The Dolores star. [volume] (Dolores, Montezuma County, Colo.) 1901-current, 1919-06-27
COLORADO
STATE NEWS


| COMING EVENTS.
The Colorado Editorial Association
| meet in Denver. July IL, l., 1919.
Logan county, which leads all other
counties of the state in the percentage
of Its land in cultivation, has approx
mately 300 farms, with a total of
ga, 1871 acres. This county has approx
imately 100000 acres of wheat for the
| 1919 harvest.
George W. Olinger of Denver was
elected president of the Colorado State
Sunday School Association for the
coming year at the closing session of
the annual convention of that organiza-
| ton in Pueblo. Twelve hundred dele
gates attended the meeting.
Lake county, Colorado's premier
mineral producing county, shipped met
ais to the value of S410.OOO,OOO to the
end of 1918. Silver leads in value,
with production worth approximate
ly SlS4, 900, 900, and zinc stands second,
with about SS0,O0O,0oO.
An exceedingly rich strike of gold
and silver ore has just been reported
in the GolConda mine i'll Horseshoe
basin, fifteen miles up Hanson creek
from Lake City. There is, according
to the report, over six feet Of ore,
three feet of which will run from
81 200 to 5000 per ton, about equally
in gold and silver.
An important strike of good ore in
large ore shoot has been made at
depth of 1000 feet in the indicator
mine on Bull hill at Victor. The dis
covery is in n section of the mine
Shich has not been worked for several
years. 1t is believed that the discov-
cry is the Old Lille vein that yielded
so richly years ago.
Hurled sixty feet from the side car
Of IL motorcycle when Il southbound
Union Pacific train crashed into the
machine in which she was riding five
miles east of LOvcland, Mrs. William
Tracy, was instantly killed, and Mrs.
Verne Tippits, driver of the vehicle
received injuries which it is feared
may cause her death.
Albert Bevan, II, and Frank McCar
thy, II, rescued Jack Simpson, 10,
from drowning at Colorado Springs. 1t
was Bevan's fourth life-Saving exploit
and McCarthy's second. The Simpson
boy, too, participated in the event for
the second time, rs Bevan pulled him
| out of reservoir last summer after
he had sunk for the third time.
Believing that male juvenile delin-
quency and incorrigibility are largely
due to nasal malformatiOns, diseased
or enlarged adenoidS and t0nSils,
Judge Karl w. Farr Of the Teller
county court, has decided that surgi-
cal operations will effect more reforms
than the imposition of sentences to
penal or semi-penal institutions
Compulsory voting and a minimum
wage of Sl2J for state employees are
| TWO additional matters that Gov. Oil
yer II. Shoup will be asked to include
in the call for special session Of the
| Legislature, to be assembled for the
primary purpose of ratifying the wom-
an suffrage amendment to the conSti-
tuition of the United States.
COlOrado's public school fund has
produced in the last six months more
| than 100000, which is to be distrib.
| uted July | to the sixty-three counties
of the state on the basis of school pop.
| ulatiOn for use of the county schools.
| This IS the largest sum in the history
| of the state which has been produced
| and distributed in this manner, the
| previous high figure having been the
21,OOO distributed Jan. l last The
nIIIlir school fnnI -,
339, $50, that being the total June
The sum to be distributed next month
is made up of the interest on the total
fund, rentals on state lands and inter.
est on deferred payments paid into the
fund by buyers of state land.
Boys and girls pig-raising clubs
have now been organized by County
Agent. NJ. l.. Knapp and his assistants
in practically every large town in
Weld county. Clubs are in existence
| at Greeley, kersey, JOhnstOwn, Ault,
Eaton, Windsor and Platteville. More
than 100 pure-bred pigs have been
purchased by the club members.
George Engel, pioneer Douglas coun.
| ty rancher, committed suicide by hang
| ing near his home in Lower Lake
gulch, about eight miles southwest
from Castle Rock. Members of the
family being unable to find the father
called for assistance from Castle Rock
and, after untiring search he was To-
Gated in an unfrequcnted gulch, hang.
| ing from II limb of tree.
GEORGE RnSEn ar Ian