The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1916-09-15


at Ignacio.
Sept 3o-Harvest Festival at Briggs
dale
Oct 12-Annual Poudrs Canon Picnic
at Fort Collins.
Jan. 20 2T-Annual Wsstern Stock
Show at Denver.
Marble has a new fire department
Brggsdale will hold . harvest fes.
tiyai Sept. 30.
The Num- harvest festival was
largely attended.
About $4,000 attended the Frontier
fair at Fort Morgan
A Cripple Creek report says the
Ajax lease is proving rich.
A streak of ore mas been opened up
in the Brazil mine at Freeland-
Boulder reports the tungsten situa
ucs brighter than for some time
The entire estate of Judge David
C. Beaman OF Denver, was left to his
widow.
Over $50 carloads of cantaloupes
have been shipped from Rocky Ford
and Ordway.
Many mining properties in the San
Juan district are reopening because
CT better ore prices
James Baker, a Holbrook resident,
committed suicide by shooting him
self with shotgun.
The land office receipts at Pueblo
for August we're $1,000. There were
322 filings during The month.
The Eureka mine in Gilpin COUNTY
is TO be taken over and worked by
Ohio and Kentucky capitalists.
The Yukon mill at Durango has
been kept busy on the treatment OF
tungsten ore from the Galty group.
Workers in eight OF the coal mines
in Huerfano county have joined the
Cnited Mine Workers of America.
The humble bean, the money making
crop of the western plains, was hon
ored with a bean celebration at Pey
ton.
Work upon the Camp Bird tunnel al
Ouray which is to be nearly IL 900 feet
when completed. Is progressing salts
factorily.
Denver bank ciearings for the week
ending Sept. we're $12,101,0O0. d
gain of 55.5 per cent over the same
week in 1915.
Nearly $4,000 pounds of zinc-gold
ore was shipped from the Eureka
mine in Gilpin county last week to
Black Hawk.
Members of the Pixies Peak Cattle
and Horse Growers Association met
at Florissant and condemned the pro-
posed herd law.
Frank Welch and Frank Cooper. old
offenders in Greeley, were arrested in
Fort Morgan charged with selling and
having liquor in their possession.
Robert Larson, 80 years Old a car
repairer for the Denver & Rio Grande
railroad, vas crushed to death 1hile
working on a car at Denver.
Both first and second prizes N the
open show for Boston terriers at the
dog show held in Kansas City we're
won by Denver-owned dogs,
The buffalo herd at City park in
Denver attained its majority with
the birth of fine girl baby that
raset. the number to twenty-one.
The St Johns mine people. who are
operating the Revenue mine at Ouray,
are making fine progress and the num-
her of employees is to be increased.
Negotiations between officials OF
the Colorado & Southern and the Den
YER & Rio Grande railroads and their
shopmen are expected to be resumed
in Denver.
H. S, Graves. chief of the United
States Forest Service, has received
applications for the construction of
forty-two roads in Colorado, under
provisions of the federal aid act.
The enrolment at the Colorado
School for the Deaf and Blind at Colo
RADIO Springs broke all records when
it reached 1870. This is larger than
at any previous time in the institu-
tons history.
The sixth hearing in the case of
Col. James C. Bulger, sentenced to
death for the killing of Lloyd Nico-
demus, one of the proprietors of the
Savoy hotel, in the spring of 1914,
was held by the State Board of Par
dons.
The Red Mountain district shippers
including the Davey Leasing Com
pany on the National Bell, the Bars
tow, St. Paul, Congress, Joker Tunnel,
tennessee. Reno Leasing Company,
Atlantic. and others, supplied abou.
fifty car loads of ore to the Silver
Lake mill and the Durango shelter
during the first half OF August.
Jack T. Mason is confined to his
home suffering from severe burns
and Dwight Ryland is in st. Luke's
Hospital in Denver in a serious con-
Gitiou as the result of an aufor,ohiJo