The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-02-20
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

organizations, farmers ORGANIZATIONS,
and chambers of commerce who would
be asked to present their views con
cerning the best plan to secure IN
creased efficiency in the schools. Det-
ter training for teachers, and to take
plp the question of better salaries for
trained teachers. Notifications OF
this meeting are being sent to repre-
sentative organizations or properly
owners, but any organization VIII De
welcome whether notified or not.
Edward Eckhardt, 2-year-old son OF
Paul Eckhardt, farmer living east OF
Greeley near the sugar factory, was
rescued with his brother. Samuel, I
years old, from their burning home by
Conrad Kaufman, who, passing. saw
the house in flames and discovered
the children huddled together in the
burning kitchen. The younger child
Is suffering from severe burns about
the head and shoulders and little hope
is held out for his recovery. The
mother of the children is dead and
the father was in town on business at
the time of the fire.
Forty stamps of the new Gold King
Extension mill at Gladstone have been
started to pounding the accumulated
ores of the Gold King Company, and in
short time will be running sixteen
hours out of every day. Manager W. Il.
Kinney states that the company VIII
now be shipping a constant stream OF
high-grade concentrates, which VIII be
hauled to the railroad cars for trans
portation to the smelter. as well as the
regular shipments of gold bullion made
to the United States mint at Denver by
this company.
w. T. Van Eaton, rancher living
eight miles northeast of Num-. Colo,
is dead as the result of injuries re-
ceived when he was struck by Union
Pacific passenger train No. 104 as he
was crossing the railroad tracks near
Num- in heavy touring car. He was
carried over 1000 feet on the locomo-
tive pilot, but was apparently unhurt
when picked up. He was rushed to a
hospital in Greeley Internal injuries
were the direct cause of death.
News of her sisters death in Wales
robbed Miss Hannah Henry, GO years
old, of her last family tie. She drank
poison at the home of Mrs. n. Fergu-
son in Denver, dying within few
minutes after removal to the county
hospital. For weeks Miss Henry had
planned a visit to her sister and had
purchased her railroad transportation,
steamship passage and arranged for
the passport, when letter arrived,
telling of her sisters death.
With disbursements of SS,413, ,94S.33
in 1919, Denver paid out more money
than in any other year in the history
of the city, according to statistics coIa-
piled on the cash balance and receipts
for the past year by City Auditor +. ID.
Stackhouse. Not only were the dis
bursements much larger than in other
years. but the receipts, totaling ST.
716.715.59, exceeded any previous
twelve months.
Edward 4. Devine, associate editor
of the Survey, and one of the leading
social workers of the United States,
will be a member of the faculty of the
University of Colorado summer school,
which will open on June IA at Boulder.
Mrs. Cora Winchell of Columbia Uni
versity will have charge of the classes
in home economics and Prof. Jerome
Dowd of Oklahoma University of the
department of social science.
Using hack saw furnished him by
his wife, Louis G. Martin, wanted by
the police in Flint, Mich. on a charge
of grand larceny. escaped from the
county jail at Colorado Springs while
Deputy Sheriff c. w. Mimic of Flint
was making preparations to take him
back to the Michigan city on a night
train. The saw, together with pair
of pliers and wire nippers, were
found in his cell after the escape.
AIisgauging the distance he had as
cended with a car in an automobile ele-
vator at Il garage in Denver, Lawrence
Huff, 1S, a mechanic employed at the
garage, backed the car off the plat
form and plunged twenty feet into the
elevator pit below with resulting
fracture of the skull and other injuries.
The somersaulting machine hurled him
against the edge of the pit, and only
the support given it by the pit walls
prevented instant crushing of Huff's
body.
A large still producing enough
moonshine to supply Morgan county
and it's surroundings for weeks was
discovered in operation on a farm,
eighteen miles south of Fort Morgan.
by Sheriff f. A. Morse More than a
hundred gallons of whiskey, ready for
customers, was awaiting shipment A
huge supply of barley, corn and raj
sins were also seized.
Mrs. w. T. Holbrook, 62 years old,
wife of a prominent Palisade fruit
grower, was killed and her husband
was seriously injured when a touring
car in which they were riding was
struck by westbound Denver & Rio
Grande extra freight train at cross
ing a mile west of Palisade.
The seventh annual meeting of the
Pixies Peak Ocean to Ocean Highway