The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-05-21
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

western Newspaper Union News Service.
Weld county's next factory of the
Great Western Sugar Company will be
located on the W. A. Purvis 200-acre
farm adjoining the town limits of
Johnstown.
The Colorado Aggies have recently
received a full sized silver football as
n trophy for winning the Rocky Noun
tain Conference football championship
last wear. The token is a gift of J. a.
McKenna OF Boulder, Colo. 1t is a rep
ica of a regulation football. even down
TO the stitches and the lacing.
Professor W. ]. Morrill,, state forest-
er and head of the forestry department
of the Colorado Agricultural College.
has distributed this spring at cost
about $1,000 small trees, including
seeding elm, honey locust, black locust
and Russian olive, and about $4,000
three year-old pines. These trees have
gone chiefly to farms in eastern Colo
RADIO.
| 1t costs the taxpayers of the state of
Colorado only 75.7 cents day TO keep
a prisoner in the state penitentiary.
| The actual value of the upkeep of each
of the $50 prisoners in the custody of
Warden Tom lyman is 93 cents Al day,
but the 17.3 cents in addition to the
taxpayers cost is represented by the
farm and dairy products of the prison
farms and gardens which are worked
by the prisoners.
The Boy Scouts of Longmont, Louis
vile, Nederland and Boulder win CO.
operate in field day exercises AT the
| Colorado Chautauqua at Boulder on
May 20. The Boulder brass band will
assist in the program and will lead the
parade. An extensive program. fol
lowed by an all-night powwOw at the
camp of Troop No. 3, south of Boulder,
has been arranged for by Scout EXeeu-
tive C. w Badger.
The Fort Collins Commercial Club
has definitely decided to make a CEN
sus recount of the city. The commit
tee appointed to make careful survey
of the various records, which would in
iicate whether the official government
census, giving Fort Collins a popula-
tion of S,734 only, was short of the ac-
tual population, reported that it is con-
vinced such is the case and the club de-
cided to make a recount
Tony Hanna, well known Fremont
county miner and popular catcher for
the Canon City baseball team, was run
over by loaded car in the Wolf Park
coal mine, sustaining injuries that re-
suited in his death on the way to the
hospital. Hanna was accidentally
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way TO the shaft, the car passing over
his body and mangling him so badly
that he never regained consciousness
and died before he reached the hospital
in Canon City
The Pixies Peak auto road races,
suspended when the United States eIl-
tered the war, will be resumed this
year and will he run during the latter
part of July. The races this year will
he backed by the Colorado Springs
Chamber of Commerce and have a gen
uine community character. Only stock
cars will be allowed entry, and a large
, number of manufacturers have already
announced that they would send ma
chimes here to compete in the big
mountain event..
: with Montrose at one end and Du-
, range at the other end of probably the
: greatest expnnse of scenic beauty in
the world, to be made accessible to
travel, thousands of citizens are eager
ly awaiting the completion of the Du-
!, rango- -Silverton highway This road
/, will enable thousands of tourists each
: year to visit one part of Colorado that
!. has been closed book to all except
: tourists who seek the NEST rugged
$ scenery, regardless of the trouble and
Inconvenience of getting to it.
: Thirty-five British merchants, repre-
: sentatives of the Royal Trade Board
f of Great Britain, will arrive in Colo
; RADIO Springs this week for stay of
n three days.
! D. T.. Evans, a Craig business man.
u finished the prelimnaries which will
result in the opening of Il coal mine
: bring, it is predicted, the expenditure
of quarter million dollars to that
= district in the coming year. Mr. Evans
u has obtained options on two ranches
u total of, 4S0 acres.
n Two important announcements con
@ nected with the development of gov
= ernment hospital projects in Colorado
have been made. One was informa
, ton that plans have been completed
/ by the war department that will make
United States Army General Hospital
q No. p not only the show place of the
West from a landscape viewpoint but
j, probably the most complete in utility
. features of any permanent army hos
+ pital in the world. The cost of this
r improvement is estimated by officials
! of the Denver Civic and Commercial
Association at upwards of S70000o
> Isabel Gutierrez, 10, died August l,
| 1919, at Pueblo. Her relatives wanted
the body shipped to old Mexico for
| bn,.ioI N npIortat iper ish,