The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-07-18
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
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WESTERN NeWSpaper Union NEWS service
The Western Colorado Power Com
pany was granted a twepty-one-year
franchise by the new city council at
| Ouray. The vote was unanimous.
William Wise, 4 years old, son of
Robert Wise, a rancher living four
as result Of being accidentally shot
by his sister, Mary, I years old.
G. S. Kelch, superintendent of the
American Refrigerator Transit Com
pany is in Grand Junction making ar
rangements for handling approximate
ly $500 cars of fruit and 500 cars of
| potatoes.
| The per capita assessed valuation of
property In Colorado for 1918 was ST.
3S4-94, compared with S1,27639 for
| 1917. Jackson county leads in this re-
spect, with S4,70s.79. and Huerfano
county has the lowest, STSS.33.
The total acreage of wheat and corn
planted for the 1919 harvest in Colo
RADIO is slightly greater than the entire
acreage under cultivation in the state
in 1909. The wheat acreage Is in ex-
/ Ntsc VI acres anu tnat corn
is very close to the million mark
When Mrs. Hannah T. walpole, wild
ow of the late Richard C. Walpole.
! one of the most prominent of Kansas
| City's pioneer business men, died in
Denver as the result of burns inflicted
when n defective electric warmer set
fire to her bed In hotel, a Fremont
! ffnn of hAr A Fal,
became a realized sorrow.
Mrs. Guy l. Hardy, wife of Repre-
sentative Hardy of the Third Congress
sional district OF Colorado. has accept
ed an invitation TO sponsor a 9.6oo-ton
steel steamer, which is to be launched
In Seattle Aug l6 Mrs Hardy will 20
to Seattle with her husband to attend
the convention of the National Edit
torial Association. OF which her hus.
band Is president
The superintendent Of transportation
of the Cashin mines, which recently
opened in the Paradox section after
three years of idleness. has offered 10
contribute $4,000 toward the construc-
tion OF a road from their mines 20
Montrose II the county will contribute
Ike amount. so that they can locate
their offices in this city instead Of a.
the mines as now situated.
Colorado will produce this year 1s.-
81 600 bushels OF wheat. compared
with production OF l3.335 900 bushels
last year, according to estimates jus
completed by the Colorado co-opera-
tive Crop Reporting service. The pro-
duction of corn. II conditions remain
favorable until harvest. win be approx
imately 23,l4s.Ooo bushels. compared
with %, 5s5, 900 bushels for 1918
, The real estate bureau of the Civic
and Commercial Association OF Den
yer has been asked to present recon-
mendations to the board Of directors
; with regard TO the proposed Presi
dents summer home" on Mount Fal
con This action was taken after re
quest was made by John Brlsben
Walker for consideration Of further ac
r tion. This project has been before
I Denver's business men for several
+ years.
i The public school fund for the first
= six months Of 1919 amounts to 1898
"a I p'D-OOs dNNbiAluN u 441tl4FN gwen VHt
: at the office of Mrs. Mary C. G. Brad
Y ford, superintendent of public insrruc-
lion. The amount represents the larg-
/ est income fund ever received by the
! educational department, the highest
Z amount previously being last January,
r when S323,O00 was received The fund
: Is to be apportloned to the sixty three
: counties in the state according 10 the
r school population The income repre-
3 sents interest from bonds. warrants,
? farm loans and leases on lands owned
by the department
/. The returned United States service
d men of Summit county have laid plans
! for the perfection Of an organization
: known as the post of the American
{ Legion of Honor The members will
elect officers the middle of this month,
or as soon as their comrades in the
, 115th engineers reach Breckenridge.
. An auto accident which resulted in
, the death of Emil Hedstrom, widely
known rancher, and caused injury to
, three others. occurred when the auto
In which the four were riding turned
over. The car was travelling at a high
rate of speed, when one of the tires
, burst and flew off The car turned a
, complete somersault. This is the sec
ond fatal accident that has occurred
near Haxtun recently
The old car barn on Cofax avenue
near Aurora, which thes tate highway
, commission recently purchased from
; the Tramway company in Denver, is
being repaired for the storing of some
of the army trucks now being received
from the War Department. Forty-sev-
en- trucks have been received thus far,
and will be sent to the counties for
use on county roads as soon as they can
be replaced with the dump bodies.
Work has started on clearing away