The Colorado statesman., 1919-06-28
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
The Colorado Editorial Association
meet in Denver. July IL, IL. 1919.


counties of the state in the percentage
of its land in cultivation, has approx
mately 2,300 farms, with total of
614,731 acres. This county has approx
imately 100000 acres of wheat for the
1919 harvest.
George w. Olinger of Denver was
elected president of the Colorado State
Sunday School Association for the
coming year at the closing session of
the annual convention of that organiza-
ton in Pueblo. Twelve hundred dele
gates attended the meeting.
With the price of wheat still fixed
until the 1919 crop is sold Colorado
farmers will receive from their output
this year If conditions remain favor
able until harvest, approximately $40,
100000, or only about $1O,OO0,O0O less
than the farm value of all crops grown
in the state in 1909.
An exceedingly rich strike of gold
and silver ore has just been reported
in the Golconda mine in Horseshoe
basin, fifteen miles up Hanson creek
from Lake City. There is, according
to the report, over Elk feet of ore.
three feet of which will run from
$1,000 to 5000 per ton, about equally
in gold and silver.
Hurled sixty feet from the size car
of motorcycle when a soutl.bound
Union Pacific train crashed ilto the
machine in which she was riding five
miles east of Loveland, Mrs. William
Tracy, was instantly killed, and Mrs.
Verne Tippits, driver of the vehicle
received injuries which it is feared
may cause her death.
Boys and girls pig-raising clubs
have now been organized by County
Agent NJ. e. Knapp and his assistants
in practically every large town in
Weld county. Clubs are in existence
at Greeley, Kersey, Johnstown. Ault,
Eaton, Windsor and Platteville. More
than 100 pure-bred pigs have been
purchased by the club members.
Albert Bevan, 10, and Frank McCar-
thy, IA, rescued Jack Simpson, 10,
from drowning at Colorado Springs. II
was Bevan's fourth life-saving exploit
and McCarthy's second. The Simpson
boy, too, participated in the event for
the second time, as Bevan pulled him
out of a reservoir last summer after
he had sunk for the third time.
Flock masters in the San Juan ba-
sin, particularly in the Mancos dis
trict, report the constant loss of sheep
from their bands, which, they say, II
continued throughout the season, will
rob them of a major portion Of the
years profits. The sheepmen also say
that when sheep We're selling at low
prices they seldom if ever lost sheep
in any way except through raids by
predatory animals. An organized ef-
fort is being made to find out whether
there is band of sheep rustlers who
are Systematically robbing the herds
by taking only few head of sheep at
a time.
Colorado's public school fund has
produced in the last six months more
than 100000, which is to be distrib-
uted July l to the sixty-three counties
of the state on the basis of school pop
ulation for use of the county schools.
This is the largest sum in the history
of the state which has been produced
and distributed in this manner, the
previous high figure having been the
1921 900 distributed Jan. 1 last. The
public school fund now amounts to $3,-
339, 500, that being the total June 1.
The sum to be distributed next month
is made up of the interest on the total
fund, rentals on state lands and inter
est on deferred payments paid into the
fund by buyers of state land.
The Pixies Peak region will become
the background of a series of pictures
of Bible times which are to be pro-
duced at Colorado Springs. A studio
has been erected and the Garden of
the Gods, Seven Falls, Cheyenne
mountain and the slopes and summit
of Pixies Peak soon will become the
setting for a screen drama which had
its origin in Palestine.
George Engel, pioneer Douglas coun-
ty rancher, committed suicide by hang
ing near his home in Lower Lake
gulch, about eight miles southwest
from Castle Rock. Members of the
family being unable to find the father
called for assistance from Castle Rock
anu, ulleT StdlNh, ht was ~
Gated in an unfrequented gulch, hang
ing from a limb of a tree.
George Bosko, convicted of killing
Elton G. Parks and VIII 4. Hunter on
the Rye road near Pueblo on the after.
noon of April IL, was sentenced to be
hanged during the week beginning
Sept %. Tom Bosko, brother of the
doomed man, was given life imprison-
ment 1t is likely that appeal to the
Supreme Court will be made. The at
torneys have sixty days in which to
file their bill Of exceptions.
Believing that male juvenile delin-
quency and incorrigibility are largely
due to nasal malformations, diseased