The Elbert County tribune., 1920-01-09
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Nestern Newspaper union News ser.lee.
COMING EvENCs.
Denver-Live Stock Show. January 1
TO "a. 1870.

plant. work to start with the close of
sugar campaign this month.
Grand county roads will be improved
with the expenditure of S175.0oO fed
eral and state funds during 1920, ac-
cording to a report from the recent
highway commission meeting
Herbert S. Hadley, former governor
of Missouri and now member of the
law faculty of the University of Colo
rado, has been appointed a member of
the Republican platform committee by
VIII ii. Hays, chairman of the national
Republican committee.
The fourteenth annual roundup of
the Delta County Livestock Association
was held In Delta The sessions were
occupied mainly by discussions of live
stock topics and business affairs. Rob
ert f. Rockwell of Paonia, state repre-
sentative, was reelected president.
A total of 3,O36 building permits
were isued during 1919, for S6,f19.SSO
worth of work, showing an increase of
16l per cent over the $50 permits is
sued in 1918 for S2,595,S90 worth of
building and repairs, according to
Chief City Building Inspector Frank
NJ Ladd of Denver.
Receipts of gold and silver bullion ut
the Denver mint in 1919 totaIed $19,-
G13,2S913. according TO announcement
by Thomas Annear. superintendent of
the mint. The bullion included ST.
773. .2SS OS of gold and S1,S40,o0105 of
silver The receipts for 1919 are ST.
Ill 900 less than in 1918.
Colorado is one of the greatest play
grounds of the nation. In 1919 more
than IA million people spent their vaca-
tions in the national forests of the
state Automobiles TO the number of
1850 also toured the forest highways
during the summer season. So vast are
these Fairgrounds to the people that IL
is impossible to go into the Rockies
without entering national forest
Picketing in strikes is forbidden by
statute in Colorado. Attorney General
Victor E. Keyes ruled in response to
an inquiry directed to him by Governor
Oliver ii. Shoup. The legal question
was raised when the steel workers
strike committee in Pueblo asked Col.
D. l.. McCunniff to lift the ban which
he had placed on picketing of the steel
works there Colonel McCunniff
passed the question up to the governor,
who in turn sought a ruling from the
attorney general.
Alex Miller, mute, held in the Den
YER county Jail. charged with the muir
der of Adam Shank, his wife and cour
children, on the Shank farm near Gill
crest, Colo, on Dec. 90 was held ac-
countable for the sextuple murder by
the corener's jury, which completed
the inquest into the killing of the
Shank family at Greeley. The verdict
returned by the jury was that the
Shank family met their death by gun
shot wounds inflicted in the opinion
OF the jury by one Alex Miller, and
that the killing was felonous."
Appointments of state highway
funds aggregating S460,000 to the six
| ty-two counties of the state outside
Denver, in total state highway bud
get of S2,92l,sTS for 1920, were an
nounced by the State Highway Com
mission, following approval of the
budget by Gov Oliver II. Shoup. Fed
eral and forestry aid will add S1,401,-
| 900 to the states road-building pro-
gram for the coming year, provided
| the full amount needed to meet the
government appropriations dollar for
dollar can be raised.
The State Inheritance Tax Depart
ment closed the year with the remark
able record of having turned SSS5.-
| 039. 10 into the state treasury since
Dec. /. 1918, the beginning of the 1919
20 biennial period. This showing
breaks all previous records for the de-
| partment and is more than double
what state officials had estimated ear
| ly in the year would be received from
| this source.
With stone imbedded in her skull,
Dorothy Dye of Salida, aged years,
walked from the high school grounds
to the Rainbow hotel, of which her
father. w. ii. II. Dye, is proprietor
| The skull was fractured by the stone,
which was so firmly imbedded that IL
could not be removed until she was
| taken to the ID. & X. G.. hospital. Dor
othy and two girl companions set out
to play at the high school grounds
They were romping near barbed wire
fence when Dorothy tripped and fell,
striking the top of her head against
n small sharp stone. Her companions
tried to pull out the stone. but failing
they hurried with her to town. She is
resting easy and is apparently on the
road to recovery.
Colorado spent on its own account,
in round figures, Sl,500,O00 for good
roads during the year just closed The
exact amount, as shown by voucher