The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-07-02
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

government warehouse are to be dis
tributed among the several states on
the basis of the number Of men fur
nished the army. These goods are to
be shipped to a central point In the
several states and from there be dis
tributed by each congressman in his
district. In the Colorado allotment
there are twenty-One field guns, how
itzers and trench mortars thirty-eight
vehicles, ninety-four machine guns and
quite a number Of small guns and
thousands of snail articles. Manager
J. L. Beaman Of the State Fair has
written each congressman from Colo
RADIO, urging that these goods he
shipped to Pueblo at thet ime Of the
State Fair, Sept. 1925, where they
may he placed on exhibition and then
distributed from there. By this ar
rnngement the visitors attending the
State Fair will have an opportunity of
seeing the entire collection.
With the death of one member Of the
city fire department and property
damage estimated at more than $500
600, Telluride witnessed the worst fire
in Its history. The fire, which started
in the new flotation mill of the Snug
gler-Union mine, one and one-half
miles east Of Telluride, consumed the
entire building, in addition to destroy
ing the residence of Bulkeley Wells,
president and general manager of the
mine, the mine office building, the
company store. an oil warehouse, three
cottages. seven freight cars and an
enormous amount of lumber and coal
| stored near
The Mesa County Jersey Cattle Club
organized at Grand Junction elected
James D. Reed as its president A
committee was appointed to confer
with the Intermountain Fair Associa-
| ton, with Il view to getting larger
| and better premiums on the premium
list this year for high-grade dairy
| stock r. A. Butcher heads the COM
mittee A picnic and dairy inspection
tour of the valley is planned for Aug.
t. George La Grange is the chairman
of the committee ARRANGING for the
! tour The organization decided to meet
quarterly.
| The town of Ault has been exonerat-
1
ed from alleged contempt charges by
the State Utilities Commission. 1t had
been charged that Ault had violated
| orders issued by the commission last
| September in regard to the operating
| of a municipal light and power plant.
| Testimony of witnesses appearing be-
fore the commission brought out the
| fact that the town officials were in no
way responsible for citizens plugging
in. on the municipal power wires aft
er the order to restrain had been is
sued by the commission.
Echo lake, in the Pike National for
est district, may be obtained as a part
of the Denver Mountain Park system,
according to Walter 3. Lowry, manag-
er of parks and improvements, who
stated that city attorneys will begin
condemnation proceedings on the prop
erty within the next week The lake,
when obtained, will be connected with
the chain of parks by the Mount Evans
highway, which is soon to be com
pleted.
-Oren Hurts of Snowshoe shot his
fiftieth bear last week in the Gunni.
son national forest. His brother, Otis
had wounded the bear, who sought
refuge in its den. Otis made a reflec
tor out of a tobacco can and threw the
light so that Oren could crawl into the
hole, where he discovered the bear
huddled in a corner, growing. Oren
had to shoot lying on his stomach. The
bear fell within yard of his rifle.
1t takes courageous man to save
his burning house with buckets of milI
worth 10 cents a quart wholesale, but
David Easterly and Martin Van VOor
his, ranchmen on the Cornwall ranch
on Ohio creek, possessed the necessary
courage when their ranch home caught
fire Twenty gallons of lacteal fluic
sufficed to douse the flames, which
had started on the roof.
Pueblo post No. ., American Legion
has established its headquarters in the
canteen used throughout the war by
the local chapter of the Red Cross tt
serve hot lunches to soldiers passing
through the city. The building has
been moved from near the Union sta
tion to Court and Fifth streets, and has
been comfortably and costly fitted uI
as clubhouse for the Legion.
Owing to the failure of materials tc
arrive, the ceremony of laying the cor
nerstone of the new $5O0,O00 Sterling
hospital will not take place for a few
weeks. In the meantime, efforts tt
raise the remainder of the money tt
meet the cost of thes tructure will be
redoubled. in the hope of having the
fund complete when the cornerstone is
laid.
Every winter some part of the state
is hit by severe weather and higt
prices of feed. To overcome this con
dition farmers should be providing q
certain acreage of silage crops. These
crops put into the silo will reduce oil
ohliterate heavy expenses and increase