The Elbert County tribune., 1919-08-29
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

70 9th. The state has acquired title
to the fair grounds through purchase
with funds granted in a special appro-
prinfion. The tax levy is being used
in the payment of premiums and other
Items Of expense of an educational
character. In addition the State Fair
Commission is spending $4,000 on the
sports and amusement program. 1t Is
to be Colorado's first 100000 fair.
The contests In all departments have
been thrown. open to the world and
the liberal premiums have attracted
entries from all surrounding states.
Marked success Is being had by the
Stnte Fish and Game Department In
the use of retaining ponds adjacent
to natural streams for the growing OF
trout to a fingers length before plac-
ing them in the creeks and rivers, ac-
cording to Roland G. Parvin, state
fish and game commissioner. Already
ten such ponds in different parts OF
the state have been established under
direction of Commissioner Parvin, who
IL the first head of the department to
cnrry out the idea on a statewide
scale.
Curator Junius Henderson of the
university at Boulder, will spend most
OF his time this year collecting war
relies to be added to the already num-
erous Instruments of war contributed
by returned soldiers. who were form
erly students in the university. Miss
Charlotte Ball, daughter of Colonel
Ball Of Boulder. recently deposited
German helmet, to have been used in
the ''triumphai entry into Paris, in the
university collection.
Enough freight cars to handle expe-
ditiously the wheat and beet crops of
Colorado are at the disposal of the
Colorado & Southern railroad, it was
announced by officials of the com
pany. Approximately 400 cars are on
the tracks In northern Colorado ready
for shipment In about thirty days. The
crop, according to estimates made by
the railroad company, is 10 per cent
heavier than last year.
c. B. Akard and wife of Montrose
have announced the donation of full
chime pipe organ to be installed in the
new Congregational church now under
construction In that city. The organ
Will be memorial to their daughter.
Mattye Shirley Akard. deceased. The
organ, which Is being constructed es-
pecially for the space in the church,
will be one of the finest In the state.
Six persons narrowly escaped death
when the auto in which they were rid
ing plunged off the road in Phantom
cafion, near Victor, down fifty-fooi
embankment, landing on its right side
The party, which was made up Of Mr.
and Mrs. John Butler and four child
ren. tourists, were rushed to the dis
trict hospital by passing motorists
and all are in serious condition.
Rose Fiscus, 19-year-old daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. c. L. Fiscus of Pueblo.
was instantly killed when the auto
mobile she was driving pitched over
n forty-foot embankment INTO the st.
Charles river nine miles east of
Pueblo. Her mother. sister, Augusta,
IL years old. and 2-year-old brother
were with her, but escaped from the
wreck with only minor injuries.
An ak and knife were used by
Frank Ballegos in killing Mercurio
Ballegos, his uncle, near La Posta, ac-
cording to a statement made in Du-
range, by Mrs. Bellegos, 1S-year-old
wife of the murdered man, who is in
jail with his nephew. Ballegos 2-year-
old son was witness to the murder,
which took place in the Ballegos home,
according to the child's mother
The mystery of the robbery of zinc
precipltates, valued at $1,000, from the
Independence mill of of the Portland
Gold Mining Company was solved
when Sheriff Henry Won Phul of Grip
pie Creek, assisted by Sheriff John II.
Weir of Colorado Springs, apprehend-
ed Robert Burns of Victor, at Manitou.
About 500 pounds of the precipitates
We're recovered.
Experts who have examined irriga-
ton conditions carefully In Colorado
estimate that nearly 100000 acres of
land for which irrigation water is
available has been damaged by seep-
age or over-irrigation and alkali and
that practically all of it could be made
as productive as 1t ever was by proper
drainage.
Ticket business in the Union station
In Denver is averaging $4,000 day,
which is taken by officials of the ter
minal company as certain indication
of theimportance of Denver. Ten years
ago the average days business was
$4,000 and $1,000 was business so
great for one day as to cause comment
among the officials.
A paving project TO cost 100000
ind provide hard surfaced highways
through Colorado Spring from north to
south and from east to west has been
indorsed by the Colorado Springs Au-
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