The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1916-07-07
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Nevspaper Union News Service

July -S-ES-StTdWpctIy LAY - 0sOes.~
boat Springs
Aug I-CeieV.ation Colorado.s Forti-
eth Anniversary Of Statehood. At
Aug. z-Nationai Convention of Rep
resentatives OF Negro Race at Don
Aug. s-Dsmocratic State Assembly NJ
Aug. I4Icolorado Federation of Labor
meeting at Colorado SpringA
Aug. ls-ls-Pickie Day and Fair n
t'latteville
Aug. 22-25-Annual Convention. Grand
eas siseps sf lAnDi. P as s''i's' p. Day. a.
Sept 5-s-Frontlsr Days eelsbration
Sept 27-.s-stats Convention B. POE.
At Trinidad.
Grand Valley peaches are now be-
ing marketed
There is talk OF building q sugar
factory at Kuner.
The hay yield in Montezuma county
is larger than last year.
Arrangements are being made to do
placer mining near Mancos.
The Allard mines near Mancos will
soon be in operation again.
The Montana militia passed through
Denver on the way to the Arizona
border.
The Cowboy Rangers of Livermore
held their first annual picnic on
July. 4th.
SNOWFALL picnic on the summit of
Pixies Peak was Fourth of July fea-
ture at Colorado Springs.
The annual meeting of the Colorado
State Federation of Labor will be held
at Colorado Springs, Aug. IA.
The increase in the price of beets
this season is expected to bring $685.
600 more to Morgan county growers.
Donald Young, son of F. A. Young
of Denver is the youngest soldier at
the Golden rifle range. He 10 barely II.
With twenty-four arrests for drunk
enness and eight fires. the Denver fire
and police departments celebrated
the Fourth.
Many men heard the call to the
colors and enlisted at the recruiting
office in the Civic Association build
ing in Denver July 4.
Colorado"s youngest soldier donned
his uniform at the mobilization camp.
He is Dallas De Fleuter, 16 years and
l month old of Denver.
The output of the Cripple Creek gold
mining district for June amounted to
S2.946 tons with an average value of
$1426 ton and gross bullion value
of $1,183,371.
The body of Joseph Gould, Univer-
sity of Colorado student who lost his
life in the Eureka mine cave-in, was
taken back to the family burial ground
in Vermont.
Private H. A. Stokes in the ranks
of the signal corps at the Golden Rifle
Range was introduced week ago to
Miss Gladys Dempsey Of Denver. and
four days later, he married her.
One promotion in the ranks of Com
pany E, Rocky Ford. has been Off
cially announced. Private Henry A.
Sullivan now is battalion sergeant
major, with salary of $45 per month
Four companies of infantry may be
organized in northern Colorado fol-
lowing the visit of recruiting officers
and the veteran fife and drum corps
to Brighton, Fort Lupton, Platteville
and Greeley.
Company E of the National Guard
left Rocky Ford for Golden after
having been in camp In that city for
ten days. They were given a hearty
good-by by a crowd that numbered
several thousand.
1t was a quiet Fourth at Golden
Rifle Range. More leaves of alb
sence were granted than usual, and
there was a crowd of visitors; other
wise the day was like every other day
at the camp.
Charged with raising a check from
$145 to $6O5, w. J. Hardy, organizer
of state bank at Stevens camp,
former head Of a 100000 tungsten
mining company, and builder of
thirty-six room hotel on the road from
Boulder to Nederland was placed in
jail in Boulder.
Instead of screaming when q negro
burglar entered her apartment in Dem
ver, Miss Ethel Black, grappled with
him for several minutes. The burg
lar, with his face scratched and bleed
ing. his cap gone and his mask and
and tie torn off. leaped through the
second-story window and disappeared
Word was received in Denver by
the officials of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Firemen and Engineers
that Mrs. w. B. Mills. widow of the
delegate whose body was found in the
lake at Lakeside park with the body
of Miss Emma Dye, had started from
her home in Sanborn, Iowa, for Den.
YER. Representatives of the organ.
ization went to Golden and received
the body OF their associate.
Dead trout, washed into the fields