The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-10-15
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

grade school building. for which the
ground has already been broken.
There are 14,123 ,529 acres of good
grazing land in Colorado today and
one sheep or range COW for every seven
acres of it.
A. j. Bryant and Navajo Martinas,
prisoners in the San Juan county Jail,
escaped by digging out motar between
| the bricks In a wall Of the jail, last
week at Silverton.
Last year farmers in one section of
southwestern Colorado shipped 10000
hogs to Nebraska and other states to
be finished on corn and then sent back
- the Denver market.
William Norell of Walden accom-
panied a shipment of cattle to Omaha,
and while the train stopped near
LaSalle, Colo a couple of tramps held
up one of the men who were with
NorelI and secured between SIS and
$50.
In q recent bull calf contest held by
the Dairy Farmer, Miss Marie Kalberer
Of Broomfield, Colo, won the prize
Holstein bull calf, son of Carnation
King Sylvia, the 100000 Holstein bull
of the Carnation Stock Farms Com
pany.
| Automobile bandits cracked safes in
the Deertrail State Bank and the First
National Bank, rifled 300 safety de-
posit boxes, which contained many
thousands of dollars worth of securi-
ties, and escaped with $4,000 in cur
| reney.
The first annual San Luis Valley po-
tato show will be held at Center, Colo,
on Nov. IL, II and 13. The fourth an
nual meeting of the Saguache county
farm bureau will be held on the open
ing day. At the potato show premiums
will be offered duplicating those given
4 last January
Frank Crawford, thirty-three, super
intendent of the United Gold Mines
Company's Elkton and Ell Paso mines
at Cripple Creek, was fatally injured
when he and a horse on which he was
riding fell over a seventy-five-foot EN-
bankment near Anaconda. Laceration:
dDOuL lnC lCuu anu lAtCihoh AhJuA 49,
resulted from the fall.
Demands for skilled and common
labor are being met more promptly IL
Colorado this fall than for severa
years, according to statement mad
by Labor Commissioner w. L. MOI
rissey. Farmers and fruit growers Il
many sections of the state, where hur
dreds of men and women are needle
for rush season, have been able t
secure ample help, reports coming t
this office show.
Benjamin J. Salmon, Denver slacke
who has been on a hunger strike il
st. Elizabeth's Military Hospital fol
the insane at Washington, d. c., since
July 10, was declared sane by Justice
Bailey of the District of Columbia Su
preme Court, according to dispatches
received Salmon will remain in the
hospital pending the disposition oi
court proceedings against the War De
partment for his release.
District Judge G. H. Bradfield Of
Boulder has set Oct. % as the date
for the hearing of the motion for d
change of venue in the murder trial
of Rienzi Dickens, who is now at the
home of his mother In Longmont. At
torneys for Dickens claim that preju'
dice is so strong against their client
| in Northern Colorado that it would be
impossible for him to get fair trial
in Boulder, Larimer or Weld counties
Affidavits supporting this claim were
filed in the District Court two months
ago. Later District Attorney Fleming
filed counter affidavits denying that
this was true.
Riot insurance to the amount of 81
144,95O on all municipal buildings and
property in Denver will be taken out.
The City Council voted unanimously to
approve the bill for the total cost of
the premiums. The total yearly pre-
miums amount to $3,694.55-
Complete reports made by county
assessors to the State Immigration De
partment show 3,427 farm tractors
owned and operated by the farmers of
| Colorado, an increase of 1,1S0 over the
number reported by assessors last
year. Every county in the state but
six reports farm tractors in operation,
| and every county but three, Adams,
| Arapahoe and Washington, reports a
larger number than was reported last
year. Some idea of the rapid increase
In this class of farm equipment may
be gathered from the reports made by
a few counties this year and last year.
Logan county reported 225 farm trac-
tors last year and 1859 this year; Phil
! lps county, 146 last year and IA this
year; Elbert county, II last year and
131 this year; Prowers county, 81 last
year and 81 this year; Weld county,
3e5 last year and 504 this year. Weld
county ranks first in number of farm
tractors and Logan county second.
Alfred NJ. Pettingill, Rio Grande
! fireman, was killed under an engine
at Texas Greek. The engine on which
Pettingll was firing was. double
heading with another. He said to