The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1918-09-20
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
.,.rn Newspaper Union New. service

COMING EVESTD.
SEPT. is-:s-coiorado state Fair at
SEPT, Gaxo ss-s'-Lino0'n County Fair at
Sept 2s-2s.-Grand County fair and
race meeting.
Oct. Fourth Red Cross home service
institute at Denver.
Snow fell in Denver Sunday night
Water rates at Boulder have been
advanced 25 per cent by the City Coun
ell
Chris Bracken has taken a lease on
the Good Friday mine in Boulder
county.
A school house will be erected il
western Moffat county. near Iron
Springs
A call has been issued for s0s Colo
RADIO men to entrain for Camp kearny
Oct. I'LL.
A beet dump is under construct ton
al Croft Spur. between Ordway anu
Sugar City
A rich strike was encountered in the
Congo Chief mine in Caribou al the
125-foot level.
Grand Junction streets from slAth
to Seventh aAnues have been sur
faced with cinders.
Mayor W F. r. Mills must sign his
name 1870 times to the Denver bonds
issued for the payment of the water
company.
A large concrete flume at the sugar
rnl 80.
cilitate the work of carrying beets into
the factory.
Frederick D. Anderson was ap-
pointed by Governor Gunter as his pri.
vate secretary to succeed Wendell
Stephens resigned
The Sarvis Timber Company closed
down its Crosho lake sawmill for three
weeks in order that its employees
might assist ranchmen in the district
to harvest their crops
County Supervisor A L. Strawn has
a small force clearing the brush on
the survey Of the La Manga state high
way from the mouth of Elk creek to
the Los Pinos below Cumbres pass.
1t Is planned that all courts in Den
ver shall be closed during the month
and a half during which the legal ad
visory boards are aiding draft men in
the making out OF their question
naires
Five men were arrested at Cripple
Creek charged with high grading
from the Portland mine. The men are
Jack Haley. George Haynes. Fred
Holzdurn. Henry Hoffman and Carl
Proctor.
4 Samuel Todroff. As. a Bulgarian
helper at the Colorado Power Plant al
Sterling. was instantly killed when
he picked up a guide wire to remove
it. The wire was crossed with an
other wire carrying 1900 volts Of cleo
tricity
A total of $576,l57 has been col
lected by the state inheritance tax de
partment for the present year, accord
ing to a report made public by the at
torney general. From the period be
ginning Aug. 81 to Sept. Is a total OF
S2.9s4.06 was collected
The Missouri Society of Colorado
dined in Denver in honor of the birth
day Of Gen. John j. Pershing, and sent
him a l30-word telegram of congratu
lation, closing with the words, "OuI
hearts are beating strong for Ameri
cas- great general"
/ W. G. Gunter and O. F. Victor of Ell
dora are doing extensive development
work on their claims on Tennessee
mountain. Location work is completed
and prosecuting is now in progress
for lead-silver vein forty feet east ol
the main tunnel.
Denver telephone workers have or
ganiZed union
Ralph Hopkins, who was arrested
| by the Denver police on bigamy
charge, was turned over to the federal
authorities and given preliminary
hearing before United States Commits
sioner Stone. He was held in default
of bond pending investigation of his
/ case by the grand jury
I Colorado's chances to secure at least
large share of the governments
$50,000,OOO shell contract now open
for bids were made brighter by q
Washington telegram telling the cen
| trail committee of the Colorado Manu-
facturers' Association and the Colo
RADIO Development Federation that the
freight handicap will be removed.
( Jesse Bingmon, IS years old, who
lives at 2516 Sixteenth street. in Den
yer, was shot in the leg while a mem
Der Of a joy-riding party, by Sergeant
Fred Reed of the South Denver police
station The shooting came about
through the diligence Of the police de
pArtment in its prosecution OF the
search for the remaining three mem
bers Of the outlaw gang who terrorised
Colorado for three days.
Manual Morono sn n Maxican and