The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-04-02
COLORADO
STATE NEW S

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western Gunnison county is announced
as one of many development projects
to be undertaken in that county this
summer.
f. w. Powers, who is in the employ
of the Biological Survey of the govern
ment in it's efforts to extermihate
predatory animals in the Rocky Noun
tain region, killed big mountain lion
near Echo, about fifteen miles up the
river from Canon City.
A. A. Bennett of the Trinidad Fin
and Feather Club has announced that
$4,000 Eastern brook trout have been
parts of Las Animas county. These in
addition to the carload of trout fry
put i'll late last summer have made the
streams in the Stonewal country fair
" alive with fish
Farmers in the Maynard Flats dis
trict, east of Ault, will have plenty OF
water for irrigation this season. as
they are putting down irrigation wells
and installing pumping plants for that
purpose Last season the irrigation
water ran short, but this year at least
fly good wells will be completed in
time for the growing season.
A. H. MohIer, former president of
the Union Pacific, will 90 to Greeley
April 25th to attend meeting of the
Greeley-Poudre Land Owners Associ-
ation Mr.. Mohler, J. X. Mullen of
Denver and c. r. Ahlstrand of Gree
ley comprise the Landowners ENecu-
tive Committee which is working out
the problem of rehabilitating the
Greeley-Poudrc irrigation district.
Herbert Whorten, 13 years old, will
probably lose his left foot us the re-
suit of being thrown under II heavy
| disk harrow on Il ranch twcnty-siN
miles east of Hudson. The three
horses attached to the disk ran away,
and the youngster was thrown from
i his seat ana the heavy machine passed
over him. The boy was taken to
Denver for surgical treatment.
Rienzi Dickens is to be retired some
time during the April term of the Dis
trict court nt Boulder, according to an
announcement made by Deputy Dis
trict Attorney George Pomeroy. Dick
ems is now in California. He is charged
| with killing his father, w. A. Dickens,
a wealthy LongmOnt banker. The first
| trial four ye:lrs ago resulted in YER
diet of guilty, but the Supreme court
| recently remandcd the case back for
new trial.
Caroline Jones. 1T-year-old school
girl. WAS found guilty of voluntary
manslaJghter at Durango. This YER
dict w.ts returned by the jury, which
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ing her trial on Il charge of shooting
and killing Carl Bay. young returned
soldier in an alley at the rear of his
home in Bayfield, last January. Under
the Colorado statutes the penalty for
voluntary mansaughter is impris0n
ment at the state pententiary for
from one to eight years. Miss Jones
displayed no signs of emotion when
the iury's finding was returned. The
defense announced it would appeal.
Chief Quartermaster Edeart l.. Ost-
rander who resides at Golden, Colo,
re-enisted mt the navy yard, at Ports
mouth, n H., and has been trans
ferred TO the o. s. Navy Recruiting
Station, Denver. Colo. Chief Ostran-
der is considered a first-cass athlete,
motorcycling being his long suit, and
+, is ready for race at any time. While
at the Portsmouth station he organized
the All Navy Basketball team that won
~ of the A games they played, there
by carrying away the big cup. While
in the Asiatic fleet he was coxswain of
the fast L. s. S. Denver race boat that
cleaned UP the station.
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ty pieces of war material captured by
American troops from the German
army will be distributed in Colorado,
according to Il confidential meinoran-
dun sent by the War Department to
Chairman julius Kahn of the House
military committee. The various
states will share, according to the per-
centage of troops furnished in the al
, lotment of 2,197 pieces of artillery, A.
600 war vehicles and S41, III small ar
ticles of various kinds
Figures based on the last official
college census returns, given out in
1918, show the per capita cost of state
education in Colorado as the lowest
among sixteen Western states, accord
ing to Il comparative statement just
issued by George Norlin, president of
he University of Colorado, in Boul-
der. The per capita cost on that ba-
sis was: Colorado, 66 cents; Kansas,
S cents; Nebraska 92 cents; Iowa,
~ cents; Oregon, SO cents; California,
IS cents; Washington, % cents; North
Dakota, 50 cents; South Dakota, 95
cents; Michigan, I3 cents; Minnesota,
$1.13; Wisconsin, S167; Arizona, 81 03
Montana, $1.O4; Idaho, $1.S1; Utah,
Twenty-Five citizens of Olathe have
donated ST 900 each toward the fund
for the construction of $4,000 COM
munity house in Olathe and nearly
$4,000 more has been raised in small
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