The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-06-27
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

SOMING EVENTS.
The Colorado Editorial Association
meet in Denver, July IL. II. 1919.
The fire in the San Isabel national
forest has been reported at an end
Forest rangers are still watchful as the
wind might blow the smoldering EN-
bers and cause renewal of the fire
The fire destroyed 1000 acres of tim
ber
With the price of wheat still fixed
until the 1919 crop is sold Colorado
farmers will receive from their output
this year if conditions remain favor
able until harvest, approximately $40,
100000, or only about $10,0O0,00O less
than the farm value of all crops grown
in the state in 1909.
According to Colonel Bower, piop
neer resident of Palisade, the CHIEF
peach growing section of the western
slope, the indications for a bumper
peach yield was never better He pre-
diets that not less than $50 carloads
will be shipped from Vineland, load
ing point at Palisade, during the com
ing season.
Hurled sixty feet from the side car
of motorcycle when a southeound
Union Pacific train crashed into the
machine in which she was riding five
miles east of Loveland, Mrs. William
Tracy, was instantly killed, and Mrs.
Verne Tippits, driver of the vehicle
received injuries which it is feared
may cause her death.
Believing that male juvenile delin-
quency and incorrigibility are largely
due to nasal malformations, diseased
or enlarged adenoids and tonsils,
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.
Wyborn l. Cunningham, attorney
and graduate of Denver University
law school, and his school companion
Perry Jackson, were married at Castle
Rock to Misses Floss and Eunice Got
hard. The young men have been chums
since boyhood, graduating together in
high school and college, and serving to-
gether on the battlefields of France.
Boys and girls pig-raising clubs
have now been organized by County
Agent NJ E. Knapp and his assistants
in practically every large town in
Weld county Clubs are in existence
at Greeley, Kersey, Johnstown, Ault-
Eaton. Windsor and Platteviile. More
than 100 pure-bred pigs have been
; purchased by the club members.
, Albert Bevan, 10, and Frank McCar
, thy, IA, rescued Jack Simpson, 10
from aand ipg at Colorado Springs. L
, was ss,.A ,5fpurth life-sa*ins explol
and al<slys second. The Simpson
boy, too, participated in the event TO
the second time, as Bevan pulled hin
out of a reservoir last summer afte
he had sunk for the third time.
i, The Pixies Peak region will becom
= the background of series of picture
of Bible times which are to be pro
: duced at Colorado Springs. \ Studio
has been erected and the Garden o
the Gods, Seven Falls, Cheyenne
e mountain and the slopes and SUNNI
o of Pixies Peak soon will become tn,
t setting for a screen drama which hat
# its origin in Palestine.
. George Bosko, convicted of KILN
: Elton c. Parks and viii T. Hunter OF
:, . the Rye road near Pueblo on the after
Z, noon of April II, was sentenced to b
a hanged during the week beginning
. Sept %. Ton Bosko, a brother of tin
doomed man, was given life imprison
: ment. 1t is likely that appeal to tn
:, Supreme Court will be made. The al
:, torneys have sixty days in which t
. file their bill of exceptions
l. A thirty days stay of execution ha
a been granted Cruz Romero and Cliff
: ford Sproul, condemned prisoners a
q the penitentiary, who were sentenced
to be hanged during the last week II
June. Their execution will now TAX
;. place some time during the week be
1 ginning July Goth, unless further elem
:, ency is granted by the Supreme Cour
y or the governor. The stay of execution
was granted in order that their case
might be reviewed by the State Boart
of PardonS, which meets on June 29th
= CoIorado's public school fund ha
q produced in the last six months NOR
A than 100000, which is to be distrib
! uted July to the sixty-three countie
of the state on the basis of school pop
ulation for use of the county schools
This is the largest sum in the hstor.
:. of the state which has been produce,
. and distributed in this manner, tn
previous high figure having been th
: 1921, 900 distributed Jan. 1 last. Th
;, public school fund now amounts to $5,
] 1886, $50, that being the total June
O The sum to be distributed next montl
q is made up of the interest on the tota
q fund, rentals on state lands and inter
/. est on deferred payments paid into th'
fund by buyers of state land.
t. An exceedingly rich strike of golt