The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-02-13
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.


ty is shown by the amount of money
paid in the county for grain. This
wear the total paid to Routt county
farmers by local firms for their grain
was $4,000, while in 1914 the total
| was but $4,000. The figures for this
| wear will mount to much higher fig
ure. The Yampa Valley Milling and
Elevator Company has distributed
S1SO,OOO in cash to the farmers of this
section for wheat, barley and oats
brought to the elevator and the
Farmers Cooperative Elevator Com
pany will pay out 100000.
The funeral of Capt. George X. Will
son, a Pueblo man who died ut
Leayenworth, Kan, was held with full
military honors at Pueblo within
few hours after the body arrived from
Fort Leavenworth. Captain Wilson
was u colonel on the staff OF Major
General Bullard of the First division
in France, but was denoted along
with hundreds of other regular army
officers when he was returned to the
United States after the war. He OBJ
tanned the highest rank OF any Pu-
eblo man in the war
Nick Salakovich, one of three Jugo-
Slav bandits who attempted to hold
up and rob an automobile carrying
$4,000, the pay roll of the Forbes
mine, of the Rocky Mountain Fuel
Company, near Trinidad, and who was
wounded in the neck in the battle of
the bandits with Deputy Sheriff Al
bert Tyler, Mine Supt. James Mat
thews and Store Manager l.. F. Nor
ris, died at the hospital in Trinidad.
Enos A. Mills, Colorado naturalist,
and author, and proprietor of the
Longs Peak inn, in Estes Park, lost
case before the State Utilities Com
mission in which he sought relief
through the powers of the commission
from what he alleged as discrimi-
natory changes made the Rocky
Mountain Park Transportation Com
pany in its routings of motor service
through the park.
The long mooted question of the To-
cation of a courthouse, which will be
built here this year at a cost of $780,
| 600, was settled at MontrOse when the
| county commissioners board agreed
to accept the proposition when bust
ness men offered to purchase lots COM
prising a half block for the new site
in exchange for the present site Of the
courthouse.
| Gunnison county, in cooperation
with the United States and the state
of Colorado, will reconstruct the Blue
Mesa road, on the Rainbow route,
from Cebolla to Cimarron at an ex-
penditure of 100000 The United
States will furnish funds for this pur-
pose to the amount of S45.0OO the
state $22. 500, and the county so, 500
Nick Chizick, an overseas fighter
whY contracted tuberculosis while
/, fighting in France, died at st. Mary's
hospital at Grand Junction, adding
one more name to the long list OF
casualties from that bitter struggle
He came back to American territory
some months ago in very poor health
Agriculturists of the western slope
are delighted with the appointment Of
H. A. Ireland as livestock expert Of
the Uncompahgre Reclamation project
to take up other work. Mr.. Ireland
is an expert agriculturist in addition
to being a livestock man and is q
trained and practical farmer.
A bond election for 100000 will be
held in Boulder March to provide
funds for school improvements. The
money is to be used in building addi
tions to three of the Boulder grade
.,I.~ 4
the attendance having increased 45C
since last fall.
The work Of clearing off the site OF
the new high school building has beer
completed at Florence and the founda
tions will soon be laid Work on the
building will be pushed during the
open weather. The grading of the
new athletic field will also be under.
taken shortly.
Two Denver boys who are charged
with sixteen different crimes, includ-
ing burglary, larceny and horse steal
ing, in Washington, Adams, Jefferson
and Arapahoe counties, are in the Lit
tleton Jail, following what Is said to
have been Il freebooting life for the
last month. They We're captured neal
Deer Trail, Colo. by IL small posse
led by Deputy Sheriff VIII Kingsley
of Adams county.
The Holly Sugar Company, through
its vice president, S. w. Sinsheimef
Of Denver has let a contract for the
starting of construction on a factory
at Delta at once. The contract was
let, it was said, following the coming
of California sugar beet men and rep
resentatives of the Midwest Sugar
Company of Hamilton City, Calf, to
the Uncompahgre valley.
The House has passed the second
1920 deficiency bill, carrying $SS000,
600. During hearings before the
House appropriations committee ap-
proximately s29,0o0,000 was cut from
the original estimates. Amendments
providing S9,00O,0O0 for naval repairs
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