The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-12-19

COLORADO
STATE NEWS
western Newspaper Union News Service.

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saved little Lillian Maxwell Of Colo
RADIO Springs from freezing to death.
In her hurry to get to school the child
cut across lots and fell into an aban-
doned cesspoOl.
In order to protect themselves during
the Christmas season from thefts,
which have become unusually numer-
GUS, the merchants OF Montrose organ
lied a protective association and EN-
ployed private detective from Den
YER to guard their stores during the
holiday season.
Montrose citizens will play big
brother to sixty orphans at the Nc
CIelland home in Pueblo, according to
the plans of A. o. Talbot of that city,
who has agreed to collect broad
gauge carload of provisions and cloth
ing for the orphans of the home, who
are in urgent need of assistance.
Mrs. Henrietta Lindsey, wife of
Judge Ben B. Lindsey of Denver, was
one of seven persons injured when a
Chicago & Northwestern railroad train
was accidentally derailed at Mequoin,
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Lindsey's injuries We're slight. Judge
Lindsey, who was with his wife on the
train, is on "A speaking tour.
Dr. Frank Wilbur Chace has been.
appointed head of the chair of music
in the University of Colorado to sue
ceed Prof George NJ. Chadwick, who
recently resigned his position in the
school. Professor Chadwick has been
connected with the university for the
last ten years, and is recognized as
one of the foremost pipe organists in
the country.
Approximately $1,3O0,OOO, represent
ing payments on the last quarterly in
stallment of the income. war-profits
and excess-profits taxes for 1918. has
been from Colorado people by Internal
Revenue Collector Mark A. Skinner. A
large number of Colorado citizens had
taken advantage of the opportunity
given them by the government to pay
the taxes in quarterly installments.
A new Boulder beet sugar company.
capitalized at S2,O0O,OOO, has filed in
corporation papers with the secretary
of state 1t is to be known as the
Farmers Independent Sugar Company.
Erection and operation of sugar plants,
growing, buying and selling of sugar
beets. acquisition of livestock. and
other interests are stated as among the
purposes of the concern.
The work of gathering and preserv-
ing for the state archives the records
of Colorado's. men and Momen-M -Mho.
took part in the world war, in order
that true and complete history of,
Colorado's participation in the conflict
may be compiled, has been started by
the State Historical and Natural His
tory Society, under the direction of
L. G. Carpenter, its president
Earl Martin, "a years Old, was shot
by Roy Benton, member of a sheriffs
posse, when he attempted to resist ar
rest after he and John f. Bailey, 20,
had been caught, the officers state. in
the act of concealng an automobile
that had been stolen from in front of
the First Presbyterian Church at Fort
Collins. The fight occurred at the Jack
Rigden ranch in Owl canon.
Expansion of the consular service
of the japanese government to aid in
handling trade relations of its citizens
with other countries will result in the
establishment of consulate in Den
yer, according to word received from
Toxic. The new consulate will prob
ably have charge of a territory CON
sisting of Colorado, New Mexico, Ne
braska, Wyoming, South Dakota and
parts of the states of Utah, Kansas,
Texas and Arizona.
David NJ. Campbell, attorney general
of Colorado in 1898 and state senator
from Pueblo for four years, died sud
denly at his home in Pueblo. He was
81 years old.
Bank deposits in Steamboat Springs
are the greatest in the history of the
town. They are well over 100000 and
fast nearing the milien-dollar mark,
The total deposits in the First Ma
tional Bank are now S6SS,511. Three
years ago the deposits We're but S216,-
1853 The Bank of Steamboat Springs
has deposits of S242,34S, an increase
of 500, 900 since the call for a state
ment in September
incomplete eSIilDdteS Huaue Dy the
State Cooperative Crop Reporting
Service show that the value of all
crops in the state this year is in ex-
cess of S1TO,00o,000, which is much the
largest on record. Twenty years ago
the value of all crops grown in the
state, as reported by Federal Census
Bureau, was. a little short of S17,000,-
600, or one-tenth of the value of all
crops grown this year. Ten years ago
the Federal Census Bureau found the
value of all crops grown in the state
to be a little short of S51 100000, or
considerably less than one-third of the
value of this years output.
A total of $7,40627 in Inheritance
taxes and attending fees was collected
by the state inheritance tax depart
ment in the first half of December re-
port issued by Attorney General Vic
tor E. Keyes and Collector r. Fl.