The Dolores star., 1920-01-09
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENCS.
Denver-Livc Stock Show. January II
To -, 1870.

Denver--Livc stock Show. January II
To -, 1870.
The Holly Sugar Corporation VIII
spend 100000 on the Grand Junction
plant. work to start with the close of
sugar campaign this month
Grand county roads will be improved
with the expenditure of SlI5,O0o fed
cral and state funds during 1920. ac-
cording to II report from the recent
highway commission meeting.
Herbert s. Hadley, former governor
of Missouri and now member of the
law faculty of the University of Colo
RADIO, has been appointed Il member OF
the Republican platform committee by
VIII H. Hays, chairman of the national
Republican committee.
The fourteenth annual roundup of
the Delta County Livestock Association
was held In Delta. The sessions We're
occupied mainly by discussions of live
stock topics and business affairs. Rob
crt +, Rockwell of Paonia. state repre-
sentative, was reelected president.
\ total of 3,O3G building permits
were Issued during 1919, for S6,119. $50
worth of work. showing an increase of
161 per cent over the 1860 permits is
sued in 1918 for S2,l9j, $50 worth Of
building and repairs, according 10
chief city building Inspector Frank
NJ Lndd of Denver.
Receipts of gold and silver bullion at
the Denver mint in 1919 totaled Sl9,-
Gl3,2S013, according TO announcement
hy Thomas Annear, superintendent of
the mint The bullion included ST.
1IT3,2SS.OS of gold and Sl,SiO.OOl % of
silver. The receipts for 1919 are 81
11l,ooO less than in 1918.
Colorado is one of the greatest play
grounds Of the nation. In 1919 more
than million people spent their vaca-
tiuns in the national forests of the
state Automobiles 10 the number Of
$4,000 also toured the forest highways
during tn" summer season. SO vast are
these Fairgrounds TO the people that ii
is impossible to 90 into the Rockies
without entering II national forest.
Pck"ting in strikes is forbidden by
statute in Colorado. Attorney General
Victor L. Reyes ruled in response to
an inquiry directed 10 him by Governor
Oliver II. Shoup. The legal question
was raised when the steel workers
strike committee in Pueblo asked Col.
d. +. McCunniff to lift the ban which
he had placed on pickcting Of the steel
works there. Colonel McCunniff
passed the question up N the governor,
who in turn sought Il ruling from the
attorney general.
Alex Miller. mute, held in the Den
Yer county Jail, charged with the mur-
der of Adam Shank, his wife and four
children, on the Shank farm near Gil
crest, Colo, on Dec. 20, was held ac-
"ountablc for the scXtuplc murder by
the corencrs jury, which completed
the inquest into the killing of the
Shank family nt Greeley. The verdict
returned by the jury was that the
Shank family met their death by gun
shot wounds inflicted in the opinion
of the jury by one Alex Miller, and
that the killing was frloniouS."
ApportiOnmcntS of state highway
funds aggrcgating SiGO,OOO to the six
ty-two counties of the state outside
Denver, in Il total state highway bud
get of S2.921 ,SIS for 1920, were an
nOunced by the State Highway Com
mission, following approval of the
budget by Gov. Oliver H. Shoup. Fed
"rnl and forestry aid will add 81, ,4O1,
600 10 the states road-building pro.
gram for the coming year, provided
the full amount needed to meet the
government appropriations dollar for
dollar can he raised
The State Inheritance Tax Depart
mcnt closed the year with the remark
able record of having turned $SSr
W9.lO into the state treasury since
Dee. !. 1olS, the beginning of the 1919.
20 biennial period This showing
breaks all previous records for the de-
Nlrtment and Is more than double
what state officials had estimated ear
lv IN the year would be received from
this source
With II stone imbeddcd in her skull.
Dorothy Dye of Salida, aged o wears.
NHIheu from tlc nlSh school grounds
10 the Rainbow hotel, of which her
father, w. ii. II. Dye, is proprietor.
The skull was fractured by the stone
which was so firmly imbeddcd that In
could not be removed until she ynu
taken to the ID. II H. G. hospital. Dor.
"thy and two girl companions set out
to play ut the high school grounds
They were romping near n Aarbed wire
fence when Dorothy tripped and fell.
striking the top Of her head against
small sharp stone. Her companions
tried to pull out the stone, but failing
they hurried with her to town. She is
resting easy and is apparently on the
road to recovery.
colorado spent on its own account.
In round figures, $l,5OO,OOO for good