The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-06-13
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service
COMING EVENTS.
The Colorado Editorial Association
meet in Denver. July IL, 12, 1919

is the most Important, should have
been made as soon as the blossoms
were well off the trees
Vandals have looted the building be-
longing to the Breckenridge Gun Club
at Breckenridge and caused destruc-
ton to valuable property.
A complete counterfeiting plant
ready for operation was unearthed
and the two men held responsible for
its erection taken into custody in
Boulder canon, eighteen miles west of
United States secret service, Sheriff
Robert Euler and two deputies.
A balance of $9,65O, 169OS on May 81
is the amount on hand in the state
treasury, according to Harry f. Null
nix, treasurer This is an increase of
S1,300,000 over the balance on hand
Feb. IS. The receipts for the last
quarter We're S4,643, ,045. 40 and the dis
bursements S3,311,4S5.9T
An offer of 800 acres of land by
the city of Colorado Springs for a site
for a military sanatorium cannot be
accepted by the government, the comp
troller of the treasury ruled because
Congress in authorizing construction
of military hospitals did not include
Colorado Springs among the places
named
The first distinguished service med
al presented in Colorado was given to
Wendell w. Jacobs of Colorado
Springs by Lieut.. Col. C. NJ Barney,
commander of the Denver army re-
cruiting station. Private Jacobs was
with Company C, 341st Machine Gun
Battalion, and was cited for extraor-
dinary heroism.
The Greeley Commercial Club will
protest efforts of the railroads to
change the minimum loading require
ments for lambs shipped from north
ern Colorado. Local shippers say that
the proposed change will cause an ad-
ditional charge of $50 upon every car
load of lambs. shipped from the Gree
ley and Fort Collins district.
Maintenance of the government guar
anteed price of 1925 bushel to the
wheat producer is absolutely neces-
sary to assure the production needed
TO care for the world wants, it WAS de-
clared by Julius Barnes, United Stated
wheat director. presiding at confer
ence of 80 representatives of all the
grain industries of this country in New
YORK
The week of Jun& end to.2Sth, r.
elusive, has been declared mo acei-
dent week" by Hale Haddon, regional
director of railroads, and in this week
the 305,O00 railroad employees in the
central western region will not only
be watchful against accidents to them
selves, but to the public. 1t is an ed
ucational week designed to prevent
railroad accidents.
The Denver mint, after July 1st, will
pay the regular market price for sill
yer. Instructions to this effect were
received by Superintendent Thomas
Annear from the director of the mint
at Washington, d. G. During the war
the price paid for silver by .he mint
was 81 an ounce. This fixed price
was only a war measure and is to be
abandoned on July 1st.
building permit has been ISSUED
for the first hangar to be built by the
Humphreys Aeroplane Com
pany of Denver, which starts its Estes
Park aerial bus line in a few weeks
The hangar, frame structure 70xS(
feet in dimension, will be built at 690l
East Twenty-sixth avenue, on the
| Oneida street flying field, which was
used by the Victory loan circus. II
will cost $1,000.
Hay is Colorado's banner crop. Its
value last year was about S42, 900, 900
or approximately as much as the val
ne of the states total metal output
for the same year
Salida stockmen and business men
| have signed Il contract for six air
| plane flights to be held In that city
July 4th and 9th by Aviator Brock of
| Chicago, one of the most daring ex-
hibition fliers in the country Two
flights will be given each afternoon
and one at night accompanied by fire
works bombardment. Ten thousand
visitors are expected in Salida on the
two days from western and southern
Colorado.
Ernest Jannucci, a coal miner, was
shot in the left arm and left hip at
Louisville, by three unknown holdups.
Jannucci had just alighted from car
from Denver and was walking UP the
street toward home when three men
stepped out of an alley and command
ed him to throw up his hands. The
coal miner refused and dashed away
amid the flying bullets. One bullet
lodging in his left arm and another
in his left hip. He was rushed to
the hospital where his condition is not
considered serious
All public offices in cities having a
population of 25,0O0 or more closed at
l o'clock Saturday afternoon and will
be closed every Saturday at that hour
during June, July and August. The
Twenty-second General Assembly ep-