The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1916-07-14
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES ron coM.NG EVEN

western Newspaper Union News Service
DATES rnB roM.NG EVENTS
July s-22-strawb berry Day OF Steam.
boat Springs.
Aug. Celebration Colorado's Forti.
eth Anniversary OF Statehood. al
Aug z-Natlonal Convention OF Rep.
resentatives OF Negro Race at Den
Aug. s-Democratic State Assembly st
Denver
meeting at Colorado Springs.
Aug. s-ls-Pickle bay anu Fair a:
PlatteVilie
Aug. -z5-Annual Convention. Grand
Lodge X. ot T.. at Greeley.
Aug 3l-Sept- Apple Pie Days at
Sept 5-s-Frontier Da,s celebration
at Fort Morgan.
sept. 15-le-Harvest Fes ival at Num-.
Sept. % 7eS-State Convention B. p U. 4
at Trinidad
Work is In progress AT the Lillian
mine in Russell Gulch in Giipin
county.
bou Company at Nederland are work
ing full blast
The work OF unwatering the Fed
eral and Becky Sharp mines in Gil
pin county is in progress.
The "All Nations" mine in Chase
Gulch. near Central City, is being put
in shape for development work.
The Missouri Society of Denver,
will hold its annual dinner pail pic.
mic" at Washington park, July Is.
The Victor city council appointed
George Wayland. chief of police to
succeed Jerry Halloran, who resigned.
Colorado will get 81 .3o2. 900 OF the
s150.0oo,0o appropriated by Congress
for good roads i'll the next five years
Denver banks have agreed to take
100000 OF the $6,000,000 bonds
necessary to provide funds to build
the Moffat railway tunnel.
Steps have been taken to insure
concerted action OF all interests in the
preparation of the ordinance to abate
the smope nuisance in Denver.
Paul Lee Ellerbe, chief naturaliza-
tion examiner, Denver, has been
called to attend a naturalization-ed-
ucational conference at Washington.
Arapahoe, Montrose and Garfield
counties have made application for
cooperation in road building under
the provision of the new bill just
passed by Congress.
Denver's bank clearings for the
week ending July 6, as compiled by
Bradstreet's. amounted to $11 ,479.000,
an increase OF 81 per cent over the
same week of last year.
Denver is entirely free from any
thing that even resembles infantile
paralysis, according to a statement
issued by DR.. w. II. Sharpley, man
ager of health and charity.
Abe Diamond, a Denver cigar sales
man, was crushed to death under his
new auto, when it skidded from the
road and overturned down a high EN-
bankment near Monument.
Urgent orders to recruit the Colo
rado militia units up to full war
strength. received at the Golden rifle
| range, have resulted in the reopening,
with increased vigor, of the recruiting
| campaign.
G. kirke Drury, one of the best.
known hotel men in the West. and
one OF the best-loved by travelling
men, fellow workers and friends,
died at St. Joseph's Hospital in Den.
yer after an illness of a week
Nona a disease rarely seen nova.
Gays, exists in the case of a 4--year-
old boy at the Denver County hospital
one whole side OF the child's face
was almost gone. and he was in in
tense pain when taken 10 the hospital
for treatment.
After prolonged illness Mrs, d.
! Bryant Turner, for many years promi.
nent in society circles in Denver and
| especially we'll known for her mum.
erous charitable and philanthropie
activities, died at the Bethel Hospital
| in c dorado Springs.
With its fine sunlight and climate,
| Colorado should be one of the frs,
states in the nation to adopt and sup
port the more daylight" movement,
in the opinion of William 7. Radcliffe
of Detroit, manufacturer and visitor
in Colorado each summer for the last
The romance OF Jacob Keller, pros
porous Baden merchant, who gave IN
his business and left his wife and
child in Switzerland to come to Amer.
lea with Frieda Schneider and after.
ward married her in Denver, will not
be interrupted by deportation by Unit.
ed States authorities, according to
court ruling.
A complete check of the accounts
of Thomas Bailey. clerk in the Den.
yer county treasurer's office. who
mysteriously vanished three weeks
ago, was concluded showing the
clerks books to be balanced perfectly
throughout his seven years of city
and county service. No trace of
pai ha.