The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1916-07-28
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper linton New. Service.
DATES +oR COMING EVENTS.

DATES tOR COMING EVENTS
Aus. celebration colorado's Forti-
eth Anniversary of Statehood. at
Aug. National Convention of Rep
resentative. OF Negro Race At Den
Aug, democratic State Assembly Al
Aug. s-Meeting Colorado Editorial As
ISOLATION at Denver.
Aug. le-Republican state Assembly a.
Aug. I1-Progressive State Convention
| at Denver
| at Colorado Springs.
| aug li-irand Lake Yacht Races
Aug li-colorado Federation of Labor
| AuE s-ls-Pickie Day and Fair a.
i'iatteville
! Aug. 2l-Celebration OF the opening OF
! the new State Highway between Del
Norte and Fagosa Springs. at Du
Lodge x o. r.. at Greeley.
Aug. sl-seat. Apple Pie Days at
| sept. 5-s-Boulder County Fair at
Sept. 5-s-FrontIer Days ceiebratIon
Sept. 1I-Nieetfng Midland Trail Ass n
| sept harvest Festival at Mum
| sept 27-zs-State Convention B. r. u L
at Trinidad
| The state collected tax of s29
| 5000 on the estate of Delos A. Chap
| pell OF Denver
Simplicity characterized the funeral
/ services of United States Senator
Thomas NJ Patterson OF Denver.
/ Gordon Jones of Denver has re
fused appointment as one OF the four
members OF the federal farm loan
/ board.
Denver's building permits issued N
| July amounted to more than 100000
the largest for the same month
since 1912
| Denver bank clearings for the week
ending july 20 were s10,65S,00o, an
increase OF SO per cent over the same
week last year.
Work rebuilding the five towers OF
| the kittimac tram, at Silverton, re
Gently destroyed by the big foresi
fire, is progressing satisfactorily.
Silver ore running 1855 to the ION
has been struck in the Princess min
at jamestown by Bert Eastman and
H. X Henderson, leasers of the prop
crty.
Genuine enthusiasm is indica ed
throughout the state in the first an
nual convention of the grain men OF
Colorado to be held in Denver Aug
! and 2.
Seven cars of an extra eastbound
| Denver & Rio Grande freight train
were derailed west of Riverside, be
| tween Salida and Leadville. No one
was injured. -
| Harry A. Brilliant of Denver was
killed and four daughters were seri-
ously injured. two perhaps fatally, in
an automobile accident near Nunn.
twenty miles north of Greeley
! The Western Light & Power Com
pany will spend 100000 within the
next few months on improvements in
| its properties in Colorado, according
to H. U. Wallace of Boulder. vice
president of the company.
The War Department has notified
state commanders that all college
students mustered in with militia
units will be mustered out OF service
| in time for them to re-enter their
classes at the opening of the college
terms in the fall
Colorado convicts working on the
| highway to Nederland have struck 1t
rich in tungsten. About twenty men
are in on the bonanza, found while
building the roads and at the present
time about $4,000 is in the commun-
ity ore store. sacked and ready for
| shipment.
The Colorado Pioneer Printers AS
sociation of Denver, paid tribute to
Orville L. Smith, former president
of the organization, in resolution
declaring him TO have been an "emi
nent and patriotic citizen" and IAN
earnest worker for the Pioneer Print
ers' Association"
Eight persons are believed to have
| lost their lives in a wreck OF Denver
4 Rio Grande freight train No. 81,
eastbound, six miles west OF Pueblo.
| Two persons are known to be dead,
but it is believed that at least six
others persisted in the flames which
consumed the wreckage.
Mrs Richard Crawford Campbell,
his only daughter is the sole heir to
the estate of the late Thomas NJ. Pat
| terson. 1t became known that SEN
ator Patterson left no will. Instead
the statutory laws OF descent will pre-
vail, the entire estate going to the
daughter, the only direct heir.
Attacked by two Automobiles, Gus
and X. o. Peterson, brothers, along
the highway near Morrison, and left
by the roadside with fractured skull,
Samuel c. Pollard of Denver, former
deputy sheriff and recently appointed
| special policeman to patrol the foot
mill parks. is dying in the County hos
| pital at Denver