The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-07-16
COLORADO
STATE NEWS


Western Newspaper Union News Service.
The Colorado Packing Company
plant at Delta is nearly done and the
plant is casting about for 500 girls to
be employed there as soon as business
opens up.
Grand functions three banks, in
their statements just issued, show to-
tai resources of more than $4,000, 600
This is the largest total ever known at
this time of the year in that valley
News has reached Nucla of the
death in Laurel, Mont, Of Thomas An
derson, 6-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
G. J. Anderson, formerly of Nucla. The
little boy was struck by a string of
freight cars, run over and killed.
W. L. May Of the experiment station
at Paonia, is distributing parasites in
the areas where alfalfa is infested with
alfalfa weevil. The parasites lay eggs
in the larvae of the weevil and kill
them. He believes the fight against
weevil is being waged most success
fully.
Two young men, caught following
the robbery of $3.50 from the Bank
of Waterloo, at Waterloo, Neb., plead
ed guilty in the County Court at Oma-
ha and were held under $4,000 bond
for action in District Court After
their arrest they gave the names of
Oscar Yoos of Granada, Colo, and J.
w. Grau of Council Bluffs, Iowa.
A number of new professors and in
structors have just been appointed to
positions in the Colorado Agricultural
College at Fort Collins. Among the de-
partments which have found it neces-
sary to increase the size of their
teaching staffS are the farm manage
ment, mathematics. horticulture, libra
ry, animal husbandry, agronomy and
chemistry
While fishing In Thompson Canon
west of Loveland, Ray c. Wolfe, Gree
ley newspaper man, found a suitcase
in the bed of an irrigation canal which
contained necklace and diamond
rings valued at $1,000, besides cloth
ing. The suitcase was one of three
which was lost from a truck of the
Rocky Mountain Parks Transportation
Company recently.
Two men were instantly killed and
one badly injured in an explosion at
the Sunnyside mine, Silverton. The
dead are L. Edmunio Martinez and ].
w. Virgil. l. Valdez was injured. Six
shots had been put into drift and the
men, thinking all of the blasts had ex-
ploded, went into the mine. They were
caught by the last explosion and liter
ally blown TO pieces.
That all the lakes on Gran{i Mesa
are full to overflowing is the report of
c. Jacques, superintendent, who has
just visited all of the important lakes.
He makes one exception only in re-
porting that Deep Ward lake only has
TAT feet of water. The snow has not
the supply of water for irrigation pur-
poses is very large.
Lieut.. Rex Smith of Denver, aviator,
in his flight from Denver to Telluride,
Is declared to have broken all speed
records for any sort of vehicle which
has ever crossed the mountains. He
made the trip from Denver to Telluride
in just a little more than four hours
flying time. He went from Denver to
Glenwood Springs in two hours and
ten minutes, new record.
Ethel Brown, 16-year-old daughter
Of Ed Brown, a rancher living near
Waverley, was dragged for a quarter
of mile from the stirrup of her sad
die when her horse became frightened,
reared up and fell over her When the
horse regained his feet and started
running Miss Browns foot remained
caught in the stirrup She received
emergency treatment in the Fort Col
Inns hospital
The State Land Board held sale in
the House of Representatives chamber
In the Capitol at Denver at which 6,3S7
acres of state land were disposed of
at an average price of S22.60 an acre.
The highest price paid was SAP for
land in Jefferson county, and the total
proceeds of the sale amounted to
Sl44,3 ,3SO. Inc ianu SOld at the safe
last month was 5,S40 acres. The gain
this month was SAT acres.
Golden is about to initiate an exten-
sive paving program. 1t is the inten-
tion of the Golden city officials to is
sue bonds for the construction of as
phalt or concrete paving from the end
of the Denver-Golden paved road,
through the city, and to the foot of
Lookout mountain Other thorough
fares in the town are to be paved also
The cost of the proposed improve
ments is estimated at 100000.
Only few hours after they had es.
capped from convict road camp near
Glenwood Springs, Jack Gustafson and
Ray Dunham, convicts from the state