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


from December 1 to TO- 1919
Burglars looted the Cox-Brewer
Mercantile Company's store at Fruita
and obtained $400 worth of merchan-
disc, besides $40 in money. They left
20 clew.
A memorial tablet In honor of the
twenty-five Routt county men who
died in the war with Germany is to
be erected in the high school building
at Steamboat Springs.
Never in the history of Walsenburg
have SO many investors visited there.
Men from several states have been in
town looking for business openings and
for land which they can purchase.
The state highway commission has
included in its 1920 program of road
improvement an item of S146,00O sur
building six and one-half miles of ce-
ment road between Brighton and For.
Lupton.
Miss Edythe Biggs, daughter of r.
p. Biggs of Boulder, and member
of the freshman class at the University
of Denver, has been awarded the first
prize in the initial literary contest
given by Pi Theta Sigma, national So
cial sorority.
DR.. Ralph d. Mace. former practic-
| ing physician in Delta, and Mrs. Ella
Kehr, a nurse. who We're charged with
the murder of Mrs. Ada Scager, wife
of Adam Seager of Hotchkiss, on May
25th. through an Illegal operation,
We're vindicated of the charge in Dis
trict Court at Delta.
William p. AIunroe, about 4S years
old, miner in the Strong mine, was
killed instantly at Victor by falling
about 100 feet down a slope at the
70O-foot level. The accident was the
result of timbers giving way. He is
survived by his wife and two children
who are now in Nova Scotia.
The farm products of Montrose
county again came to the front when
| John Howell of Bostwick Park, with
exhibits in the international grain and
| hay show at Chicago, captured sew
| eral of the most important prizes, in
| the wheat and oats entries mainly.
| These same exhibits recently took the
| main prizes at international expOSi-
tions at Kansas City and Wichita, Kan.
| Harry Hatters, japanese, proprie-
| tor of a barber shop in Swink, Colo,
was shot through the body and in
stantly killed by an unknown assail-
ant, believed to be another Japanese.
The shooting occurred in building
in the rear of the Saddle Rock restau-
rant in Swink No further particulars
of the shooting have yet been obtain
ed. The only suspect arrested so far
is Japanese, who cannot speak Eng
lish, and has failed to shed any light
on the affair.
A water system adequate for many
years has been founded by city Off
cials of Fleming who will submit a
$4,000 bond proposal next month to
taxpayers. The village has closed a
deal for half acre of ground in the
west part of the town, for $1,000 1t
is considered record price for land
in Logan county On this plot is To-
Gated a fine well of water and work
will commence at once on another
well, which Will give the town three
municipal wells.
Inquiries are coming in daily from
Eastern capitalists who are anxious
for investments in Gilpin county mines
and the indications are that 1920 will
show Il much greater activity i'll the
mining industry than for many years
past. The handicap that has been
placed on the mines which produce
only gold by the high cost of labor and
mining supplies, with the staple and
one price for the yellow metal of S20.67
per ounce, has retarded operation and
production on those properties.
Federal aid for the construction of
; four stretches of road in Colorado to
cost an aggregate of S2TS,200 is asked
by the state highway commission in
plans just submitted to the Denver
district office of the United States
bureau of roads. Chief among the
projects is the building of a 276-mile
stretch over Battle mountain between
Red Cliff and Minturn at an expense
of $4,000, of which amount the fed
eral government is asked to pay 500
200, or the maximum allowed under
the law for project of that length.
Incomplete estimates made by the
State Cooperative Crop Reporting
Service show that the value of all
5 crops in the state this year is in ex-
cess of S17O,000,000, 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 little short of SIT ,0OO,-
, 000 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
10 be little short of S51,000,0O0 or
: considerably less than one-thrd of the
value of this years output
' With throat cut from ear to ear,
the body of DR.. Woodford L. Tiney
' 43 years old, Denver dentist and
I graduate of the School of Dentistry OF
l | the University of Denvar ,uas dis