The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-12-03
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

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A suryeyor's transit was the unusual
hut effective means by which an in
frineement of the game laws was de-
tected in the Colorado national forest,
near Fort Collins. Surveyors turned
their far-seeing instrument on party
of hunters who were several miles dis
rant. They saw deer being strapped
across the saddle Of one Of the horses.
For two days the hunting party was
tracked. Eventually one OF the party
was located and a search warrant was
obtained. An investigation revealed a
saddle with deer hair and specks of
blood clinging to it. In Fort Collins,
before Justice Sarchet, Charles Thom-
as a rancher. made vicarious sacri-
flee of $12O. Though denying his guilt
of participating In the killing of the
deer, Thomas pleaded guilty and paid
fine of 500 and $50 costs.
Declaring that the economic loss to
the state of Colorado from the raw
ages of tuberculosis approximates
$16,OOO,OOO annually, and about 2.0SO
state last year, Acting Governor
George Stephan has issued procla-
nation, naming Sunday, Dec. 5, as
tuberculosis Sunday. The proclama-
tlon calls upon the people Of the state
to support the Colorado tuberculosis
Association in fighting the white
plague by purchasing Christmas seals
and aiding the association In every
way possible during the campaign for
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william Coss, son Of ]. +. Coss,
newspaper publisher Of Walsenburg,
will recover, following an attack on
the Walsenburg-Puebl road by five
highwaymen, who beat him into in
sensibility, and stole his new touring
car which he had just purchased In
Pueblo. Four men have been arrested
and charged with the assault. They
are said to have confessed to the sher-
If. They are Raymond Chase, Gary,
Ind :; Wesley wentworth, Denver;
Ralph O'Leary, Boston, and George
Cooksley of England.
The National Farm Congress, an or
ganization of 5000 farmers of the
country, will meet in Colorado in 1921,
according to ]. ]. Gauld, superintend-
ent of the Myron Stratton Home farms
at Colorado Springs, who represented
the state at the convention at Colum-
bus, Ohio. There will be more than
1000 delegates to the convention,
which will be held either in Denver or
Colorado Springs, Gauld stated. The
decision will be made next spring by
the executive committee.
The average of yields per acre this
year of all crops combined, duly
weighed, compared with their yields
for recent years in Colorado, is 1851
per cent, and in the United States is
1869 per cent. The production index
for the United States is about 3-2 per
cent more than last years aggregate
production and 6.S per cent more than
the average of the preceding five
years, 1914-1S.
| Retail meat prices In Denver will
fluctuate with the wholesale cost of
meat in the future, according to an
nouncements made by Denver meat
dealers following meeting of the Den
| yer Retail Grocers and Meat Dealers
! Association. 1t was decided at the
meeting that hereafter reductions on
the retail market would be made ac-
cording to reductions on the wholesale
market
The voters of Mesa county have bal
loted in favor of the $150,0O0 bond is
sue which will give Mesa county a
S25O,OOO courthouse. The sinking
fund which the county has been laying
| by for years will make up the balance
| of the amount needed to erect one of
| the finest courthOuses in the state.
| The new structure will probably be
| ready for occupancy in two years.
A dividend of 100000, half of the
original investment of the stockhold-
ers of the Midland Terminal Railway
| Company, has been awarded and paid,
according to announcement by A. Z.
| Carlton, president and receiver of the
company Notices Of the dividend and
checks in payment were mailed.
| President Newton C. Dougherty of
the Colorado Farmers Congress has
announced that the sessions of this
years Congress have been postponed
until later in the year and that the
new date will be announced as soon as
it is definitely known.
Frank NJ. Draper, former principal
of the public school at Wray, Colo,
| has been exonerated of n charge of
misconduct in hearing before the
State Board of Education. 1t had been
alleged the principal had put his arm
around the waist of a pupil
The yanadium Corporation of Amer
lea, operating vanadium and tungsten
mines in Colorado. has announced the
complete shutdown of all its works at
| vanadium, Fall Creek and Placerville,
between ten and eighteen miles west
of Telluride.
A campaign to raise $4,000 to be
used in uncoveriAg prehistoric cliff