The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1921-02-25
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
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Western Newspaper Union News Besvscs.)
George Hairgrove has been selected
night marshal Of the merchant police,
recently organized at Center The bus
mess men will contribute to his SAL
ary each month.
The Arkansas Valley Railway, Light
and Power Company is considering
plans to expend approximately $4,000
reconstructing and improving the cleo
trio power lines between Pueblo and
Rocky Ford.
Notice of 20 per cent reduction in
wages of all crafts employed in the
building industry in Denver, to become
! effective on March II, was filed by the
Denver Master Builders Association
with the State Industrial Commission.
| Advance reports from the federal
census bureau, compiled by the State
Board of Immigration, show the pro-
| ducti0n of wheat in all the important
| wheat growing counties of Colorado in
1919 to have been 1S,273,l25 bushels.
The production of wheat in these same
counties in 1909 was 1922 800 bushels
Persons who say that mountain lions
will not attack human being cannot
convince Joe Fessler of Grand junction
that the report Is true. Fessler, who
killed 16O-pound lion can testify that
it took five shots to down the lion,
which was making for him at a rapid
clip when the last shot tumbled him
over
hvvc Of Do
Springs has been destroyed by fire
with an estimated loss of between
100000 and 100000. Among the
buildings destroyed was that of the
Citizens State Bank, which probably
is the heaviest loser. In all, fourteen
business structures and their contents
were burned.
Members of the Legislature were
given the producers viewpoint of the
cost of mining coal in Colorado at
dinner given by the Colorado-New-Mex.
leo Coal Operators Association at the
Brown Palace hotel in Denver, which
afforded evidence that there is close
margin between cost of production and
the price realized for the product.
Senator Richard G. Callen's bill to
require railroads to maintain a speed
of ten miles an hour between shipping
point and destination for all livestock
and perishable products was passed on
second reading The measure gives
shippers power to collect punitive
damages from $1,000 to 5000, besides
actual damages, for failure to ship
within the time fixed.
The body of a man whom the police
| have identified as curio B,tiiuneo, az,
Italian laborer, :,5 years old. was found
| in the "bOttoms" of the southern part
| of Pueblo. The man had evidently
been murdered and his body hauled to
the bottoms" in IN automobile by his
slayer or slayers. His throat had been
cut, his left arm broken in two places
and the body riddled with bullets.
Coal production in Colorado during
| the month of January showed de-
crease of 10000 tons for the same
period in 1920, and more than 20O,0OO
| tons under the total for December of
last year. The total output for last
month was 1,054,436 tons. Only four
counties in thes tate showed increases
over last year. They were: Las Ami
mas, Montezuma. Pitkin and Weld
| counties.
A statement of the operations of the
| postal savings system for 1920 just re-
| ceived by Postmaster L. F. Stapleton
of Denver, shows a total of 1O2 postal
savings offices in Colorado. represent
ing 5.195 depositors. The total de-
| posits amounted to S1,617 .322 Mr..
| Stapleton said flat postal savings ac-
| counts in Colorado now equal the
record held by The state before the
| world war.
Fred NJ Myers, $40 South Logan
street, Denver, was killed when he was
| thrown from motorcycle side car
| driven by Il. n Wood of Longmont
when the latter attempted TO prevent
| crashing into an automobile truck at a
J point five miles west of Fort Lupton.
| Myers died of Il fractured skull. Wood
| escaped uninjured.
| An expenditure of approximately
| 500, 600 within the next few months
| for rebuilding the Argo mill, providing
| additional equipment and carrying on
| development work at the properties of
the Gem Mining Company, near Idaho
Springs, which recently purchased the
| mill and the famous Newhouse tunnel
| the greatest mine transportation
| tunnel in the world-was announced
| by the company.
United States Marshal Samuel J.
Burris at Pueblo destroyed 1900
| pounds of English walnuts which,
when inspected by the consignee We're
| found to be of inferior quality. In ac-
| cordance with the United States pure
| food law, shipments of any such COM
| modify when found not to be up to
| standard are destroyed, Marshal Bur
| ris complying with this act by dnmping
| the nuts into the Arkansas river
Robert G. Thompson, 90 years old,
| the Oldest resident at the Union Print