The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-09-10
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

made in the previous ten years. Den
yer shows population of 256, ,49l. an
Increase of 4S,110, or 20.2 per cent.
Denver's population was previously an
nounced at $500. Boulder is an
nounced as 10.9S9, showing an increase
of 1,45o, or 1872 per cent. The census
bureaus announcement gave the state
total of 939,376 inhabitants. Colo
radios rate of growth in the last dec
ade was 17.6 per cent, compared with
As per cent in the previous ten years
The Rockland hotel was completely
destroyed at Palmer Lake by fire
which followed a terrific explosion
heard two miles away. gas leak in
the basement which was touched off
when Oliver and Mildred Hill, children
of Mrs. w. L. Hill, proprietress. at
tempted to light the water heater, is
said to have caused the explosion. De-
spite the fact that the force of the ex-
plosion wrecked parts of the building,
the children were not seriously hurt,
and escaped with only slight burns.
The loss is estimated at $4,000, a part
of which is covered by insurance
Mrs. W. L. White and her son, HON.
er, years old. who were on their way
to school at Montrose, were both
knocked unconscious by live wire
CARRYING 2,3O0 volts. They were res
cued by a passing farmer. Young
White was walking along with. his
mother, when he reached to the ground
and grabbed a wire which had been
thrown across a live wire. The child
was knocked unconscious. His mother
| attempted to pull him away and she
also was knocked TO the ground.
Douglas Daugherty. 12-year-old
son of Mr.. and Mrs. 2. G. Daugherty
of Grand junction, was drowned in
the Grand river The body was recov-
cred by members of the fire depart
ment and police with graphing hooks.
Douglas older brother, Edwin, made
| desperate attempt to save him.
About a dozen boys were swimming
after pears which were floating down
the river. Douglas went further than
the rest and was caught in an eddy
and sucked under.
Ted Irwin. II, son Of Mrs. ". irwin
OF Colorado Springs, a bellboy at the
Broadmoer hotel, was instantly killed
near the Hackey sheep ranch. Lincoln
county, thirty miles north of Ordway,
when his revolver was exploded acci-
dentally in a fall. The bullet pierced
his heart. The boy had been to Rocky
Ford for the Watermelon Day festiv-
tiles and was returning here on his
motorcycle. His body was not found
for an hour, as the road is little used.
Where the poison comes from that
makes the famed Poison springs of
the Crawford district so deadly is the
problem to be tackled by high school
students of western Colorado this year.
| The water will. be analyZed and the
rock strata examined mfcroscopically.
The geology of the land will be gone
into thoroughly also. There is possi-
bility that the source of the poison
may be found ara the springs re-
claimed for use.
Entries for the Better Babies con-
test at the Colorado State Fair are
coming in rapidly. but all these and
all other entries must be in not later
than Saturday afternoon, Sept IS. as
the fair will open full blast, with
everything in place and with great
track and other events, on Sunday,
the nineteenth.
Sheriff Trabing of Laramie, Wyo.,
positively identified the body found
near the Ames monument, at Sher-
man, as that of w. H. Pfleiderer, the
Longmont optician. who perished in a
storm last April IL. The body was
taken to Laramie. A sheepherder dis
covered the decomposed form lying in
a ravine.
Twelve horses were incinerated
when a large livery stable burned at
Grand Junction Several automobile
shops were threatened for a time. The
loss was estimated at $4,000.
Two armed men held up and robbed
the crews of Colfax avenue car and
trailer of more than 500 as the train
backed into the switch preparatory to
turning around at Colfax avenue and
Birch street in Denver. The robbers,
who are said to have been mere
youths, then ran to Fourteenth avenue
and Birch street, where they entered
IA large touring car and started toward
the city at high rate of speed.
The 1920 crop of wild raspberries
nroved to be a bumper one and the
service berries and choke cherries have
added a great deal to the larders of
Ouray folk. The high price of sugar
is not so keenly felt when the berries
are free for the picking, and many
have put up great deal of preserves.
jams and jells this summer, drawing
upon natures supply of wild berries
almost exclusively.
Denver was selected for next years
meeting place by the Columbian fed
Grafton, an Italian-American society,
at its fourteenth annual national con
vention at Springfield, H. 1t was
veted to raise fund of $4,000 to
establish Il home near Pueblo, Colo