The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-08-20
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

| stfeWn over SedgWick as the result of
| terrific explosion in the Farmers grair
| elevator.
Unusual prosperity is being expe
rienced by Delta due to the large pay
| rolls at the three factories now beins
built or recently opened for operation.
| there.
W. E. Enfield has sold his 4O-acre
ranch near Montrose for $4,000 t.
Frank Chase of Paxton, Neb. Thii
is probably one of the fanciest prices
ever paid for land in that region.
A special grand jury to probe the
strike riots which resulted in sever
deaths, fifty-two injuries and propert,
loss running near the 100000 mark
will be impanelled in Denver by Dis
trict Judge Clarence J. Morley.
Charles McCarty, neld on bur
glary charge at Topeka, Kan, con
fessed that he is an escaped convict
from the Colorado state penitentiary
at Canon City. He expressed a desire
to be returned to Canon City rather
than stand trial
All southern Colorado is looking for
ward to the great Labor day program
to be given at Walsenburg, Sept. 8
Live wires" from the various camps
and the Walsenburg Commercial Clut
have arranged day full of recreation
and sports.
Remarkable progress in the agricul
tural development of Moffat county il
shown for the last year by the repor1
of the state board of immigration. The
report shows there are 781 land own
ers and homesteaders and fifty-fivs
renters, with total of 4s,37S acre.
under cultivation, 67,77S acres of farm
land not yet broken, and with an in
crease of 1915 acres of land raising
crops.
The twenty-third annual meeting O.
the Colorado Bar Association was helt
in the court house at Colorado
the annual meeting of the STATE
Judges Association was held. Speak
ers at the meeting were W. L. Dayton
president; Gov. Henry ]. Allen O
Kansas, Judge Jesse G. Norcutt o.
Trinidad, and Senator Charles S
| Thomas.
A disagreement between officials Of
the Denver and Salt Lake railroad ant
of the Western Union Telegraph Com
| pany resulted in the telegraph com
pany issuing an order abandoning
service on the Moffat road The STATE
| public utilities commission imrtedi
ately notified the telegraph company
that its order was in conflict witt
Colorado laws and that such discrimi
nation would not be permitted. The
order was Immediately rescinded BY
the telegraph company.
William Ziensenhenne, Cripple
Creeks near "Enoch Arden has re
turned to his wife and two children
now grown to manhood, whom he lef
eighteen years ago. He stepped ou
of the automobile that had brought
him over the mountains from Colorado
Springs and entered a home that hat
had another husband and father aftel
the wife he married twenty-three year
ago had remained faithful to him fo
ten years while, supposedly dead, h
was ''hoboing' around the country.
The Denver g. Salt Lake Railroa
Company has filed with the State Pub
lie Utilities Commission a petition re
questing that IL be permitted to ad
vance freight rates on its line 30 pc
cent over existing rates, instead of 2
per cent as requested by the othe
: Colorado railroads located in the terri
tory west of line drawn north an,
south through the Colorado commol
| ~. Vlay1
yer, Colorado Springs, Pueblo and Trin
idad
Automobile bandits entered the An
, derson general merchandise store a
Haxtun and carried away about 200
worth of mems clothing. The mel
pulled the job when the night mar
shal was in another part of the tow
and escaped without n person seein
3 them.
/, Nearly complete reports received b,
the State immigration Department
from county assessors show that til
: area in cultivation in Colorado thi
year is slightly in excess of 100000
acres, exclusive of orchards, compare
with total of 4,795, 1872 acres reporte,
in cultivation by county assessors las
r year. These figures include the are,
: devoted to wild hay, amounting t
0 about 100000 acres each year. Th
, largest increases in cultivated acreag
this year are in the areas devoted t.
winter wheat and corn, with consider
able increases in acreage of sorghum
crops and moderate increases in alfal
ia acreage. The reports of county as
SCISSORS show that something more thai
100000 acres of raw land was broker
for the first time this year, compared
with about 375,o00 acres broken las
d. year.
, National conferences to revive tn
/ metal mining industry of the Unite,
3 States will be held in Denver the weel
I of Nov. Is. Two thousand producers
flnanciers, government officials an,