The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-01-30
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
Denver Automotive Show will be helC
in Denver. March to s, at Stock
yards Stadium.
The necessary number of names fol
a post of the American Legion has
been secured at Glenwood Springs and
all of the preliminary steps taken fol
it's establishment.
The shortage of cars, which has
held back the shipment of potatoes in
the Carbondale district, leaves hun
dreds of tons of the valuable tubers
| still unmarketed.
| Beet growers of the Longmont dis
trict will get an extra $214,OO0 from
the payment of 81 additional a ton OF
beets by the Great Western Sugar
Company, according to an announce
ment made by n r. McCreery OF the
Longmont factory.
Mrs. Nevada J. Haywood, so years
old, and wife of William D. Haywood,
general secretary of the L. w. W, who
was recently released from Leaven-
worth prison, died In Denver at san
| itarium of which she had been an in
mate since last August.
Frank s. Lane, living near Grand
Junction, is under arrest, charged with
having killed two deer out of season.
The report of the game warden. c. B.
Nichols, was that Lane was found
with the butchered carcasses of two
| fine yenisOn in his home
n. A. Gitz, farmer near Monte
Vista, died, the victim of the Influenza
epidemic, which has caused Monte
Vista authorities to place a ban on all
public congregating and public amuse-
ments. The disease this winter is not
so malignant as in the epidemic last
year.
Coal production in Colorado de-
creased from 1855, ,O35 tons in 1918 to
10, 395, ,563 tons in 1919, total decrease
of 2.262, 492 tons, the report for Decem-
ber issued by State Coal Mine Inspec-
tor James Dalrymple showed, though
production in December alone was
greater than 100000 tons.
Sam Biach, matt handler in the
| A. " smelter at Leadville, was pain
| fully burned on one of his heels. max
| ing the first accident in the plant in
ninety-six days. The plant had been
on 'safety-first'' basis. This ninety
eight-day stretch of time without an
| accident broke all former records
Students of the University of Colo
RADIO at Boulder will establish co
operative store, if charges of prof
teering against stores on .the hill" ar,
proved true President George Nor
lin has issued a statement calling fo
probe of the alleged p1kSsesrs
Manager Bryant Smith of the sAsso
ciated Students has also asked for al
investigation
The government is now building
splendid road from Thompson
Springs, Utah, to Moab, Utah, the 10
cation of the recent oil strike. Th
road is to cost 100000 for the thirty
seven miles when completed and will
be twenty-four feet wide on the flats
eighteen on hillsides and sixteen fee
in deep cuts 1t is being pushed rapid
ly.
Sending his attendant on a falls
pursuit by declaring another patien
had planned escape and had just fle
around corner of the building a
they walked from the dining hall t
ward, Don F. Blackwood. forme
Denver lawyer, who was committed t.
the state hospital for the insane las
month, escaped from the state institu
ton at Pueblo.
l
ing gold and silver and one of tn
richest finds in the Silverton sectio
in years, is reported from the proI
erty of the Gold King Extension
Mines Company on Bonita mountaiI
The find was made in eighteen inche
of white quartz and values up to 80
ounces of gold per ton and 40 to
ounces of silver are reported
Colorado National Guardsmen, wh
were called for federal service alon
the Mexican border, may receiv
claims against the federal government
totaling Sl75.000 as a result of Adj
Gen. William A. Spangler's successful
efforts 10 have the cases reopened a
Washington. The claims were orig
nally disalowed, because of a misun
derstanding, according to messag
received by the State Military Depart
ment, which arose while the chief o
the claims bureau was in France
Monte Vistas fifth annual stoc
show will be held this year on Feb. II
II and 49, The State Board of Stocl
Commissioners has donated $3.50 to
ward the premium list for the big show
This stock show is the premier even
of the kind in the valley and is give
under the auspices of the H. @. G.. AS
sociation. the local growers an
commercial association. This year
total of $1,000 in live stock prizes vii
be awarded II is estimated that $500
600 worth of livestock will be on e1
hlbition.
Plans for building a tent city il