The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1916-03-10

Fort Morgan Elks held a three-day
fair.
The Maccabees lodge at Frederick
is growing rapidly
Work on Delta's sugar factory is
expected to start soon.
S. A. Matthews is to have a zoo
acre melon patch at Rocky Ford this
season.
Contracts have been made at Fort
Collins to raise over 1900 acres of
sugar beets
Sugar beet acreage in the Arkan-
sas valley is to be larger this year
than ever before.
At Trinidad the Knights of Column
bus initiated class of forty-five at
a recent meeting
About 125 business and professional
men and farmers attended a boost"
banquet at La Junta.
The Garfield county coal mines at
South Canon have been closed down
for an indefinite period.
Fort Morgan chicken thieves were
traced to Greeley, where they were
arrested, and confessed.
The first annual convention of the
Colorado Retail Clothers' Association
will be held March IA and Is at
Denver
1t is stated that Mesa county cattle
men will oppose the submission of the
proposed herd law to q vote in No
vember
Discoveries of rich tungsten ore
was reported by Fred Gcble, state
highway commissioner, who returned.
to Durango from the Silverton dis
trict.
The state of Montana wants to
know how Denver manages to keep
the infant death rate SO low and
stands so high on the list of Ameri
can cities
The State Supreme Court granted
a new trial to John Jones, a crippled
negro sentenced to deatt from Routt
county for the murder of Bale Hern-
don, sheepherder.
An inheritance tax of $11,432 was
collected by Leslie E. Hubbard, state
inheritance tax appraiser, on the es
tate of Col George S. Newman, owner
of MacRose farm near Littleton.
Another movement to discourage
the holding of funerals Sunday, and
one for another general revival in
Denver, were taken up in the meeting
of the Denver Ministerial Alliance.
Senator Helen Ring Robinson, one
of Denver's representatives on the
Ford peace project, returned home
with the declaration that the famous
mission did not by any means end in
failure
Miss Elsie Ulrich, member of the
sophomore class OF the West Denver
High School, won the prize of the
twenty-sixth annual Mary Louise
White oratorical contest. held in the
auditorium of that school
Joseph Smitham, &c years old, a
resident of Denver for more than
thirty-five years, died in Santa Fe, N.
NJ, of complication of diseases fol
lowing an attack of grip. He was
born in Cornwall, England, in 1910.
From the estate of Col Geo S.
Newman, owner of the famous Mac
Rose farm, the State inheritance tax
Department received tax of SILL
432. so. The value of the total estate
was placed at $293,S56.36 by Leslie
E. Hubbard, inheritance tax appraiser.
Mrs. Lucy Wilson, CO. died thirty
six hours after her son William, 35,
passed away. The mother was pre-
pairing to take her sons body from
Denver to Kirksville, Mo-, for burial,
when she was seized by an attack of
heart disease, FASTENED by grief, and
passed away.
Cooperation among the $50 super
visors and rangers in the thirty gov.
eminent reserves in the Rocky Noun
tain region is being urged in a SEIZED.
ule of meetings conducted in the field
by Smith Riley, district forester, and
his assistants, Fred Morrell, C. J.
Stahl and C. NJ Granger
Denver's rapid growth as a grain
market was shown at the annual
meeting of members of the Denver
Grain Exchange when figures were
read showing that the exchange had
handled 5,54S cars of grain, worth be
tween 100000 and 100000, with.
in the last eleven months.
What Grand Junction police declare
is the most frightful vandalism ever
committed in Grand Junction oc
cured when three small boys, all up
Ter 10 years of age, entered a house
1t 1860 Rood avenue, which was with.
cut tenant, demolished the entire
furnishings, turned the water Oh in
he kitchen and flooded the premises,
ne damage totaling $500.
Mrs Amelie Gehrung Rrocker ono