The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1916-11-24
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
'sstsrn Newspaper Uaion News Service.

Jan. z0-Athlstic Club boxing contests
Ian. ao-a7-Annuai wsstsrn Stock
show At Denver.
Feb ,Ion a At co,s M s s. annual c0nv'n
Frederick Goodrich was granted .
parole at the recent meeting Of the
board Of parole.
A series of mysterious thefts has
baffled the officdls Of the East Den
| yer high school.
Work has been started in Denver
on a 5000. 900 machinery manufactur-
ing plant for q compressor company.
pleted their subscriptions TO the cap
ital stock OF the federal reserve bank
for the Tenth district.
William A. Reed, worshipful master
of the Pixies Peak Lodge No. sc, A. F,
and A. NJ. and prominent mining man
died suddenly at his home at Cripple
Creek
For the privilege of talking freight
| rates." George J. Kindel. Independent
| aspirant for Congress in the Denver
district, spent $4,000 during the last
campaign.
Lloyd A. Duncan. son OF Robert
Duncan. Denver mining man, was
found not guilty OF the theft of an
automobile by jury in the District
Court at Boulder.
The United States Civil Service Com
mission has announced an examina
ton for Adams county, to be held in
Denver Dec. 9, for the position OF mo
tor rural mail carried at Aurora.
An announcement from Washington
confirms the plan OF making Denver a
district headquarters for the admins.
tration OF federal grain standards.
which is to go in operation Dec. l.
George Riley. a bookkeeper at st
Joseph's hospital In Denver is in Sc
rious condition as a result of an at
tack by a negro whom he discovered
lurking in the rear of the nurses quar-
tiers at the hospital.
Nearly 100000 will be spent in Den,
yer within the next few months in the
erection of buildings to care for the
business OF Armour & Co, packers. OF
This amount 100000 will be expended
10 the construction of q new storage
plant.
Despite the fact that reports from
ever the country indicate that there
Sas been considerable damage to crops
in other sections, Colorado farmers
are reporting that recent cold snaps
and SHOWS have left little damage In
their wake.
Twenty-Five men and women, guests
at a fashionable Denver hotel at 1441
Logan street, put on an impromptu
nightgown parade when a fire which
started in the boiler room sent clouds
of smoke billowing through the three
story structure.
Plans for the food and industrial
show of the Denver Manufacturers
Association have matured and already
the members of the organization are
busy preparing for their exhibits. The
show will be held during the second
week of January.
A bill opening in some manner the
Mount Evans region as a scenic attrac
ton for the benefit of Denver can
easily be passed in the United States
Senate, in the opinion of G. NJ. Hitch.
cock, United States senator from Ne
braska, who visited in Denver.
Judge Robert Strong of the District
Court announced at Boulder that he
would grant the petition for new
trial in the case of William Knowles
Louisville miner, who was found guilty
on an assault to kill charge in connec
ton with the 1915 strike troubles al
the Hecla mines.
Worry over the tragic death of his
favorite daughter, Ruth, and the
events of the subsequent trials at
which DR.. Floyd W. Noble and DR.
Robert ]. Mason, the latter, the daugh
ter's fiancee, were tried for murder,
are said to have caused the death OF
Sherman H. Merriweather, Denver
business man.
Holding that patents involving 1,12O
acres of coal lands near Boulder were
secured Illegally, Judge R. W. Lewis
at Denver, in the federal court, re.
versed the decision of Master in Chan.
Gerry Musser and restored to the
United States the lands for which he
decided patents had been secured in
an irregular manner.
Bitter rivalry between the Univer.
sity of Colorado and the Colorado
School of Mines, which began four
years ago over the possession of
goat-the mascot of the University of
Colorado football eleven-broke out
afresh when fifty students from Boul,
der motcred to Golden and painted the
School Of Mines buildings with red
and black paint
The people Of Denver bought 10000
articles made in Colorado during the