The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-12-26
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
All crops in Colorado during 1919
are valued at $191, 100000. This is 15.7
per cent more than the crops last year
and 1t is the most valuable ever haf.
vested in the state.
All reports Indicate that about 1000
new silos were built in Colorado this
year and that the total number in the
state is now about 4,O00 The produc-
tion Of corn for silage in the state is
increasing rapidly.
Logan county shows a larger in
crease in acreage and in cultivation in
1919 over 1900 than any other county
In the state. The acreage cultivated in
1919 was 4O5, ,737 acres, compared with
63, tn acres in 1909
Taxpayers of Colorado Springs next
March will pour into the Golfers of the
county treasurer a total of $1,614, ,O94
in school. city, county and state taxes
The total tax levy for the city in 1920
Is 32.41 mills, an increase of 822 mills
over that of the year 1919.
Mrs. Henrietta Lindsey, wife OF
Judge Ben B. Lindsey of Denver, was
one of seven persons injured when a
Chicago 4 Northwestern railroad train
was accidentally derailed at Mequoin,
fifteen miles north of Milwaukee. Mrs
Lindsey's injuries were slight. Judge
Lindsey, who was with his wife on the
train, Is on a speaking tour.
Earl Martin, "a years old, was shot
by Roy Benton, member of a sheriffs
posse, when he attempted to resist ar
rest after he and John E. Bailey, 20,
had been caught, the officers state, In
the act of concealing an automobile
that had been stolen from In front of
the First Presbyterian Church at Fort
Collins. The fight occurred at the Jack
Rigden ranch in Owl canon.
The Great Valleys Sugar Corpora
ton, recently organized company
capitalized at s6OO0,00O, has selected
Lafayette as the site of one of the four
factories which will be built In north
ern Colorado. 1t is planned to have
the factory completed and ready for
the 1921 production. Sixty acres of
land lying one-half mile south of La
fayette have been purchased for the
proposed site and mill of sixty tons
daily capacity.
The Colorado Springs council of Boy
Scouts is to have a permanent camp
with mess cabin and bunk house. The
Rotary Club of that city voted to ex-
pend 81 800 for the erection of camp
buildings, and officers of the city wa
ter department have agreed upon a
tract of land on the city watershed in
Bear Greek canon which will be grant
ed to the scouts as a permanent camp
site.
With a budget of 81, 900 for road
work in 1920, the Colorado highway
commission lacks between 100000 and
$S0O.000 in estimated revenues to meet
federal aid road projects, according to
a statement made by J. Il. Maloney,
chief engineer. The commission is ap-
pealing to the various counties directly
| interested in federal aid projects to
| meet % per cent of the cost, in order
| that none of the government improve
| ments must be sacrificed.
The new court house in Montrose,
which will be built during 1920, ac-
cording to the present plans of the
board of county commissioners, will
contain one of the most fitting memoir
| ials to the soldiers of that country that
could be procured. This will be the
| picture and brief biography of every
| man who went from this county to join
| Uncle Sans colors during the recent
war. This will include more than 900
| photographs and war records and will
| be probably the largest collection of a
| similar nature ever made in county
Approximately $1,3OO,OOO, represent
| ing payments on the last quarterly in
| stallment of the income, war-profits
| and excess-profits taxes for 1918, has
been from Colorado people by Internal
Revenue Collector Mark A. Skinner. A
| large number of Colorado citizens had
taken advantage of the opportunity
| given them by the government to pay
the taxes in quarterly instalments.
The work of gathering and preserv-
/ ing for the state archives the records
| of Colorado's men and women who
| took part in the world war, in order
that a true and complete history of
Colorado's participation in the conflict
may be compiled, has been started by
the State Historical and Natural His
tory Society, under the direction of
L. G. Carpenter, its president.
w. E. Doyle, go years old, a clothing
salesman of Walsenburg, was found
hanging by rope in his room in that
city. Mary Strock, housekeeper,
| discovered the body and 1t Is believed
| that he had been dead for several
hours According to friends, he had
been ponderlng over the matter for
some time. He asked the postmaster
not to forward his mail, but to return
| all of 1t, as he intended going away.
Montrose citizens will play big
| hrOthor n siytu orpbape OF tho Mr.