The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1918-04-05
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.


plies.
Madame Schumann-Heink will sing
in the Denver Auditorium May 23
and "a
Thirty-five students have graduated
from the Fort Collins Agricultural
College.
Cresson's April payment OF $122.-
900 dividend made . total from the
mine of S6.173.162.
The body of man was found
swinging from q tree on the ranch OF
W. S. Shelton. near watkins.
Thru action by the Boulder Com
mercial Association the re-opening OF
the oil field to the east and northeast
Of Boulder is assured.
Nearly onethird OF the Colombo
men OF draft age who responded to
the first call are farmers. They num-
ber about 600 out Of 1900.
Many committees have been ap-
pointed at Trinidad to make prepara-
ton for evangelical series to be con-
Quoted by Rev. Charles Reign SEQ
Vile.
William T. Michel. Jr, Joined base
hospital No. 20 at Camp Cody, Dem
ing, N. NJ. He u the third son of Mrs.
L. Michel, Of Denver, to 60 into the
service.
State Board of Nurse Examiners
will hold an examination for nurses
to secure their licenses according to
law, at the state house, Denver, on
April 16. II. Is.
The annual report Of F. D. Stack
house, city auditor. shows that for
1917 the receipts for the Denver Civic
center were S223.764.H and the total
expenditures for the year S53.esS.
After living twenty-seven year, IN
Denver the Rev. Joshua Gravett. an
English clergyman, applied to the Den.
yer United States Naturalization Bu-
reau for his first citizenship papers.
When John Gruber enlisted from
Las Animas for the navy he left .
country whose annual rain fall Is II
inches. Now he is at the Samoan Isl
auds where the rainfall Is 300 inches.
1T is unnecessary to wait longer 70
plant the early vegetables. OF course
the soil should be In the right condi-
tion-neither too wet nor too dry, but
in such condition that it will fall apart
when . handful Of It Is pressed to-
gethsr"
Emmett knight. we'll known Colo
RADIO Springs mechanic. who enlisted
In the aero branch OF the signal corps.
10 In military hospital at San Antonio.
suffering from a broken ankle, caused
by the fall OF an observation balloon.
knights escape is declared to be mir
aculous as the big gas bag fell $3.50
feet.
Thrift figures compiled at the office
of John Evans, state director of stamp
sales, show Colorado to have pur-
chased $2,o71,61S of which Denver has
bought ss27.467 worth. The Boy
lotment of red promise to buy" cards
and will Immediately be Issued $5,000.-
900 worth OF additional cards.
Construction by the Denver Tram
way Company of loop at the Denver
union station is expected to begin
within very short time. The loop
directly benefits the travelling public.
since 1t will afford a substantial inn
proyement in street car service for
persons arriving In the states capital
city.
An information charging murder in
the second degree was filed against
Mrs. Wilhelmina O'Connor, in the
Denver West Side Criminal Court by
District Attorney William E. Foley.
following an exhaustive investigation
Of circumstances surrounding the
death Of Mrs. Joseph T. Russell. fiji
teen-hour bride of the physical direct
or of the Denver Athletic Club, who
died in st. Joseph's hospital ON the
morning of March 28.
J. E. Mcdaniel, city manager for
the town Of Montrose, has resigned
and will devote himself to farming.
The largest shipment Of molybden-
ite ore ever made In the United
States left Breckenridge when the Gil
max Company consigned two carlots
to an eastern point for use by the
United States government. The lot is
valued at 100000 and is accompanied
by four armed guards. The shipment
comprises fifty-five tons. estimated at
80 per cent, and was taken from mines
Of the company operated in and about
Fremont pass. 1t Is to be made into
high-grade steel
Three hundred and eighty cars OF
pinto beans have been shipped from
Colorado to Eastern markets since the
United States Food Administration be-
gan its national campaign to advertise
the value Of this Western food prod
uct, according to a statement made
public by the pinto bean division Of
tho Eo0d Admin NJ ra fion ...hial, -.