The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-07-23
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

so far this season, according TO re-
port received by Walter B. Lowry,
manager Of improvements and parks.
For the same period last year, when
the camping place for motor visitors
was at Rocky Mountain lake, but SOB
automobiles had registered. As eacli
machine averages four persons, I,544
persons have enjoyed the privileges of
Denver's free tourist camping grounds
so far this year
William S. Tampkin, one of the old
est members of the local lodge of Elks
of Denver, and resident of that city
for the last thirty years, died at st.
Anthonys hospital, after several
weeks Illness Tampkin was n years
old. He was known to the lodge mem
bers as "Old Bill For the last few
years he has been employed by the
reared in the west. No close relatives
survive him.
Crop conditions in the Poudre Val
ley are reported by farmers TO be
the best in many years. considering
the crops as whole Although there
has been shortage of moisture the
irrigation bitches are in use and the
crops are making good progress with
this aid The first cutting of alfalfa
is all in the stack and the second
growth in the valley is coming rapidly.
The first cutting was one of the best
crops in years.
Positive identification of Il. NJ. Bal
lard, self-styled Ohio farmer, as the
man who buncoed him and his father
out of S25,OO0 in a fake oil stock mar
ket in Denver in June, 1919, was said
to have been completed in the county
Jail at Colorado Springs by DR.. f. w.
Nitsche of Dallas, Tex. Dr. Nitsche.
son of +. Nitsche, the Dallas florist,
whose money was lost, came here from
Dallas and declared that Ballard is the
man.
Colorado gains the first important
railroad construction since the return
of the rail lines to private ownership,
according to word received that the
project for the construction of line
from Garden City, Kan, to Trinidad,
Colo, through Baca and Las Animas
counties, will be undertaken by the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad
this year. and that the 200 miles of
new trackage will be completed in time
for the spring movement next year.
Because of the omission of six pres
idential electors from the list of can
didates to be chosen by the Demo-
cratic state convention, the call for
the assembly recently issued has been
declared invalid, according to infor-
nation received at the state capitol
this morning. A new call for an as
sembly will be issued in the near fu-
ture
Vacations for girls should be con-
sidered with relation to home making,
said Prof. J. Adams Puffer, field Sec
retary of the National Welfare League,
in an address under the auspices of
the summer school of the Colorado
Agricultural College at Fort Collins.
A federal cattle inspector named
Woods was killed near Fort Morgan
when an automobile in which he was
riding struck a telephone pole and
overturned Roy Huckins, Fort Nor
gan man, who was driving the car, was
uninjured.
Fort Collins citizens must keep the
weeds in their yards, gardens and al
leys cut or they will be compelled to
pay the bill of having them cut. The
city administration is planning to keep
Fort Collins a weedless city as far as
possible.
Louis Young. age 80, Union Pacific
ic of nj il1riaS srIffRraf
when he was run over by Burlington
switch engine at the Thirty-first street
railroad crossing in Denver. Both of
Young's legs were severed close to his
body.
Edith Davis, 15-months-Old daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs James F. Davis, who
live on a ranch six miles east of Pu-
eblo wandered from her home, fell into
an irrigation ditch and was drowned
The Colorado State Industrial Com
mission disclaimed all response
bility for the failure of the Denver
Tramway Company and its employees
to reach wage settlement and re-
fused to hold further hearings or as
sumo further jurisdiction in the mat
ter as long as the conditions of the
controversy remained virtually un-
changed The commission practically
charges that the Denver city council
and city officials are responsible for
the present situation on account of
their refusal to follow the commits
sion's recommendation in its award of
May 10, 1920, that a proper fare be
granted the tramway company so that
it could meet the wage award of the
arbitration board handed down last
March.
Registration has opened at the
Young Women's Christian Association,
in Denver for the second annual indus
trial conference to be held at Estes
Park, August to 16, under the au-
spices of the West Central Field divis-
ion of the organization. The confer
ence will be open to young women en-
ero oad in business in Kansas WyOm-