The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-06-20
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
7estern Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
The Colorado Editorial Association
meet in Denver. July II. T. 1919


meet in Denver. July II. 12. 1919.
Colorado Tesshers' college opened
its summer term at Greeley with an
enrolment of 1,5OO students, the larg-
est in the history of the college, Twen-
ty-one states are represented in the
summer school student body.
After quarrel which lasted for sew
eral hours, c. NJ. "Cy' Gibson, 40 years
old, local horse trader, shot Leonard
Hadley, q years old, at Loveland,
through the right shoulder and
through the head. Hadley was rushed
to the hospital where he is in a serious
condition.
The Fourth of July committee has
decided upon two-day celebration
| and welcome to Summit county's re-
turning soldiers at Breckenridge. The
usual mining camp program, with a
possible barbecue, ball game, athletic
contests, public speaking and ball
at the windup, is on the program so
far.
An important strike of good ore in
a large ore shoot has been made at
depth of 1000 feet in the Vindicator
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.
Fred Burnett, farmer in Morgan
| county, narrowly escaped death when
his car skidded in crossing the Platte
river near Snyder. He was thrown
into the river and, owing to the shall
lowness of the stream, escaped drown
ing. The car was upset in the river
and Burnett was pinned beneath the
car, but the river at that place was
only few inches deep, owing to the
dry season.
Judge Henry c. Hersey of Denver
will hear the suit between the Lake
county and Summit county commits
sioners over the boundary between
those counties. The case is set for
hearing on September 10th at Lead
vile. Owing to the fact that District
Judge Francis f. Bouck is a resident
Of Lake county, he decided that an
outside or nonresident judge be asked
to hear the case.
Cecil Roy McAtee, 9-year-old son of
, Mr.. and Mrs Roy McAtee. living four
miles north of Fort Collins, was fa-
tally injured in Rist cafion, seventeen
miles west of that city, when he was
jolted from an automobile seat and
, crushed between the machine and a
l. tree. The McAtees had spent the day
visiting relatives at the head of the
canon and were on their way home
i when the accident happened.
Pay-as-you-enter street cars now
+ cover all traction lines in Colorado
Springs, and the service has been inn
proved from three to ten minutes on
a all routes The cars have been in the
v local barns for several months, but
n the conductors refused to take them
$ out until they received a wage in
o crease. This became possible ten days
Q ago when by stipulation the public
utilities commission and the munich
n pal council agreed on a 6-cent fare.
: Placerville, Colo, was practically
. destroyed by fire that caused a loss
estimated at S175,000. The D. & R. G.
=. Railroad Company sustained a loss OF
n almost $4,000 when the freight depot
and other outlying structures were
burned to the ground. 1t is estimated
that $4,000 worth of freight was con
u sumed Traffic was delayed for q
:. short while, but is now normal. The
fire consumed the railroad warehouses
y and outbuildings, garages, stables
postoffice, general store and three
= = story business block. 1t is not known
whether the postoffice records were
saved.
Compulsory voting and a minimum
wage of S125 for state employees are
- two additional matters that Gov Oil
u yer III. Shoup will be asked to include
~ in the call for a special session of the
ni Legislature, to be assembled for the
n primary purpose of ratifying the WON
&c an suffrage amendment to the consti
II tuition of the United States
III. F. Vorbeck, commissioner of fl
'e nance, estimates Grand functions
IL population at 5000. He declares ev.
= cry house is occupied and that the
1t habitable capacity of the city is slight
ly less than 10000. The city's bonded
5 Indebtedness is s593,0O6, less the sink.
d" ing fund, which reduces the indebted
Il ness to slightly more than 100000
The assessed valuation is S7,0S7,719.
II would rather die than go te
10 Canon City" was the remark of Frank
- De West, who broke Jail at La Junta
>, after being sentenced to the peniten
:, tiary to from eighteen months to two
ls years. De West was recaptured in
II Pueblo, after making the trip by con
II cealing himself underneath the coal or
70 the engine tender The first sentence
# was revoked, and he was resentenced
n to serve from five to eight years fol
his brief liberty
. A forty-foot plunge over an embank.
q ment on the Brighton road one mile
% north of the Riverside cemetery may
N prove fatal for Mrs Emma Converse