The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-11-19
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
The City Council of Loveland plans
to improve the public library, parks,
streets and alleys.
Work has been started on the par
ish house of st. Nicholas church of
Platteville. The building will cost
$7,750.
A swing that went wrong, while
John L. Lemons of Denver was chop
ping wood. led to his death in st.
Luke's hospital.
The twelfth annual meeting of the
Colorado Farmers Congress will be
held at the State Agricultural College,
Fort Collins, Colorado, November 29th
to December 3rd, inclusive.
One of the largest ranches in the
Pixies Peak region. the former
Zanger ranch, has been sold by its
present owner, Jonathan Bingham, to
H. D. Richeson and others. The
ranch consists of 800 acres.
Completing her record with a pro-
duction of 1O,6S6.6 pounds of milk and
620S7 pounds of fat, Rainbow's Ro-
sette, 3112S6, owned by the Agricul-
| luIdl 1OilCEt nCIc, Is uOW hampton
of her class in Colorado. Her record
was begun at 4 years and s months
| of age.
Incendiarism is believed to have
caused fire in Pueblo which de-
stroyed the buildings and contents of
the Foley Lumber Company and a
| train of box cars on a Denver & Rio
Grande siding nearby, damaged a
large rooming house and fifteen resi-
dences and caused an estimated loss
of S15O,0OO
Sheriff N. Hall of Weld county has
returned from Oklahoma City with
Mrs. Josie Clinton, girl wife of Charles
Chester Clinton, alleged bank bandit
Mrs. Clinton will be formally charged
with participation in the robbery of
the bank of Evans, Colo, last March,
She had been held under $4,000 bail
at Oklahoma City, awaiting the ar
rival of the Colorado officer
| c. M. Johnson. so, Cherokee In
dian who shot and killed his 25-year-
old wife after they had quarreled,
his head, at his home at Cedars,
was found dead with bullet hole in
near La Junta Julian Whatley,
father of Mrs. johnson, is missing
and it is believed he killed johnson.
Police have started a search for
Whatley
road project calling for the ex-
penditure of $57,50O for the con-
struction of one and three-tenths
miles of concrete road between Den
4 Il
mitted to the United States bureau
of public roads for federal aid. The
road is to be eighteen feet wide, If
approved by the Washin gt3n office,
construction will begin at an early
date.
X. V. Kyrklund of Colorado
Springs. retired boatswain in the
United States navy. received one of
the thirteen distinguished service
medals which have been awarded in
that branch of the service. Kyrk-
lund is credited with having saved
the lives of about 1900 American
soldiers and sailors while serving
aboard the u s. S. Downs, a torpedo
boat destroyer.
Out of 13,250.000 acres of nation
al forest land in Colorado. only IA
5 acres were burned over by forest
fires in the season just ended, ac-
/, cording to Wallace Hutchinson of the
] forestry service. The cost of fighting
: the fires, 11S in number. was $481.
: Timber destroyed amounted to 371,-
$ 900 board feet, worth approximately
/. $1,113. Seventy-eight per cent of
Z the fires were less than quarter of
= an acre in extent. The record is con-
: sidered an excellent one when com
pared with that of former years
( Eight new military units, Includ-
: ing tank corps company, equipped
with fifteen tanks, a squadron of
thirteen airplanes. combat engi-
neering battalion, a squadron of cav
. airy. two batteries and one regiment
. of field artillery and medical corps
:, regiment, have been allotted to Colo
: RADIO temporarily under the new re-
organization plan of the National
Guard, according to announcement
:. made by Adjt. Gen. w A. Spangler.
y Growers of sugar beets in northern
! Colorado delivered upward of s14,-
:: 100000 worth of beets in October to
G factories of the Great Western Sugar
/ Company, according to a statement
issued by the company. This is a
new record for the northern fields
t, and means that practically 90 per
:, cent of the crop was harvested and
$ delivered last month. Checks for
l. payment of the crop have been dis
l. tributed to beet growers as follows:
d Fort Collins. s2,045 900; Loveland
IF SLIPS, 900; Longmont, s1,75O.O0O;
e Fort Morgan. $1.400,000; Greeley,
d s1.550.00O; Windsor. $3.50. 900;
IS Sterling. s2,505.O00; Eaton, $500
900; total, s13,S35.00o,
Ii A binding snowstorm interfered
= somewhat with the ceremonies incl