The Elbert County tribune., 1919-12-26
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

and II is the most valuable ever har-
vested In the state
All reports Indicate that about 1000
new siIos were built in Colorado this
ycnr and that the total number In the
state is now about 1000. The produc-
ton of corn for siiage in the stute Is
increasing rapidly.
i>ognn county shows q larger In
crease I'm acreage and in cultivation In
1919 over 1909 than any other county
In the state The acreage cultivated In
1910 WAS 405.737 acres, compared with
63,771 acres In 1909
Taxpayers of Colorado Springs next
March will pour into the Golfers of the
county treasurer "a total OF $1,614,094
In school, city, county and state taxes.
The total tax levy for the city In 1920
IN ,2.41 mills, an Increase OF S.22 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
Chicago & Northwestern railroad train
was accidentally deraiied at Mequoin,
fifteen miles north OF Milwaukee. Mrs
Lndsey's Injuries were slight Judge
Lindsey. who was with his wife on the
train. is on speaking tour.
Earl Martin, "a years old, was shot
by Roy Benton, member of a sheriff's
posse. when he attempted to resist ar
rest after he and John f. Bailey, 20,
had been cnught, the Officers state, In
the act OF conceaIing an automobile
that had been stolen from In front of
fiic First Presbyterian Church at Fort
Collins The fight occurred Mt the Jack
Itlg,len ranch In Owl canon.
The Great Valleys Sugar Corpora
tion. recently organized company
capitalized at S6,0O0.OOO, has selected
Lafayette rs the site OF one of the four
factories which will be built In north
crn Colorado. Ii is planned to have
the factory completed and ready for
the 1921 production. Sixty acres OF
land lying one-lnif mile south of La
fnyette have been purchased for the
proposed site and mill of sixty tons
daily capacity.
The Colorado Springs council of Boy
Scouts is to have n permanent camp
with mess cabin and bunk house. The
Rotary Club of that city voted to ex-
pend Sl.50o 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 cnfion which will be grant
ed TO the scouts as a permanent camp
site.
With a budget of $1,000, 600 for road
work in 1920, the Colorado highway
c,"i,rssion lacks between 100000 and
sen1 900 In estimated revenues to meet
frdcrr aid road projects, according to
u s's..-mcnt made by J. T.. AIaloney,
chief engineer. The commission is ap
i.caiing 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
mcnts 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
iais to the soldiers of that country that
could be procured. This will be the
picture and n brief biography of every
man who went from this county to join
Uncle Sans colors during the recent
war. This will include more than 600
photographs and war records and will
be probably the largest collection of a
similar nature ever made In n county.
Approximately $1,300.000, represent-
ing payments on the last quarterly in
s,niiment 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 instnllmcnts.
The work of gathering and preserv-
ing for the state archives the records
OF Colorados men md women who
tool. part in the world war, In order
that true and complete history of
Colorados participation in the conflict
may be complied. has been started by
the State Historical and Natural His
tory Society, under the direction of
l.. G. Carpenter, Its president.
w. E. Doyle, 60 years old, clothing
salesman of Walsenburg. was found
hanging by IA 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 pondering 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 viii play big
brother to sixty orphans at the Nc
Ciellund home In Pueblo. according to