The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-03-14
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

Western Newspaper Union News Service
Reports of county assessors show II
.otal Of ri. 49l .39O acres of patented
and In the state in 1918, compared
with total of 25,l49.454 acres for
1917.
Former Governor Elias n. Ammons
mas been selected as president to head
Denver's next Stock Show, at the an
nual meeting Of the directors held in
Denver.
Colorado has 2S5.073 miles on tele-
phone line. every county in the state
being represented. Telephone prop
erty in the state 10 valued for taxa,
don purposes at $12,686,S4O.
Oh excitement caused by the spad-
ding in of three wells in the Round
Butte field. west Of Carr. has caused
All unusual number of visitors and
~orkmen to 60 to that locality.
With new secretary and revived
interest by all members, the Sterling
Chamber of Commerce has taken on a
new lease of life, with promise Of con
siderable activity this season.
Hugging the borders OF Colorado.
within Two miles Of the Utah starc
line in western Montrose county. is
the smallest school in Colorado. The
building is 9x9 feet and has four pu-
pills
Philip Blanda and Fred Marone,
Italians. were found guilty Of murder
in the second degree BY jury In the
District Court at Pueblo. They were
accused of numbering Andrew ORA
gasch for the purpose Of robbery.
Potash deposits believed to be Of IN
usual extent and exceptional purity
have been discovered in the vicinity
Of Stoneham and syndicate OF Ster-
ling. Grover and Stoneham capitalists
same.
Eleven hundred jobs for returned
soldiers and sailors have been OBJ
tained through the Rocky Mountain
Auto Trades Association. This state
ment was made by Harrison Gold
smith, secretary of the association at
Pueblo.
In Leadville's second fatal mine &C
cIdent, William Germon, q, q eager
employed at the Mikado shaft. was in
stantly killed when he fell 1.2OO feet
from the cage to the bottom of the
sump. Every bone in his body was
broken.
A high-powered electric railway 10
soon to be constructed from Pueblo to
Monte Vista through the San Luis val.
ley, according to a statement made
by William Allen Hunter Of Hooper,
Colo, a retired Indianapolis capitalist,
who went to the San Luis valley In
1916 for his health.
An epidemic of fake officers has
hit Colorado Springs, with the arrest
during the last week of q half dozen
men parading in uniforms that they
were not entitled to wear. The latest
of these is Capt" c. A. Hebb, who
claimed to be Canadian captain and
that he was wounded in the fighting
on the Somme
If you stepped into a grocery store
TO buy apples and were told that they
were Sl4O each, wouldn't you be
stunned? And yet that is an every
day occurrence in the stores of Paris,
according to Il letter received in Pu
ebio from Miss Wave Richardson, 8
Pueblo girl who is engaged IN hospt
tai work in that city.
A deal of more than ordinary i'm
portance to Glenwood, deal by which
Glenwood parties secure the Hotel
Glenwood, one of the best business
properties in the city, was consum
mated f. f. Lucas and @. II. Nc,
Garthy have secured from the Bolles
estate n lease with an option to p r
chase the property, and have already
begun to remodel the property.
"Arbitration is not a substitute fol-
preparedness. but only an adjunct to
it." Gen Leonard Wood declared in an
address at Colorado Springs. THE ma.
ton which is organized and strong
can arbitrate more successfully than
one which is unarmed. Belgium trust
ed to treaty but the Swiss trusted
to organized national defense, and the
boche did not even try to go that way.
The next time France ana Belgium
will be ready. VIII we?"
All indications point to the largest
beet acreage ever planted in Arkan.
sas Valley. 1t is said that the A. b.
S. Company will have better than 23..
900 acres contracted for before plant.
ing time, and that the Holly Corpor-
alton at Swink also will have an un.
usually large acreage. 1t is also re-
ported that the American Beet Sugar
Sompany's plant at Las Animas.
which has not been operated for the
last few years, will be in operation
during the next campaign to help
make into sugar the vast amount OF
beets which will be grown. The Rocky
Ford plant, which has large capac-
ity, will be taxed to its utmost to