The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-04-02
co1,osApo NEWS NOTES.


,ha higgest sheep men of the commu-
n,tv He has been experimenting in
crossing the Cotswold sheep with the
hlock Karakule sheep, the hardy wire
wool sheep from Europe, with aston
isbins results. He has secured larger,
boaltbier sheep with u finer and gloss
iar wool. but the black spots which
come in the wool makes his problem
one of further breeding TO eradicate
this feature
rhe Colorado state treasury is facing
deficit which can only be avoided
by a continuance of inheritance tax re-
cepts at the 1919 rate, according TO
STATE officials. The 1919 inheritance
,.x total was almost $l,OOO,OOO, al
,boueh only $4,000 as estimated for
the entire biennial period. This unex-
nected figure was due to the settle
mert of an unexpected number of large
estates. Receipts are now very much
slower
A wears gain in resources of 26l
state and savings banks ana trust
compauies of Sl7.294,925.3S is shown
in an abstract report by State Bank
Examiner Grant Mcpherson. Thc gam
is on total resources for the close OIL
business February 2S, 1920, compared
with March 4, 1919. Resources of ma
tioual banks are not included i'll the
report. which shows total resources
for the state institutions of $120, lu9,-
S9976
Alex Miller, the deaf mute who is
held in the county Jail at Greeley,
though no information has Yet been
filed against him, will probably not be
arraigned before the May term of the
District Court and possibly not until
the November term, according +" As
sistant District Attorney f. j. Green,
who said that the arraignlnent and
trial may occur close together without
the formality of preliminary hearing.
Manitou park, for years a famous
resort in the Pixies Peak region, is to
become the site next year for Il sum-
mer military school and camp for boys.
This was virtually assured when Col.
J. w. Wilson, head of the New Mexico
Military Institute at Roswell and Nal
+. T. Spencer of Denver, associated
with him, obtained an option on 3,4SO
acres comprising the park from J. 5.
Wilson, the owner.
L. z. Marccllus, rancher living ten
miles west of Grand Junction, was run
over by Il switch engine in the yards
at Minturn, Colo, while on the way
to Cheyenne, Wyo., with carload Of
blooded Holstein cattle. He died at
Leadville while he was being taken to
Il hospital at Salida. He had just been
to "A lunch counter and was run down
on his way back to the train.
Petitions have been sent out TO the
landowners in six of the school dis
trcts surrounding Saguache proposing
consolidation of the district with the
town schools of Saguache 1t is not
planned to erect new buildings at this
time, since it is thought that the old
ones will accommodate all pupils who
may be added to the enrolment
through such action.
The home of Sam Richie, miner at
Rockvale, was completely wrecked
when a bomb placed by blackhanders
exploded. Sam Matore, son-in-law of
Richie, was the only person in the
house at the time Matore had been
sleeping, but just before the explosion
went into the kitchen to get drink of
water. He escaped injury.
Robbers obtained $4,000 in cash and
checks from the safe of the Platte Val
lev Milling and Elevator Company al
Fort Morgan. The thieves broke the
lock and were not hindered by the com
bnation, which was not set. Officers
say that the robbery was the work OF
professionals.
Track work has started at the Gree
lev High school, Coach Jones has
more than 100 boys who have reported
for work and indication is that Gree
lev will make good showing this
year on the track.
Grand Junction will raise 81 900. ant
Mesa, DeBeque and Palisade VIII each
raise a like amount to make the ST.
600 which the government says must
he raised to pay for the building OF
the link road between Mesa, Colo, and
The national forest. The edge to CON
meet Mesa, Colo, with the Mesa lakes.
The government is to spend $4,000 on
the roaI, work on which will be start
ell shortly.
The beet growers of the Western
Slope won decisive victory over The
Holly Sugar Corporation when that
company agreed to pay the growers Il
minimum price of $40 a ton for the
1920 crop, based upon 50 sugar and
Sill a ton additional for each 81 over
so that the seaboard prices of sugar
average during the four months of No
vember, December, 1920, and January
and February, 1921.
The Red Cross official who discov-
cred the Grand Duchess Olga hiding in
boxcar near Odessa is no other than
Neil McGregor, husband of Mrs Nina
McGregor, formerly Miss Nina Coates
of Denver. Word to this effect has