The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1917-07-20

Aug 6.-1e.-State Federation of Labor
meeting at Boulder.
Sept 7-zz-Coiorado state Fair At Pu-
A million pounds Of cherries will be
canned at Canon City.
Wooden culverts at Gunnison are to
be replaced with cement.
Ordway will condemn sufficient land
to enlarge its cemetery.
The special session of the Legisla-
ture opened at noon on the 18th.
! The government officials wish to
speed up production of manganese.
! Mrs NJ. l.. Bames of Trinidad was
gored by bull and seriously injured.
The members OF the Belgian war
mission visited Denver on Wednes,
day.
A grain elevator. q bank and other
new business enterprises are planned
| for Bovina.
| Use OF women and girls as conduc-
tors on Pueblo street cars considered
improbable
Six companies of Second regiment.
Colorado National Guard. parade
streets OF Pueblo.
Ordway Masonic lodge is planning
the erection OF new temple. A site
has been purchased.
Eight convicts asked the State Par
den Board for pardons, but only one
parole was granted.
More than $1,000 has been contribut-
ed to the Red Cross fund by the
churches OF Denver.
Strike of coal miners at Oio. in
Huerfano county, was a local affair
and has been settled
Sugar City has summer kinder
garten for the accommodation of chill
dren in the foreign families.
A third shift has been put on at the
North Star mill at Silverton, and it is
now running day and night.
The second annual convention of the
Colorado State Federation Of Labor
will convene at Boulder, Aug. 6.
Pueblo Trades and Labor assembly
will ask for use of Mineral Palace
park for Labor day celebration.
An estate valued at approximately
$4,000 was left by Charles A. Benkle-
man. Denver mining operator
Prospects for bumper sugar beet
crop are better this year than for sew
eral seasons past, according to h. X.
| Marsh.
| A number of hog raisers in the San
Luis valley have rented seventy acres
OF alfalfa land at $50 an acre to use as
pasture.
A Holly man is getting the high
price for cattle. Recently he received
1920 for a seven-months' old Hol-
stein bull
The newly organized Home Defense
league of La Junta will enlist a COM
pany OF men too old for active mill
tary service.
The Womans building and Wood
bury hall on the campus OF the Uni
versity of Colorado at Boulder are to
be remodeled
From Two Buttes and from Spring
field fast auto trucks each day run to
the creamery with 100 gallons of milk
from each village.
The coal output in Yampa county
for the month OF May is the third
heaviest in that district the seventeen
mines OF the county producing 23,00S
tons.
Paul Konisko, lessee of the Guada-
loupe mine at Ironton park, broke into
a high-grade coppersilver vein, assay
ing q per cent copper and 50 ounces
silver.
Figures of Colorado mine produc.
tion for the first six months of 1917
indicate an increased output of silver.
lead and copper. but decrease in gold
and zinc.
Four thousand three hundred and
fifty-three vacant lots, or 311 acres.
have been cultivated by Denver's anna
tour gardeners since the beginning of
the home gardening compaign
Denver Spanish war veterans will
take part in a movement which is
spreading all over the country, the aim
of which is to organize the veterans
for home guard duty while the nation
al Guard is in France.
William S. Moore OF Broadmoor will
receive $660.000 as his share of the
estate of his father, the late Mai. Ken
meth C. Moore, according to the an
rouncement Of his mother Mrs. Laura
NJ Moore, executrix of the estate.
Progress is being made in the effort
to settle the differences between the
miners and the mine operators in the
Leadville camp thereby permanently
averting the threatened strike in that
district, according to Werner T. Reed
North Park grass steers sold at the
highest price ever paid for grass
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