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

growers Of Montross and the Holly Su-
gar corporation has been definitely set
tied and the growers will plant plenty
Of sugar beets. The total crop will be
about 10000 acres or enough to fur
Dish 10000 tons. The beet growers
won their &1O-a-ton price for all beets
delivered up to q certain time, late IN
the fall, and after that the market on
sugar is to determine the price Every
thing has been satisfa ctOrily arranged
whisky laden automobile. which
was taken by the sheriff when It's
driver fled. was confiscatsd with the
liquor by County Judge Hood at Brigh-
ton when the case came up. Alice May
Richards. mortgage Of the car. VIII
carry the case to the Supreme Court
in an endeavor to get possession Of ii.
When the car was abandoned by its
driver a bloody coat and smashed
windshield showed the effects Of the
sheriffs buckshot.
Reports from fifty-one school dis
tricts out Of total Of 40 in Weld
county show that twenty-seven nation
alities are represented in the schools.
and that twenty one Of these are found
In Greeley. In the sixty-One districts
LII children were reported as being
of foreign parentage, and 3,1So OF
American native born parentage. Rus
SLAMS lead the foreign group, with IA
per cent.
Montrose is the third best banking
city on the Western slope at present,
and the bankers say to watch for one
year and see who's who on the West
ern slope Durango leads with re-
sources OF 1925 5,5139S Grand juno
tion is next with $S,245, 1852. 16. and
Montrose third with 81, 2,3Ss, 1902. The
population Of the three cities at pres
ent is: Grand Junction, 10000; Duran
go, $500, and Montrose, $4.1OO.
Tomey Knzer. employed at the Cres-
son mine. was crushed fiat a. q piece
Of paper at Victor when sixteen tons
Of rock fell ten feet. catching him un-
der it. The rock was used az coun-
terweight on the Cresson mine tram
way cable and the cable parted while
A fellow workman who was on top OF
the counterweight sustained a broken
leg when 1t fell.
To be buried under q snow slide in
. bed room isn't an experience to be
desired, but A. L. Chapman and Don
aid Stewart, miners of Telluride. re-
Gently experienced 1t without injury.
A snowslide engulfsd their boarding
house and filled their bedroom with
eight feet OF snow. Rescuers were
forced to cut a hole in the side of
the house to dig the men out.
Labor leaders and state officials
who have to do with industrial affairs
assured Samuel D. Nicholson, state
chairman of the coming Victory loan
campaign. that labor stands ready and
willing to meet the obligation to be i'm
posed on 1t and will make sacrifice
In order that Colorado may again sub
scribe more than Its loan quota.
A moonshine still was raided at the
home of Gus Lindstrum in Santa Rita
a suburb of Victor. by Sheriff Won
Publ and Assistant District Attorney
Shaw. The still, made of copper, was
in operation when the officers ap'
peared. 1t was located in an outbuild
ing and several gallons of raw white
whisky were seized.
Littleton voters approved two bond
issues in the town and school elections
An issue for 100000 to erect new
high school building carried by vote
OF 252 to IS. and proposal to bono
the city for 5000 to construct a new
municipal building was approved, s.
to 6S. But one municipal ticket was
in the field.
Owing to the prevalence of influenza
and the fact that there was only one
set Of candidates in the election al
Dillon, a light vote was cast. The
following We're elected: For Mayor, H
T. Hamilton; for town trustees fol
two years, r. E. wehrley, James Tus
sey and Frank Carmen.
FOrty-six per cent of the commits
stoned officers who were on the arm,
lists Nov. IL, 1918, had been discharged
on March 20 last. A statistical repOr
prepared by the general staff showed
that Of the 1SS, ,434 officers on dut,
when the armlstice was signed, 102, Al:
were in service on March 20. The
greatest reduction was In the chemica
warfare service. SO per cent Of its com
missiOned personnel having been re
leased.
Parvino Parmona, a Pueblo Italian
was beheaded at Pueblo when he at
tempted to steal ride on q Missouri
Pacific freight train in the yards 4
brakeman saw him along the track
carrying an overcoat, and, looking
back a moment later saw him fall from
between two cars and the train pasl
over his neck