The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-04-09
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

| or ten feet seven inches, visit there
bv Forest Ranger Robinson 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. 90 inches Upper Surface Creek.
81 inches Lower Surface Creek. IS
inches; West Muddy, 4S inches; Hub
bard Creek, 3S inches; Upper Big
Creek, 60 inches; Lower Big Creek.
54 inches; Mesa Lake, "a inches; Coon
Creek, 60 inches; Upper Divide Greek.
| 80 inches.
The biological report of the United
States district forest service for 1919
has just been completed, and will be
submitted to the biological survey in
Washington by Allen S. Peck, district
forester The estimates of the num-
ber of game animals in the state in
1918 and 1919 are as follows: 4,911
elk in 1918, 1884 in 1919; no moose in
either 1918 or 1919: 7,123 mountain
sheep in 1918, 6,772 in 1919; As ante
lope in 1918, so in 1919; no caribou in
either year 22,717 mule deer in 1918.
23. .797 in 1919; 43 white-tailed deer in
191S 81 in 1919; 81 1888 beavers in 1918,
33,777 in 1919; 2,190 black or brown
bears in 1918. 1859 in 1910; II silver
rip bears in 1918. 81 in 1919.
A change of venue to Greeley in
Weld county will be asked in the case
of Rienzi Dickens, accused of muir
dering his father, William II. Dickens,
Longmont pioneer and banker, on Nov
30. 1913. Rienzi Dickens attorneys al
lege popular prejudice. Rienzi Dick
ems has been ordered to ap-
pear in the District Court
on Wednesday, April IA, when District
Attorney r. w. Fleming will ask for
judgment on the remittitur in the SUI
preme court and date for a new
trial of the case.
The establishment of an airplane
field probably in Colorado, for the
purpose of patroling the United
States national forests in Colorado
and other states in this district, ls
very likely, according to Allen s.
Peck. district forester The air serv-
ice fire patrol Of the United States
forest service is meeting with great
success on the Pacific coast, accord
ing to Fred Morrell, assistant district
forester, who has just returned from
the Law Enforcement conference at
San Francisco.
The state Of Colorado has not the
right to collect state Inheritance tax
upon that portion of an estate which
is taken by the United States govern
ment as federal Inheritance tax. Only
after the federal government has taken
Its share-af I'm estate Dies the stite
Inheritance tax apply. This is the eff
feet of a decision rendered by the Col
oradO supreme court
A snowp1ow, with which crews were
attempting to break the six-day snow
blockade on the Moffat road, iumped
the track at Loop, Colo, four miles
west of Corona, and plunged 300 feet
down an embankment, but no mem
oers of the crew were injured. Two
locomotives were propelling the plow
at six miles an hour when the derail-
ment occurred.
Found guilty of stealing $3,91O from
cache buried in pigpen at Durango.
Henry Lance was sentenced to an in
definite term in the reformatory. VII.
liam Lance, the boys step-father, was
found guilty of receiving stolen prop
erty. The money was taken from a
hoard of $4,000 buried by Reinhold
Thompson, dairyman, for whom
Henry was working.
One thousand dollars an acre is the
record return in Montrose County
among the potato growers reported for
1919. Frank r. 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
Colorado's school fund has passed
the $6,000,0OO mark On April 1 the
books of the state treasurer show the
fund has reached $6,017, 1851. On
April 1, 1915, the fund stood at S3,-
136,7TO35. In other words, the fund
has nearly doubled within five years.
The fund is invested in bonds and
other securities which net a little bet
ter than 4 per cent, giving an income
of about quarter of a million dol
lars annually This income is divided
among the counties for school pur-
poses.
A letter to Postmaster Charles Nc
Cormac of Crestone, Colo, Boosting Of
his escape from federal authorities
following the theft of $63S.49 and
other securities from the postoffice
safe, led to the arrest of Ernest Boyd,
20 years old, at Spokane, WASH, ac-
cording to telegram received in Den
YER
The beet acreage for the Longmont
section has passed the 10000 mark,
and it is expected that before plant
ing season arrives total of approx
mately 22,OOO acres will have been