The Dolores star., 1920-04-09
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

tion Department, show that but six of
the sixty one counties In the state hav-
ing banks within their borders showed
decreases IN their bank deposits dur
ing the year 1919. In the remaining
counties increases were shown ranging
from 4 per cent to 1SJ per cent. The
largest percentages OF increase were
shown by the following counties Chey-
enne, 1876 per cent Kit Carson county
10 per cent, Baca county, 20 per cent !:
Archuleta county, IS per cent; Logan
county, "a per cent; Yuma county, 81
per cent. The increase in bank depos
its for the state rs a whole was in ex-
cess of % per cent for the beginning
OF 1917. Increases We're shown in ali
the agricultural counties, while some
of the mining counties showed de
creases, the largest being for Teller
county.
The depth OF snow at Ward Lake
March 31st was 12I Inches on level,
or ten feet seven inches. a visit there
by Forest Ranger l,obinson disclosed
The ranger cabin was about buried out
of sight. The deepest snow ever re-
ported in the state before, it is said,
was on Cumbres Pass. where 128
inches was reported in 1916, following
one Of the worst storms in the states
history. The rangers found the fol-
lowing depths near Ward Lake: Kiser
Creek, 96 inches; Upper Surface Creek,
81 inches; Lower Surface Creek, 78
inches; Wcs: Muddy, rs inches; Hub
bard Creek, 80 inches; Upper Big
Creek, 90 inches; Lower Zig Creek,
ri inches: Mesa Lake, 81 il "hes Coon
Creek. 60 inches; Upper DIVIDE Creek
30 inches.
Colorado's school fund has passed
the S6,00O.OO0 marx. On April the
books of the state treasurer show the
fund has reached S6O1T 1851. On
April |, 1918, the fund stood at 3d.
13G,7I035. In other words, the fund
has nearly doubled within five years.
Tie fund is invested in bonds and
other securities which net n little bet
ter than per cent, giving an income
Of about quarter of million dol.
lars annually This income is divided
among the counties for school pur-
poses.
Mrs. Ora Woolery, 81, mother of
three young children. fell down IL
freight elevator shaft ut the Acacia no
tel at Colorado Springs. where she was
employed as II domestic, and died
shortly ufterward aS II result of her
injuries. The elevator is automatic.
4 eI,a 81 IN
third floor, which she mstook for the
fourth floor. the elevator continued up
ward and she fell backward into the
shaft. She was badly crushed in the
fall
BY the accidental discharge of his
from its holster at the police station
at Trinidad. Archie Mccoy. night cap
tain of police, was shot through the
ankle, inflicting an injury which may
keep him out of service for several
months. w. H. Waller will serve as
night captain.
A letter to Postmaster Charles Nc
COrmac of Crestone. Colo, boasting of
his escape from federal authorities
following the theft of S63S.49 and
other securities from the postoffice
safe, led to the arrest of Ernest Boyd,
20 years old, at Spokane, Wash. ac-
cOrding to q telegram received in Den
YER.
One thousand dollars an acre is the
record return In MontrOse County
among the potato growers reported for
1919. Frank +. Heath, one of the
farmers of the BOstwick Park district,
has completed his marketing and said
that on twelve acres the return will
average approximately $1,000 an acre,
The beet acreage for the Longmont
section has passed the 10000 mark,
and 1t is expected that before plant
ing season arrives total of approx
mately 22,0OO acres will have been
reached This will be one of the larg.
est acreages ever grown for the Long
mont factory.
Eleven and three-quartcrs per cent
of the school children in the Greeley
district are of Russian parentage. ac-
cording to a school census just com
DItltu. lt ttISuS SiIo"S titt iIl'iV
are 1854 persons of school age in the
district, and fourteen foreign coun-
tries are represented. Seventy-twO
gave Mexico as the birth of their par
cnts, and siXty-three Sweden.
Found guilty of stealing S3,91O from
a cache buried In n pigpen at Durango.
Henry Lance was sentenced to an in
definite term in the reformatOry. VIII
liam Lance, the boys step-father, was
sOund guilty of receiving stolen prop
erty. The money was taken from .
hoard of $1,000 buried by Re;nhold
Thompson, dairyman, for whom
Henry was working.
A snowplow, with which crews were
attempting to break the six-day snow
blockade on the Moffat road, jumped