The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1916-08-25
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
DATES ron COMING EVENTS.

Sept s-s-Frontier Days esisbratoa
Sept lI-Msetins Midland Trail Ass
Sept. Is-is-E1.rv..t Festival a. NUM-
Sept Is-.3-StAts Fair at Pueblo
sep - Estate Convention B. r. o
at Trinidad
Valley and Southern Ute Indian Fs.'
Jan :o-27-AnnuaI wsstern stoek
Show at Denver
e Paso county is to have eleyea
new school houses.
Six barrels of beer were seized in a
raid on a hotel at Trinidad
The President nominated H
Farr to be postmaster at Sugar City
1t has been decided TO hold no La
Dor Day celebration at Colorat5
Springs this year.
Denver Boz Scouts to the number
of $50 have pitched their tents for an
outing in the mountains near TollaEd-
The formal opening of the Den r.
Grand Army rest and reading room
was celebrated with housewarming
in mine rescue work, were used Dy
the Golden volunteer firemen, eL
tinguishing a fire recently.
Mrs. Jennie Simpson. 80. widow OF
George Simpson. pioneer of Trinid1d
and for whom Simpsons Rest was
named is dead in Monrovia, Cal
Mrs James Doyle, wife of James J.
Doyle of Denver. was dangerousiy
and perhaps fatally injured in an
automobile accident near Tie Siding,
/ Wyo
MI and Mrs. Martin Klinker Of
Arvada were injured near. BrightJn
| when their auto colIided with a car
driven by a party of miners from
Frederick.
j. II. Childers died at the Denver
County Hospital following injuries
received near La Sale, when H B.
SeCheverell's touring car overturned
on a sandy stretch OF road.
Three women were injured in auto
accidents and runaways at Fort Col
Inns. Two men were taken to hos
pitfalls and numerous other persons
escaped with bruises and cuts.
Mr.. and Mrs. James s. Jones. aged
respectively 81 and 81 years, OF
Buchanan county, Mo. have been mar
ried Il years and are visiting their
| 10-year-old son in Denver.
Denver railroad officials received
notice that the transcontinental lines
will put in a colonist rate between
Denver and the Pacific Coast this
year which is $3.50 higher than last
year.
A new president and five new pro
fessors, with freshman class enroll
ment double that of 1915, is the pro-
mise of the renaissance that will in
spire the Golden School of Mines this
year.
Colorado is going to benefit rom its
| crops this year much earlier than
usual as result of the prevailing
high prices. AS a consequence the
crop money is already going INTO cir
culation
Heralded only by a mass OF dark
I clouds and terrific roar. a freak hail
, storm swept down on the MOntclair
and Aurora districts Monday night
flooding many Easements and wreak-
ing havoc with gardens and flower
beds.
According TO a letter received from
! Washington Stephen T Marher, as
sistant to the secretary OF the inte
rior and executive officer in charge OF
national parks. will visit Glacier Ma
. . fTnnaI park n ~,
California, Sept. 3.
The department OF agriculture has
decided to place representative OF
the bureau OF markets and credits in
| Denver to collect and distribute in
| formation on perishahle crops and
movements. receipts and quotations
or foodstuffs
penyer's bank clearings took an up
ward leap last week which far ex-
| ceeded the customary gains and went
to $l5,s6i.000, an increase OF 62.6 per
cent over the same week last year
They also represented a gain of
100000 over the preceding week.
Miss Helen Hughes, daughter Of
Charles Evans Hughes, Republican
nominee for President, will he in the
party which viii accompany her
father to Estes Park and efforts will
be made to have her address the Y.
W. c. A. conference while in the park.
N. H. Aylesworth, State Public It'll.
tiles commissioner. returned to Den
yer from Chicago. where he was ad.
yised that the cases OF the Colorado
Fair Rates Association and the Util-
tiles Commission would be heard in
Denver before the Interstate Com
merce Commission some time between
Nov. 10 and Is.
Joseph Miller. 81. widely known
ranchman of Pueblo county, died at