Cheyenne record., 1919-06-26

meet IN denver, July IL, IL, 1913.
Logan county, which leads all other
counties Of the state in the percentage
Of its land in cultivation, has approx.
mately 2,3OO farms, with total OF
614.731 acres. This county has approx.
imately 100000 acres Of wheat for the
| 1919 harvest
George w. Olinger of Denver was
elected president of the Colorado State
Sunday School Association for the
coming year at the closing session of
the annual convention of that organiza.
ton in Pueblo Twelve hundred dele.
gates attended the meeting.
Lake county, Colorados premier
mineral producing county, shipped met
ais to the value of $41O, 100000 to the
end of 1918. Silver leads In value,
with u production worth approximate.
ly $1S4, 900, and zinc stands second,
with about $8O,OOO,OOO
An exceedingly rich strike of gold
and silver ore has just been reported
in the GOlconda mine in Horseshoe
basin, fifteen miles up Hanson creek
from Lake City. There is, according
to the report, over six feet of ore,
three feet of which will run from
900 to $1,000 per ton, about equally
In gold and silver.
An important strike of good ore in
IL large ore shoot has been made at q
depth Of 1900 feet in the Vindicutor
mine on Bull hill at Victor. The dis
covery is in section of the mine
which has not been worked for several
years. 1t is believed that the diScov
cry Is the Old Lille vein that yielded
so richly years ago.
Hurled sixty feet from the side car
of IL motorcycle when a southbound
Union Pacific train crashed into the
machine in which she was riding five
miles east of I.oveland, Mrs. William
Tracy, was instantly killed, and Mrs.
Verne Tippits, driver of the vehicle
received injuries which it is feared
may cause her DEATH
Albert Bevan, IL, and Frank McCar-
thy, IA, rescued Jack Simpson, 10,
from drowning ut Colorado Springs. 1t
was Bevan's fourth life-saving exploit
and McCarthy's second. The Simpson
hoy, too, participated in the event for
the second time, as Bevan pulled him
out of reservoir last summer after
he had sunk for the third time
Believing that male Juvenile ieln-
Quency and incorrigibility are largely
due to nasal maIfOrmations, diseased
or enlarged adenOids and lonsils,
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.
Compulsory voting and minimum
wage of 1925 for state employees are
two additional matters that Gov. Oil
yer H. Shoup will be asked to include
in the call for n special session Of the
Legislature, to be assembled for the
primary purpose of rntifyng the wom.
an suffrage amendment to the consti-
tuition of the United States.
ColoradO's public school fund has
produced in the last six months more
than $40O,0OO, which is to be distrib.
uted July | to the siXty-three counties
of the state ON the basis of school pop,
ulation for use of the county schools
This Is the largest sum in the history
Of the state which has been produced
and distributed ia this manner, the
previous high figure having been the
1921 900 distributed Jan. l last The
| public school fund now amounts to So.
:30, $50, that being the total June 1
| The sum to be distributed next month
Is made up of the interest on the total
fund.- rentals on state lands and inter.
| on fafarra1 m v,nontv roId into ho
| fund by buyers of state land.
| Boys and girls pig-raising clubs
have now been organized by County
Agent NJ. F. Knapp and his assistants
in practically every large town in
Weld county. Clubs are in existence
mt Greeley, kersey, Johnstown, Ault,
Eaton, Windsor and PIatteville. More
than 100 pure-bred pigs have been
purchased by the club members.
George Engel, pioneer Douglas coun-
ty rancher, committed suicide by hang
Ing near his home in Lower Lake
gulch, about eight miles southwest
from Castle Rock. Members of the
family being unable to find the father
called for assistance from Castle Rock
and, after untiring search. he was To-
Gated in an unfrequented gulch, hang
ing from limb of a tree.
George BOsko, convicted of killing
Elton c. Parks and VIII T. Hunter on
the Rye road near Pueblo on the after
noon of April II, was sentenced to be
hanged during the week beginning
Sept. %. Tom Bosko. Il brother of the
doomed man, was given life imprison-
ment. 1t is likely that appeal to the
Supreme Court will be made. The at
torneys have sixty days in which to
file their bill Of exceptions.
Hughie Burns, a miner, 35 years old,
! committed suicide in sensational