The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1916-02-25

! Junction
March 2o-Ap rii z,-coiorado Retail
] lndustriai Exposition at Denver.
i April l3-Democratic State Convention
May 1.-First Congressional District
Republican Convention at Colorado
! Springs.
/ May 2-Republican State and Third
| and Fourth Congressional District
Convention at Pueblo.
The San Juan tungsten district is
! booming
Sugar advanced from $500 to $6.85
+ Der cwt. in Denver
The Coal Creek ranch of 1000 acres
has been sold for $4,000.
Denver bricklayers get 81 advance
now 81 for eight hours.
! Denver's new federal court was
dedicated in the new postoffice build
ing
The Rocky Mountain Club Of New
York held its ninth annual dinner in
| Denver
| w. K. Steel OF Denver was chosen
| treasurer of the Fraternal Society
| Law Association at its meeting IN
/ Chicago.
| Senator Shafroth sent the name OF
William E. King to the postmaster
general as his choice for the postmas
tership of Sterling
The Littleton primary" to select
| candidate for postmaster was held.
and Lew F.. Allen was high. with 159
votes. Eight persons were voted for.
| J. J. Valley, the oldest undertaken
| in the United States, celebrated his
ninetieth birthday anniversary, and
open house was held In his honor at
/ his home in Denver.
An order for 100000 worth Of tung
stem ore for an Eastern steel concern
to be used in the manufacture of
munitions for European governments
was received in Denver.
/ George Washington's birthday was
/ celebrated in Denver with the closing
of all public offices. banks and
| schools and with patriotic meetings
by many lodges and fraternal organ
izations.
/ Petitions for a responsible and
representative mayor form of govern
ment and amending the charter of the
2ity and county of Denver" by abol-
ishing the present commission system
sre being circulated.
John T. Gaylor will be returned to
Denver from Colon, Panama, dis.
| lance of $500 miles, by federal autho
rites TO answer charge of stealing
check for $500 in 1911, while EN-,
ployed as a clerk at Fort Logan.
Mrs. Martha E. Smith, relative OF
Justice Tully Scott of the State Su
preme Court and widow of the late
DR.. Pierce T. Smith, formerly one OF
the most prominent dentists of Den.
| yer, died at her home in Denver
One hundred and ten arrests in
volving alleged violations of the pro
hibition law were made by the Den
yer police and the district attorneys
office in the first six weeks of
dry Denver. according to records of
| the two offices.
Reports that he would not relin-
| quish the office of adjutant general
| without a show OF resistance were de,
MED in d statement issued by Adjt
Gen John Chase, who ie to be sue.
| ceeded by former Judge Harry Gam
| BILE of Boulder
The coal mine production of Colo
! RADIO for January was 1,005,o74 tons,
AN increase of 266,659 tons over the
| production OF January, 1915, according
to State Inspector James Dalrymple
I During the month there were 1851
| men employed in the mines, each
| working an average of 1871 days
The contract giving the city of Den
yer an option on the tenver Union
Water Company plant /. "A figure to
| be fixed by the United States SUI
preme Court was signed by the com
pany and the Utilities Commission
and ratified by the city council with
| out a dissenting vote.
| Prompted by what is believed BY
friends to have been dependency
over shattered love affair, Gustave
street, Edgewater, ended his life by
swallowing several ounces of chloro-
| form and cutting his wrists with
| razor He died at the county hospital
| in Denver.
| w. T. White. assistant driver OF
| Denver's biggest fire truck and one of
| the firemen who rescued William A
| Tracy, a crazed drug user from a
| window ledge on the seventh floor of
a Denver hotel on Feb ., 1915, frac
tured both legs after a jump of about
| six feet from the ladder truck of En-
| CINE Company No. at Thirteenth
| and Larimer streets
| Judge William D. Wright of the
Denver Criminal Court sentenced
| Ralnh De Rozze CHARGED with the