The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1918-12-20

/ Jan. 2l-2S-Western Stock Show a
! Denver
/ The Federated Woman's clubs o.
Sterling started movement for (
$4,000 hospital.
/ The Sterling city council named :
committee to get figures on the cost
OF a municipal heating and lighting
plant
Gov. ]. c. Gunter issued an appea
TO the citizens OF Colorado to support
the Red Cross in its Christmas roll
call drive.
Retail merchants in Denver have
been permitted by the State Council
OF Defense to return 10 their old meth
DDS OF delivery.
Three Denver nurses who have been
on duty at Camp Beauregard, La. re
turned home owing to the rapidity
with which the camp is now being
evacuated
The Empson canning plant closed at
Greeley, having made a shorter run
than usual opening as IT did on June
-. and closing after 112 days run.
The total output this year was small,
The "bone-dry" bill, Initiated by the
Anti-Saloon League OF Colorado and
adopted by a majority of nearly 10000
votes on Nov. 5, was proclaimed law
by the Governor Monday morning,
Dec l6.
The City Council of Greeley agreed
to yaccinate the public at large against
"flu." and Dec. IA more than 1000
were treated al the city's expense. The
FLU" condition seems to be generally
improved.
Three Denver boys, names sup
pressed, were held at Kimball, Neb., on
charges OF stealing a car In Denver,
stocking it with liquor at Cheyenne,
and attempting roundabout return
to this state.
B. o. Pittington of Berthoud is in
the hospital at Fort Collins with a
gaping wound through the kidneys,
caused by shot from q % rifle held
by his brother-in-law. Ira Ferguson,
while on a hunting trip.
Six members of the Third regiment,
Colorado National guard, accused OF
desertion. drunkenness. stealing an au-
tomobile and other similar offenses,
were convicted by a court-martial sit
ting at the rifle range near Golden.
1t is estimated that 1894 .O57 bushels
OF wheat have been threshed up to
Dec. / Reports sent In later bring
the figures up to 10000, 900 bushels.
The wheat crop had been estimated
at 1885. 900 bushels. Oats threshed
up to Dec. totaled l,94l,359 bushels.
Thomas b. Hall former well known
business man Of Florence, died at
Fort Omaha, Neb.. from pneumonia
following an attack of influenza. He
enlisted in the air service of the
United States Army several months
ago and attained the rank OF ser
geant
The working forces at the Camp
Bird, Atlas and Mountain Top mines
have been reduced by the epidemic Of
influenza. At the Camp Bird but one
shift is being worked. there being fif-
ty-eight men in a temporary hospital
near the mill The two hospitals in
Ouray are filled with patients.
The Jimtown boom" was hit hard
when a report made by committee
of mining experts was adopted at It
meeting of the Boulder Commercial
Association. p acing that body on rec
ord as fully and unaualifiedly discresl-
iting the claim that billions" of dol
lars worth of uranium and radium lies
in the thin black streak reported to
have been discovered
George l.. Nye was elected presi-
dent of the Denver Bar Association
An immediate campaign to insure
the proposed James peak tunnel for
issue to be sold in Denver Salt Lake
City, Ogden and some of the rich Colo
RADIO territory now reached by this
railroad, was proposed to the Denver
Cilsc and Commercial Association by
W. B. Dunaway.
Col. d. c. Dodge. Colorado pioneer
and railroad builder. left an estate of
only a few thousand less than a mil.
lion dollars, according to the semi
monthly report on collections by the
state inheritance tax department. His
heirs paid the state $2S,925.53 inheri.
tance tax. Total collections since Dec
l, were S33.1S592
Denver's battle against Spanish in
fluenza as an epidemic is being waged
with success, according to reports re-
ceived at the health office. marked
decline in the number of new cases
is the most cheerful bit Of informa-
ton that has been received at the Of
flee Of Dr. W. H. Sharpley. manager
of health. since influenza first broke
out in Denver. Oct. 6.
Grain totalling 100000 bushels
was raised during 1918 by the United
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