The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-12-03
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COLORADO
STATE NEWS

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Western Newspaper Union News Service
The Colorado Power Company Is en-
larging its plant at Sterling; more
than $4,000 will be expended.
| H. G. Smith has sold his ranch in
Norwood near Telluride, to the Sar
Miguel Development Company.
The Ralph w. Tenhaeff ranch Of
$3.50 acres, near Fort Morgan. has
been sold to Eugene c. Eaton of Hax-
tun.
Plans are under way to rebuild the
Currle Canning Company at Grand
Junction, recently destroyed by fire at
loss Of $75,OO0.
Two paving districts, estimated to
cost quarter of million dollars each
and a storm sewer district for Univer-
sity hill that will cost $157, ,S94.54, have
been ordered by the city council of
Boulder.
Following a community celebration
at Graylin Heights scho0lhouse at
which his wife gave several readings,
John Kobler, 80 years old. wealthy
farmer living near Sterling, shot his
bride to death and killed himself.
The Denver & Rio Grande Western
Railroad Company has been incorpor-
ated with capital of $5O,OOO 900 by
the filing of papers with Secretary of
State james r. Noland. Headquarters
of the corporation will be in Denver.
Increases In the salaries of the coun-
ty school teachers is assigned as the
reason for the increase in the tax lev
les for MOntrose county for the year
1921. Other school expenses for next
year also helped to boost the tax rate.
Civic officials and business leaders
of Colorado, Wyoming and New Mexi-
co will convene the afternoon and
evening of Dec. s and the morning of
Dec 8 in Denver to discuss matters
of education The conference will be
held under the auspices of the depart
ment of the interior.
Sentences ranging from five years
and one-half to twelve years in the
state penitentiary were meted out by
District Judge A. T. Hollenbeck of the
Third judicial district to the four
young men who held up and robbed
William Coss, son of ]. f. Coss, pub
Usher of the Walsenburg Independent,
on the Walsenburg-Pueblo road. All
four pleaded guilty.
Following an alleged family quarrel
in which Charles A. Frost was arrest
ed upon a peace warrant and later re-
leased on bond, Lee Parrish surren-
dered after he had shot and seriously
wounded Frost at his home. The bullet
grazed the right side of his face and
he was taken to a hospital. Several
quarrels are said to have taken pla &c
between Frost and his father IN law
Turing the past two months.
Field representatives of the Holly
Sugar Company at Montrose report
that beet harvesting in that section is
completed and that practically all of
the beets are now on top of the ground
although thousands of tons are yet to
he hauled to the dumps. Because of
the lack of sufficient cars, both the
Montrose and Olathe beet dumps have
had to dump thousands of tons on the
ground near the dumps, which will
later be loaded in cars and shipped to
the mill.
| The estimated production of pOta-
toes in Colorado for 1920 is 11,1S0,000
bushels, as compared with 100000
bushels in 1919, according to the Of
| ficiaI report of the State Board of I'm
migration. The quality of potatoes for
this year is figured at so per cent of
normal, compared with So per cent
last year and 80 per cent average for
the last ten years. In the United
States the production of potatoes will
reach 421,252,0O0 bushels. Last year
this country's total potato production
was 3S2, ,113,090 bushels.
Official count of the ballot cast in
Colorado in the last election shows
President Harding carried the
state by 6S,312 according to announce
nent made by the stale eanvassing
board. The report shows Harding re-
ceived total of 17324S ballots as com
pared with 104,936 cast for Cox.
Nine coal companies, operating In the
Routt county fields, have filed with the
Public Utilities Commission a request
that the recently installed triweekly
passenger service over the Moffat line
he continued. The reason given is that
curtaiment of passenger service gives
a greater service to the freight trains
and aids materially in the transporta-
ton of coal by affording more cars and
more service.
An increase of $50 year has
been granted the teachers in the Colo
RADIO Springs schools and the tax levy
for the school district has been set at
1899 mills, an increase of 1.2 mills
over the 1920 figures. The Colorado
Springs teachers have requested an adj
ditional increase to bring the wage
] standard up to that recently awarded
in Denver. School operation here will
cost 100000 in 1921.
J All railroad grade crossings on state
highways bptuaan Dopva,. ,,,,,1 n,..L1a