The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1916-03-31
Sucla is to have a flour mill.


Bookkeeping charge at Fort Morgan
Brewery workers at Golden are OF
strike for recognition OF the union
The Grand Junction Women's Club
win offer prizes for beautifying the
city.
William b. Anderson, 60. we'll
known mining man, died at his home
| in Leadyille.
The fair sex took all but two prizes
at the baby contest at the Pure Food
Show in Denver.
Over fifty farmers at Fort Morgac
have pledged to plant large acreage
to beans dhis season.
"Bootlegging" seems to he quite
prevalent in Routt county. and a mum
Der of convictions have resulted.
John d. McGilyray, 69 years old,
wbo built Denyers city hall, Is dead
He died at his home in Palo Alto, Cal
Miss Charlotte Barth, Colorado's
richest girl, is to make her appear
/ ance in public as a singer in Denver
Mrs. Alice Fisher Foster, Denver
society woman, will share in the So
5000 estate left by Lucius g
Fisher, Chicago manufacturer
The ordinance setting the date for
the special election to vote on pro
posals for mayor form OF government
in Denver was passed by the city
council The date is May 3.
Ernest Rist, ls-year-old son OF Mr.
and Mrs. E. c. Rist, of Durango, me;
instant death when his lung vas
pierced by bullet from his gun
which he accidentally discharged
Death ended the health quest OF Az
gust n. Kunkinelly OF st. Louis as ha
was being wheeled from a train which
had just brought him to Denver to
waiting ambulance at the Union
Depot.
Travelling over 200 miles to visit
his daughter, Miss Evangeline
Loomis. of Pueblo, Homer B. Loomis.
SO years old, dropped dead after the
greeting. He died five minutes after
he arrived in Pueblo.
Through a transfer OF the property
of Rees Wider situated less than a
mile south of the lake at the top OF
Lookout mountain at the end of the
famous drive, the Denver Motor Club
has acquired summer home,
Cabaret owners in South Superior
Wyo., have been thwarted in their
attempt to engage young Denver
girls to act as barmads in their
dance halls through the efforts of the
government bureau OF investigation
Emotional insanity was the defense
OF Edward H. Sackett of Telluride
who went on trial for murder at
Leadville before Judge Lavender in
connection with the killing of G. p
Rider of Wilmette, Ill, Feb at Twin
Lakes.
Advices received in Denver py
friends OF DR.. r w Mendeisohn of
La Junta, stated that it had been de-
cided by the State Department at
Washington to appoint DR.. Mendel-
sohn to be sanitary expert for the
Siam government
An aerial torpedo, which he
claims will carry death on wings TO
an enemy's trenches or battleships
and reyolutioniZe modern warfare,
has been invented by DR. f. ". Buck,
candidate for Congress two years ago
from the Second District
The Rev. Philip Schmidt pastor
of the German Lutheran church OF
Loveland, whose citizenship papers
were questioned because OF remarks
on war matters which were alleged to
show him to be unfit to be a citizen
of this country has been cleared oil
the charges against him
With $4,000 he had Just drawn
from the bank after he told his wife
he was going on fishing trip, Bert
Sawyer, of Denver, disappeared com
pletely. His overcoat,, found floating
in the shallow water of the Arkansas
river near the Pueblo railroad yards
is the only clew to the mystery.
An item of $4,000. which senator
John F. Shafroth had inserted in the
lnaian appropriation bill in Washing
ton for road building in southwestern
Colorado, brings about the connec-
lion of the Colorado state road sys-
tenn with the Santa Fe Trail at Gal
lup. N. NJ, the southern transcon-
tinental highway to the Pacific coast
The charge of murder in the first
degree against DR.. Noble Hamilton
was quashed by Judge Wright of Den
yer on the ground that intent to kill
could not have entered into the act
which resulted in the death of the wo
man for which he faces trial.
Denver packing plants will proba D.
ly be called upon to assist in supply.
ng beef to be used in filling an or
der from the British government fo1
600. 100000 one-pound cans of beef
stew for the use Of the British arm
les. The order was recently placed tr