The Elbert County tribune., 1920-03-19
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

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bond issue this spring for the In
stalation of cement sidewalks through
out the town.
Boulder has purchased 400 acres of
land along the watershed of North
Boulder creek to protect the clty's wat
er supply.
bond election viii be held in Fort
Morgan SO that funds may be secured
to Increase the capacity Of the water
plant.
Denver's population is 263,973, ac-
cording to semi-official reports of the
census recheck now being made in
Washington.
Frank Heaglsr, %, was instantly
killed at Fort Lupton, at the Indus
trial Sugar Company's plant when the
cable of a huge steam shovel broke.
allowing u two-ton bucket to strike
him on the back.
Colorados school fund is receiving
q yearly revenue of SD ,925.25 from
oil leases on state school land. accord
Ing to report compiled by Horace
Havens, mineral superintendent Of the
State Board OF Land Commissioners.
After having lost complete trace of
his father. George Gray, for twenty
eight years, Charles Gray of Pueblo
suddenly recognized him on the street
In that city. The elder Gray has been
residing in Omaha, Neb.
A luncheon meeting in honor of
President f. NJ. Hopkins of Dartmouth
College and DR. Louis Parkhurst of
Boston, nationally known educator,
is to be held by the Denver Civic and
Legislative Bureau on April 1st. The
two educators will visit Denver at
that time during tour in the interest
Of educational advancement.
George Barrick, A, and Earl Walker,
81, were smothered to death by q cave
In at the Golightly clay mine near
Golden. The bodies of both men were
recovered by fellow workmen an hour
after the accident. The cave-in oc-
| Cured in new vein, which is sup
| posed to be very solid and came with
out warning whatever, according to
| witnesses.
Colorado employees of the Colorado
| Fuel and Iron Company suffered a
loss of S2,471 ,O05 In wages as result
Of the recent steel strike, and Wyo-
ming employees of the corporation lost
| S161, 400, making grand total of ST.
632, ,50i, according to report filed
with the State Industrial Commission
by Fred Farrar general counsel for
the company.
The work of paving the Santa Fs
trail will begin when the contractors
| will tha Say-
eral one-mile sections will be laid this
spring, the first just east of Rocky
Ford, then mile just west of Lo
Junta and other sections in Manzan-
ola and Fowler. In few years the
entire trail from the Kansas line to
Denver will he paved
| More than $1,000 was raised At
MOntrose by committee to insure the
| construction of the new court house
| for Montrose county on II new site,
instead of building it on the present
site of the old court house which has
served the county since its incorpora-
ton, but which is now being sur
rounded by wholesale houses, produce
markets and railroad switches
Alexander T. Vogelsang, the first as
slstant secretary of the interior, has
designated 423,O5o acres of land in
the Leadville district as chiefly yalu
able for grazing and the raising of
forage crops and as subject to entry
under the stock raising homestead
Jaw. All of these lands have been
applied for heretofore by several hun
dred homesteaders in the Leadyille dis
| trict.
Mrs. Charles b. Timberlake, the
wife of the representative from the
Second Congressional District of Col
orado, died Mt the Emergency Hospi
tai. Washington, ID. c., from an attack
like sleeping sickness, superinduced
by influenza.
Employees of the Colorado Springs
Light, Heat and Power Company have
asked for Il wage increase of 40 pei
cent. Rush l.. Holland. vice president
Of the utility company, said that 1t was
impossible to grant the workmen a
raise under the existing operation con-
ditions. 1t is probable that the en-
ployes will petition the City Council
for an increase in gas and electric
rates SO that the wage increase may
be granted.
Approximately 100000 of permanent
srate school funds have been invested
In state. school and water bonds since
the first of the present month, says
State Treasurer Harry f. Mulnix. or
this amount S93,OOO was used to pur-
chase state bonds of the national de-
fense series of 1917 to provide funds
with which to take up certificates of
Indebtedness issued in connection with
the state troop mobilization of three
months ago