The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1921-07-22

AnnuaI monte Vista stampede at Monte
Morgan County Fair. Fort Morgan.
Aug. 24-26; w. J. Ott. secretary.
All Police Court records were shat
tered at Pueblo when fines amounting
to $3.50 were assessed in one day,
The fines included $50 each assessed
against forty-five vagrants rounded up.
Less than ten hours after she is al.
legged to have kidnapped her 3-year-old
daughter from the home of the childs
father, John Edge, in Denver, Mrs
Madge Edge of Birmingham, Ala, was
arrested at McCook, Neb.
While swimming in a bayou along
the Colorado river, and in sight of hun
dreds of picnickers, Evelyn Carall, 49,
year-old high school girl of Grand
Junction was drowned and three COM
panions narrowly escaped death when
they attempted to rescue her.
More than 1000 acres of land near
Golden have already been damaged by
grasshoppers, and it is feared the
hordes of insects may ruin alfalfa and
garden crops in Jefferson county, ac-
cording to reports received by the
county agricultural agent and farm bu-
reau.
Word was received in Boulder of the
death of David Hershman, pioneer Of
northern Colorado. at Long Beach,
Calf. Mr. Hershman came to Colo
RADIO Immediately after the Civil war
and farmed at Loveland Later he
moved to this city and few years
ago to California.
E. V. Smith, "a years old, was run
down and killed at Sterling by a train
in the Burlington yards Smith is said
to have been subject to fits of melan-
chOly, and it is not known whether the
case is accidental or suicide. Smith
was formerly employed as linotype
operator at Wray.
The first Open-air wedding of the
summer was held at Ouray, when John
E. Leatherman of Indiana and Mrs.
Jennie A Rose, teacher In a local
school, were married In the Chipeta
grove near Ouray, in the heart Of the
mountains. The Rev j. Freeland
Johnson of Montrose performed the
ceremony.
| Ascending Sneffels peak. fourteen
miles west Of Ouray, Colo, during the
progress of Sne of the worst summer
blizzards ever seen in that section of
Colorado, six Grand Junction men
came near losing their lives They
became m4rooned on the peak in a ter
rible gale which drove dense clouds
of fine SNOW at low temperatures up
on them. making it impossible to find
shelter or get away from the singing
blast.
In the famous Cresson mine, Cripple
Creek district, a fresh ore body meas
uring 125 to $50 feet in width and
some 200 feet in length was recently
and twelfth levels, and is 90 per cent.
ore, the value averaging from S12 TO
$15 per ton. Ip is conservatively esti-
mated at $1.500,000 as it stands. The
Cresson "vug" of 1914 located at some
1850 feet from surface, added S30O0,-
600 to the Cripple Creek output in
1915.
Thomas Phoenix. superintendent of
the Watrous Cafe in Curtis street,
lJenNeT, HIS vile anu Ills DduSliltT,
, Miss Margaret Phoenix, 20 years old,
, were injured when an automobile in
which they were driving to Colorado
Springs for a days outing skidded and
tumbled over 200-foot embankment
, between Monument and Hustled. The
top of the car, a sedan, prevented seri-
Gus injuries to them when it caught
7 the weight of the wheels and body as
the machine turned over.
Mount Blanca, one of the highest
+, mountain peaks in Colorado, was
flown over by f. Il. Bowers and C. o.
} Thalmadge, Colorado Springs aviators
The men were flying at an altitude of
: 14,500 feet when they passed over the
summit. 1t is the first time an air
plane has ever accomplished this feat
: so far as is known.
The Ault school directors have ac-
: cepted plans and awarded the contract
; for a new senior and junior high
school building which will cost $S5, 900
and which will eventually house 500
, pupils. The new building is to be COM
pleted and in use by early winter The
putting VIII lroHl On LlDerty park,
which was recently purchased and i'm
proved by the school district
, Hikes in charge of the Pixies Peak
. branch of the Colorado Mountain Club
, are to furnish new and free enter
t tainment to visitors in the Pixies Peak
| region. Noted scenic points will be
visited on foot. The first of long
5 series of such hikes has been held, and
sixty-one visitors participated. Botany
and geology of the region will be
[ studied on these trips as an educa-
tional feature.
. Mrs. Katie Gertrude Bourk, 2S years
old, committed suicide by taking poi.
son at the county hospital at Greeley.
Mrs. Bourk had given birth to a daugh-
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