The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1917-04-27

| Cripple Creek miners asked 81 a
day increase
| The canning factory at Canon City
| is being enlarged.
| A patriotic mass meeting and pa
| rade was held at Trinidad.
| Women of Woodcraft will hold a
| convention at Fountain in June.
| Voluntary poll tax for women is
! Denver womans war scheme.
Nineteen boys from Florence have
offered their services to Uncle Sam.
British officer at Canon City be-
lieves Lord Kitchener is still alive.
John r. White is organizing vol
unteer infantry company at Lamar.
The Poudre Valley Odd Fellows AS
ISOLATION held their annual meeting
in Greeley,
Woman's Relief Corps OF Boulder
will make 2.G comfort quilts for Troop
| d and Company B.
| Rocky Ford will vote May It'll on
the question of bonds OF 100000 for
school Improvements.
Miss Mae Everitt OF Berthoud has
| enlisted as an army nurse and will be
stationed at the Presidio.
Armed guards are keeping con
slant watch on the Nederland dam.
eighteen miles up Boulder canon
Fifty Elks attended the Western
Slope celebration at Montrose. The
banquet was patriotic in character.
Durango is to have a Boy Scout
movement this spring that will help
in several ways to attain good results.
Over LOO applications were made
by Denver people for lots and tracts
| on which to plant gardens and grain.
South Altman, the highest incorpor-
ated town in the United States, now
boasts of the biggest flag in the gold
district.
Evans is furnishing her share Of re-
cruits for the navy, and already four
have departed for Mare Island train
ing school.
One hundred and forty applications
have been received by the Pueblo ma
val recruiting station since the cam
paign opened on April LIST.
Governor Gunrer signed the Horton
| prohibition bill on the 23d, the last
day for action on measures passed by
the Twenty first General Assembly.
Victor Chapman, the American avia-
tor who plunged to his death near
Verdun. France on June 23d last, left
property worth $4,000 at Colorado
| Springs.
Alfred Donald Slaney OF Denver and
Miss May Belle OFlaherty OF Boulder
were married in Denver; then Mr.
Slaney enlisted and left for the Mare
Island training quarters.
Former Mayor Henry j. Arnold of
| Denver has bought 100 acres of the
| Green Mountain ranch for the pur-
pose of establishing a dairy. He will
stock it with Ayrshires.
Rural Colorado is responding patri-
otically to the appeal of President
| Woodrow Wilson In increasing food
stuffs production. according to the
opinion expressed by former Cover
nor E. M Ammons
For the purpose of raising $4,000 to
be used in recognizing the Colorado
Springs Boy Scouts. and placing the
organization on a permanent and eff
ficient basis. three-day campaign
will be instituted May sth
A trusted employee for thirty-nine
years. Enos Peter Schell. Sc years old,
weight clerk in the United States
mint, was arrested in Denver on a
charge of stealing more than 5000 in
| I,lf j,lln hot
minted.
William B. Milliken, mining engi-
neer, clubman and prominent in Den
yer society, is made the defendant in
suit for 100000 filed In the District
| Court in which is involved all the ram.
ifications of big deal in a search for
gold,
Fred Starr and John R. Brockner,
TRUSTEES in the penitentiary at Canon
| City, gained their freedom by taking
advantage of a guard who had trust
ed them and were4ater recaptured by
two farmers and returned to the
prison.
Death in environments of abject
poverty came to Mrs. Isabella Patter-
son Springer, one-time noted beauty
| of Denver, for a number of years an
| international social favorite, the di-
vorced wife OF John w. Springer, mil
| lionaire. The end came in an open
| ward of a Blackwells Island hospital,
| New York.
George Britton's place in Denver,
where James E. Tressel was killed a
month ago, received it's second visit
from the police when detectives OF
the bootlegging squad descended on
the house and removed Britton, four
barrels of beer and trunk of whis-
| key Britton was released under bond.