The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-03-26
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

Western Newspaper Union News Service
The ore shipments from Telluride
in February were 40 cars, three cars
more than in the same month last
year.
| Two factories are now being rushed
to completion in Delta. The largest
plant will be the Holly Sugar Mill. The
other plant 10 the Colorado Packing
Company
Pruning is now in full swing at the
Grand Valley and in almost every
orchard men are being employed In
this necessary spring work. The trees
show little effect of the severe winter.
| Various organizations of Olathe plan
| % raise $4,000 for the construction of
modern community house in honor
of the soldiers, sailors and marines
who served in the great war, according
to plans started at mass meeting.
Miss Dorothy Lell, 19-year-old daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs f. l.. Lell of Ash
Mesa died on her birthday, following
an illness of several weeks of pneu-
monia, which she developed after she
had recovered from Influenza.
Ross Henry Anderson, 21 years old,
a farmer of the Cowan district, near
Hugo, was instantly killed when an
automobile i'll which he was driving
turned turtle, pinning him underneath.
The accident was caused by the break
ing of the steering gear.
| Petitions are being formulated, ad-
dressed to the commissioners of Mont
tllA rfIstlf
tion of new road from Placerville to
Naturita, the road to follow the north
side of the river, giving a south ex-
posure for the greater part of the dis
| tance.
| Miss Dorothy Smith, 16-year-old
daughter of Frederick r. Smith, cash
Ter of the First National Bank of Colo
RADIO Springs, is near death at Weues-
ley, Mass, as the result of skiing ac-
broken skiing rod Miss Smith fell on
the fragments of the stick and her alb
domen was perforated in three places.
Negotiations were completed In Den
yer for the purchase of $56,50O worth
of radum by the Medical and Surgical
group of Denver. The dead was made
with the Radium Company of Colo
RADIO. One-half gram, or seven and
three-quarters grams of the precious
mineral is contained in the tube pur-
| chased
Undersheriff I1iliam stretcher, who
was injured Boulder when city
automobile md fire company truck
collided in h heavy wind storm, died
ri. University hospital in that city. He
les reeasti ti,tre- man To- die from ,S@ ,ss :
being Chief Of Police. L. 2. Bass'ana
Joseph Salter, 1T-year-old son of City
Manager Salter
George E. Adams, Go years old, a
resident Of Greeley for A. years, is
dead following a paralytic stroke. Mr..
Adams came to Colorado in 1875 and
homesteaded at Seely's lake. He is
one of the wealthiest cattlemen in
Weld county and is said TO have ac-
cumulated a fortune of 100000. He
was a member of the w. o. w. and
Knights of Pythias.
1t costs the state of Colorado S43.16
less to educate student at the Fort
Collins Agricultural college than at the
SihtV univ Siit Nt A1OuthCis utNoiNAie
to reports on the two big institutions
submitted to Governor Shoup by Audi
Tor Of State Stong The average ex-
pense of educating Il student at the
Agricultural college, Stong reports, is
S1S1.51. while at the state university
it Is $231.27 The Agricultural college
spent S222,01S.0S educating lisa stu
dents, while at the university the edu-
cation of Las students cost S4O3,-
45238 These figures are for the year
1919
Allan France an employe of the
pickle company at Brighton, died at
a Denver hospital of concussion of
the brain, sustained when he fell
twelve feet from ladder on which
he was working at the pickle plant.
Two Pueblo men were instantly
killed in peculiar accidents. Edward
Louis Korh. 80, lineman of the Ar
kansas Light and Power Company, was
electrocuted while at work on tele-
graph pole, and Steve Stock, AN en-
| ploye of the Colorado Fuel and Iron
Company wire mill, met death when
a redhot iron pierced his neck.
Colorado and Wyoming naval re-
servists who served during the war
with Germany may obtain Victory but
tons by applying to Lieutenant Com
mander p. S. Thesis of the Denver
navy recruiting station or to the petty
officer in charge of the recruiting sta
ton nearest them. Hitherto only men
who served in the regular navy could
obtain these buttons in Denver, the
reservists being required to apply to
the commandant of the Twelfth Naval
district, San Francisco, Calf. All ap-
plications for Victory buttons must be
accompanied by discharge or release
| from active duty.
Eighty fancy hogs from the ranch
of the American Beet Sugar Company
| OF IocLv Ford hrol-a oil t,,.i,n ,.o.,,de.