The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-09-10

Seventy-two and three-eighths bush
| els Of wheat to the acre from eight
acres ON the ranch of Gus McColloch
is the record yield reported in Mont
rose county this summer.
Nels Melvin Peterson. 12-year-old son
of Mr.. and Mrs Frank Peterson, living
near Wild Horse, thirty miles south
east of Hugo. was instantly killed
when he was dragged to death by a
horse.
After wandering for two days in the
mountains without food and sleeping
in the open, Allen Robbins. Is, and
Gilbert Russell, Is, both of Loveiand,
were found on the Fall river road
north of Estes Park
| Bert Hughes, driving motorcycle
| in the last racing event of the fair
at Sterling, was thrown fifty feet
through the air and sustained possible
on the quarter stretch. In the side
car was Bruce Morgan. age 20, who
was only slightly injured.
Cleveland Hunter, son of Mr. and
Mrs. James NJ. Hunter of the Hunter
section, ten miles northwest of Grand
Junction, was shot by Is. r. Goddard
while in the Goddard melon patch.
Young Hunter was with some other
boys getting watermelons. He is now
in the Fruita hospital.
The Grand Mesa Resort Company
has let contract to T. NJ Wiley for
the erection of the main hotel building
at the resort grounds at Alexander
lakes. This has been needed for sew
eral seasons, due to the increased
number of tourists who have been
camping each summer at the Grand
Mesa Lakes.
Seventy-eight men have re-enlisted
in the navy for duty aboard the Simp-
son, all of which reside in Colorado
| and Wyoming, only twenty-four more
ex-navy men are needed TO man her
and she will be the crack destroyer of
the navy. She will be commissioned at
Philadelphia Her home port will be
San Diego, Calf.
William Kicks, Grand Junction gro
Ger, has been forced by County As
| SCISSOR Ocee o. Fellows to admit that
he did not report a large amount Of
sugar he had in storage .,I his place of
| business when the tax assessor called
at the Kicks store and his assessment
was raised from little over $1,000 10
| $40, 900 by the assessor.
Delta will hold It's annual flower
show Saturday, septembe( 1lth, wleks
locally grown gladiolus, sweet peas!
dahlias and asters will be put on dis
| play. Many attractive prizes have
| been offered by the merchants for the
best flowers shown. After the exhi-
| bition the flowers will be auctioned off
and the proceeds given to the City
! Park fund
The Cripple Creek Short Line, which
operates tourist trains between Colo
RADIO Springs and Summit, has closed
its season. The road was re-opened TO
Summit on June 2Sth. On May 18th,
last, Judge r. E. Lewis of the Federal
District Court in Denver, gave the op-
orators of the road permission TO close
and the traffic to Cripple Greek and
return was annulled.
Remarkable yields of both wheat and
barley are reported from fields of
grain just threshed in Larimer county,
Fred Schmer has just harvested twelve
acres of wheat and six acres of barley
on the W. A. Drake farm two and a
half miles south of Fort Collins, which,
while they have broken no records. are
unusually fine crops. The wheat
threshed 74.16 bushels to the acre and
the barley 50 bushels to the acre.
Joseph Chapman. 26, of Boulder, who
was killed in the Interurban collision
near Globeville, was former United
States marine. and served in the bat
ties of Belleau wood and Chateau
Thierry. He was wounded twice and
badly gassed. He was decorated for
bravery.
The 3-year-old daughter of Virgil
, Collins, farmer living four miles
west of Ordway. was crushed to death
under loaded hay wagon. The child
ran to the wagon to hand her father Il
written list of groceries wanted by
Mrs. Collins, just as her father started
the horses in motion. The girl STUN
bled and fell to the ground, one of the
rear wheels passing over her head
Richard Forrest, 7e-year-old farm
er of the Eckert neighborhood, at Del
ta, lost his right foot when it became
caught in a steel cable connected with
hay-loading machine which Mr. For
rest was operating on his farm. The
harness of the horses became en-
tangled and Mr.. Forrest attempted to
straighten it, but frightened the ami
mails, which caused the loose cable to
become taut His right foot was
caught in the cable and snapped off.
Eutimo Duran, charged with murder
in the first degree for killing his wife,
Mrs. Pillar Duran, and Crestino Jiron,
whom he claims was her clandestine
admirer was hound over to the Dis
trict Court in Moab, Utah, at the pre-
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