The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-11-12
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

the striking car men voted almost
unanimously to return to work.
Grand Junction police believe that
the bank bandits who were killed near
Colorado Springs recently were the
same men who operated successfully
in this district.
Golden, Colo. -- John Kerr, under
sheriff, was elected sheriff of Jeffer-
son county, succeeding Bert Jones,
who served for two terms. William
Woods was elected coroner
A new sugar factory is to be built
at Wellington by the Du Pont Sugar
Company, a new organization of Den
yer and Colorado and Iowa men, which
plans to build a chain of sugar fac
tories in the state. FL
President c.. A. Duniway of Colorado
College announced gift of $4,000
from the Carnegie. Foundation to be
used for endowment purposes. This
brings the endowment fund of the col
lege up to $1,61O,OOO.
The majority of the farmers Of Love-
land and Larimer counties have re-
fused to sell their spud crop at the pre-
vailing prices, and no shipments Of po-
tatoes have been made out of Love-
land for more than thirty days.
James NJ. Collins, Democratic nom
inee for governor, who was defeated
in the recent election, expended the
sum of s2,753.65 in conducting his
campaign, according to statement
filed with the secretary of state.
After celebrating three minutes a
jury in the West Side Court in Denver
brought in verdict of not guilty in
the case of M. Bruce Ammons, 60 years
old, who was charged with the murder
of his sOn-fn-law, Joseph Jardino, at
the Ammons home last July.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Pleticha, a pros
porous Bohemian ranch couple living
in the Tampas district, are both dead
as the result of being run down by a
Santa F6 switch engine while they
were driving in their automobile four
miles west of La Junta. Mrs. Pleticha
was hurled 100 feet and instantly
killed. Her husband died few hours
later in La Junta hospital.
FOrty-four counties in Colorado will
get $11S,512 from national forest bust
ness in the Rocky Mountain district of
the United States Forest Service dur
ing the fiscal year 1920. Thirty-two
counties in Wyoming, South Dakota,
Nebraska, Michigan and Minnesota
will share 500, ,12O. The total amount
turned over to the several states from
this source in 1919 was $197,O74. The
money goes to road and school pur-
poses.
Fire of an unknown origin destroyed
the Currie fruit canning factory, one
of the largest canning plants in the
West, at Grand Junction. The loss is
estimated at 100000, according to Of
ficials of the company. The fire
started in the elevator shaft. The
structure, was three stories high. The
factory employed 200 persons. mostly
girls. 1t had just finished canning to-
matoes and had started on the apple
crop. About $4,000 worth of apple
butter was ruined.
Due to the increase and shifting of
population in Colorado during the past
ten years, the four-district congress-
ional map may have its boundaries
considerably changed by reapportion-
ments of the new Congress, which will
be made after the decennial census is
officially announced. A reapportion-
ment of the representation in the
State Legislature also is believed to
be probability, in view of the greatly
increased population of certain farm
ing districts and the decrease in min
ing communities
The primary object of the mining
convention in Denver is the revival of
mining. From 1913 to 1920 seven typ
ical Colorado mining counties showed
a decrease of about S20,000,O0O in valu-
alton assessment for taxation purposes.
This decrease.has to be made up for by
other counties. Every taxpayer in
Colorado is interested in the revival of
mining.
Unusual alarm is felt by the beet
growers of the country near Montrose
that the large crop will be total loss
unless host of laborers are procured at
once to harvest the large crop before it
is frozen in the ground While virtu-
ally the entire crop in the eastern sec
ton of the state has been harvested,
only small percentage has been mar
keted there.
State lands aggregating 6,600 acres,
sold at public auction in the state
capitol, brought total of $144.2 200, ac-
cording to John F. Vivian, register of
the state land board. The lands were
located in seven counties and the
average price was $21.S4 per acre. One
block of 100 acres of irrigated land,
located in the Rio Grande county,
brought 500 per acre. This was one
of the biggest sales conducted by the
ytate board in several months.
The largest audience ever gathered
in Arvada witnessed the farce COM
edy, "Sunbonnets," given for the ben
efit of the Craig Colony Club in the
auditorium of the new Arvada High
School. A large sum was realized for