The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-01-24
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

OIt .lOIE all IL d u0.llDtI VI lfLc SEdNh
shooters of this vicinity succeed in
carrying out their plans as per sched-
. uie.
tragedy which saddened the
hearts of all occurred at Holyoke when
the life of year-old babe was snuffed
out by flames, burned to death while
asleep.
The contract for the erection of Cen
I ter's new $50 1000 school building has
been let and the plans and drawings
! of the proposed building are now on
display at the Library building.
| Damage estimated at several hun
dred dollars was caused by frozen
pipes in Denton Hotel at Salida after
the building was vacated by the Emer-
| gency Hospital. A big boiler burst
and toppled over.
! Ninety-seven men of the 5,579 reg
/ istered by the Colorado Springs Ex-
emption Board have died since their
registration. according to the tabu-
lation made by the city board in Ell
| Paso county
An overheated stove in the Thomas
Olsen home near Meeker caused the
| death of the three Olsen children,
who were alone at home, the parents
/ having gone to neighbor after put
/ ting the children to bed. The house
was totally destroyed and the charred
| bodies found in the ruins.
Not until he began tumbling abou.
the house, striking every object in the
room, and finally walked deliberately
! into hot stove, did Mrs. Lydia Early
wine of Num- realize that there was
anything the matter with her 4-year-
old son. When physicians were called
| it was discovered that the child was
stone blind.
Denver may obtain the annual con-
vention of the American Medical As
sociaton, which will be held in June,
| 1920. The Civic and Commercial As
sociation has received an inquiry from
the medical body asking about accom-
modations for delegates to the con-
vention and for the convention itself
that can be provided by Denver.
The Board of County Commission
ers of Grand county have sent to the
State Highway Commission a protest
against the construction of what is
known as the High Line" section Of
the Fall River road, between Estes
Park and Grand county, and urging
the commission to reconsider the rout-
ing of the highway at that point.
1t is the opinion of the acting quar-
termaster general in Washington that
der existing law and without addi-
tional legislation, to establish mill
tary purchasing headquarters and
quartermaster's depot in Denver, ac-
cording to telegram to the Denver
Civic and Commercial Association
from Senator Charles S. Thomas.
An inquiry concerning Colorado pro-
duction of steel, iron and small tools
for markets in France, Italy, Spain,
the Balkan states and North Africa
was received by the Colorado Manu-
facturers' Association from a firm in
| Paris distributing supplies to the
French army. All Colorado concerns
turning out such products were noti-
fed at once by Executive Secretary l..
/ R. Lewis of the association.
Isaac Shriver, married, employed at
the Longmont sugar factory, was in
stantly killed when the scaffolding
around 75-foot smokestack collapsed,
allowing the huge steel cylinder to
fall to the ground. Shriver. who was
standing in direct line Of the falling
smokestack, was caught and crushed
almost to a pulp. He was 40 years
old and was formerly captain Of the
Longmont fire department.
Proposed salary increases before the
State Legislature received setback
when it became known that the short
appropriation bill, as tentatively
drawn by the House committee. con
tains sharp cuts from the short period
appropriations of two years ago, with
! total allowance to the various de-
partments of $407 $685., which is
S2O,687.1l less than the preceding
Legislature authorized for the same
period.
| line Spencer of Colorado Springs were
among the twenty-five militant suffra-
gettes of the National Woman party
who were released from Jail after
four-day hunger strike in Washing
ton.
Reclining in a sitting position, with
rope made of torn bed sheets about
his throat, the lifeless body of Richard
H. Baugh, blind convict, was found
in his cell in the State Penitentiary at
Canon City, where he was committed
last September for life for the murder
of Salina Haberl of Denver more than
a year ago. The improvised rope was
tied to an upper crosspiece in the cell
door, and in order to strangle himself
Baugh was compelled to assume a sit
ting posture.
Mrs Sassil and daughter, Mrs.
Roundtree, who have been living on a
homestead thirty miles north of Ord
way, were caught in the recent bliz-
gard and suffered from exposure to
such an extent that Mrs. Cassil died
and Mrs. Roundtree is in critical
condition. The women were on the
prairie for forty-eight hours before
they were found by cattlemen. who
obtained an automobile and with the
aid of shovels to get through the
snowdrifts succeeded in getting them
to where medical aid could be sum-
moned.
The total receipts of cash fees in