The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1916-06-02
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

Dare. RON c"M.~G EVENTS.


Vehtion at Salida-
June l4-ls-Senil Annual Epworth
League Convention at Colo. Springs
~ Festival and Carnival at Glen
"ood Springs.
june 20 25-Coio. Christian Endeavor
tonN sHtion, at Greeley.
Aug. celebration Colorado's Forti-
eth Anniversary of Statehood. At
Aug 2-National Convention of Rep
FesentatIres of Negro Race at De n =
Yer.
Aug. s-Dcmocratic State Assembly at
Denver.
Aug 1s-ls-Pickie Day and Fair At
I1atteville
Aug. e5-Annual Convention. GranI
Lodge X OF T.. at Greeley.
sept. 5-s-Froutier Days celebration
at Fort Morgan.
sept y 25-State Convention b. +. o. L
at Trinidad.
a class of l07 were initiated into
the new Elks lodge at Sterling.
Boulder tungsten prices range from
$50 10 $50 per unit OF Go per cent,
Colorado Springs Presbyterians
raised $1,000 and cleared the church
OF debt.
oldest attorneys, died suddenly OF
hedrt disease.
The VIM. Barth estate paid lawyers
s27S.CO0 and an inheritance tax to the
state OF s6i.ss3.
The Florence Chamber OF Com
merce has contributed 800 for 4
Fourth OF July celebration.
Louis F. Bartels. Republican, was
elected president OF the new Denver
city council at its first regular session.
The graduation class Of sixtyfive
of the Greeley High school gave 500
for the cornerstone OF gymnasium
building
Mrs. Mary Morris, 1851 Galapago
street. leaped to her death from 4
fourth story window at st. Anthony
Hospital in Denver.
Society and horse fans alike crowd
ed Overland park Saturday Afternoon
for the first racing matinee of the
season in Denver
Mrs. Leila Bera Brown, Is, killed
herself by drinking posion at the
home of her brother. r. S. STANFORD,
of Colorado Springs.
Mrs. Rose Ohler, soprano soloist OF
Trinity NJ. Z. church in Denver. has
decided to drop her divorce suit
again her husband.
Progress is being made in the plan
for reorganizing the MoIIat railroad
according to information received in
Denver. from the East.
Four generations in uniform cele-
brated in Denver with solemn public
exercises the country's fiftieth Me-
mortal and Decoration day.
over 5000 have signed a petition
requesting President Wilson to par
don Orson Adams. former president
OF the Mera National Bank at Grand
junction.
Incendiary fires under the stage and
in the box office OF the new Isis thea
ter We're discovered at Victor by
Night Marshal Jack Burnham and ex-
tinguished with slight damage.
Virginia Higginson, 6-year-old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs A. b Hi.,-
ginscn of Colorado Springs, died from
injuries suffered when a porch box
filled with earth fell on her.
More than $1,000 was raised for the
benefit of the humane society at the
matinee given at Overland park in
Denver, under the auspices of the
Thirteen thousand volts OF electric
ity shot through the body OF Elmer
Spencer. II, an employe of the West
ern Light and Power Company at
Boulder, setting fire to his clothing
and. burning his left side seriously,
Fifteen convicts were taken to Pu-
eblo from Canon City in care OF John
5tamm, and Immediately loaded
aboard big auto-bus for Beulah,
where they will go to work on the
highway which runs parallel to SOUR
rel creek
After trying life apart for ten years,
Dr. John G. Locke and Mrs. Tessie r.
Locke remarked in Denver. They
were divorced by Judge George w
Allen June s, 1906 Mrs. Locke
charged non-support in her complaint,
field ten years ago.
NE iHst lag " DC uhlurled at the
dedication of the poles on the Stou.
street side of the Federal building in
Denver Decoration Day was one
which flew from the United States
capitol spire when William Mckinley
was inaugurated President of the
United States for the second time.
Charles Lamb, 16 years old. was &C.
cidentally shot and killed near
Brighton while swimming with a boy
friend in the Platte. Young Lamb had
taken a 20 caliber rifle to the swim.
ming hole with him. AS he was COM
ing out of the water he reached for
the rifle and in some manner dis.
CHARGED il into his body