The Arvada enterprise. (Arvada, Colo.) 1908-1970, 1920-01-08
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
Denver-Live Stock Show. January II


COMING EVENTS.
Denver-Live Stock Show. January II
The Holly Sugar Corporation will
spend 100000 on the Grand Junction
plant, work to start with the close of
sugar campaign this month.
Grand county roads will be improved
with the expenditure of $4,000 fed
eral and state funds during 1920, &C
cOrding to 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
RADIO, has been appointed member of
the Republican platform committee by
VIII H. 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 $8,779,s>'O
worth of work, showing an increase Of
161 per cent over the 1880 permits is
sued in 1918 for $685. $50 worth of
building and repairs, according to
Chief City Building Inspector Frank
NJ. Ladd of Denver.
Doooirto ~ u<,1d nj u31vov. h,,111Ov1 a.
the Denver mint in 1919 totaled $780,
813, 280.1S, according to announcement
by Thomas Annear. superintendent Of
the mint. The bullion included ST.
773, 2Ss.Os of gold and $1,s4O!OO .O5 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 q million people spent their vaca-
tiOns in the national forests Of the
state. Automobiles to the number of
$4,000 also toured the forest highways
during the summer season. So vast nre
these Fairgrounds to the people that it
is impossible to 60 into the Rockies
without entering national forest.
Picketing In strikes is forbidden by
so,tute in Colorado. Attorney General
Victor E. Reyes ruled in response to
an inquiry directed to him by Governor
Oliver H. Shoup. The legal question
was raised when the steel workers
strike committee in Pueblo asked Col.
d. Il. 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 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 four
children, on the Shank farm near Gil
crest, Colo, on Dec. 20. was held &C.
cOuntabIe 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
VI NhG jury ny oIbe fAbcA uuu
that the killing was felonious."
Apportionments OF state highway
funds aggregating $4GO,OOO to the six
ty-twO counties Of the state outside
Denver, In a total state highway bud
get Of $2,92l,S7s 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 *1,4O1,-
600 to the states bodybuilding pro-
gram for the coming year. provided
the full amount needed to meet the
government appropriations dollar for
dollar Gun be raised.
The State Inheritance Tax Depart
ment closed the year with the remark
nble record Of having turned xsSi.
Hs4.l 10 into the state treasury since
Dec I. 1918, the beginning Of the 1919
20 biennial period. This showing
breaks all previous records for the de.
partment and In more than double
what state officials had estimnted ear.
ly In the year would he received from
this source.
With stone imbeided In her skull.
Dorothy Dye Of Saildn. aged o yenrs.
walked from the high school grounds
to the Rainbow hotel, Of which her
father. ". II. II. Dye. is proprietor.
The skull wnx fractured by the stone.
which was ~ firmly iinbeddel that II