The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-10-15
COLORADO NEWS MOTHS.

farms operated by tenants since 1910.
According to these reports "a per cent
Of the farms reported this year are
operated by tenants. compared with
1872 per cent reported to the census
bureau in 1910. About 1.5 per cent OF
the farms reported this year did not
show the character of the tenure Of the
farm operative, while the remaining
farms were operated by owners or by
| homesteaders who have not yet proved
up. Homesteaders of this class were
| treated as owners by the census bu-
reau in 1910 OF the farm acreage re-
ported by assessors this year approx
mately 20 per cent is being farmed by
renters and 72 per cent by owners and
! homesteaders, while about per cent
is operated by owners who rent some
land in addition to their own farms.
William S. Roe, for seven years
principal Of the Greeley High School,
| will be the new principal of the Colo
RADIO Springs High School, according
\ to an announcement made at Colo
RADIO Springs. Mr.. Roe is we'll
known educator of the state and was
given consideration as principal Of the
East Denver High School. He takes
charge of his duties at once, relieving
| Stillwell Moore, who has been acting
principal since the promotion Of Mr..
Bair from principal to superintendent.
Pueblo will be invaded Nov. 4 for
a three-day visit by educators from
all over Colorado, who will gather TO
attend the sessions Of the State E1u-
cational Association. At last years
session more than 1900 people at
tended the meeting and more are ex-
pected this year. Notable among the
speakers will be Ida M. Tarbell, Mrs.
Mary c. c. Bradford, state superin-
tendent of public instruction, and DR..
Frank w. Gunsaulus, president Of Ar
mour Institute, Chicago.
Delta friends of Ross Barker, who
is now serving his sixth year In the
navy, have received a letter which
states that he has been recognized as
the prize shark catcher in the navy.
With an apparatus consisting of fish
hook thirty inches long which weighs
two pounds, he has made record
catches in the West Indies, India. Sa-
moa and at Manila. At the last place
he caught his largest one, which meas
ured more than eighteen feet in length.
One man was injured and five others
had narrow escape when an outbound
Berkeley tramway car ran Wild In Den
yer at West Thirty-eighth avenue and
Tennyson street, after the controller
box exploded, throwing the motorman
| out Of the car while it was travelling at
high speed The car was saved from q
crash by the quick action Of passen-
ger, who ran to the rear Of the car and
jerked the trolley from the wire.
| With a quotation Of IL cents a pound
on refined sugar at wholesale In New
| York hopes Of sugar beet growers for
a large bonus on their beets this year
seem to have gone glimmering. Unless
the sugar market rallies, which there
is no sign Of 1t doing soon, beet grow
$12 ton specified in their contracts
for beets, which was signed early last
spring.
The new Fort Lupton beet sugar
factory of the Industrial Sugar COM
pany has begun active operations The
machinery has been tested and found
to work perfectly, and large force
of employees has been assembled. The
factory will handle 10000 tons this
fall and winter.
What is believed to be record
buck killed during the open season
was brought down by T. G. Seals of
Montrose. This was killed the first
day of the season and tipped the scales
at 400 pounds.
Chris Christensen, one of the early
residents of Evergreen, is dead, after
a short illness, as a result of a stroke
Of paralysis. He wa 73 years old and
had lived in Jefferson county for forty
seven years.
The purchase of the Cushman ditch
and stock was completed at the Octo-
ber meeting of the Uncompahgre Val
ley Water-Users' association at Mont
rose The price paid by the govern
ment for this irrigation ditch was $5,-
| 15O One thousand one hundred and
| fifty of this will be subscribed by the
| farmers who will use the water from
| the ditch and the government will pay
the remaining $4,000.
The expansion Of the soldiers train
ing school and the establishment of
shops and a laboratory to be used in
| conjunction with classroom work is
now under consideration by repre-
sentatives of the federal board for vo-
cational education.
Mrs. Carl White, wife Of farmer
who lives thirty miles east Of Hugo.
was instantly killed and their 2-year-
old son seriously injured when a shot
gun was accidentally discharged while
going to town with a truck load of
wheat.
For offering for sale meat that had
not been inspected by the Pueblo
health department, John Grosich,