The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1916-12-22
COLORADO
STATE NEWS


Western Newspaper Union News Service
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.
Jan l-s-Pouitry Show At Denver.
Jan; I-l3-Pouitry Show At Canon
Jan, .o-Athlstic Club boxing contests
at Denver.
'.n, :o-s7aAnnuai wssssrn stock
Feb; po. a-s,1 ~ e Z. Annual conv'n-
The Jewish synagogues of Denver
observed the Festival of Dedication.
The total tax levy for the city and
county Of Denver In 1917 will be IT
mills.
Building permits issued in the city
of Denver during the last year amount
to over 100000.
The broom factory of the Adult
Blind home in Denver was almost to-
tally destroyed by fire.
The Burlington railroad has re-
newed its 1916 subscription of $4,000
to the Denver tourist and publicity
bureau.
Again the cost Of living drops in
Denver, with the announcement that
turkeys are to cost less on Christmas
than they did on Thanksgiving.
Plans have been completed for the
sl0,000,000 campaign to raise funds
for the Jewish war sufferers, accord
ing to word received in Denver.
F. J. Edwards, 35 years old,
switchman for the Union Pacific rail-
road, was ground to death under car
wheels in the yards in Denver
The state will save more than $751;
600 on legislative printing this ses-
sion under contracts let, according to
r. W. Bradford, state printing COM
missioner.
A blow received in the fight with
Jack Bratton at the National Athletic
Club in Denver killed Perfecto l.. Ro-
nero (Young Joe Rivers, according
to the verdict OF the coroner's jury.
DR.. J. H. Sinclair, resident of the
Pixies Peak region for nearly forty
years, died at his home in Colorado
Springs. He was a native of Des
Moines. Iowa, and came to Colorado
in 1877.
as the hunting companion of Kit Car
son and one of the first veterinarians
in Colorado, died at the Denver county
hospital as a result of injuries suf-
fered several weeks ago while he was
dehorning a COW on a ranch near Den
yer.
Delfido Archuleta, member of
prominent family Of southwestern
Colorado and a storekeeper at Lone
Tree. near Pagosa Springs, was ar
rested by Deputy United States Mar
shall Rosuck on the charge of selling
liquor to Indians. He gave bond and
was released.
Alimony secured by Divorces, pret-
ty and otherwise, from bubbles who
have erred, is not to be spent for tax
icab joy rides and liquors that Colo
RADIO is trying to prohibit the sale of,
according to Judge Allen of Denver,
who held that 1t should be strictly de
voted to the purchase of the necessi-
ties of life.
William A. Smith, former cashier OF
the Silverton National Bank, who was
arrested by Samuel Rosuck, deputy
United States marshal, on a charge o.
making false entries in bank books
while he was employed there, gave
bond of $4,000 at Silverton and was re
leased. He is now a mining prospec
tor
1t is stated that saving of over
SIS, 900 annually will be effected to
shippers of Denver under a decision
announced by the State Public Utili
ties Commission which orders reduc-
tions ranging from 1875 to 25 per cent
in local switching rates on freight
traffic moving entirely within the
state OF Colorado.
Testimony that the block signal sys |
tem-the automatic bell arrangement |
in use at the Forty-fourth avenue |
and Washington street railroad cross.
ing, where Michael Zelenock was
killed in an automobile-passenge
rain collision, Is a menace rather
than safeguard was offered by sew.
eral witnesses at the inquest on Zelsl
1ock's death held in Denver.
The War Department is making q
to the Christmas Joy of |
4 number of families of Colorado
who are now in service
IN the Mexican border Sixty-four
'amilies have been paid amounts
based on a monthly allowance rang.
ng from $50 to $50 from the office OF
Henry G. Sharpe, quartermaster gen.
eral of the United States army.
The all-Colorado committee, com.
posed Of representatives from the
organizations OF Denver,
Colorado Springs and Pueblo, held a
meeting in Colorado Springs to con.
'ider matters of importance to the
tate. These include the proposed
government munitions plant at Pu-