The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-02-21
COLORADO
STATE NEWS


Western Newspaper MON News Service
The acreage of wheat harvested in
Colorado in 1918 was 742.OOO. as com
pared with 34U 129 acres for 1909. The
Increase has been largely in the acre
age devoted to winter wheat.
There are approximately 63,OOO
farms in Colorado. as compared with
1910 in 1910. 24.1oo in 1900 and l6.3s9
In 1880. The average size of farms
aas increased slightly since 1910.
Government reports show that there
were 26i.up inilch cows in Colorado
Jan. l. 1919. worth So. 22::''22 go. against
10000 in 1911. worth 1,29S, 600. The
value of mich cows per head has in
creased in this time from S44.JO TO
sSS
Ralph BergIund. the IS-year-oId uni
versity freshman, who confessed to the
attack upon Miss Leda Frye, pretty
coed AT the university, was taken 10
Boulder from Denver after dark and
at Il secret night session of District
Court was sentenced to the reforma-
tory at Buena Vista.
The mystery surrounding the disap-
pearance of John Breuss, 5S, wealthy
Garfield county raneher, last Novem-
ber, was solved when his body was dis
covered buried four feet beneath a
manure pile on his farm. Three Mex
leans Of the Silt district are In jail at
Glenwood Springs charged with the
mans murder.
Corp. Henry Rendering of La Junta,
% years old. died in embarkation hos
ptal No. l at Hoboken. n. ]. He ar
rived in Hoboken the first of Febru-
airy, and was taken from the trans
port suffering from influenza, which
developed into pneumonia. He il sur
vived by his father and mother, and IL
brother and sister
AT countrywide meeting Of the
farmers and stockmen Of Larimer
county, the Larimer county farm bu-
reau was organized with more than a
hundred members. Farmers and their
wives from all sections of the county
are joining this bureau daily. and 1t
promises to reach membership of
several hundred before summer
W. c. Basey of Longmont has dis
covered a sure cure for the hiccOugh
epidemic Upon falling a victim to the
malady Mr.. Basey hiccoughed for the
space of several days without stop
ping. and finally. after the doctors
had failed him, he bought a pound of
chocolate candy and started to eat it.
Before he was half through the hic-
coughs had ended
Three Indian policemen from the
Uintah district of eastern Utah have
been taken to Clark county, New, to
aid in tracking the murderers of Will
liam Taylor and Ether Hancock, Uin-
tab county prospectors. slain there re-
Gently, presumably by Indians. The
Indian policemen were taken to Ne
vada by insurance companies in which
Clark carried $4,000 policy.
Dave Shogrn, proprietor OF a Mont
rose restaurant. is under arrest at Sa-
Ida. his romance of few hours ended
by angry creditors in Montrose. He
is alleged to have done brisk busi-
ness in meal tickets at half price and
in checks for which the bank had no
money and then closed up shop, de-
parting with his head waitress, leaving
unpaid bills for several thousand dol
lars.
Authorities of the United States inn
migration service have started TO in
vestigate the circulation in Denver of
pamphlets, said TO PROFOUND Bolshe-
ct y,.ip Tho ri tinD nf a
pamphlets has been under way for sew
eral days. Several of the leaflets have
fallen into the hands of the officials,
and they are now consulting with the
Washington office with reference to
handling the situation.
The fossil remains of an antidelu-
Wan monster. half fish and half reptile.
believed to have lived millions of
years ago when the great Uintah ba-
sin was an ocean. has been discovered
in the elaterite deposits Of Indian caii-
on. The snake fish fossil was found
completely embedded between two lay
ers of elaterite, and had shiny, Jet
black scales of a diamond shape.
Denver, the gateway to twelve ma
monuments, is the slogan to build
Colorado's capital into u city Of 500 900
persons in the next few years. Execu-
tive Secretary Harry n. Burhans Of
the Denver Tourist Bureau told the
Denver Advertising Club at the clubs
weekly meeting in the Denver Civic
and Commercial Association rooms.
Liquor interests in the hope of re-
versing the stand of the nntion on the
prohibition issue are seeking referen-
dun elections in fourteen states, Of
which Colorado Is one. Announce
ment of the movement was made by