The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-12-05
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
The Red Cross Christmas Seal sale will
take place all over the United States
from December / to 10. 1919.

COMING EVENTS.
The Red Cross Christmas Seal sale will
take place all over the United States
from December to 10. 1919.
There are about 10000 lambs being,
fed in the Mesita-San Acasia territory.
The proposed auditorium at Mesita
seems a certainty. Over $1,000 has
been raised already.
George l.. Murray, son of Mrs. ella
A. Murray. returned to his mother at
Colorado Springs after being reported
missing" in the United States army
since April.
William Edwards of Trinidad, d
brakeman on the Santa Fe coal run
between Trinidad and StarkviIle, was
jolted from the top of car and was
ground to death under the wheels OF
the next car
AT IA hearing on estimates for gov
ernment reclamation projects held be-
fore congressional committee, $500,
900 was asked for the Grand Valley
reclamation project and $4,000 TO
continue work on the Uncompahgre
project in Colorado.
There We're twice as many babies
born in Pueblo in October than there
We're deaths, according TO statistics
given out by the city board of health
of the babies born, the majority of
them We're boys. The health report
shows that there We're eighty-six
babies born in October and fifty-three
We're boys.
Jurisdiction over delinquent girls be-
tween the ages of 16 and 1S years wa 5
taken away from Juvenile courts of the
state by a decision of the Colorado SUI
preme Court, which declares the act of
1911 on this subject UNCONSTITUTIONAL
The 1911 law provided that the defini-
tion of delinquency should apply to all
girls under the age of 1S years.
A contract has been awarded by the
State Highway Commission to George
TOupaine of Grand Junction for the
construction of the first quarter of a
mile of the proposed concrete road
from this city to PaIisade. Appropria-
tions have already been made for au
additional three miles on this road, ex-
tending the concrete roadway to Fruit
dale.
An unusual prepOnderance of youth
full criminals of quasi and semi-mise
chief makers, ranging in ages from II
to 21 years, was the outstanding fea-
ture of the records and convictions in
the West Side court in Denver during
November Twenty-Five lads to the ra
formatory in Buena Vista was the
months tell, with automobile stealing
as the main avenue of conviction.
Ten miles of the new roadway uI'
Big Thompson canon leading 10 Estes
-Paxla}al,a<,a, -b4@sp- espspleted 49, -janf6-
| lists declare the road one of the best
and safest mountain highways in the
state The road bed is from twenty to
| thirty feet wide at all points, thus elm
| mating much of the danger TO passing
vehicles that has always heretofore ex-
| listed.
| The State Inheritance Tax Depart
| ment paid into the state treasury dur
| ing the first half of the 1919-1920 bien-
nial period grand total of SS26,09I .64,
| or more than $4,000 in excess of what
| it was estimated the departments re-
| ceipts would be for the entire biennial
| period according to a report issued by
Attorney General Victor +. Keys, ex
| officio head of the department.
| Judge John Hough, for more thar
| forty years the dean of mining in the
San Juan country and especially Hins-
dale county, is dead. Had he lived un-
| til Christmas he would have been 50
| years of age. He had been county
| judge at Lake City, the county seat of
Hinsdale county. for many years and
was highly esteemed and respected by
the entire community.
Increases of from IL to p per cent
in all city salaries are provided in an
ordinance adopted by the city council
| at Colorado Springs Patrolmen, fire
men and city clerks Jared best with
increases of from $40 to S35 monthly.
That building is still on the boom in
Pueblo is proven by the figures given
out by the city building inspectors of
| sice. For eleven months so far this
year the value of buildings constructed
| or under construction is 10 per cent
| greater than that of the first eleven
months of 1918. There We're sol build
| ing permits issued so far this year and
the value of these buildings approxi-
mates 1856, 1850 compared to 432 permits
| with valuation of S367,30T last year.
Discovery of an artesian water basin
in the Larsen dry farming districr
northwest of Grover has caused great
rejoicing among cattlemen and farm
ers. The flow was struck on the Wick
ert ranch, which is fifteen miles north
west of Grover. There is a volume
| sufficient to keep two-inch pipe
filled, and the water is free from sui
| phur and other distasteful contents.
An engineer who investigated the well
believes that the artesian basin lies
under large acreage of land
Pueblo is to have new electric pow
err house, according to a recent an