The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1916-03-03

The Maccabees are reviying their
lodge at Frederick.
five-day Chautauqua meeting will
be held at Ouray early in July
On the years extra day, seven di-
vorces were granted in Denver.
Five leap year marriage licenses
we're issued in Denver on Feb. %.
! Denver Charter petitions have over
/ $500 names, enough to call an cleo
ton.
The funeral of NJ. D. Thatcher, Col
orados richest citizen, was the larg-
est ever held in Pueblo.
Since the middle of February the
/ price of spelter in the Colorado camps
has advanced $32 per ton.
A daughter was born to Mr.. and
Mrs. Lawrence Phipps, Jr., of Denver.
This is the second girl for the fam
| lily.
| An election will be held at Fred
! erick March ~, to determine whether
/ the several schools of District &c shall
be merged.
Grand Junction is preparing for the
/ hiSSAih5 VI lAC fWeSltTu AOlOI
Teachers Association in that city,
March 1912.
| Charles Hazen was made defendant
in an Information charging white
slavery preferred by Miss Ora De Lee
of Denver.
Mrs. Mariel Simonson, wife OF
widely known cattleman of Hugo,
| died in Denver in St. Anthony's hos
pital from the effects Of an operation
two weeks ago.
The dropping of a spoon in the
home of A. M. Johnson, in Denver,
caused their daughter, Miss Gertrude,
to make an investigation that resulted
in the rout of a burglar
Frank Peterson, who was convicted
of assault to kill his wife, Stella
Peterson, was sentenced by Judge
Wright in Denver to serve one year
in the county jail, the limit of the
law.
John p. Broderick, for more than a
quarter Of a century an employee OF
the Denver postoffice, and for many
years Superintendent of Finance
died at the family home, at the age
of So.
Denver went ON record Feb 20 with
a crop of leap year babies that total
an even dozen. These babies will
give their mothers the joy of proyid
ing birthday parties only once in
every four years
Reinzi Dickens probably will stand
trial in the District Court in Boulder
county for the alleged murder of his
aged father, w. H. Dickens. who was
shot at his home in Longmont on the
night of Nov. 80.
The work OF restocking Colorado
with elk. which was begun in 1912. by
a shipment of seventy-five to the Du-
range, Sopris and Colorado National
forests, is being carried forward on a
larger scale than ever before.
Bond was fixed at s12,0 for DR..
Noble O. Hamilton, charged with the
murder of Mrs. Ada Williams, who
died as the result of all alleged il
legal operation, by Judge Wright in
the West side Court in Denver.
Dth'ti optl dllDHS DbOUlei
in February and the total permits for
structures issued at the city hall ex
ceeded in total figures any month
in 1915. In all building permits for
business houses and homes totaled
s472,3So
A posthumous child, who will be
one of the heirs to an estate that is
I'M af
$10,o00,o00. was born in Denver to
Mrs. Rose Martin Cosgriff. widow OF
the late Thomas A Cosgriff, Colorado
and Wyoming capitalist Mr.. Cos. |
griff died Oct. IA last, after briet
illness of typhoid fever. The baby. |
which is boy. has been named
Thomas A., Jr.
The following dividends of record |
we're paid by Cripple Creek mining
companies in February Portland
Gold Mining Company. $50 900. a
quarterly dividend of 3 cents a share
Vindicator Consolidated G. N. Com |
pany, $4,000, quarterly dividend of 3 |
cents; Golden Cycle Mining and Re-
duction Company, $4,000. monthly |
dividend of cents share. The diyi. |
dends of the close corporations are
not made public
According to word received by
friends in Colorado Springs, Eleanor
Painter OF that city, who has been
starring in Princess Pat" in New
York. is suffering from a nervous
breakdown and is now in a SAM.
tarium in White Plains. N. Y.
Official recognition has been given
the San Luis Central Railroad Com
pany as the one railroad in Colorado
which may have headlightIess loco
motives and switches without lights