The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-08-29
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

this latter acreage is less tIlttii U per
cent of the coEporatiOn-contro
lands totalng 211 900 acres. These fig
ures are given in a report compiled ny
Horace Havens, mineral superintend-
ent of the State Land Board, and is
sued by the board at the request OF
State Auditor Arthur NJ. Stong who is
Investigating the prices and profits on
coal in connection with the work OF the
governors Investigating commission.
The report shows 5,794 acres of state
school lands listed as coal producing
as being under lease to corporations.
OF this total, 1,S00 acres are not being
operated Coal production from the
state school lands to July l last has
been 2539141 tons. which produced in
royalties $3.50, O,314.9O plus $31,005, rep
resenting minimum payments on
leases, or S261, 1,319.90 in all. The roy
atty, which was recently 10 cents ton,
is now u cents ton on most leases.
the report further showed, and all
leases are subject to revision every
five years.
John Tarro, peddler Of ice cream
cones, who was arrested at Durango,
charged with having an unlawful
amount of intoXicants in his posses
sion, was tried in Justice Court and
found guilty and was assessed fine
of $50, plus SS4 costs and ninety days
in Jail, has appealed the case to the
County Court and has put up a cash
bond of 1854 to carry the case through,
f,,. .,nl ,,t In
September term of court. When Tarro
was first arrested, the officers say
they found barrel Of wine that test,
more than 2 per cent alcoholic CON
tent.
Screams of the 21a -year-old son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Rosser brought
members of the family to the rescue
of the child, but not in time to save it
from being scalded to death in a pan
of soap suds, at Marshall, Colo. The
mother, who was in bed ill and unable
to rise, heard the boy screaming and
called for help. One of the older chill
dren who had placed the pan of boiling
water on the floor preparatory to do
ing some scrubbing, but who had gone
outside the house, heard the call and
ran to the child.
Curator Junius Henderson of the
university at Boulder, will spend most
of his time this year collecting war
relics to be added to the already num-
erous Instruments of war contributed
by returned soldiers, who were form
erly students in the university. Miss
Charlotte Ball, daughter of Colonel
Ball of Boulder, recently deposited
German helmet, to have been used in
the "triumphal entry into Paris, in the
university collectiOn.
Enough freight cars to handle expe-
ditiously the wheat and beet crops of
Colorado are at the disposal of the
Colorado & Southern railroad, it was
announced by officials of the COM
pany. Approximately 400 cars are on
tbs TRICKS in northern Colorado ready
for shipment in about thirty days. The
crop, according to estimates made by
the railroad company, is 10 per cent
heavier than last year.
Twenty miles an hour is the speed
limit on the Lookout Mountain and
Bear Greek Canon roads in the Den
yer mountain parks, fixed in an ordi-
nance passed by the city council. The
ordinance provides for speed limit
Of fifteen miles an hour on curves and
twenty-five miles on any parkway or
road in or connecting the mountain
parks with the city limits of Denver.
Six persons narrowly escaped death
when the auto in which they were rid
ing plunged off the road in Phantom
canon, near Victor, down a fifty-foot
embankment, landing on its right side.
The party, which was made up of Mr..
and Mrs. John Butler and four child
ren, tourists, We're rushed to the dis
trict hospital by passing motorists
and all are in a serious condition.
Rose Fiscus, 19-year-old daughter of
Mr. and Mrs G. L. Fiscus of Pueblo,
was instantly killed when the auto
mobile she was driving pitched over
a forty-foot embankment into the st.
Charles river, nine miles east of
Pueblo. Her mother, sister, Augusta,
IL wears old, and 2-yearold brother
were with her, but escaped from the
wreck with only minor injuries.
An ak and knife were used by
Frank Ballegos in killing Mercurio
Ballegos, his uncle, near La Posta, ac-
cording to statement made in Du-
range, by Mrs. Bellegos, 1S-year-old
wife of the murdered man, who is in
Jail with his nephew. Ballegos' 2-year-
old son was a witness to the murder,
which took place in the Ballegos home,
according to the child's mother.
Kid Mex of Pueblo was winner over
George Bauer of Goldfield, via the
Knockout route, at Victor. The bout,
scheduled for fifteen rounds, ended in
the sixth frame when the Mexican sent
a fast right to Bauer's jaw.
student body which will approach
the pre-war enrolment and possibly
surpass it is expected at Colorado Col
lege when it opens Sept. "a at Colo
RADIO Springs.