The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-04-25
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

Inc miners strike has been aettleI
at Leadville on the basis of a mini.
mum wage Of 81. 4 cut Of 50 cents a
day.
The town Of Byers, In Arapabos
county. is enjoying an unprecedented
building boom. Several new business
structures are being built. a. well as
number of homes
While eating his lunch in the Wolf
Park mine. near Cahon City, J. Ouin.
by Walker leaned against high power
electric wire, was electrocuted and
died almost instantly.
Fire Of unknown origin destroyed
all Of the buildings Of the Sunnysids
mine at Eureka except the transform.
er house, with loss estimated at
S25OOO0, that is partly covered by in.
surance.
LittletOn's welcome to returning SOL
diers will not be held until some time
in July. ~ those in charge of the
sufficiently to allow practically all Of
the service men to have been mustered
out.
When George McQuown, DISCHARGED
soldier, went home 10 New Raymer he
dida't loaf about town or 20 to Gree
ley or Denver to gst Job. George i'm
mediatsly Incorporated himself as the
New Raymer Electric Light and Pow.
e. Company.
With the death Of Samuel Hunt, a
cowboy ut Colorado Springs, injured in
cattle fsud which developed into a
battle on the morning Of Dec %, 1918,
four cattlsmsn are locked up in the
Ell Paso county jail, on charges of first
degree murder.
Mrs. N. NJ. FlitAsr. wife Of rancher
living near Fort Lupton. was killed on
the road between Erie and Fort Lup-
ton when q small automobile she was
driving overturned at . culvert over
an irrigation ditch and she was
crushed underneath.
Robert R. Ross, pioneer resident and
county Judge fer the past sixteen
years at Trinidad, 10 dead 1T the age
Of 65. Death was due to acute indi-
gestion. Judge Ross had been active
politically, was q state representative
from Huerfano county . number of
years ago.
State officials have estimated that
the inheritance tax from the Werner
z. Reed estate, which Is variously
placed at from $1S,OOO,OOO to S20,OOO,-
900, will double the amount of any
previous single Inheritance tax paid
into that department The tax Is ex-
pected to be in the neighborhoOd Of
S75O,OOO
Hay in some parts Of Colorado has
sold this spring as high AZ so q ton,
the highest price that has prevailed for
great many years. The high price
has been due to a shortage in some
sections, but most of this shortage has
been supplied by Colorado hay from
other sections where there has been
no shortage.
Confesslng to the shooting Of Jacob
Mellinger, proprietor Of q store at
Rush, Earl and Tom Combs, cousins
are in the county jail at Colorado
Springs, where they will face charges
of deliberate murder. The two men,
attempting to rob the store, shot Mel
!inger through the back and then tried
o escape.
The chimes Of the midnight bells
had not ceased their echoes in Duran
go Sunday night when Durango and
La Plata county went over the top"
in subscribing their allotment Of $245,-
100. establishing a record for prompt
the n hn 1nA hvrf
be sxcelled, La Plata is the first coun
ty In Colorado, II not the first in any
state to raise its quota.
La Junta again went over the top,
this time in the old clothes drive. La
Junta's quota was 2,4OO pounds, which
was shipped to Denver. Swink added
to the quota by giving 315 pounds and
Timpas twenty pounds.
John w. Spencer, supervisor OF the
Battlement forest, with headquarters
Grand Junction, has made a requisi-
tfOn upon the federal government Tor
10000 black spotted trout which will
be distributed In the streams of this
section of the state Another requisi-
ton. about one-fourth as large, will be
made upon the state government. The
hatcheries at Glenwo0d also will make
volunteer contribution.
Charging his former partner In the
automobile business not only with
stealing his wife and breaking up his
home, but also with attempting to
steal his youngest son, w. ]. Woods.
3S, stepped out of his garage door in
Sterling and shot George Dykes. S2
five times, firing once, It 10 said, while
Dykes lay on the ground. Three OF
the bullets took effect in the right leg
one in the body and one penetrated an
ear and grazed Dykes face. None, IL