The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1921-06-18
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

/ made an inspection trip through The
flooded regions at Pueblo he looked
/ into a railroad coal car over which
| flood waters had flowed. He found
grunting therein a large, healthy SOW
end a wriggling family of newborn
pigs. The high sides of the car and
the fact that hogs are never shipped In
coal cars. left only one explanation.
! The sow was swept into the car by
/ the waters. penned there and left h1gh
| and dry when the water leaked out
through the cracks. The SOW then far
rowed her new litter. Captain Dennis
found the car and its family near
Canon Junction
Promise of federal aid for the Pueblo
| flood district along three material
lines, in addition to the relief work
now being done, is indicated in infor-
nation received in Denver. They are:
Dispatching of commission of engi-
neers from the United States Recla-
nation Service to devise plans for
safeguarding the area contiguous to
the Fountain and Arkansas rivers. Co
operntion of United States bureau of
public roads with the State Highway
| Commission in repairing highways and
bridges. Loaning of money by the
Federal Farm Loan bank to farmers
and live stock men who sustained
losses in the floods
| Flood waters in mountain streams of
Colorado have destroyed thousands of
| fish, according to reports reaching Ro-
| land g. Parvin, state game and fish
| commissioner. Hardest hit by the
| flood has been Bear Greek canon,
where mud and silt have brought de-
struction of hundreds of trout with
which the stream was stocked early
this spring. In other places the trout
have been washed upon the banks of
the streams and have died there.
Building in Fort Collins is beginning
to increase rapidly While there were
comparatively few building permits
issued the first of May they have since
been steadily increasing in number,
and now many homes are being
planned and are under process Of con-
struction. One group of a half dozen
is being built near the Agricultural
College at one time. Apparently times
are just about back to normal here in
the building line.
The Harold DeHaan Post No. 10 of
| the American Legion, Fort Morgan, is
fully prepared to handle the biggest
crowd of people over the Fourth of
July that has ever assembled in Fort
Morgan. The occasion is the American
Legion roundup, which begins July
and ends some time during the night
of July I. All the cowboys of the
Rocky Mountain region are expected
to come to Fort Morgan for the cele-
bration.
Nationwide search for Mrs. Minnie
4 Gagnos.- 55 years old, and her pretty
daughter, Mrs Lena Hauser, both of
| Cheyenne, Wyo., wanted on land fraud
charges in Colorado. filed by N. D. Nc
| Entry, chief of the Denver field divi-
sion of the United States general land
office, led to their arrest by Depart
ment of Justice officials in Baltimore
Nd, according to word received in
Denver.
The school population of Ell Paso
county increased 531 in 1920 over 1919
| according to complete report com
| piled by Mrs. Inez johnson Lewis,
county superintendent of schools. The
census includes persons between the
ages of and 81 The school popula-
| tion of the county is 12,025. The IN
| crease over the preceding year Ill the
| rural districts was 1914, and that OF
District No IL was 337.
Flags of all Colorado American Le-
| gion posts will fly at half-mast for
thirty days in respect to F. W. Gal
braith, Jr., national commander of the
Legion, and colonel in the world war,
| who was killed in an automobile acci-
/ dent near indianapolis, his home.
Charters of the posts will also be
draped for the same period
Andrew Zurick, 26 years old, mayor
of Louisville, sacrificed his life TO save
a 10-year-old boy from drowning. Aft
er rescuing the lad from deep water in
! a lake of the Western Light and Pow
er Company at Lafayette, Zurick was
stricken with what is believed TO have
been heart attack, and sank in sight
of fifteen companions. His body was
recovered fifteen minutes later
A registration in excess of 1000 is
expected by authorities in charge OF
the University of Colorado summer
school which has opened at Boulder
for two six-week terms. The school
had an attendance of 1,760 last year
and from inquiries that have been re-
ceived 1000 seems to be conserva-
tive estimate.
The Farmers Union Milling & Ele-
vator Company will build concrete
i elevator in Denver, according to 4 per.
NIT issued by the city building de
partment. The structure will be six
stories in height and cost $4,000.
The Dayton, Ohio, Rotary Club,
mindful of the flood disaster in Day
ton in 1918, was the first of the Rotary
clubs to come to the aid of flood-strick-