The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1916-02-11

rado Teachers Association at Grand
| junction.
| March 2u-A pril 2.-Coio RADIO Retail
Merchants Associations Food and
Industrial Exposition at Denver
| April 13-Democrattc State Convention
| at Pueblo.
The grip epidemic has taken
heavy toll among the aged residents
OF Denver
Many farmers about Fort Morgan
are arranging TO, raise large acreage
of beans the coming season.
| What is expected to be the biggest
pure food show ever given in the West
will take place in the Denver Audi
torium from March 20 to April /.
Joe Cippollone, an Italian, was cleo
trocuted in the Victor American Fuel
| Company's coal mine at Chandler by
accidental contact with transmits
sion wire.
| At the meeting OF the Fort Morgan
City Council the $4,000 bond issue OF
1903 of the original water works con-
struction fund was voted to be re-
| tired. This consisted OF $4,000
Led by DR.. Henry A. Buchtel, chan
I 'NAAci VI CNh'Ni INV CAoANyp SoiC
RADIO branch of the League to Enforce
Peace. of which former President
Taft is the head, is being organized
in Denver.
Fred l.. Patrick, Denver mining
man. was acquitted of the charge OF
involuntary manslaughter arising out
of an accident last fall in which his
L anfnnnhilQ CT
Reynolds.
Tristan B. Peck, 81, a veteran Of the
civil war, is the oldest person who
ever received divorce in Denver
court. District Judge Butler gave him
a divorce from Emma L. Peck, who de
serted him forty years ago
The superintendent of public in
struction of the western land-holdins
states will meet in Denver Feb II and
IS to form an organization of their
| own, separate from the national or
ganization of superintendent
David B. Moore, former evangelist,
| convicted of having fired a shot 1t
his wife in lawyers office in Den
yer, was sentenced from the West
Side Court to term of one year
the county Jail and to pay fine IF
$500.
With a net income for the twelve
months of $2,316.175. and plans under
consideration for growth and exten
sion, the Mountain States Telephone
and Telegraph Company closed Dec
81, 1915, one of the most successful
years of its history.
Arthur Montague, itinerant mer,
chant who jumped his bond of $500
ten days ago, while awaiting trial or
charge of attacking a 17-year-old
orphan girl, was returned to jail in
| Denver from Kansas City, where he
was caught
| DR.. Bennett Graft, held responsible
| by Denver coroner's jury for the
| death of Mrs. Ruth Ramp, who died
at Mercy hospital, and against whoa
a charge of murder has been lodged
in the Criminal Court. must furnish
| $4,000 bail.
Barely forty-eight hours after his
son, Douglas A. Roller, and his nurse
Mrs. Mary e. Robinson. were shot
| during struggle with q burglar in
room next to where he lay sleeping
| William w Roller, IA. died at the
| home OF his daughter, Mrs. j. Meyer
Jr.. in Denver Death was due tc
uremic poisoning,
A twelve-day blockade of railroad
traffic in southwestern Colorado was
lifted Monday Delayed and regular
l 81
moved out of Durango and Alamosa
| The line over Cumbres pass was
| cleared of drifts from six to thirty
feet deep, ending the longest stop
page of traffic over this road for sew.
| eral years.
Mrs. Emerson j. Short of Denver,
former president of the South Side
Woman's Club. has been appointed
Denver chairman OF the enrolment
committee of the woman's section of
the Navy League OF the United States
by Elizabeth Ellicott Poe, general sec
Rotary of the organization. The aim
of the organization is to enroll 1.0OO,.
600 members by March /, who will
stand for national preparedness.
Reports that Lena Schwartz, CHIEF
witness for the state in the trial of
George Reichert. Fort Collins ranch
er, and Eddie Lewis, chauffeur,
charged with responsibility for the
death of Louise Mansfield, beaten AMI
kicked at a Petersburg road house
several weeks ago, has peen offered a
bride to leave Denver and fail to ap-
pear at the trial, are being investi-
gated by Samuel W. Johnson, district
attorney for the First Judicial dis
trict.
A jury in Judge Burke's division of
the District Court in Denver brought
in q verdict in the suit of knight Hol-