The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1916-09-01


| Sept 2i-22-Agricultural and Live
stock Show at Holyoks.
Sept, q Estate Convention b. p. o.
Sept. s-30-Third Annual Pine River
Valley and Southern Ute Indian Fair
at Ignacio.
! Jan. 2027-Annual W0otern Stock
/ Show at Denver.
Pueblo is to have a new city hall.
Brush held a successful flow,r
show
The town of Grover is to be incor
porated.
An amusement park is planned for
La Junta.
Many new granaries are in course
! of construction near Virgins.
| Canning factories at Fort Lupton
are busy with beans and pickles
Cheyenne County Fair will be held
at Cheyenne Wells on Sept. 20 TO 20.
| Ray Stephenson, years old, was
| drowned in pool OF the South Platte
river near Greeley.
| A cowmen's reunion will be one of
| the main features OF the Trinidad Las
/ AnlmaS County Falr.
Between 5000 and 1000 took part
in the second annual field meet OF
miners at Trinidad.
Work will be started shortly on
new building addition to the Del
Norte fish hatchery.
Fort Morgan made elaborate prep
arations for its Frontier Days festi-
val Sept 5. G. and 8.
Improvement work on Madrid Res
ervoir No. 3. part of the Trinidad
water system, is nearing completion,
Charles Evans Hughes made
speech at Estes Park on THURSDAY
morning before leaving for Loveland
The Pennsylvania Club of Colorado
will hold its annual corn roast and
picnic at Washington Park in Denver
on Sept. 9.
Investigations are now being made
looking toward the selection Of site
In Colorado for the governments pro
posed 500, 100000 nitrate plant.
Bad horses and good riding viii
feature the first annual Frontier Day
celebration at Creole, Sept. 4. A
realistic western stage holdup" will
also be staged.
Displays of fruit, farm products or
minerals for the State Fair, to be held
az Pueblo Sept. IS to %, will be hauled
free by the railroads from any point
in Colorado and return.
One of the pleasant features Incl
dent to the coming OF Charles E.
Hughes to Denver was an EXCURSION
over Lookout mountain for the news
paper men with the party
Boulder mining men recently paid
more than $500 for beautiful speci-
mems OF tellurium which turned out
to be worthless pieces OF Stag coated
with aluminium and copper
l.. p. Leonard, an engineer, was
shell dredge bucket at the Globe
smelter in Denver and seriously scald-
ed by boiling water and steam.
Colorado Springs is entertaining
more tourists this summer than the
California towns, according to A. E.
Carlton, who returned from a three
weeks stay on the Pacific coast
Shipwrecked twice on her honeS
moon trip in Alaskan waters and ca h
time rescued is the experience of Mrs
Karl Winchell, a Denver June bride Of
this year. formerly Miss Mildred
Morgan
Denver's plan to transfer the but
fall nll.
Park to Genesee mountain is only
part of move to create a natural
habitat for all the wild animals in
the zoo.
The body of an unidentified man,
with a thirty-pound iron weight tied
about the neck, was found floating
in small lake on the ranch of Harry
a. Snow. two and one-half miles east
of Englewood.
The City OF Greeley will purchase
1000 feet of steel twenty-inch pip3
to replace the damaged water mains
of the city water supply in Under
mayer Lake district two miles north
est of Fort Collins
Rasmussen brothers, five miles
southeast of Longmont, secured 236
sacks of seed peas from fourteen acres
of ground. After paying for the seed
threshing and all other expenses, tho
crop netted s1Oe per acre.
The passage by Congress ami the
signing by the President of the ma
tional park service bill has caused
congratulation and satisfaction in
Estes park. The achievement is the
result of seven long years of fighting
and working
The Colorado Fuel and Iron Com
pany has posted notices in various
languages at all of its camps offering