The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-12-10
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

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II Huerfano county is 1928 for the
school year Of 1920, with 120 teachers.
The Weld county commissioners
have voted to thoroughly modernize
and double the capacity of the Greeley
hospital at cost of $50, 900.
Odell de Noya, Usage squaw, was
granted divorce from Wesley de
Noya, Usage brave, in the District
Court Of Colorado Springs on charges
pf cruelty.
| Congress has been asked to apprO-
pirate $4,000 for the maintenance OF
forest experiment station in Colo
cado The station would be under the
culture
An elevator owned by the Farmers
Cooperative Elevator Company at
Paoli was destroyed by fire. About
$4,000 bushels of wheat had been
stored in the bins. The damage Is es-
timated at $25,OOO.
In an effortIto have legislation help
| ful to the livestock industry enacted
| by the present United States Congress-,
a series of kilograms addressed to all
| United States senators and represent
atives from Colorado in Washington
have been sent by the Denver Lie
stock exchange.
National parks In Colorado will need
S2O5, 600 Of the $2,476594 being asked
for from Congress for 1922, according
to the estimates prepared by Stephen
T. Mather, director of the nineteen ma
tonal parks This allotment will
cover necessary improvement funds
for the Rocky Mountain and Mesa
Verde National parks.
There is a strong movement under
way in Grand Junction and other
towns to secure the changing OF the
name of the Grand river to the Colo
RADIO river. The Grand river, which
flows through Grand Junction, is the
largest river in the state and is the
largest branch of the Colorado river.
Its junction with the Green river near
Moab, Utah, forms the Colorado river.
1 Colorado livestock took a good share
Of the prizes at the International Live
stock show in Chicago, which is de-
| elared the greatest stock show in the
/ world. "Blayney's Domino, bull be-
longing to w. N. w. Blaney of Den
yer took second prize in the two-year-
old class. In the senior yearling bull
class, sWyoming Eighth was sec
ond while Blayney's Hereford steer,
stripe was sixth in class of
thirty-six.
BY ruling of Judge Greeley w.
Whitford in the District Court in Den
yer, the Denver Gas and Electric Light
Company must pay to the city of Dem
yer $SS, ,134.24 of its collections during
the year 1915 The ruling also means
that similar share of its collections
in 1919. 1920 and future years must be
turned over to Denver, according to
attorneys involved in the case. and a
big reduction in gas and electric rates
char ged to the public is predicted it
the Supreme Court upholds Judge
Whitfords decision.
More than 5000 Boy Scouts, Camp
Fire Girls, Young Mems and Women $
Christian Association members spent
their annual outings last summer in
the national forests of Colorado,
Wyoming, South Dakota, Nebraska,
Minnesota and Michigan last year, ae
coiiling TO statistics compiled by allen
S. Peck, district forester. Scout or
ganizations in Longmost and Greeley
lhave already built permanent camp
sites for outing purposes, and 1t is
expected that many similar organiza-
tions over the state will apply for
sites for the purpose of constructing
recreational huts within the next year
The veterinary division of the Colo
RADIO Agricultural College at Fort Col
lins is the fourth largest institution OF
its kind in the United States. 1t mum
bcrs its graduates among some of the
highest-salaried veterinarians, as we'll
as some of the most noted in the
country The new hospital and labora-
tory for this department on the college
campus is almost completed and will
be one of the finest and most mo lern
in the West
The first suit Of Its kind to be filed
in Pueblo county was brought by At
iorney General Victor Keyes of Colo
RADIO for the collection of Sc, ,9S4 alleged
to be due the state from the / per
cent tax on gasoline and oil up 10
Nov l. The defendant is the Jewel
Oil Company of Pueblo and it is
alleged that the tax which is collected
by the companies selling gasoline and
all products of gasoline and which,
under the law, should be turned over
to the state. has been withheld by the
company. The suit is in line with tho
announced plan of the attorney gen
eral to sue the companies that have
tftn collie .t'rg tile lax on every gal
Ion of gasoline or oil and holding 1t to
their own use
Clinton r. Coles and John okkire
are under arrest at Fort Col
Inns, charged with attempting to
defrand the Colorado Agricultur-
al College out of more than ST.