The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1918-03-22
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

Florence u to have q Carnegie lib
rsry.
II 10 expected that Colorado's quota
| OF 10000 boy farmers win be enrolled
this week.
The total expenses of the city and
county OF Denver for 1917 amounted to
S3,327.S41.23
The annual play festival Of the Den
yer schools will be held April rs in
the Auditorium.
The Montrose Farm bureau. organ
ised a short time ago. already has
membership OF over one hundred.
Mai. William Cooke Daniels. mer-
chant Of Denver. soldier. author. sx-
plorer and traveller. died in Busnos
Aires.
Twelve hundred and thirty children
attending 81 rural schools OF Pueblo
county are now members Of the Junior
Red Cross society.
Frank H. Dunlevy, Denver clubman
and brother OF E. F. Dunlevy, secre-
tary OF the Denver chapter of the Am
srican Red Cross, died at Pueblo
High school boys and others be-
tween the ages of Is and 21 are res
ponding to the call for stimulating
! crop production and harvesting.
Dr. B. F. Jones. SO. a pioneer resi-
dent Of Goldfield City and district and
a member OF Goldfield lodge No. IS Of
the Eastern Star. was found dead in
his office by his wife.
A stirring appeal to Americans to
sacrifice for the war was made by
Maj. John Robertson, a noted Scotch
divine, before an audience that packed
| the Central Presbyterian church in
Denver.
Milton H. Merrill, a Civil War vet
eran. was burned to death in his cabin
at Cripple Creek. He is thought to
have been sleeping when some Goals
fell from the stove. He was ~ years
Of age.
Jennie Carencia, pretty Mexican
woman OF Is years, shot herself At
Pueblo. dying almost instantly. Her
husband. Cirlo Carranza, was sent to
the penitentiary a year on a convic-
tion for assault.
Up to March 10th, $500 permits for
the use OF free water service ON va
cant lots had been issued by the Den
yer Union Water Company to take
care of the war garden tracts during
the coming summer
Hearing on the petition of the Den
yer & Interurban railroad for an In
| crease in passenger rates between
Denver and Boulder and intermediate
points has been postponed from
March 26 until April 2.
Definite progress in the develop
ment Of the great central scenic
route through Colorado was reported
at the Seventh Annual Convention of
the Colorado Division of the Pixies
Peak Ocean-to- Ocean Highway, held
at Colorado Springs.
Eighteen of the thirty-thr ma
chine shops of Denver have acceded
to the demands Of the striking ma
chinists for 65 cents an hour, W. F.
Evans, business agent of the Interna-
tional Association OF Machinists, Lo-
cal No Al, announced.
The state Of Colorado was enriched
by $4.355S6 during the first two weeks
in March as the result OF the activf-
ties of the state Inheritance tax de-
| partment The official report shows
this sum was collected from the heirs
OF eleven estates. These collections
| bring the total of inheritance tax
paid into the state treasury during
the current biennial period up TO
| $33s, s,246.44.
julius H. Clark, former bookkseper
| In the state treasurer's office. misap-
| propriated funds to his use during
most of his twenty years service,
| amounting to $50,911.50, according to
| q final compilation given out by State
| Examiner Willard D. Peck. Clark was
| found dead in the country near Den
| YER several years ago. Beside him
were a revolver and note purporting
to confess shortage in his accounts.
Neither Jacob Fineberg, proprie-
tor of the Model roadhouse, nor John
| ("Dip'D Evans, bartender of that re-
| sort, will be prosecuted In connection
with the holdup and robbery of Mrs.
Irene Nolan and the Rev Father Gar
rett J. Burke Jan. 2, according to an
announcement made by District Attor-
ney Samuel w. johnson. Mr.. John
son said: with the conviction of for
mer City Detective Frank Mulligan
and Philip Cohen for the actual rob
berry, have concluded that l have
gone as far in the case ~ I should or
could"
One million four hundred thousand
children In invaded Belgium have been
constantly hungry since the day near
ly four years ago when the Germans
drove them and their parents out OF
| their homes and stole the food from