The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1921-03-11
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
western Newspaper Union Nex. service,

Samuel w. morgan, formerly cOuh-
ty agent In Kentucky for four years,
has accepted a similar position in
| Montezuma county, Colo.
A. o. Kelso. well known Morgan
county farmer, is dead, following a
lingering Illness of about two years.
Mr.. Kelso has lived In that vicinity for
nine years.
Alamosa taxpayers will vote at the
April city election on the issuance Of
s25,0O0 city bonds to- be loaned to the
school district for the purpose Of fin
ishing the Alamosa High school.
The postofflce at Springfield, fifty
miles south of Lamar and county seat
of Baca county, was looted by robbers,
who escaped In an automobile. 1t Is
estimated that the robbers got $500 in
cash and approximately 500 worth of
stamps.
Another rich strike is reported at
the Vindicator mine at Victor. At the
twentieth level and at depth close to
1000 feet the company Is reported to
have found an extension of the old Lily
vein, which in former years has pro-
duced extraordinary rich bonanza
values.
The mutilated body of man, skull
crushed, rope around his neck, throat
cut and many slashes on his body, was
! found in a cabin three miles from
| Graneros, Colo, and thirty-two miles
south of Pueblo. The only means of
identification may lie in ring on a
finger. with the letters &c S A 10"
Howard Rigsby, the 13-year old son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Vechel Rigsby, lost
suit of the explosion of dynamite cap
| with which he was playing at Sterling.
| Young Rigsby was trying to reduce the
size of the cap to use 1t in a pistol
when 1t exploded.
State Inheritance tax collections dur
ing the first quarter of the current
fiscal year amounted to $56,S3004. ac-
cording to the semi-monthly report of
Attorney General Keyes. OF this sum
| $12,O94.13 was collected during the last
half of February Twenty-three es.
tates paid Inheritance tax during the
last two weeks
In an effort to emphasize the need
| for prevention, detection and suppress
sion of forest fires in Colorado and
other states of the mountain districts,
the Forestry Department of the gov
ernment will distribute 172,O0O signs
buttons and stickers this year, accord
| ing to Evan w. Kelly. national fores
inspector Of Washington, d. G.
James w -ssxasiEey HS aiiey While digging :
ditch ut the rear of his home in Pu
eblo. He was In the employ of d. e
Burke, plumber. AS he stopped to lifI
a shovel of earth the ground back Of
him caved in, crushing and smotherinl
him before William Pratt, a fellow
worker, could aid him.
Homesteaders purchased at publ,
auction 5000 acres of state schoo
lands, according to John f. Vivian
register of the land board This wa.
the first auction held by the boart
since Jan. ~. Total receipts from thu
sale was $SS570, an average of S15.S
per acre, which records of the land OF
flee show to be higher than the gen
eral average price of previous sales.
# A report issued by Earl Wilson
state insurance commissioner, show
that the insurance department ha
, earned $3O5,O during the month o
February This represents 2 per cen
tax on all premiums issued by the 46,
, companies operating in the state. 1t Il
expected receipts of this department
, will reach 100000 in 1921 This Il
: the largest sum ever collected In In
surance tax.
: Albert Estrada, %. laborer, wa
!, shot at Pueblo and died in hospita
there. The killing is said to have beer
the outcome of an argument started II
a pool game No arrests have beer
made.
Following conference with severa
!, citizens, Governor Shoup announced h,
would ask the Senate finance ant
: House appropriations committee to in
clude in the long appropriation bill
S25.000 with which to buy silver serv
Ice for the new superdreadnaugh
Colorado, which Mrs. Max Melville, tn,
: daughter of United States Senator
Samuel d. Nicholson. will christen a
, the shipyards at Camden, N J.
/. March %.
r Following numerous complaints o
. moonshne stills operating night ant
r day and a general "open territory
: supplying hundreds with Illicit we
: goods in southwestern Colorado ant
! northwest New Mexico, nearly dozer
? United States federal internal revenue
} officers, assisted by Sheriff George
. Rowe and his deputies, of La Plate
county seized eight separate and elab
crate stills In operation and arrested
ten men.
Great interest centers around the
: announcements of the 1921 program Of
the Augusta mine In the Crested
U Butte section of the county. The Al
lied Mines Corporation of Pittsburg