The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-12-12
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

S5DUUU mas Deeu IdiScu UP " t'ee'> -
the campaign of the Colorado Pubic
Health Association for funds TO carr!
on its work in 1920. Saguache county
| holds the record as being the first Iii
The state to complete its quota. sum
nit county is close behind having re-
| ported two-thirds of its quota collected
and the remainder in sight. Pueblo
county reported $5,0S2 on December
Sth Willie Weld, Boulder and Larimef
counties are just beginning their. ac-
tive work. Denver has raised S2a,ooo
to date and expects to continue the
sale of Christmas seals for some tiine.
Due to the snow and cold weather the
campaign has been delayed in many
sections of the state but all the coun-
ties report confidently that they eN-
pect to raise their quota before Christ
| mas.
American boys who fought in the
| great European war are keenly inter-
ested In the national campaign which
has been undertaken TO eradicate tu-
berculosis. Official support of the
Christmas seal campaign by whlch
funds are being raised by the National
Tuberculosis Association and its state
branches for the fight against the
| white plague is announced by the
| American Legion which adopted reso-
| lutions to that effect at the national
convention held in Minneapolis. Army
men realize the need of this work from
| the fact that draft statistics show that
enough men to comprise nearly three
divisions were rejected as unfit for
military duty. The local work is be-
ing carried on by the Colorado Public
Health Association.
| All commercial bodies in the state
| will be asked to cooperate with the
| State immigration Department in max
ing a manufacturing survey of the
| state early in 1920. The Board of
Immigration voted at its November
| meeting to have this survey conducted,
| and an effort will be made to get the
work under way sometime in January
covering operations of manufacturing
establishments for the calendar year
| 1919 The federal census inquiry Will
| be made about the same time and
many Of the items of information com
piled by manufacturers for this inquiry
may be used without change for the
state inquiry.
In one of the first convictions re
turned under the Colorado trust Jaw.
James NJ Campbell, Frank Theobali,
E. W. Patterson, T. S. Barnes and
Thomas McCarty, members of the Mas
ter Plumbers Association, were found
guilty in the District Court at Colo
| RADIO Springs of the charge of unlaw-
| full combination in restraint of trade
| 1t Is the first decision in the plumb
| ing trust cases which have been in the
courts since November, 1917.
The value of all livestock on the
| farms in Colorado in 1912 as estimat-
ed by the Bureau of Crop Estimates
i of. the United States Department OF
! Agriculture, was S172,751 900. Asses
sors' reports show increases this year
in practically all classes of livestock,
| so that indications are that the State
Cooperative Crop Reporting Service
will find the value of livestock on
farms January 1, 1920, to be close to
| 5000, ,O00,O
| Struck by mammoth rock while at
work in the Sopris mine of the Colo
RADIO Fuel and Iron Company, Antonio
Salla, coal miner, 80 years old, was
| instantly killed. The rock, weighing
several tons, struck Salla on the head.
| crushing 1t to pulp and scattering
brains about the working place. The
| lower portion of the body was also
! badly crushed. The dead man leaves a
| widow and two children at Sopr'.s.
A new Boulder beet sugar company,
capitalized at S2,0O0,000, has filed in
CORPORATION papers with the secretary
| of state. 1t is to be known as the
Farmers Independent Sugar Company
Erection and operation of sugar plants
| growing, buying and selling of sugar
| beets. acquisition of livestock, and
other interests are stated as among the
| purposes of the concern.
Girard Douglas, colored youth
charged with a statutory offense fol
lowing his alleged attack upon Miss
Lutte Marshall, a Sophomore student
| in Colorado College, on the night OF
Nov. IA. will be taken to Colorado
Springs for trial on the first day of
the January term of the Dlstrlct court
the January term of the District Court
Court requesting his delivery into the
court on that day.
Due to the stimulus of the two
weeks campaign to secure jobs fo' ex
service men, employers in Denver arc
Colorado have responded to The cal
to such an extent that job is wait
ing for every Yank who is qualified tt
fill it, according to reports received al
the rehabilitation bureau in vh'
Chamber of Commerce building in Den
YER
Frank Crossen, well known farmel
and stockman living near karvai II
the southern part of Lincoln county, !
in q Hupo hoSpital in q serious cOndi