The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1916-12-15


Jan. 2o-Athletic Club boxing contests
at Denver.
Jan, 27-Annual wsstsrn STOCK
Feb. 2-l-Y. NJ C A. Annual conven-
tion at Colorado Sprinza
Briggsdale is having a building
boom.
Frederick's new $4,000 school house
is about completed.
Negotiations are pending by which
the Colorado-Yule Marble Company
may be reorganized.
During the past month the indus
trial commission has been successful
as mediator in six disputes In the coal
fields
High praise for the naval hospital al
Las Animas is contained in the annual
report OF w. C. Braisted, surgeon gen
eral OF the navy.
Legislative changes in the state
homestead and marriage record laws
were recommended at a meeting of the
Colorado Equal Suffrage Association In
Denver.
Superior, Boulder county, dedicated
been a saloon, and SO great was the
interest in the ceremonies that 500
Catholics and non-Catholics attended
Six men are in Jail at Pueblo
charged with forgery as q result OF
their operations in the past few days.
when several bad checks we're passed
on Pueblo merchants.
From all indications the business OF
the Denver postoffice will show an in
crease for 1916 OF more than 81 ,000, 900
as compared with 1915. This is the
largest gain In the history of the Of
flee.
Max and Sam Levy. brokers with
offices in Denver, were arrested by
United States authorities on indict-
ments from Phoenix. Ariz., charging
them with using the mails to de-
fraud
George Mitchell. five-time e1-con-
vict. is in the Denver city jail,
charged with misrepresenting himself
to the landlady OF an apartment house
at 1456 Washington street and obtain
ing $l5
Cheyenne police are looking for Mrs
Stanley Yoakum. wife OF the Denver
lightweight pugil.St. who disappeared
from her home near Denver some time
ago while her husband was filling fight
engagements in the East.
William A. Grierson lost only 81
worth OF his wife's affections through
hor ollooad aoaociofion 1,,itb n A..
wood, although he sued the latter for
the loss OF $4,000 worth jury in
Judge Buffers division of the District
Court 30 held in a verdict which it re
turned in Denver
The decision Of the United States
Supreme Court in upholding the right
Of the Minerals Separation Company,
British corporation, to the use Of the
flotation process, will not have an in.
furious effect on mining in Colorado.
according to Fred Carroll state min
ing commissioner.
Coincident with the slump in the
| cost of foodstuffs in Washington and
other eastern points, and the smash
ing OF the Chicago egg corner" with
| its resultant collapse of prices, the
| quotations of several food coumod-
tiles dropped in Denver and further
| decrease is expected,
| The sound of an auger boring
through the head of his bed aroused
Roy Staley, assistant cashier of the
First National bank OF Arvada, and
| prevented a bank robbery This was
| the second attempt to rob this bank
within two weeks Two weeks ago
| robbers were frightened away
The fact that silver is 80 per cent
| higher in 1916 than it was in 1915, to-
gether with the added facts that 46
per cent gain has been realized in lead,
IS to GO per cent gain in copper and
gain of 6 per cent in spelter, ex-
plains the unusual prosperity which
prevails in Gunnison. Chaffee, Lake,
Eagle. Summit and Park counties.
| Plans for presenting the case of
manufacturers, jobbers, merchants
and the ultimate consumer for a com.
plete readjustment of the freisk,
rates to and from Colorado befor. the
Interstate Commerce Commission In
the Federal Court in Denver on Jan.
| Is, were discussed at meeting OF
| the Colorado Fair Rates Association
| at Denver
Denver's taxes in 1917 will be SG02,-
| $3.50 less than they were this year.
| The big reduction, which amounts to
10 per cent decrease, is provided
for in the annual levy ordinance In
troduced in the city council and ar-
proved and ordered published on the
recommendation Of Mayor Speer. The
total amount to be raised will be S.
203.l33.59. as compared 20 $685.
$3.50 this year.
| Denver felt the effect Of Gsrmany's
| nea ce nrnnnsal hy an immedista dron