The Dolores star., 1920-02-13
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

paid IN the county IoT gram. ihis
year the total paid to Routt county
farmers by local firms for their grain
was $4,000, while In 1914 the total
was but $4,000. The figures for this
year will mount to a much higher fig
are. The Yampa Valley Milling and
Elevator Company has distributed
s1S0,OOO in cash to the farmers OF this
section for wheat, barley and oats
brought TO the elevator and the
Farmers Co-operntive Elevator Com
pany will pay out 100000.
The question Of prohibiting foreign
immigration into the United States
for II period of five years has been
selected as the subject for the annual
debate between the universities of
Oklahoma, Kansas and Colorado. For
he Interstate debates with Texas and
Utah Universities the question, RE
solved: That the teachers of the Unit
ed States should mioniZe and affil-
ate with the American Federation of
Labor" has been selected. Twelve
icbaters are now at work under the
direction of Coach Erskine Myers. The
TOUR utbuleS VIII lHhe pace III MaTtn
The funeral of Capt George X. Will
son, Il Pueblo man who died at
Leuvcnworth, Kan, was held with full
military honors at Pueblo within a
Fort Lcavcuworth. Captain Wilson
was II colonel on the staff of Major
General Buiard of the First division
in France, but was denoted along
with hundreds of other regular army
officers when lie was returned to the
United States after the war. He OBJ
tained the highest rank of any Pu-
cblo man in the war
Two Denver boys who are charged
with sixteen different crimes, includ.
ing burglary. larceny and horse steal
ing, in Washington, Adams, jefferson
and Arapahoe counties, are in the Lit
Teton Jail, following what is said to
have been a frcebooting life for the
last month. They were captured near
Deer Trail, Colo, by IL small posse
led by Deputy Sheriff VIII Kingsley
of Adams county.
The Holly Sugar Company. through
its vice president, s w. Sinsheimcr
Of Denver. has let a contract FOR the
starting Of construction on n factory
at Delta at once. The contract was
let, il was said. following the coming
of California sugar beet men and rep
resentatives of the Midwest Sugar
Company of Hamilton City, Calf, to
the tucOmpuhgrc valley
The House has passed the second
1920 deficiency bill, carrying SSS,000,-
600. During hearings before the
House appropriations committee ap-
proximately S20,O0O,OOO was cut from
the original estimates. Amendments
providing S9,OOO.O0O for naval repairs
were defeated Most of the entire
second deficiency was expended incl
dental to settling war accounts.
The long mooted question of the To-
cation of courthouse, which will be
built here this year at a cost of $780,
600, was settled at Montrose when the
county commissioners board agreed
to accept the proposition when bust
ness men offered TO purchase lots com.
prsing a half block for the new site
in exchange for the present site of the
courthouse.
A rich strike is reported made in
the Golden Cycle mine, located on the
south slope of Bull hill at a point
about 1,5OO feet from the shaft on the
1,7OO-foot level. Details are not yet
given out as to the dimensions of the
ore eshoOt in width, as it is claimed
that not enough work has been done
to determine its full width.
Agricuturists of the western slope
are delighted with the appointment of
II. A. Ireland as livestock expert of
the Uncompahgre Reclamation project
to take up other work Mr.. Ireland
is an expert agriculturist in addition
TO being livestock man and is Il
trained and practical farmer.
John Palmer, though 20 years old,
was husky enough to carry trunk
from the depot to his home alone at
Somerset While standing by the
stove warming himself after the Wig
orous exercise, he toppled over and
fell to the floor. When those near
rushed to his side he was dead
A bond election for 100000 will be
held in Boulder March 8 to provide
| funds for school improvements. The
money is to be used in building add-
| tions to three of the Boulder grade
schools. The schools are Overcrowded,
the attendance having increased .l5U
since last fall.
The work of clearing off the site OF
the new high school building has been
completed nj Florence and the founda-
| tions will soon he laid. Work on the
| building will be pushed during the
open weather. The grading of the
new athletic field will also be under
taken shortly.
The cooperative shipping of live