on the charge
of attempting to defraud U. G. Davis
| Weld county farmer and deputy
sheriff out of $4,000 on a fake wire
tapping" scheme.
Weddings and bad checks were fea
lures in the experience of two men
who have been landed in jail in Gree
| ley and Idaho Springs as result OF
the activities of the Colorado Bank
ers' Association in trying to run to
earth men who have been charged
80 ~ IL
| sections of Colorado.
Miss Dorothy Merriweather was
overcome with emotion and forced to
| leave the courtroom at the West Side
| Court in Denver while waiting to
| testify for the state in the case OF
DR.. Robert J. Mason, charged with
conspiracy in performing the opera.
tion that caused the death of her sis.
| ter, Miss Ruth Merriweather in De
cember, 1914
| Last year Colorado farmers har.
vested 100000 tons Of sugar beets
| at gross selling figure of 10,417 900.
| This year, when the beet sugar indus.
| try in the United States is seriously
crippled by lack of German seed.
more than $500, 900 tons Of beets, and
sell them to the sugar companies for
more than $15,500,000.
Death came to Joel Frederick Vale,
known nationally as a lawyer, since
1882, a citizen Of Denver, in Pasadena,
Cal. He died while sleeping. Though
his condition had been considered ser
ious, at times dangerous, for several
months, physicians had expressed
| qualification that he was improving
rapidly, and his passing was unex.
pected
More than 100000 acres Of gov
/ ernment land In Colorado Waa taken