The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-04-18
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Repairs will b completed at the Oh
well OF the Lincoln County Oil Com
pany At Hugo. and drilling will be re-
sumsd At once
A foot Of snow fell on the level and
drifted in some places to q depth of
four and five feet covered all Of Weld
county last week
The latest word received in Denver
relative to the departure Of the Eighty
ninth division for America sets the
date Of embarkation a. May 10th.
Fifteen acres OF land near Ault.
known a. the johnson place was sold
for 900. or $500 an acre. which is
almost 4 record price for land in this
section.
The Pueblo knights Of Columbus,
Council No. 557. will erect q building
costing 500. 900 soon. The exact site
has not been chosen yet. but some OF
the most centrally located building
sites in town are being considered.
The Moffat tunnel measure, the
$4,000. 900 highway bond resolution
and the bill for increased Industrial
compensation benefits have been
signed by Gov. Oliver H Shoup, thus
completing the course Of legislative
enactment,
Drilling in the Round Buttes oil
field. which has been in progress al
Carr, Colo, by the Cactus OIL Com
pany for some weeks and which has
progressed to the depth Of nearly 1000
fest without striking oil in paying
quantities, has ceased and the rig will
b taken to other fields
Ars Nancy Bush. 10. was found
guilty Of murder In the second degree
BY q Jury which returned its verdict At
Nontrose in the trial OF the aged WON
an for the killing OF her son, John
Bush, on the night Of Dec Is, 1917
The verdict carries a penalty Of from
tsn years to life imprisonment
Dean H. Martyr Hart, after forty
years residence in the United States,
received his final naturalization pa
psrs. He came to Denver from Eng,
yer ever since. He filed his first papers
April %. 1915. He was admitted to
citizenship by Federal Judge Robert
z. Lewis.
The first cut in railroad fare since
the war tax was added to the price of
In reduction of 3 cents in the price
of tickets from Walker to Longmont.
This takes off the war tax, and 1t is
said that the Great Western road 10
going to announce more reductions in
a short time
Sale of approximately 400 acres of
land four miles south of Longmont, for
100000 is recorded in warranty
deed filed In the office Of the county
clerk 1t is the largest realty deal
transacted since County Clerk Beck
with took office four years ago and Is
one of the biggest made in Boulder
county for many years.
Sufficient pinto beans to give each
one of Weld county's 10000 Inhabitants
n ration Of forty pounds and potatoes
sufficient to give each inhabitant a
sack will perish in that county this
spring and summer because of unfav.
orable road conditions and inadequacy
of railroad facilities for shipping the
Spuds and lack of market for the
beans.
Additions which will give more than
an acre of new show space in connec-
81, 81.
Union Stockyards, and that will cost
between S125,0OO and 100000. are be-
ing planned by heads of the Stock
yards Company. The addition will be
In the form Of a new building, imine-
diately adjoining the present stadium.
1t will be ready for 1920 stock show.
The Steamboat Springs Commercial
Club has been organized. So anxious
were the business men to get the or
ganization perfected that a constitu-
ton was adopted and all preliminary
work done the first night.
Fire Of unknown origin started in
the big grocery and meat market of
the Miners Association, Lafayette, de-
stroyed the building and its contents
as well as the grocery store OF John
Gordon and the residence of William
Wehman, causing loss Of $13. 500. The
Miners Association estimates its loss
at 5000. with 5000 Insurance. Cor
don's loss 10 5000 with 81 200 insur-
ance. The Wehman residence was
worth $2.5OO
Colonel Barney, recruiting officer in
charge Of recruiting in Colorado and
Wyoming, has been definitely in
formed that he can promise service In
China, Hawaii. the Philippines or Pan
anna, and all enlistments are for three
years flat, with no reserve. Likewise
he is enlisting men for duty in France
and on the Rhine In the American Ex-
peditionary Forces Colored men
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