The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-03-19
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

| Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Citizens of Cedaredge will vote on
| a bond issue this spring for the In
| stallation of cement sidewalks through
out the town.
Boulder has purchased 400 acres Of
land along the watershed Of North
Boulder creek to protect the city's wat
err supply.
Denver's population is 263,973, ae-
cording to semi-official reports of the
census recheck now being made in
Washington
Miss Lillian Brunstein. an accom-
plished 17-year-old violinist, who was
born and raised in the city of Fort Col
lins. has been declared by critics of
national reputation to be one of the
most technically perfect musicians of
the day.
William Hogan of New York City
has sued the Borden Condensed MIX
Company for $1OO,OOO, alleging that as
a consequence of one of the milk COM
pany's horses having bitten his wife a
few months before his baby Jeannette
WuS DuT@t, tie NttlIu cdHiC INV sti'N
world physically deformed.
Miss Dorothy Smith. 16-year-old
daughter of Frederick r. Smith, cash
Ter of the First National Bank of Colo
RADIO Springs. is near death at Welles-
lev, Mass, as the result of a skiing ac-
cident in which she was impaled by II
broken skiing rod Miss Smith fell on
the fragments of the stick and her alb
domen was perforated in three places
More than $1,000 was raised at
Montrose by committee to insure the
| construction of the new court house
| for Montrose county on new site,
| instead of building 1t on the present
site of the old court house which has
served the county since its incorpora-
| ton, but which Is now being sur
rounded by wholesale houses, produce
| markets and railroad switches.
Petitions are now being circulated in
the territory affected for the forma-
lion of drainage district that will
| drain a total area of G0.0OO acres. ex-
tending northward from the Rio
| Grande to the vicinity of Center, in the
L SAN IBllS NuiitN. Iuttt iHOh'st'' So -
| Of this vast tract is not now under cnl-
| tivation. and this drainage district will
convert the greater part of this acre
age into productive farms
| Edward Ives, a mental defective
| convict. sawed his way through steel
| hars at Il window of his cell in the
state penitentiary hospital at Canon
| Lie. ff.,lss go W.
ing through two heavy steel bars, the
etitis ~ ys,ieh he- fogced outward, }Ives
| crawled through the openinEy and
| gained access to low stone wall, from
| which he climbed 10 the high wall sur
rounding the prison enclosure.
| Approximately 100000 Of permanent
s,ate school funds have been invested
| the first of the present month. says
State Treasurer Harry +. Mulnix. OF
| fhis amount $4,000 was used to pur-
chase state bonds of the national de-
Tense series of 1917 TO provide funds
with which tn take mp certificates OF
| Indebtedness issued in connection with
the state troop mobilization of three
months ago.
The growth of saw timber in the
United States is believed to be only
one-third Of the amount annually cut.
Twenty-nine of our states import more
| timber than is cut within their bound
aries. and every exporting state is cut
ting faster than their timber grows. "A
timber famine is bound to come" says
w. j. Morrill, of the Colorado Agricul-
tnral College: indeed, locally in many
parts Of the United States it has ar
rived already as reflected in the high
prices of lumber"
Alexander L. Vogesang, the first as
sstant secretary of The interior, has
designated 423,050 acres of land in
the Leadville district as chiefly valu-
able for grazing and the raising OF
forage crops and as subject to entry
under the stock raising homestead
law All of these lands have been
applied for heretofore by several hun
dred homesteaders in the Leadville dis
trict.
Reports to the State Cooperative
Crop Reporting Service indicate that
10 per cent OF the 1919 Colorado corn
crop, or 3,922,000 bushels, was in the
hands of growers on March l, com
pared with 30 per cent, or 3,202, ,00o
bushels on March ] last year The
amount of the 1919 wheat crop on hand
March is estimated at 10 per cent, OF
2,647,0 900 bushels, compared with 1t
per cent, or 2,464,0 bushels on
March 1, 1919. The amount of oats on
hand is estimated at 80 per cent, or q
OSS,000 bushels, compared with "a pei
cent, or 3,2S7, 900 on March 1, 1919, and
the amount of barley on hand is esti-
mated at 30 per cent, or 1,170,000 bush
els, compared with 30 per cent, or l.
| 112,000 bushels on March last year.
A luncheon meeting in honor of