The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-01-30
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

i Tor the state nave SuSScStSu eAAese
bill be introduced in the next Legisia-
ture providing for the licensing OF all
threshermen and requiring them to
make reports each week during the
threshing season showing the acreage
and production of all grain threshed
by them, The form of measure gen
orally favored is one similar to the
| law now in effect in Michigan, which
has proved very successful. Under
this no fee is charged for the licensing
of threshermen, but they are required
to furnish information regarding acre
age and production Of grain threshed
in lieu of paying fee. The State
Immigration Department now collects
through county assessors Information
showing the acreage devoted to each
crop, but accurate information regard
ing production is not available,
| w. r. Murphy of the Las Animas
Leader was selected by the members
of the Colorado Editorial Association
| as chairman of the field department
committee, which is to work out
thorough organization of the associa-
| tion throughout the state, and to en-
courage the organization of local bod
| les to cooperate with the state asso-
| ciation The committee is to consist
Of three members one of whom is to
be the field secretary, and will be paid
salary by the state association for
his services.
Silver dollars are going to be scarce
from now on. due to a scarcity of sill
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be circulated. as in Eastern cities. No
more silver dollars can be obtained by
banks unless silver certificates are
given in exchange. Silver. under this
ruling cannot be bought with gold.
There is shortage of silver certifi-
Gates. The banks will be able to get
only a limited number of 81 and ~
bills The result is expected to be
revival of silver mining in Colorado.
Approximately s25,OOO,O00 changed
hands in live stock transactions dur
ing the six days of Denver's four
teenth annual National Western Stock
Show, which closed its gates after the
most successful season in its history.
Men in close touch with the market
have computed the amount from COM
parative bank clearings and other
available data Attendance records
were also smashed this year. Total
attendance figures for the show were
announced as 72,381.
An epidemic of smallpox has broken
out in the city of Durango. The city
commissioners. acting as the board OF
| health, have issued orders to the eff
| feet that no person shall be permitted
| to attend the public or private schools
| of the city unless they have been vac
| cinated. The board of directors of the
| public schools and managers or per-
| sons in charge of private schools are
| expressly forbidden to permit any stu
4 dent who has not been vaccinated to
| attend school.
Rule Il. johnson, alias Charles Il.
Jewell, the alleged forger, who was
shot and dangerously wounded by
Turnkey Ed Coats when Johnson, to-
gether with several other inmates of
the county Jail, attempted to break out
of that institution Dec. p, pleaded
guilty before Judge F. A. Park in Dis
trict Court at Pueblo to the charge of
passing bogus checks and received a
sentence of from seven TO ten years in
the state penitentiary.
August Speck, perhaps the first set
tier in what is now North Park, Who
went to that section fOrty-five years
ago, died at his home near Owl, Colo,
4 and his body was taken to Manches-
ter, Ia, for interment. Mr.. Speck was
born in Germany little more than
eighty-eight years ago, and went to
North Park forty-five years ago, be-
ing engaged in sluice mining. He
shipped large quantities of gold from
time to time.
Craig will have a modern creamery
manufacturing butter and ice cream If
/ sufficient cream can be secured to
make the proposition success
i The schedules to be used by county
assessors in collecting agricultural
statistics for 1920 will be ready TO
distribution early in February. Copies
of these schedules will be sent by the
State immigration Department to all
commercial clubs. to all daily and
weekly newspapers and to others es-
pecially interested in agricultural de-
NelopmeHt, Will Tie request lHat theS
aid assessors every way they can in
obtaining full reports from farmers
this year The 1920 schedules are
somewhat more complex than were
those used for 1919, and an effort will
be made before the actual canvass be-
gins to let farmers know what infor-
nation they will be asked to give the
assessors regarding their agricultural
operations, so that assessors and their
deputies will not be delayed in OBJ
tanning the information.
4 The end of the 1919-2O beet season
came with the closing down Of the su-
gar factory of the Holly Sugar Corpor-
alton at Grand Junction. The total run
was 10000 tons. This brought the
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