The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-10-08
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
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More than $4,000 in diamonds and
other jewelry was stolen from the
palatiai home of L. H. Guldman head
Of the Golden Eagle Dry Goods Com
pany In Denver.
Denver will have another mountain
park in the near future if plans OF
Deputy City Attorney Milnor B.
Gleayes for the requirement of S4U
acres near Georgetown materialize.
Approximately $500 teachers are ex-
pected to attend the annual convention
of the Colorado Education Association
to be held in Denver, Pueblo and
Grand Junction from Nov. to Nov. 6.
The derailing of Il passenger train
on the Rio Grande Southern railroad
at Valley View, nine miles south of
Ridgeway, Colo, resulted in the in
jury Of twenty-five persons, none ser'-
ously.
The celebration of the opening of
the Poudre canon road as far up as
to the Rustic, which is to be given
Oct. II, Columbus Day, will be an elab-
crate affair." and plans are rapidly
taking shape for the occasion.
william Norer of Walden accom-
panied a shipment of cattle to Omaha,
and while the train stopped near
LaSalle, Colo, a couple of tramps held
up one of the men who We're with
Norell and secured between $15 and
500.
B. E. Speak, A years old, driver OF
truck for the Masters Transfer
Company, was seriously bruised and
possibly internally injured at Love
land when the truck he was driving
was struck by Colorado & Southern
freight train
Colorado's coal production amounted
to S85, 900 tons in August, according to
figures based on railroad shipments
announced by the geological survey
The August output exceeds that OF
July by $4,000 tons, the figures show
During the first eight months Of the
year 1920, Colorado produced 6,129,0N
tons.
+ Henry Hazelmeyer and Frank Ber
sanry Of Glenwood Springs are lyint
at the point Of death In hospital a
Grand Junction, as the result of al
auto turning turtle four miles north o
Mesa, Colo, on the Midland trail. Th'
car rolled down bank on top o
them after they had jumped clear o
| the machine. The steering gear wa
| broken.
| The body Of Mr.. L. F. Grace
Of Garfield county, who, with Zena
| Crawford, was drowned in the Gram
river in Glenwood canon on May q
was recovered on an island near Sill
sixteen miles west of Glenwood. III
body was in an excellent state o
preservation and was identified b
papers and money found in the dea
mans clothes.
The taxable property in Colorado
valued at 1,592, ,O07, ,796. according t
the annual report issued by the Cole
RADIO tax commission. The state /
richer by $96,794, 1877 than it was il
1919, this report shows. Abstracts o
assessment submitted to the commits
sion by the county commissioners fror
every county in the state have bee
4 examined by the state body.
The Colorado Springs City Counci
has granted the Colorado Springs
Interurban Railway Company sever
cent fare, being an increase of on
cent. The company has filed pet
tion with the public utilities commits
sion, asking for a similar increase il
its interurban fares. The local stree
car company last June granted it
employees an increase of wages t
fifty-eight cents an hour and the
asked the City Council and the utIlitie
commission for one-cent increase i
city fares.
Recruiting offices for the Colorad
national guard have been opened i
Denver, with Col. Joseph c. Taylor i
charge. All members of the old guar
organizations will be mustered out an
new units are to be recruited in Der
yer as well as over the state.
Lieut. Arthur G. Wagner of th
) naval air service, who formerly wa
connected with the Denver police dc
partment, was killed at Hartford
Conn.,, when naval airpIane in whic
he was riding with Lieut.. Com. Wi
liam Merrill Cory, Jr, commanding OF
ficer of the aviation section of the Al
lantic fleet, crashed to the ground ol
the Hartford Golf Club course
The city building department. o
Denver has issued permit for tn
construction of the first extensive ad
dition to the exhibition quarters o
Denver's big annual stock show. Th
Western Stock Show Association
which has charge of the show, oh
tanned permission to construct an ex
hfbition house for hogs at the stock
yards. The structure will be ninety
five feet in width and 1SO feet il
length. 1t will be built of brick an,
concrete and will cost $4,000.
A fifty-cent increase in the price
of all coal, effective Oct. /, was an
l L.. ~ ~.