The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-04-16
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

the loss or DiOOu. CIalics
well-known rancher living in the west
ern part of Fremont county, is Ill Jan
at the same place charged with the
shooting. The battle Is said to nave
resulted from an alteration over cat
tie belonging to Hopper, VINO lnaih'
tanned that Rauber, who was beihs
paid by. him to feed them, was NOT
obeying an agreement they had made.
Greeley has 1928 residents. accord
ing to the unofficial census completed
by a local publishing company, wnieh
is preparing city directory. The un-
official census was taken with a great
deal of care and its figures tally close
ly with estimates of the city 0fficlals,
based on number of water users. and
also with statistics showing the in
crease in housing facilities. The count
taken for the city directory in April
1915 showed II ,297 people. The Off
cial 1920 census count on Greeley mas
not been published as yet.
In fit of insane jealousy prompted
nv tne eStEduktiDCht VI "a NV'''s>'-S- -
fections from himself 10 19year-oid
boy, Henry Ritter. So. shot and killed
Mrs. Bessie Rails. %, a .divorcee and
reputed heir to an immense fortune.
in Denver. AS the woman fell 10 the
floor dead, Ritter turned and fired one
shot at her alleged sweetheart, Earl
Brown. The bullet went wide, and Int
fer then trained the pistol on himself
and dropped to bed with bullet
through his heart.
Every employe of the Out West
Printing Company received amounts
ranging from 500 to $1,000 from the
estate of Charles u. Ferrin. president
of the company, who recently died al
Colorado Springs. In the will which
was read the Salvation Army, the J..
NJ C. A. AMI the Y. w. c. A. are named
as residuary Iegatees. These three or
ganizations will share equally between
$4,000 and 100000. the residue Of an
estate valued at from 100000 10 Sl2o,-
600.
RAY Sherman, student at the Uni
Sherman, a banker and mining man
of Boulder, is dead, Harold Muth. a
companion, lies seriously injured at
the county hospital in Denver, while
John Evans, Harold AitkeD and Bea-
trice Williams, college chums of the
two men, sustained minor injuries as
a result of collision between their
automobile and a machine driven by
John Musser at East Seventeenth ave
nue. and Franklin street, in Denver.
An auction sale of 5,966 acres of
state school land, which was held in
the House of Representatives at the
capitol by the State Board of Land
Commissioners, netted $125, ,229.62. The
average sale price per acre was 5000
and the land is located in Alamosa
Bent, Clear Creek, Jefferson, Conejos
Elbert, FL Paso, Larimer, Lincoln, Lo
gan, Montezuma, Rio Grande, Routt
Washington and Yuma counties.
Twenty-Five landowners of the Gree
ley-Poudre irrigation district, including
members of the Greeley-Poudre board
have taken physical possession Of the
Cobb lake inlet canal. Men who were
engaged with scrapers and other i'm
plements on the embankments of the
canal have been ordered off the prop
erty and have been warned against
further trespassing, according to re
ports from Greeley.
John Rack, farmer, charged with
manufacturing liquor on his ranch
eighteen miles south of Fort Morgan
was convicted in District Court ant
sentenced to serve six months in the
county Jail and to pay the costs of the
trial. Rack pleaded guilty after twen
ty-five witnesses had been heard. The
trial of Alexander Burghard, who wa.
arrested with Rack, will be held soon
A new broad gauge railroad is beins
built by the United States Portland
Cement Company at Concrete, jus
east of Florence. The line will tap, al
enormous deposit Of limestone on Bea
yer creek. Work Is progressing rapid
Iy under the direction of James Spry
ker Of Denver, who has contract fol
the entire line. Inc new QudTFleS u
be tapped will be ready for operation
by May /, when 1t is hoped to have tht
road completed.
Announcement has been made BY
President G. A. Duniway Of Colorado
College that tuition at the college mex
year will be $120 year, an increase
Of $40 year. Increases in salaries
Of professors is responsible for ths
boost, he said. 1t Is estimated thai
the increase will add $4,000 year t.
the college funds
The repeal of the compulsory vac
cination law was advocated by reso
luton passed by the Mothers Congress
and Parent-Teacher Association at 8
meeting held in Denver. The resolu
tion stated that committee appoint
ed by the chair should seek to have
this law revoked at the next session
of the State Legislature.
Extension of the public school term
to fifty weeks a year, Immediate in