Cheyenne record., 1919-12-25
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

Wsatern Newspaper Union News Service
All crops in Colorado during 1913
are valued at $19l 100000 This Is 1871
per cent more than the crops last year
and it Is. the most valuable ever har-
vested in the state.
All reports indicate that about LOCO
new silos We're built In Colorado this
year and that the total number In the
| state 10 now about 1900. The prOduc-
tiOn Of corn for silage in the state II
increasing rapidly.
Logan county shows larger In
crease In acreage and in cultivation In
1919 over 1909 than any other county
In the state. The acreage cultivated In
1919 was 4O5,737 acres, compared with
6S,7T1 acres in 1909.
Taxpayers of Colorado Springs next
March will pour into the Golfers of the
county treasurer total of $1,614,OA
in school, city, county and state taxes.
The total tax levy for the city in 1920
is 2.41 mills. an increase of SD mills
over that of the year 1919.
Mrs. Henrietta Lindsey, wife OF
Judge Ben Il. Lindsey of Denver, was
one of seven persons injured when IL
Chicago & Northwestern railroad train
WAS accidentally derailed ut MequOin,
fifteen miles north of Milwaukee. Mrs
Lindsey's injuries We're slight. Judge
Lindsey, who was with his wife on the
train, is on speaking tour.
Earl Martin, "a years old, was shot
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posse, when he attempted to resist ar
rest after he and John f. 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
Rgden ranch in Owl canon.
The Great Valleys Sugar Corpora
tiOn, n recently organized company
capitalized at S6,OOOOOO, 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 permanent camp
with mess cabin and bunk house. The
Rotary Club of that city voted to eN-
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 Creek canon which will be grant
ed to the scouts as u permanent camp
site.
With a budget of $2,3OOOOO for road
work in 1920. the Colorado highway
| commission lacks between $dOO,OOO and
SSOO,OOO in estimated revenues to meet
federal aid road projects, according TO
statement made by J. f. 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-
cordins 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 coIors during the recent
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photographs and war records and Will
be probably the largest collection of /,
similar nature ever made in a county.
| Approximately $1,3OO,OO0. 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 installments.
| 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
COloratO'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. f. Doyle. 90 years old, u clothing
salesman of Walsepburg, was found
hanging by II rope in his room in that
I city. Mary Strock, II hOusekeeper,
discovered the body and it is believed
that he had been dead for several
hours. According to friends, he had
been pOndering over the matter for
some time He asked the postmaster
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