The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1916-11-17
SPORTING NEWS


SPORTING NEWS
George (KnockouD Brown of Chi
cago defeated Buck" Grouse of Pitts
burg on points in a fast six-round no.
decision bout at Pittsburg.
While Pierre Macho, aviator was
making flight at Buenos Aires. with
a passenger, his machine fell, the ayi-
ator was killed and his passenger in
jured.
NJ Millering, center on the La
Grande, Ore. High schools football
team, froze two toes while playing in
match on the 1lth. He may lose
the toes.
Willie Richie, former lightweight
champion, and Johnny Mccarthy of
San Francisco fought ten rounds in
the Juarez. Mexico. bull ring. The
referee declared the fight a draw.
f. l.. Cord of Phoenix won the
douglas Phoenix automobile race, COW
ering the 273-mile course in eight
hours and thirteen minutes. according
to the unofficial time reported at
Phoenix. Fourteen cars started and
five finished.
The gridiron clash between the Colo
RADIO Springs High School Terrors and
the Greeley High school eleven. which
is to decide the 1916 championship
among the high schools of Colorado,
probably will be played at Colorado
Springs on Thanksgiving day instead
OF at Greeley. as first proposed.
GENERAL
The railroads have announced their
intention OF fighting the Adamson
eight-hour bill to the end.
New York's bubbling New Year eve
celebration may be sans wine and sans
song because the eve falls on a Sab
bath.
Directors of the Utah Consolidated
Copper Company declared a quarterly
| dividend of $3.50 share, doubling the
p. evious rate.
Mrs. Margaret Brown, landla-y OF
the Tourist hotel, was found dead in
her room at Spokane, Wash. The po-
Cotton touched the highest levels
since the Civil war on the cotton ex-
change Monday, when July futures
sold at 20.07 cents pound and May
| 20.03, making gains of nearly So q
| bale.
Employees in New York federal of.
fees have organized the Federal EN-.
| ployes Union under charter from the
American Federation of Labor, 1t was
announced, and hope to make the or.
gtnization national in scope.
In a letter to President Wilson
| Thomas F. Flaherty. secretary and
treasurer of the National Federation
OF Postoffice Clerks, entered a pro.
test against working postoffice clerks
more than eight hours a day.
Six-cent beers were considered a
possibility for Milwaukee as a resul,
OF several breweries announcing an
| increase in the price Of barrel beer
Just how much of an increase would
be made. brewers did not say
Reputation of Luis Cabrera Of q
agreed upon by two of his colleagues
and the three American members
made doubtful the ability of the Amer
leans on the INSTRUMENTATION joint
commission to assist Mexico in re-
| storing normal conditions along the
| frontier.
Committees representing the com
mon and preferred shareholders and
debenture bondholders Of the Chicago
Rock Island & Pacific Railway Com.
pany at New York formally agreed to
the plan Of reorganization OF that com
pany. 1t provides for an assessment
of $40 a share in the form of a sub
scription to the preferred stock.
Luis De La Rosa, alleged leader OF
bandit raids in the Brownsville sec
ton Of Texas q year ago. has been ex
ecuted in the PRISON at Monterey
Mex. according to unofficial reports