The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1918-08-16
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

Western Newspaper Union New. service.
COMING EVENTS.
Aug. 2224-colorado State Firemen's
Convention at Georgetown
Sept. Mining Engineers meeting IN
Denver.
Sept Fifty sixth annual confer
ence Of Colorado II. E Church al
Delta
Sept. 4-5-shoe DealerG Association
meeting In Denver.
Sept. s-s- Arkansas Valley Fair Al
Rocky Ford.
Sept ls-Besver Park fair at Penrose
sept 7s-2s-coiorado state Fair at
SEPT Raxa ssss-Line0ln County Fair at
Denvers' public debt y 31.50 per
capita.
Rocky Ford cantaloupes are now be
ing marketed
Ore shipments in July from the Sill
yerton district totaled 240 cars.
Lieut.. Leo p Kelly Of Pueblo is
among those reported as wounded in
action in France.
Harry Edward Marsh, % years old,
Of Pueblo was killed at the open
hearth plant at Bessemer.
The Fort Collins Agricultural Col
lege has qualified for unit of the
student army training corps. 9
The Routt County Packing Com
pany plant at Oak Greek, recently de-
stroyed by fire, is being rebuilt.
A choral club Will be organized At
Oak Creek, according to plans Of the
members of the Episcopal church.
Mrs. Katheryne Waters. deputy dis
trict clerk, died at Fort Morgan fol-
lowing an operation for appendicitis.
There will be a convention OF the
National Insurance Underwriters Com
mission In Denver from September 10
TO IL.
Adjutant General Mccain conferred
upon seven Denver men and one Cen
trail City resident officers commits
sions.
1t is reported that $4,000. 900 more
will be expended in doubling the ca
pacity OF the Aurora general hospital
near Denver.
Charles E. Smith. known as Booster
III uoul AcANhS SosOA e~ANs ->AH>
81 years old, died OF heart disease at
I>ongmont.
Bruce Rutherford, II years old. son
of r. C. Rutherford, survived Q shock
Of $500 volts from live wire at
Cripple Creek
grazing in the Denver district OF the
forest service for this year over ls17
10 shown In the annual statistical ~
port for the district
A japanese funeral service was con-
Quoted in true Oriental fashion at the
Buddhist church, in Denver The
services were conducted for Mrs. Suoe
A rate of one and onsthird fares
for the round trip to the state fair at
Pueblo Sept 70 to Sept 2S will be
granted by all railroads serving this
point that are under federal control
Albert A. Oakley. 20. son of J. H.
oakley. farmer living two miles
west of Rye. died In France July 20.
from wounds received In action, &C
cording to a telegram from Washing
ton.
Camp Lewis, Washington. will re-
ceive eighty-six Denver men, who
leave Denver August 26 in the last
draft that will be made from class
AL prior to some new draft order from
Congress.
An oil stock salesman was run out
OF Larimer county by the sheriff. The
salesman. 1t was alleged, was offering
oil stock of doubtful value to Love
land people in exchange for Liberty
bonds.
Nine yearling steers which had
been fed on beet pulp, cottonseed
cake, sugar beet molasses, and alfalfa
at the Colorado Experiment Station at
Fort Collins, sold for $17.25 per hun
dred on the Denver market
The grain corporation of the United
States food administration has fixed
the price of flour at Denver mills at
50. 20 a barrel. or $3.50 for two 9S- pound
sacks at the mill. and also has fixed
prices at the mills In towns thruout
Colorado.
With patriotic exercises attended by
Gov. and Mrs. julius c. Gunter, Gen.
and Mrs. Frank D. Baldwin and other
state and city officials, service flag
bearing forty-six stars was blessed at
the IL o'clock mass at st. Philamena's
church in Denver Aug. IL.
Curtis Simpson, member of the
Colorado College basketball and track
teams, and one of the most promising
athletes enrolled at Colorado College
in a number of years, was seriously,
II not fatally, injured at Colorado
Springs when the automobile in which
he was driving struck a tree hurting