The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1916-10-27
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
DATES FoR COMING EVENTS.
stern Newspaper Union News Service.

Teachers Association
Jan. l-s-Poultry show at Denver
Jan. 2o-Athletic Club boxing contests
at Denver.
Jan; ao-27-AnnuaI wsstsrn Stock
show at Denver.
Feb 2-4-Y NJ. C. A. Annual Convsn-
t!on at Colorado Springs.
Denverites are planning a 1000. .ooC
hotel
The state tax levy was fixed at 2.0i
mills by the state board Of equaliza
tion.
A large class was initiated into the
knights and Ladies OF Security lodge
at Pueblo.
Registration at Colorado SPRING
shows gain this year OF 1900 ovei
that of 1912.
The Denver Trades and Labor as
sembly has gone on record against the
so-called herd law.
One man was killed and another
man was fatally injured in accidents
in Denver Sunday
Warden Capp has been granted
stay of sixty days in the custer suit
brought against him.
Mrs. Harriet McMillin, 9S years old
died at the home OF her daughter
Mrs. O. II. LOTUS, in Denver.
Mrs. w. H. Wolfesberger, 61 years
old, OF Denver, died Of heart disease
while bathing in a pool at Steamboat
Springs.
Mrs Harriette NJ. Mcmillan, proba.
bly, the Oldest resident OF Denver, died
at the home Of her daughter, Mrs. o,
H. LOTUS. in Denver, aged 98.
With four children. nine grandchil-
dren and one great-grandchild pres
ent, Mr. and Mrs. j. F. Ireland cele-
brated their golden anniversary at
Eaton.
Fourteen more motorists paid IS
ton of the bright lights ordinance.
Six others were fined and one dis
charged
Fire. believed to be due to an in
cendiary. destroyed an old concentrat
ing plant at Fox and Ellsworth
streets. in Denver. causing an estimat-
ed loss OF $4,000.
A suit for $4,000 was filed in the
District Court in Denver for Miss De
light Howell kuehne, against Joe
Bonds. pugilist, who is billed to fight
Fred Fulton In Denver, Nov 6.
A mining deal involving $4,000 was
closed at Boulder when E. j. Levino
&c Co, OF Philadelphia, bought four
tungsten lode claims from Robert Ker-
mack and Harold De Vries
The Elkton mine in the Victor dis
trict was closed down, the reason as
been worked out down to the l,640
foot level. which is that of the Roose-
welt drainage tunnel
A municipal community center OF
recreation will, to a considerable ex.
tent, eliminate the many sex prob
lens which are confronting the juve-
nile courts, according to Miss Joseph
inc Roche. i'll estigator for the Den
yer Juvenile Court, in her address to
the Mothers Congress at the Denver
Woman's club.
From the main office of the Port
land Gold Mining Company in Colo
rado Springs checks were sent out for
the usual quarterly dividend 3 per
cent on s3,o00,000 in outstanding cap
ital stock. This foots up $50. 600, max
ing 100000 for 1916, and a grand to-
tai of s10.537,0SO in dividends since
the company was organized.
Denver prices for flour, which ad-
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took an even more spectacular jump
Tuesday. The price on one grade ad-
vanced from s4.20 to s4.25. and on an
other from s4.20 to sf45. This ad-
vance follows the announcement made
OF increases in prices on potatoes and
number OF brands of canned goods
The effect of the car shortage in
Colorado is beginning TO be felt at
the dinner table of every Denver
household. The shortage of cars to
move Colorados potato crop is declared
directly responsible for the high cost
of potatoes in Denver and unless relief
is forthcoming within a short time 1t
will only be matter of weeks before
the tubers will have reached such
high price as to make them prohibit
tive in many Denver homes
The entire country contains no more
enthusiastic believer in the future of
Colorado as the national playground
of the world than Theodore Roosevelt,
former president, noted hunter and
lover Of nature. In one of the inter
walls in the program outlined for the
Oyster Bay statesman in Denver Tues
day, he stopped to express in his terse,
positive and effective style his appre-
citation Of the beauty and charm Of
the scenic wonders of the state, and
the possibilities for their future de-
velopment.
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