The Elbert County tribune., 1920-04-09
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.


decreases in their bank deposits dur
ing the year 1913. In the remaining
counties increases were shown ranging
from 4 per cent to 1S5 per cent The
largest percentages of increase were
shown by the following counties: Chey-
enne, 1sJ per cent Kit Carson county,
~ per cent; Baca county, 20 per cent :;
Archuleta county, 55 per cent; Logan
county. "a per cent: Yuma county. o3
per cent. The increase in bank depos-
its for the state as a whole was in ex-
cess of % per cent for the beginning
OF 1917 Increases were shown in all
the agricultural counties, while some
of the mining counties showed de-
creases. the largest being for Teller
county
The depth OF snow at Ward Lake
March 31st was 127 inches on level,
or ten feet seven inches. visit there
by Forest Ranger Robinson disclosed.
The ranger cabin was about buried out
of sight. The deepest snow ever re-
ported in the state before, 1t Is said,
was on Cumbres Pass, where 12o
inches was reported in 1916, following
one of the worst storms in the states
history. The rangers found the fol-
lowing depths near Ward Lake: Kiser
Creek, 0G inches; Upper Surface Greek,
81 inches; Lower Surface Creek, I6
inches: West Muddy, 4S inches; Hub
bard Creek. 3s inches; Upper Big
Creek, 60 inches: Lower Big Creek,
~ inches Mesa Lake, Si inches; Coon
Creek. 60 inches; Upper Divide Greek,
30 inches.
Colorado's school fund has passed
the SG.OoO.OOO mark. On April 1 the
books of the state treasurer show the
fund has reached SCOT, ,5lG.91. On
April l, 1918, the fund stood at 3d.
I:G,T7O.3J. In other words. the fund
has nearly doubled within five years.
The fund is invested in bonds and
other securities which net little bet
ter than per cent, giving an income
of about n quarter of million dol
lars annually. This income is divided
among the counties for school pur-
poses
Mrs. Ora Woolery. 50, mother of
three Young children, fell down Il
freight elevator shaft 1T the Acacia ho
tel nt Colorado Springs, where she was
employed as domestic, and died
shortly afterward as II result of her
in njuries The elevator is automatic
third floor, which she mistook for the
fourth floor the elevator continued up
ward and she fell backward into the
shaft She was badly crushed in the
fall.
BY the accidental discharge Of his
.3S-caliber revolver when it slipped
from its holster at the police station
at Trinidad, Archie Mccoy, night cap
tain of police, was shot through the
ankle, infIicting an injury which may
keep him out of service for several
months. w. T. Waller will serve as
night captain.
A letter to Postmaster Charles Nc
COrmac of Crestone, Colo, boasting of
his escape from federal authorities
following the theft of S63S.49 and
other securities from the postofficc
safe, led to the arrest of Ernest Boyd.
20 years old, at Spokane, Wash, ac-
cording to a telegram received in Den
yer.
One thousand dollars an acre is the
record return in Montrose County
among the potato growers reported for
| 1919 Frank f. Heath, one of the
| farmers of the Bostwick Park district,
has completed his marketing and said
| that on twelve acres the return will
average approximately $1,000 an acre.
The beet acreage for the Longmont
section has passed the 10000 mark,
| and il is expected that before plant
| ing season arrives total of approx
| mately 22,00o acres will have been
reached. This will be one of the larg-
est acreages ever grown for the Long
mont factory.
Eleven and three-quarters per cent
| OF the school children in the Greeley
district are of Russian parentage, ac-
| cording to school census just com
| plcted. The census shows that there
| are 1854 persons of school age in the
| district, and fourteen foreign coun.
| tries are represented. Seventy-two
gave Mexico as the birth of their par.
ents, and sixty-three Sweden.
Found guilty of stealing S3.910 from
a cache buried in a pigpen at Durango,
| Henry Lance was sentenced to an in
| definite term in the reformatory. VIII
dam Lance. the boys step-father, was
| found guilty of receiving stolen prop.
| erty. The money was taken from n
hoard of $1,000 buried by Reinhold
| Thompson, dairyman, for whom
| Henry was working.
A snowplow, with which crews were
| attempting to break the six-day snow
blockade on the Moffat road, jumped
The track at Loop, Colo, four miles
west of Corona, and plunged 900 feet
L lau.n ..nahn nl1r raapt but NJ, ..,1..,,