The Colorado statesman., 1919-07-12
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

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real money of $3,175,36S according to
the statement made by Thomas An
near superintendent of the mint The
superintendent's report shows that of
these totals there were 1852, 600 half
dollars, S1.441 300; 2,S01,0 900 quarters,
$780, $50; 4,645,0O0 dimes, S464, 500 B.
O36,500 5-cent pieces, S151, ,S25, and Al
749,300 pennies, $417,493. No gold
coins were minted during the year.
For the fiscal year ending June 80,
1913, there were S9,200,000 pieces to
the value of $6500,00O minted. In the
last fiscal year the demand for pennies
all over the United States, principally
caused by war taxes, caused the enor-
nous coinage of this money.
Declaring that the grave in which
the bodies of two Mexicans were
found was dug by them in which to
bury his body, Joe Borrere confessed
to Sheriff Wilson of Delta county that
he had killed the men, but had acted
in self-defense. The bodies of the two
Mexicans were found in the grave in
a beet field. Borrere subsequently
was arrested, and he was taken to the
scene of the double tragedy, where, ac-
cording to Sheriff Wilson, he made his
confession after undergoing a rigid ex-
animation.
An inheritance tax, amounting ap-
proximately to $4,000 will be collect
ed by the state from the heirs of
Kenneth Dows, the attorney generals
office, which has charge of inheri-
tance tax collections, announced. An
investigation, Attorney General Victor
e. Keyes said, revealed that Dows had
S1,000,O00 worth of property in the
state of New York besides the home
at 14O Gilpin street, recently sold to
Herman B. Gates, and other property
In Colorado. Mr.. Dows died several
months ago.
The Gold King Extension mill, To-
Gated at Gladstone, Colo, is in opera
tion again. This mill is one of the
largest in the San Juan district. 1t has
a capacity of 500 tons, and about fifty
or sixty tons of concentrates, which
carry gold, silver and copper, are made
daily. The most important piece of
machinery that has recently been in
stalled is a Gates gyratory crusher.
Amalgamating tables, card tables and
the machinery for the tube mill also
have been installed.
The biggest business done in the
history of the Denver postoffice was
recorded at the close of the fiscal year
for 191S-1a June 80. Figures an
nounced by Charles f. Trotter, assist
ant postmaster, show an increase of 3
per cent, or $162, ,62S.75 in the postal
receipts over the preceding fiscal year.
The total receipts for the fiscal year
ending June 80 were $3.50, ,331.1S, COM
pared with $2,O27, ,702.43 for the pre-
ceding year.
Two broken elbows, fractured leg
and internal injuries were sustained
by Ben II. Harris, telephone line
man, who fell from pole at Manitou.
He was climbing the pole and carrying
q roll of wire when loose end came
in contact with a trolley feeder wire
and the shock threw him from his
perch. If he had worn his salty belt
1t is believed that he would have been
electrocuted, but the fall saved his life.
The first attempt ever made to sail
an airplane over Pixies Peak will be
made about July 20 when the flying
circus from Ellington field performs
at Colorado Springs. Lieut. G. G. Nc
Mutt, the Denver aviator, who made
the Houst., -to-Denver flight during
the Liberty loan drive and also made
many spectacular flights in Denver
and along the route, will attempt the
feat.
A. II Ransom and Ted Dobbell, Colo
RADIO Springs men, were held up and
robbed of 50 on the Denver road by
lone robber, who overlooked their
watches and billbooks. His haul would
have been worth $500 to him If he had
searched his victims carefully. He was
was unmasked and stopped Ransom S
car with a request for ride before ne
drew his revolver
During June Cripple Creek produced
60, 900 tons of ore having gross value
of S64S,S93. OF the ore produced $50
tons were shipped to the smelters.
The balance was treated at the vari-
Gus mills in the Cripple Creek district
and Colorado Springs. The mill ore
averaged $40 per ton in value, ranging
from 81 Az average at the Vindicator
mill to $40 at the Golden Cycle mill,
Colorado Springs. The May output
amounted to 65,376 tons, with gross
value of 1901, ,S61.
Judge w. p. Kinney was reelected
president of the Colorado Springs
Mining Stock As"ociation at its annual
meeting held at Colorado Springs.
Irving Howbert was elected to succeed
the late ]. Addison Hayes as vice pres
ident and Fred n. Shantz succeeds
Charles D. Hopkins as secretary. 1t Is
the twenty-fifth year of the exchange
Twenty-nine more army trucks have