The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1918-06-21
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

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Western Newspaper Union Ne~s Service.
COMING EVENTS.
July 2z-Democratic State Assembly In
Denver.
Aug. 22-2a-Colorado State Firemen's
Convention at Georgstown
Sept. 23-2s-Colorado state Fair At
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Eight-year-old Eugene Rogers was
drowned at Washington Park in Den
yer.
A new auditorium with q seating Ca
pacity OF $50 is being erected at L.
mon.
Work has been started on the addf-
ton to the canning factory at Mama
nola.
Fire destroyed the barns and horses
on the Leonard ranch. south of Ne
pssta.
Moritz Barth. pioneer and capitalist.
died at his home in Denver OF pneu-
monia.
About 10000 pounds OF milk are be-
ing delivered to the La Junta conden-
sary daily.
One hundred and twenty-one farm
labor exchanges have been estab-
lished in Colorado.
Pueblo citizens Of Greek origin have
formed a Greek chapter OF the Amer
lea First" Society.
Administrators Of six estates paid
the state $5.749 in inheritance tax
during the first two weeks In June.
R. d. Thompson has been appointed
postmaster OF Cripple Creek. to sue
ceed J. E. Hanley, who died several
weeks ago.
Loveland, with four oil companies
Incorporated and one now drilling
north of that city. is to have another
new company.
Preliminary work has been done for
the erection OF mess hall to seat 500
men at the State Agricultural Col.
lege at Fort Collins,
Directors OF the Golden Cycle Min.
ing and Reduction Company have de
clared the regular monthly dividend
OF 5 cents a share for June.
The Denver Trades and Labor As
sembly is preparing for one OF the
greatest Labor day parades that has
ever been held In the West.
With a requiem high mass, the fu
neral OF John B. Cosgriff. Denver
banker, was held from the Cathedral
of the Immaculate Conception at Den
YER.
One hundred and ten pints OF whis
ky were seized by the Colorado con
stabulary in the arrest OF four men
charged with violating the prohibition
laws.
James f. Mock, who died suddenly
few days ago at King Center was
an Indian fighter of 1864, and was one
OF the first residents OF Olney and
Ordway.
A school for teaching telegraphy, gas
engine work, radio operation, auto me.
chanics and concrete work will be
opened by the government in Boulder
at the State University July Is.
Out of the conference OF Colorado
and Utah Gamers held in Denver re-
Ceutly has COiue tut IIiS vi &O,VuV
pounds OF sugar in the state Of Colo
RADIO in putting up catsup alone.
Compulsory military training will be
enforced in the Colorado School OF
Mines at Golden. beginning with the
school year Sept. l. Every student
who is physically tit must take the
course.
Prof Melville F. Coolbaugh, head of
the department of chemistry at the
Colorado School of Mines, departed for
Washington, where he will enter the
services of the government as a
chemist.
A. c. Childers planted 200 acres of
pinto beans on the farm which he re-
Gently purchased near Wolf creek.
A girl OF years was killed at Sa-
Ida by youth, seven years older,
who sought to frighten her Sallie B.
Lamb was the victim, and Harold KEEL
logg held the rifle from which the shot
was fired.
Chief among the points brought be-
fore two members OF the Tariff Com.
mission, who met in the federal build
ing with tungsten operators in Den
yer, was the matter of the cost of min
ing a unit Of the metal and price re-
ceived.
All business ceased for two hours
at Montrose for double military fu-
neral for Frank Atlee Graves of Mont
rose. q printer and soldier. who died
at Camp Cody. and Arthur Lytls, who
died at the aviation camp in North
Bend, Ore.
William Searles. son OF 6. W.
Searles Of Cripple Creek, has written
his parents that he has arrived safely