The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1918-08-09
COLORADO
STATE NEWS


Aug -2i-Colorado State Firernen
Convention at Georgetown
SEP. sn1 1aA'"iH< Engineers Hs*'S -
Sept Fifty sixth annual confer.
sncs Of Colorado u. f. church al
Delta
Sept. 4-5-shoe Dealers Association
meeting IN Denver.
Sept. ly-Beayer Park fair at Penrose
Sept. 23-zs-Coiorado State FAIR at
Pueblo
SEPT as5 s'-3'-hine'in County ia" ~
Littleton viii have an alfalfa prod
ucts mill.
A concrete watering trough has been
installed at Hayden.
A new postoffice building is in
course OF erection at Clark.
The North Golden road is being re-
surfaced with crushed rock.
Oak Greek exceeded its War Sav'
ings quota a little over six times.
Many Larimer county towns have
passed work or fight" ordinances.
A new $500 grader has been pur-
chased for use on the streets OF Fort
Collins.
Fire destroyed the mill OF luIn-
Der company at Fraser, with loss
placed at 100000.
A meter system of measuring water
Is proposed for Boulder by E. o. Hem
rich. city manager,
The proposed bone-dry prohibition
law will go to the ballot, to be voted
The house and barn and all their
contents at the Dunlap ranch north OF
Craig were destroyed by fire.
Fourteen cases OF whisky we're
found in weeds along the railway
track near Louisville Junction.
Salomer Martinez, IS, Mexican
was shot and probably fatally wound
ed by an unknown person at Pueblo,
Oliver II. Shoup of Colorado Springs
viii be a candidate for governor on
the Republican ticket in the primary
election.
James King, a farmer in northern
Adams county suffered broken arm
and other injuries when he fell from
a wheat stack.
Home grown tomatoes are coming
into the markets, which means i'm
mense gain in quality as well as
come down in price.
Last of the wheat harvest east OF
the mountains is being completed at
the higher attitudes. on the north slope
Of the divide. and the yield is pretty
fair.
Thousands of bushels OF wheat will
be lost in Colorado unless fAfrrers
and wheat growers CLEAN or back
cut their fields, Howard D. Checker
declared.
Steps are to be taken by the eoun
ty Council Of Defense to prevent trad
ing OF Liberty bonds for merchandise,
practice which is becoming com
mon in Denver of late.
A Supreme Court decision ordering
that the Midland railway be kept IL
working condition pending more de-
tailed hearing on the junking order
stopped the junking work that already
had been begun.
Recent estimates of the 1918-1s
American beet sugar crop show that an
increase in the crop is hardly possible
and that unless favorable conditions
prevail from now on to the end Of the
season the outrun will be short OF
normal
o. Taking dare" from six compan
ions. although he could not swim
Henry lesser. age 16, leaped from the
high bank OF Lake Loveland at Love
land and was drowned. DR.. j. w.
Craig. formerly Of Denver. recovered
the body later.
Claude A. Jameson OF Denver has
been commissioned second lteuten
ant in the quartermaster's corps.
D. B. Smith and Charles Harrison
were hurled from a buggy near Fort
Morgan by the shock OF a lightning
bolt that struck fence they were
passing. The lightning splintered a
number OF fence posts. Smith was
slightly burned and both men SUI.
fered from the shock.
100000 in bonds to buy the Denver
water plant was carried at the special
election by vote Of 6.24S for, to 1900
against. giving the proposition a ma
jority Of 4.44S. and the amendment
naming a board Of managers was car
ride, the vote being 1886 for. to 1887
against.
The mystery of the disappearance
on Dec. last, Of Charles Spears, a
citizen Of Breckenridge and employee
of the Wellington mine, was solved by
the accidental finding of his badly de-
composed body in thick growth of
young timber on the hillside near the
mouth Of North Barton gulch, about
two and half miles north of Brock
enridge.
Three Colorado men were reported
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