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The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1916-01-14
MISS LAMB WINS PRIZE
LANDED FIRST PLACE IN JUDO
ING BEEF CATTLE.
Teams Of Youths From Cities in State
Pass on Entries at Farm Con-
aress at Fort Collins.

Western Newspaper Union News Service
Fort Collins. Colo.-The high school
stock judging contest was an interest
ing feature OF the Farmers Congress
here. Teams were here from Sterling.
Fort Morgan, Greeley and Laporte.
The college pure-bred stock was used
for the teams to work on and the
markings were very close.
The only girl in the four teams of
five persons each was Josephine
Lamb of Laporte, and she not only
gave the boys a hard run; but she
landed first place in judging OF beef
cattle
The points scored by the boys in the
Greeley team won for that high school
the silver cup which Fort Morgan
held last year. Sterling took second
place, Fort Morgan third and Laporte
fourth place.
The judges made the following de-
cisions on the cards turned in
George Fitzmorris of Greeley, first
on hogs and horses and first i'll gem
erai average on all classes
Josephine Lamb OF Laporte. first on
beef cattle.
Edgar Atkins of Greeley. second on
beef cattle and third on all classes
Roy Seaman of Greeley, first on
dairy cattle.
Russell Smith of Greeley, second on
dairy cattle.
Harry 4Pomeroy of Sterling, first on
sheep.
Roy Baynor of Sterling, second On
sheep
Willard Chase OF Fort Morgan, sec
ond on horses
Arthur Turner of Fort Morgan, sec
ond on hogs.
The entire congress of about $50
persons turned out to witness til :
dress parade of the Agricultural Col
lege battalion and the battalion OF
the School of Agriculture.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1916-01-14
.STATECAPlT0L
NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service
PERMITS ISSUED TO DRUGGISTS
Carriers Notified to File Reports Of
Liquor Shipments Promptly.

Denver.-Notices to all common
and special carriers in the state were
sent out by the secretary OF states
department, urging that reports Oh
liquor brought into Colorado be for
warded Immediately upon the close Of
the months last day OF business to
their general offices, and there as
sembled and sent to the secretary OF
state for filing.
By means OF this system, according
to w. B. Slife, flat tax clerk of the
department, officers of the companies
will be able to keep in touch with the
liquor shipments and county clerks
settlements The department also has
requested that the reports show tbs
name of the county in which the de-
livery station is located. This is not
required under the law which requires
that the carriers shall file their re-
ports within three days after the
first of the month with the county
clerk and secretary of state.
The department has issued about
$50 permits to druggists, retail and
wholesale, to sell liquor, and to TWEEN
ty-five churches. More than $1,000
prescription blanks have been furn.
ished to physicians for. patients who
need liquor for medicinal purposes.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1916-01-14
WASHINGTON

Representative Hayden OF Arizona
spoke against the pending mineral
lands bill.
President Wilson renominated Sur
geon General Blue of the Public
Health Service for another term OF
four years
Flagship of the Atlantic and the Pa
cific fleets were in radio communica'
ton across about $500 miles of in
teryening land.
President Wilson refused TO appoint
colored man recorder OF deeds in
the District of Columbia, place long
held by colored men
Senator Fall introduced a resolu-
ton to exempt from Panama canal
Pan-American vessels trading be-
tween the Americans
President Wilson possibly may put
the question of national defense up
to the country in a series of speeches
as one means of getting the neces-
sary legislation through Congress.
Great Britain and her allies. it was
announced, have given their consent
10 the American Red Cross Society %
ship its present accumulation of hos
pital supplies means for hospitals in
Germany and allied countries.
After ten years of legislation and
litigation. the Supreme Court decided
that Congress had enacted finally a
constitutional law regulating state
ments as to the curative effects of
medicines in Interstate Commerce.
The second Pan-American Scientific
congress closed with a declaration by
it's president, Ambassador Suarez OF
Chile, that the nations of the Amer
icas were united in the noble desire
OF seeking political unity of the con.
tinent so that the nations which com
pose it may thus lend one another
mutual support and afford themselves
better protection against foreign dan
ger" The city of Liina was selected
for the next congress.
Administration bill to provide for
646-acre homesteads favorably re-
ported by public lands committee.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1916-01-14
Railroad Rates to Denver Increased.

Denver-Action taken in Washing
ton when fifty Western railroads
filed new passenger tariffs, will af-
feet a tremendous volume of passea-
ger traffic to and from Denver, BY
reason of the fact that the rate On
interstate business through Kansas
and Nebraska is increased to 20
cents mile. The new tariffs will in
crease the fare between Chicago and
Denver from s22.71 to $23.42, and
correspondence from intermediate
points.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1916-01-14
coff.ys File Suits Against meeill,

Denver-John F. ("Jack") Coffey,
former manager of the Denver base
ball team, and his wife, Lorean v.
Coffey. filed two suits against James
C. McGill, owner of the Denver team,
in which Coffey sets forth that Nc
Gill wrecked his home; and Mrs. Cot
Fey alleges that McGill took her on an
an auto ride into the country and
there committed the assault of which
aer husband complains Each de-
nands 100000
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1916-01-14
Phone Industry Explained to Board.

In its efforts to study fully and sys.'
tematically every phase of the tele-
phone industry In Colorado, SO that it
may be equipped to judge whether ex-
listing rates are just and the service
adequate, the State Public UtilitieA
Commission listened to a paper ON
The Development Of the Art OF
Telephony From Its Inception" pre-
pared and read by Robert B. Bonney,
electrical expert and equipment engi-
aeer of the Mountain States Tele-
phone & Telegraph Company.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1916-01-14
Coal Camps Better Than In East.

Trinidad.-That working conditions
in the southern Colorado coal mines
are as good if not better than in the
same industry In the East, is the opin-
ion of members OF the federal commits
sion headed by Seth Low of New York,
who returned to the Trinidad district
after inspecting coal mines in -Huer-
fano county. A statement to this ef-
feet was given by Patrick Gilday. a
mernbe OF the commission
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1916-01-14
Avalanche Sweeps Pass; Four Die

Telluride.-Five miners flirted with
the white death" and four of them
are dead. buried under thousands OF
tons of snow The fifth man. whose
escape from death was little short of
miraculous, is nervous wreck. and
his hair, which was jet-black, is heav-
lily streaked with white. The dead
are John Moser. "Pinkey Joe" Ben
detto, Joe Simoni and Louis Tecini
The man who escaped is Frank Bat
tochi. The five men had been doing
contract work on the Shoe Fly tun-
mel OF the Carhonero mine above
Ophir
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1916-01-14

Kansas City, Mo-The Southwest
got its first real blast Of winter
weather Wednesday, and natures of.
ferings lived up to advance notices OF
the Weather Bureau. The mercury
dropped from So to GO degrees in
twenty-four hours in the affected dis,
trict, and temperatures ranging from
zero downward prevailed through
Kansas. Iowa, Nebraska and this sec.
ton of Missouri. Oklahoma and
Texas. too. felt the drop. Snow fell
in much of the territory.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1916-01-14
DAYS DEVELOPMENT IN MEAL
CAN CRISIS.

Gen. ylctoriano Huerta is dying.
has received last rites of the catn-
oIic church
Intervention In Mexico is de-
manded in Congress. $780,,
Senators flaw "watchful waiting
policy.
Bodies of massacre victims are On
way to FL Paso.
secretary Lansing asserts Amer
cans were warned to leave Mexico
or take own chances.
White House to demand pFoter-
lion for foreigners in Mexico,
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1916-01-14
Cases Against Mine Workers Quashed.

DenveT-Indictmen against John
r. White. president of the United
Mine Workers; Frank ]. Hayes, vice
president. and tweuty-one other of
ficers and members of the organize
ton. returned by the federal grand
jury at Pueblo in December. 1919, were
quashed in the federal court upon the
recommendation of United States DIS
trict Attorney Harry 3. Tedrow.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1916-01-14
Argue Prohibition Penalty Clause.

The reply brief of Attorney John
w. Helbig in the case pending before
the State Supreme Court regarding
the right of the General Assembly to
put the safety clause in the prohibi.
ton penalty bill was filed. In the,
brief Attorney Helbig answers argu
ments made by Attorney General
Farrar. who represents Secretary of
State Ramer, apd contends that the
use of the clause by the Legislature
was legal
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1916-01-14
Russians Jailed as Coming Gana.

Pueblo-Mike Skido. 81, Moak
Shader, &c. and Boris Sokel. 40, Rus
slams, were arrested, suspected of be-
ing members of large gang of coun-
terfeiters that has been operating in
this section for some time More ar
rests are expected.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1916-01-14

The year 1915 demanded a heavy
toll from old Colorado pioneers. &C
cording to the report made by Hugh
R. Steele. secretary Of the Society of
Colorado Pioneers, to Harry Rufner.
secretary of the Sons Of Colorado.
Forty-two pioneers died, which is the
largest number by far that has ever
passed away before in one year. Tho
statistics also give a great boost for
the longevity in Colorado. Four of
the pioneers were over 80 and another
was SO. Five came to Colorado in
1858. The oldest were: Eugene La
Vale, Denver, 90; Thomas Mullins.
Denver, go; Jared L. Sanderson.
Boulder, "a; Joseph Stepples, Denver.
80. and Captain Green, Denver, 80.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1916-01-14
Congressman billiard in Denver.

Denver Congressman B. c. Hill
lard arrived in Denver Tuesday for
the purpose of lining up sentiment
and support for his measure in Con
gress for federal aid in building the
tunnel through James peak
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1916-01-14
suIeer Sane: to Hang Feb. 81.

Denver.-Col. James Bulger, sol
der OF fortune. must hang. the week
of Feb. 81. for the staying of Lloyd
F. Nicodemus the afternoon of May i.
1914. The jury in the West Side
Court returned a verdict declaring
him sane
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1916-01-14
Coal Strikers Tria! Started.

Castle Rock.-A vacancy in the
jury selected to try four former strik-
ing miners on charge OF killing
Major p =. Lester OF the Colorado
rational guards hospital corps. dur
ing the recent strike, was filled by
the selection Of August Reuter-, a
farmer
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1916-01-14
STORM PARALYZES MIDWEST
Trains Delayed by Worst Weather o
the Winter.

Chicago. Jan. 13.-Sleet and snow
combined early Wednesday in bliz
zard that crippled wires and transpor.
tation in the Middle West. A binding
snow paralyzed street traffic and
caused many accidents. Weather Blu
reau reports said the sleet storm was
general.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1916-01-14
Call Annual Meeting Of Tax Board.

The Colorado Tax Commission has
called the annual meeting OF assessors
of the state to consider taxation ques-
tons of common interest The meet.
ing will be held Jan. 20, 81 and %.
Because of the time OF the meetir =
the assessors will be able to take ad.
vantage of the special railroad rates
to the Western National Livestock
show in Denver.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1916-01-14
Hearing on Telephone Rates eeohs

'S'"s y" tS'ePHoHe MAKES 6e9N .,
Denver.-The State Public Utilities
Commission began a bearing in it's
rooms at the capitol to determine
whether the rates of the Mountain
States Telephone & Telegraph Com
pany are just and whether its servfee
is adequate The hearing will prob
ably last for several months.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1916-01-14

s45 900 Purse for WiIIard-Moran Bout.
New York.-Jess Willard and Frank
| Moran have been matched to meet
here March 8 for a purse of $45,0 900.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1916-01-14
Civil Service Law Case Argued.

The case involving the petition to
refer the state civil service law passed
by the last General Assembly and the
right of the Legislature to place the
safety clause in the law to prevent Z
referendum on the measure was ar
gued before the State Supreme Court.
The Civil Service Reform Association.
which brought the suit, contends that
the law is not one necessary for the
preservation OF the public peace,
health and safety" and that the Gen
eral Assembly improperly used the
safety clause In the law. On this
ground it asks that Secretary of
State Ramer be compelled to accept
and file the petition to refer the law.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1916-01-14
Forfeits Right to Reclaim Child.

The authorities of the State Homo
for Dependent Children have supreme
control over all of the inmates of their
institution after a lapse of six months.
No parent, at the expiration of that
time, can reclaim child, once it is
committed to the institution. This is
the substance of decision handed
down by the Supreme Court in pass
ing upon what is known as the
Mulertz case. The court reversed the
Juvenile Court, which ruled more than
a year ago that parent has the right
to reclaim a child or children, even
after six months
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1916-01-14
Aged wyoming Man Frozen to D.ath

Laramie.-John Green, "a, was fro
zen to death within sight of his ranch
on Little Beaver creek in the Sara
toga valley.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1916-01-14
FOREIGN

The Prussian Parliament met on
Jan. 10.
The 1916 session OF Parliament
opened in Paris
Lord Burnham died at London after
an Illness OF more than a month.
II is stated at Fl Paso. Tex. that
hope for Gen Huerta's recovery has
been abandoned
A decree will be published prohibit
ing the sale 10 foreigners of Spanish
ships built within the last fifteen
years
Opposition to the British conscrip-
ton bill has waned. 1t is expected
10 pass without more than nominal
opposition.
Fire destroyed the wheel work
shops of the Krupp gun plant at
Essen. according to advices received
at Amsterdam, and also damaged
other buildings.
Il hope you will make the people
OF the United State understand tina.
am no more pro-German than your
president said King Constantine at
Athens TO the Associated Press CORE
spondent.
The Swiss mails have transmitted
to prisoners OF war during the period
from Aug 10 to Dec -. 1915, 1900,
600 parcels. 70.090,0o9 letters and
cards and 100000 money orders FOR
a t5tal Of 30,900,o0U francs
According to estimates by compel
ent authorities at Berlin, the entente
powers spent sl,250,0o0,o0O on the
Dirdenelles expedition. not inclusive
OF their losses in warships and trad
ing craft" says the Overseas News
Agency.
y meeting OF the Friends Meeting
House Headquarters in Great Brit
ain. called to discuss problems OF
the settlement OF the war" broke up
after an hour Of pandemonium, with
the singing OF the national anthem
and three cheers for conscriptiou,
After years OF experiment. Director
klingenberg Of the General Electric
Company. has announced the perfec-
ton of an electric magnetic hand.
with which it is possible to grasp
even the heaviest metal object and
work with them adyantageously with
human hands.
Berlin authorities announce that,
although there is grain on hand in
sufficient quantities, prudence die
tates that Berlin shall go back to the
early 1915 basis, which means that
the bulk of the population will be re-
stricted again to 200 grams of bread
daily instead OF 225. and that corn
and other foodstuffs will be put under
control
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1916-01-14
SPORTING NEWS

SPORTING NEWS
Chas. p. Taft has sold the Chicago
Cubs to Chas Weeghman for 100000.
The Omaha Western league club an
nounced the purchase of Second Base
man Harold ireland from the Phila
delphia National league club.
frankie Murphy of Denver and
Grover Hayes of Philadelphia fought
fifteen rounds to draw before the
National Athletic Club in Denver,
The Boston Braves have been sold
to Percy d, Haughton. famous Har.
ward football coach. and Arthur C.
Wise, member OF a Boston banking
firm.
! Clarence Griffin and Ward Dawson,
California tennis stars, Won the
doubles championship of the Far East,
defeating Mikami and kamague. the
Japanese champions. at Manila
An offer OF $4,000 for the cham
piouship go between Freddie Welsh,
| lightweight titleholder. and Charlie
| White OF Chicago was made White 5
| manager at Chicago by Joe Golden.
who represents San Antonio pro-
moters.
Chicago fistic fans Figured that
Jess Willard has something up his
sleeve. The big fellow is putting in
several hours day hard work a Bill
o Connor's gym, preparing for action
not later than March 4, according 10
Lis own statements
GENERAL
Ada Rehan, the actress, died in q
New York hospital after an operation
for arterial affection
Col James C. Bulger, slayer Of
Lloyd F. Nicodemus, in Denver. whose
execution was deferred two months
ago to permit an inquiry into his
sanity, must die the week beginning
Feb. 81
w. d. Cooper. a druggist, engaged
in revolver duel from his window
with two bandits surprised in the act
of robbing the postoffice at Algonquin.
III. The bandits escaped in an auto
mobile without any loot
A world ship combine is being
formed by Charles w. Morse, ex-
banker and Wall street Spectator,
who was pardoned from the Atlanta
penitentiary by President Taft in 1912.
according to reports in New York.
American game preserves will have
to seek other sources than Mexico for
their stock of quail, according to in
formation reaching San Antonio,
Tex, dealer, notifying him that the
de facto government of Mexico had
placed an embargo on the expectation
of such game.
Advices from Springer, n. NJ, report
thousands OF dollars damage done by
a wind of almost cyclonic velocity at
Cimarron
The woman suffrage constitutional
amendment, defeated in the Novem-
Der election, was again introduced in
both Houses of the Legislature at
Albany, N. Y.
James NJ. Hopper, California novel
list, who is in Paris as a magazine cor
respondent, has been ordered to re-
port for duty in the French army on
the theory that he is citizen OF
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1916-01-14

Italian steamer sunk by mine and
200 Montenegro recruits drowned.
Last OF British and French troops
evaeuate remaining positions on CALI
poll peninsula.
The British steamer Clan Macf'ar-
land Of 1925 tons las been sunk in
the Mediterranean
A German division, attempting to
cut the French line in the region OF
the Disc. was decimated by cannon
fire
Russian troops control the impor-
tant strategic heights about Czerno-
gitz. Bukowina. Heavy sno"storms
hinder operations.
Storms have put an end, for the
time at least. to the engagements BE-
tween the Austrians and Russians
along the eastern front.
Turks have trapped 10000 British
N Mesopotamia The force which was
left To guard the retreat of the maia
British army is surrounded.
Montenegro is being crushed by the
Austrian 'steam-roller' in the same
manner as Serbia was overrun The
most important of the Montcuegrin
forts has fallen.
Japan is now supplying Russia with
arms and ammunition. Berlin reports
say that arms and supplies recently
taken from the Russians were all of
Japanese manufacture.
WESTERN
Wheat shipments from the port Of
Galveston established a new record
in 1915, when 3l,9i9,927 bushels were
exported. December shipments were
2.022.2i bushels.
Three persons were killed and
twenty injured, many OF them seri-
cusly. when freight train on the
Big Four railroad struck street car
at Springfield, Ohio.
The worst blizzard in years was rag
ing Monday, at Missoula, Mont, ac-
eompanied by a fifty mile gale and a
temperature below zero Slight dam
age to property was reported.
Fred Croxton. state mediator. an
bounced at Youngstown. Ohio, that
the strike of tube workers at the plant
Of the Youngstown Sheet and Tube
Company had been declared off
Two children's banks and their cou
tents. asgregating 500, were stolen by
d burglar who entered the home of
II. c. Nelson, a travelling salesman Of
San Francisco, while the FAMILY was
at party.
The trial OF Arthur Hauser. Colora-
DO fugitive charged with the murder
Of w II. Smith. national cashier OF
the Woodman OF the World came to
an unexpected end in Omaha when it
was discovered that iIauser is suf-
fering from both scarlet fever and
tensillitis
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1916-01-14
CONDENSATION
OF FRESH news
rHE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT.
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF The week
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-07
Racing, Hunt Meets and Polo, Dinners and Dances
VIII Crowd The Next Six Weeks Win
Weekend Parties.
Weekend Parties.

HOR the next six weeks Long Island
Il will be the centre Of attraction
/ for New York society. and every week
end will find all the large estates filled
with guests. who will be entertained
during the day by racing, hunt meets
/ and polo. and in the evening with din
ners and dances. The racing season
started q week ago yesterday at Hew-
lett Bay Park and races were held
there again yesterday, and from now
until the end Of June there will be
meets at Belmont Park. Belmont Park
Terminal and Piping Rock, and polo
will soon commence at Meadow Brook
and on several Of the private fields on
the island
The meet at Hewlett Bay Park held
by the Rockaway Hunting Club was one
Of the most successful ever given By
the organization and society was out
in force on both days, many motoring
over from country places, others going
out By train and several having large
luncheon parties at the clubhouse, a.
terward motoring over 60 the field with
their guests.
Next Saturday and the following
Wednesday the United Hunts Racing
Association will have races at Bel
mont Park Terminal. and, judging
from the number Of entries, the sue
cess Of the two days meet already -
assured. Two hundred and seventy en-
tries Of thoroughbred horses, owned by
over twenty prominent Americans, have
been made, compared to less than one
hundred at the fall and spring meets
last year. The list Of entrants in
cludes T. Ambrose Clark, August Bel
mont, Mrs. Payne Whitney, Mrs. F.
Ambrose Clark. Edward T. Whitney. A.
J. A. Devereux, Foxhall ?. Kecne and
Malcolm Stevenson.
Many luncheons will he given at the
Turf and Field Club. in the old Man
ice mansion, opposite the track, previ-
Gus 10 the races.