The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1916-05-12
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
DATE. ron CONN. EVENTS.

Aug e-Denocrauc State Assembly al
sept J-s-Frontier Days celebration
at Fort Morgan.
Fort Morgan is to have a baseball
team.
The LoveIand Chautauqua date has
been changed to July l.
President Wilson nominated J o.
Miller for postmaster at Boulder
Loveland is preparing to sell s7a.-
600 bonds to build light plant.
Revival services are being held in
the Methodist church in Florence.
The I.oveland Canning Company is
preparing for the 1916 campaign
The First Presbyterian Church at
Greeley is arranging to build a $780,
coo church
Fort Morsan's Frontier Days cele-
bration this year will be held Sep
TENDER IS.
Six-ycar-old Andy Urban fell into
the Bessemer ditch in Pueblo and
was drowned
Governor Carlson appointed Rev.
F. f. Cain. OF Fruita. chaplain at The
Canon City Penitentiary.
Edward P. Pitkin. 81, Civil war vet
eran, and member of Byron L. Carr
Post. G. A. r., died in Denver.
NJ L. Mowry. OF Virgins, was bad
ly crushed beneath his wagon, which
was loaded with wheat and logs.
Camp Loveland is coming into
prominence as one of the mining cen
ters in the tungsten district of Boul-
der county.
A frame house. valued at $500,
belonging to Mrs. E. G. Rollins. wild,
owed school teacher at Victor, was
destroyed by fire.
Martin Morales pleaded guilty at
Fort Collins to bootlegging. and was
sentenced to from one year to fifteen
months in the penitentiary.
The largest melon" ever cut in the
West by a corporation will be dis
tributed in July by the Great West
ern Sugar Company, say Denver re-
ports.
The Rev. Joshua L. Gravett. pastor
OF Galilee Baptist church in Denver,
celebrated the quarter-century ami
yersary of his services as pastor of
that church.
William G. NJ Stone. 81 years old,
well known throughout the state be-
cause OF his work on behalf of Colo
RADIO forests. died at his home in
Longmont
According to an inventory tiled by
Mrs Sallie NJ Lee. the estate of
former Mayor w. S. Lee of Denver,
amounting to $1,000.
The transcontinental railroads
through their vice president and traf
fic managers, have offered to make a
number of important adjustments in
Colorado freight rates.
Frank Winters, 90, machinists
helper at Pueblo, was thrown from a
plunging motorcycle with such force
that his skull was fractured and he
died at St Marys hospital
Driven to suicide by something in
his past life that would not let him
diOhC, u. H. JobiiSou, - ii wealthy
Swedish farmer living six miles
southeast of Longmont, shot himself
/ Porter Eveland, for years chief
electrical engineer and inspector of
the Colorado Power Company and
who until a short time ago lived in
Denver and Boulder died in Phila-
delphia.
| Walter. the 9-year-old son OF Henry
Mall. OF Fort Morgan, was smothered
to death when the bank Of the San
Arroyo irrigation ditch slid down
on the cave in which he and his lit.
tie brother had been playing.
| At meeting of REPRESENTATIVES
| from leading Northern Colorado
towns held in Fort Collins. an organ
ization was perfected and plans were
| adopted for the holding of the an
nual tennis tournament at Boulder,
July Is and 10.
At a meeting OF the State Board
OF Pardons, the case OF Gerrit J.
Van Wyk, Hollander who was SEN
fenced to the State Penitentiary for
| life on the charge of having MUIR
dered his sisterin-law, Gertrude
| Hast, will be heard.
| Three enlisted men from the Colo
RADIO National Guard will be given the
opportunity of taking examinations
on JUne 6 for admission to the mill
tary academy at West Point, accord
ing to the provisions of the act passed
| by Congress on May 4.
A new ore. valuable for fIuxfng
purposes in the manufacture of iron
and steel products, has been discov-
cred in the vicinity of Cortez Monte.
yuma county 1t is called "hallarite"
after its discoverer. and, although its
exact composition is held a secret, 1t