The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-10-01
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

ater, valued at $65,OO0 The building
was insured for $4,000, according to
information available 1t was owned
by e. H. Hall of Denver.
One of the biggest and richest
strikes in the history of the old Mary
Murphy mine, near st. Elmo, is report
ed by men working on the property.
A vein of ore eight feet wide and
very rich in silver had been uncov-
ered
Elmer S. Prather, proprietor of the
Yuma -e plant, was badly burned
about the arms and face when a gas
engine exploded, nearly burning down
the ice plant. Mr.. Prather was in
jured a year ago at the Washington
county fair at Akron in the auto ruees
and has not entirely recovered.
Fred E. Hager, registrar of the Uni
versity of Colorado, and one of the
best known and popular residents of
Boulder, has been commissioned cap
tain in the quartermaster's department
Of the United States army, and will re-
port at Fort Logan for duty next
month. Mr.. Hager will ask for assign
ment with the army of occupation n
Germany.
A large crowd was in attendance at
the second tri-cOunty potato bake,
which was held three miles south of
Eastonville. Tons of huge red and
white potatoes were baked in special
ly constructed ovens, which were in
stalled in the Frank Evans pine grove,
while several steers were barbecued.
Potato growers from all over the state
We're in attendance.
Willie Smith, 16, son Of Robert
Smith, rancher living five miles north
of Greeley, was drowned while duck
hunting at Boyd lake. Smith was alone
in the center of the lake in a canvas
canoe. Howard Sanders, IL years old,
who was on the shore, saw him stand
up in the boat and fire at flock
of ducks. With the shot the frail
canoe capsized and the youth disap-
peared in the water.
A lone bandit, giving his name as
Clifford Riley, 10 years old, wearing
mask and armed with big nickel
plated revolver, held up and robbed
score of persons on westbound Santa
Fe passenger train No. 5. When ar
rested at La Junta, where he leaped
from the train into the arms of Charles
Stewart, special agent for the Santa
Fe, Riley said his name was John
Morgan
The Denver & Rio Grande railroad
has been ordered sold to satisfy ,judk-
f,. Al. N
table Trust company of New York
amounting to more than $4,000, 900.
The final hearing was held in Denver
before Judge Walter H. Sanborn of the
United States Circuit Court of Appeals,
who gave the decree in absence of
United States District Judge Robert E.
Lewis.
Fifty thousand dollars worth of
whiteface Herefords were shipped out
of Montrose in one day. This was the
first big shipment this year and in
cluded 600 head of cattle, which were
shipped to the Kansas City market as
feeders. The animals We're in SPLEEN
did condition. The 600 head which
We're fed on the range between Natu-
rita and Nucla, wre driven over the
hills to Montrose and loaded there.
Two men whose names were not
taken when they hired a taxi cab from
J. A. Slaton at Grand Junction, to take
them to Mack. twenty miles west of
that city, stopped Slaton, the driver,
after twelve miles of their journey had
been covered, thrust revolvers against
his body and then stole his automobile
and the money on his person, amount
ing to several dollars
The sum of S9076.SS was paid to DR..
". X. Argo, superintendent of the
Colorado School for the Deaf and
Blind, as bequest from the estate
of Maggie ]. Williams of Fort Collins.
Miss Williams suffered from defec-
tive vision most of her life. When
she died, more than a year ago, she
left her estate for the deaf and blind
school
The Union Congregational church of
Montrose, received tile largest dona-
tion this week which has ever been
made to "A local church, which came
when C. II. Nye. local philanthropist
anu liii.thtiCIy Ittttt over 10 Tne
church the large Nye store building in
that city This building is valued at
$4,000 at the minimum and will be a
source of great revenue to the church.
Railroad men at Montrose declare
there never has been time in the
history of railroading on the third di-
vision of the Denver 4 Rio Grande
that there has been such business
as is now flowing out of Montrose,
Delta, Hotchkiss, Olathe and other
western slope towns. 1t is almost i'm
possible now to procure sufficient
train crews to man the loaded trains
that are standing on the sidetracks.
Recruiting offices for the Colorado
national guard have been opened in
Denver, with Col Joseph c. Taylor in
charge. All members of the old guard
organizations will be mustered out and