The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-05-16
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

| throughout the San Juan basin and
he sheepmen are receiving far better
! 'eturns than they anticipated few
weeks ago. AS a general rule, the an
,ual lamb crop has averaged from 81
Der cent to 120 per cent, but owing to
he severe winter weather and the
scarcity of feed it was predicted that
| his years crop would be high II il
averaged 90 per cent; whereas sheep
men now say the crop average will be
| from 70 per cent to 80 per cent.
Mich Obroderich and George Guicich,
miners who went from Siiverton TO
Montros., were arrested there and
their grips searched. They were sus-
pected Of knowing something about
the murder Of Frank A. Carlson, OF
| Denver, in Telluride The men were
| arrested by Sheriff Gill and they stat
| ed they had come direct from Silver
| ton and were going to Bingham Canon,
| Utah, to work. Obroderich had
bloody handkerchief and a revolver in
his grip and Guicich had Il pair OF
| brass knuckles.
| In order to prevent a recurrence or
| the winters troubles of the fire de
! partment of Colorado Springs. which
| led to a walkout and later recall
election, the members of the fire de-
| pHrtment voluntarily requested tn"
/ rity council Of that city 10 pass an or
| iinance preventing the formation of
! any union by the firemen. They also
agreed To take no part in city politics.
! ,f h. St
| few years The council did not delay
| IN passing the requested laws.
/ The Great Western Sugar Company
| has authorized the building Of a TWEEN
| ty-five-room addition TO the new thir-
| ty-fiye- e-room hotel built by the com
1 pany at Brighton last year. A four
] apartment terrace will also be built
/ by the company. The sugar company
| has built fifteen residences in Brighton
/ during the past Two years. Some OF
/ these properties cost more than S1,"p
| each. The great scarcity of houses in
| Brighton has made these improve
! nents necessary.
/ At rousing big meeting. attended
! by practically every leading citizen ot
J irEttitN. II tbllulliltf was iifitii'b am
! a campaign launched for Sl3o,Wo
! soldier memorial to take The form OF
| "A municipal auditorium and civic cen
/ ter. II is proposed to raise funds by
popular subscription for an auditorium
/ seating 1000 and with banquet and
| trophy room. where the flags and war
curios brought back by Greeley sol
diers may be preserved.
| THE division of morale is soon to
! be organized as the seventh arm of
/ service of the United States Army.
/ This statement was made by Raymond
/ +. Fosdick, chairman of the National
| Commission on War Camp Activities,
/ who has just returned from five
! months in Europe with General Per
shing. Mr.. Fosdick is now at Broad
moor. at Colorado Springs, where he is
enjoying rest with his family after
two strenuous years of service.
| Mrs. Spencer Penrose of Colorado
Springs has received the decoration OF
| the Medaille de la Lizabeth from the
| King and queen of Belgium in recog-
milton of her service for Belgium dur
| ing the war. Mrs. Penrose is under
stood TO have taken care of an entire
Belgian town and to have rendered
other services. SO far as is known
only one other American woman has
received this honor.
The jury which heard the case
brought against Joe Rigsio, his wife
Mrs. Joe Riggio, and their son, Mike
Riggio, AT Walsenburg, charged with
the murder of Sam Naher, February l.
| 1918, failed To agree and were dis.
charged by Judge Hollenbeck. Atten-
ton paid Josie Riggio, daughter OF
| the Riggios, is said TO have caused the
trouble leading TO the killing of Ma
her.
The first carload of wheat from I'm
perial Valley of the 1919 crop was
shipped by f. T. Anderson from Braw
ley, Calf. Four hundred carloads will
follow within few days.
The great Revenue mine. producer OF
millions of dollars worth of rich sill
vir and gold ore in Ouray's heyday
has just been sold TO eastern parties
| according to announcement of {. r
Whitley. Lately heavy ore bodies have
| been uncovered in the workings and
the purchasers state that they are go
| ing to install modern machinery and
build improvements to cost severa
hundred thousand dollars.
Plans of the federal government tC
establish an experimental plant il
western. Colorado. to aid in determin
ing if oil can be psofitably extracted il
commercial quantities from the exten
sive oil shales which exist there. were
communicated to Governor Shoup by
James O. Lewis chief petroleum
technologist of the United States Bu
reau of Mines.
Henry Barnham, 2S years old, {;