The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1917-01-26
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.

/ TeD- S-A-I- NJ 4. "A. annual SOnVch-
ton at Colorado Springs
| Feb. 2sMarch Carnival of Mid Win
ter Sports at Steamboat Springs.
Gunnison Odd Fellows have moved
into their new hall
A shorthorn bull. exhibited at the
Denver stock show. was sold for ST.
| 900.
Bon l. Look. Denver merchant, died
OF pneumonia in the home OF relatives
at Pekin, ILL.,
| Notwithstanding the zero weather
society night at the Denver horse
show brought out large crowd.
William H. Gabbert, former chief
| justice OF the Supreme Court, will
make Denver his home In the future.
Governor Gunter addressed the
members of the Mountain States
! Hardware Dealers convention in Den
/ yer.
Three hundred grocers attended the
| seventeenth state convention OF the
Retail Merchants Association at
/ Boulder
! Many persons inspected the food ex-
h'bits and specimens OF Colorado's
manufactured products at the Denver
! Chamber of Commerce.
The work on the program for H.,
community welfare conference at Glen
wood Springs to extend over four days.
has now been completed
The officers of the national forest
service from six states will re in Fort
Collins Feb. for the purpose OF study
ing live stock conditions.
A trainload of high-grade Colorado
potatoes were shipped to eastern
markets from Ault and Eaton. The
spuds were valued at $4,000.
Several elk, belonging to the larg
/ band that range in the lower part G
Mineral county. have been seen in the
foothills near the D. & X. G. tracks.
Philip d. Armour III. of Chicago,
with a party of about forty employees
OF the Armour Packing company, ar
rived in Denver to attend the stock
show
A passenger train from Alamosa
was reported stalled in the snow az
the top of Cumbres pass Monday. The
snow plow was stuck in drifts on the
summit
Wounds received on Oct. 80. when
he was attacked by mad dog
caused the death of Virgil Harring
ton, 15-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
II. T. Harrington of Denver
The Ohio and Colorado Smelling
and Refining Company of Salida
awarded increased wages of twenty
payroll, beginning Jan. l.
San Miguel county mines shipped
gold, silver, lead and copper ores val
ued at s2.o26.1o2 to the American
Smelling and Refining Companys
plant at Durango during 1916
Railroad travel to Denver for the
National Western Livestock show, al
the stockyards stadium, was the
heaviest in the history of the show,
according to officials at the Union sta
ton.
Twenty-Five people. all save one un-
acquainted with John Lawrence
Smith, who was shot to death by his
wife, Mrs Stella Newton Moore
Smith, gathered in Denver for tn.
funeral services.
Predictions that Denver will be
come the feeder cattle market of the
country within the next ten years
were made by II. A. Jastro, former
president of the American National
Livestock Association, while visiting
Denver
Roy Solomon. the 7-year-old son OF
Charles Solomon, mayor of Edgewater,
is in critical condition at his home
as the result Of a skating accident, he
having fallen over the PROSTATE body
{ companion and having his throat
cut on the other boys skate
The broad gaging of the Marshall
Pass route and the electrification
C, rtain portions of the road is given
out by Grand Junction paper as tn.
two big items of improvement to be
IUade by the Denver and Rio Grando
railroad during the present year.
The government report on the snow
fall in the mountains of Colorado al
the end of December shows a defici-
ency in the districts which are drained
by the Arkansas river and Rio Grandc
river, while nearly all of the other
water sheds of the state have an ex-
cess.
A plan to create a building fund o
approximately $500,00O year for tn,
next ten years and to increase reve
nues for maintenance and operation
costs of the state educational institu
tons of Colorado will be presented fol
the consideration of the General As
sembly.
Montrose is considering an ord:-
nance which calls for an election on