The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-09-19
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
western Newspaper Union News service

COMING EVENTS,
PhiIligs ga County Fair. Hoiyoke. Sept.
sasusshe 3 g County Fair. sasuache. Sept.
coloradc,New sona Mexico Fair. Durango.
COLORADO State Fair. Pueblo. Sept. 81
Grsns ss,s7 County Fair. Kremmling, Sept
crswjsy s1yIsy County Fair. Sugar City. Aug.
Mountain LIVE Stock and Fair,
Grand Junction. Sept. 80 to Oct 3.
Dougias County Fair. Castle Rock.
Platteville has just completed one
of the most modern and up-to-date
school buildings in the state, costing
$4,000.
-Four miners were shot and killed in
the Tomboy gold mine at Telluride by
unknown assassins, and a fifth was
shot in the leg and badly wounded
The Greeley school board has award
ed contracts totaling $91,OOO for new
buildings. new six-room building is
10 be erected on the west side of the
city and four-room building on the
east side
The first step in the launching of a
big potato boom in Colorado will be
taken this winter when the first an
nual potato show, a novelty in the in
termountain region, will be held in
Denver during the week of Jan. 1924
The Big Thompson road from Love
land to Estes Park has been closed
for the winter to enable workmen TO
widen and improve it. Denver travel
ers to the park ar now going over
the north and south st. Vrain canons
The report made by Mrs. c. II. Brs
tol, chairman of the canteen commit
tee of the American Red Cross in La
Junta, shows that the local canteen
served total of O,79O soldiers in the
period from July 16, 1918, to Sept. l,
1919.
Farms in the San Louis valley dis
trict are this year yielding the great
est crops in their history, according
to experts, and the apparent shortage
causing considerable worry to ship
pers.
The Loveland Masonic order will
have a new temple when the work on
| the State Mercantile building, which
| was purchased some time ago by the
| Loveland Masons, is completed. Work
has been started on the remodeling of
| the building.
One soldier was so injured he died
| in a short time, two were badly hurt
and thirteen others were more or less
bruised when large army automobile
from Fort Logan, bearing members of
the post baseball team, turned over i'll
Denver.
Colorado held $9,736, ,992O3 In its
treasury on Aug 81, according to the
report for the quarter ending on that
date, submitted to Gov. Oliver II.
Shoup by State Treasurer Harry E.
Mulnix; the receipts during the quar-
ter were $2,S17, ,15349, and disburse-
ments were $2,13O6722 24.
The threatened street car strike in
Pueblo was averted after an all-night
session, when the employees of the com
pany voted to accept the offer of the
company for half of the % per cent
wage increase now and the other half
Nov. 10, when the city ordinance grant
ing the company the privilege of
charging cents car fare in Pueblo be-
comes effective.
The seventh annual San Juan Nav
ajo Indian fair will be held at Ship
rock, N. NJ, for four days, commenc-
ing Sept. 80 and lasting until Oct. 3.
This Is the only fair scheduled for
the extreme northwestern county of
than ordinary interest, inasmuch as
the Navajos have had an exceedingly
prosperous season.
The mystery that has for several
months surrounded the robberies that
have taken place in Rocky Ford and
Crowley is thought to have been solved
by the arrest of Syrian who has a
store in La Junta.
Jose Gonzales and Santoz Ortez,
Mexicans, who shot and killed Police
| man Jefferson Evans in the pepper
sauce bottoms, a Negro and Mexican
settlement of Pueblo, were taken from
the city Jail by mob and lynched at
the Fourth street bridge, near the city
limits. None of the members of the
mob was recognized, as all wore
handkerchief masks and were garbed
in blue overalls and blue jumpers or
plain blue overalls.
Two hundred representative citizens
of Boulder indorsed a city bond issue
for 100000 to build municipal swim
ming pool and city park with play
ground and equipment at meeting in
Boulder. The matter was proposed by
returned service men, who said they
| preferred that memorial of some
practicable good be erected to them in
stead of marble shaft. The proposi-
tion will be voted on at the election in
November.
Gold ore worth $4,000 per ton is re-
ported as having been found within
tho Io OF faxr dayS in the Portland mine