The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-05-14
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

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bank at Johnstown, but became fright
ened and disappeared without taking
anything. Entrance was gained
through window.
The 1920 annual convention of the
Colorado Retail Coal Dealers AssOci-
alton is to be held in Colorado Springs
on June Sth and 9th. More than $50
dealers will attend the meeting.
The general merchandise store of
Peter Schneider has been robbed at
Morrison of goods worth from g., 500
to $1,000, mostly in the latest expen-
sive shoes.
A program Of weekend excursions
to the ArapahOe glacier, Lake Eldora
and other mountain points has been
arranged for the students who attend
the summer school at the State uni
yersity this. year at Boulder
Jack Ricci of Lafayette was SEN
fenced to sixty days in the county Jail
and was fined 5000 and costs at Boul-
der for bootlegging. His home at La
fayette was raided and several gal
Ions of dago red We're confiscated.
A fund has been opened at Fort Col
Inns to finance recount, if it can be
obtained, of Fort Collins population.
The Commercial Club teegraphed Con
gressman Charles Timberlake asking
him to endeavor to prevail upon the
Census Bureau to make a second count
| for the city
Mike Lee. a laborer employed by the
| Pueblo Bridge and Construction Com
pany, which is repairing the Denver
Colorado Springs road, was killed near
Hustled, twelve miles from Colorado
| Springs, while unloading a carload of
stone. The lever which he was oper-
ating slipped, inflicting fatal wound
on his head. No inquest will be held.
Boulder business men are subscrib-
| ing literally to IL fund that is being
| raised for the construction of tour
ist hotel. ]. o. Billig, mayor of Boul-
| der; Joe Mills, proprietor of the Ctags
hotel in Estes Park; Hugh Mark, land
lord of the Boulderado hotel of this
city, and w. S. Withers, prominent
business man, are the committee in
charge.
Pinned beneath the wreckage of an
automobile in seven feet of water in
Bear Creek canon, Stanley Mccall, 25.
| living at Denver, was drowned before
the efforts of four companions, one of
whom was his brother, could save him
The party was returning from da$ce
at Starbuck park, and as their tar
lreacned point about five miles abofve
the mouth of the canon the crelak
bank, softened by the recent hestyy
rains, gave way beneath the weight of
the car.
i Thousands of dollars worth of fur
niture seized by the police in Denver
during raids on alleged gambling
houses has been turned over to the
Salvation Army by Chief of Police
Hamilton Armstrong and will be used
in furnishing that organizations new
quarters in Denver Such furniture
is usually destroyed, but realizing
that it would be put to "A good pur-
pose by giving it to the Salvation
Army. Chief Armstrong consented to
its being disposed of in that manner.
Alberto Madrid, railroad worker at
Trinchera, who was arrested at that
place and lodged in the county Jail at
Trinidad, confessed to District Attor-
ney J. w. Hawley that he attacked
with an AK Valentine Anaya, a barber
at Trinchera, while the latter was
asleep in his bed, inficting injuries
which are expected to cause the death
t of the victim Madrid declared the
assault was committed with the mo-
: tive of robbery and that he had taken
oil t1..a Int A 4. - /
the time.
! Citizens of Grand county and north
) western Colorado generally, holding a
] mass meeting at Hot Sulphur Spriags.
. following the opening of the Moffat
= road, adopted IA resolution in which
they expressed their gratitude to res
!, idents of Denver, the operating force
! of the Moffat road the State Highway
Commission and others for their eff
: forts in breaking the recent serious
snow blockade on the Moffat system.
Revised figures compiled by the
State immigration Department from
the records of the State Tax Commits
sion for use in the Colorado Year
! Book show that the total assessed val
which 1920 taxes are being paid is
/ $1,49S, ,663. lbs This is an increase of
about S74.OOO,00O over the assessed
: valuation for the preceding year and
S an Increase of about S3,0O0,000 over
. the preliminary figures. Denver coun-
t ty ranks first, with S352, 900, 900, and
Weld county second, with S1OS, 900, 900.
. These are the only two counties in the
: state showing assessed valuations
!, above S100,O00,000. There were in
4 creases in the valuations for nearly all
I agricultural counties, while most of
the mining counties showed decreases.
NJ b. Sloss of Basalt purchased the
largest car of potatoes on record in
, this locality from Albert Duroux at
Woody Flats, near Aspen. The car
contained 469 sacks and weighed S.
IT'S pounds. Sloss paid SIPS per hun