The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1921-02-11
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
(westsru Newspaper Union News service,


Denver.
D. Il. Ramey is in Jail in Pueblo.
charged with the murder of Francis
Dolan, IS years old, his brother-in-law,
at the Ramey home.
The Colorado Supreme Court set
aside the verdict of the Yuma county
District Court, which fixed sentence
at life Imprisonment, and gave Artie
s. Mckee, convicted last April of kill
ing his wife, new trial.
A proof of the excellent blood in the
swine herd at the Agricultural College
at Fort Collins is the fact that it won
fifty-four premiums on thirty-nine
head of swine exhibited at the recent
National Western Stock Show.
The National park service is plan
ming on spending some of its appropri-
alton this year on improving the Fall
River road, according to Il letter from
Secretary of the Interior John Barton
PAYNE to f. f. Sommers of the Colo
RADIO State Highway Commission.
Mrs. T. NJ. Harding, treasurer of the
scholarship fund" of the Colorado
Federation of Women's Clubs, has an
nounced that since the Inauguration of
this fund in 1902 1856 Colorado girls
have been helped by this fund to secure
normal or technical education.
The town of Eagle won the county
seat of Eagle county from Red Cliff
at the last election by 20% votes, ac-
cording to decision handed down in
the District Court at Red Cliff by
Judge Cooper of Canon City, sitting
for Judge Bouk, who did not wish to
act in the case. Red Cliff will appeal
the case to the Colorado Supreme
Court.
Inheritance taxes collected by the
state during January tOtaled 17.014.76,
according to the report issued by At
torney General Victor E. Keyes. Pre-
vious collections since Nov. 30 last,
when the last biennial period ended,
were S16,6OO.O1. This make total Of
S33,6l4.77 collected to date during the
present biennial period.
Plans and specifications have been
completed by the Denver Steel and
Iron Works for the construction of the
highest bridge in the world, it will be
suspension foot and burro bridge
and will span the gateway to South
Boulder canon at Eldorado Springs.
on the Denver & Interurban railroad.
The bridge will be erected by the Ell
dorado Springs Resort Company.
Fourteen persons, mostly women and
girls, were injured, two of them seri-
ously, when a 200foot section of the
east running track balcony, supporting
400 spectators of the East Side-South
Denver High school basketball game
in the North Denver high school gym
nasium. crashed fifteen feet to the
main floor below precipitating the sol
id mass of screaming humanity with it.
That the oil companies which added
l cent TO the regular selling price of
gasoline TO cover the state oil tax, act
ed Illegally and that they have no right
to the money collected as tax was the
burden of decision handed down by
Judge C. J. Morley in Denver In suit
brought by Henry J. Arnold against
James Duce, state oil inspector the
Altitude OH Company and others.
Ernest Miller, alias Frank Forester,
ranch worker around Henderson, at
tempted to hold up Union Pacific train
No. 104 at Sandow station on the
night of Nov. 16. He. in company with
John Lahm, mystery man. sawed the
switch lock at the station and threw
the lever that hurled the Rock Island
passenger train into the. ditch that
night. This is the verdict of jury in
Denver.
Frank J. Davey. who was recently
arrested in Billings, Mont, on charges
of bigamy made to Larimer county of
ficials by Lena Cassil Davey of Love
land, and who disappeared when re
leased temporarily by the sheriff
there, has been rearrested in Lancas-
ter, Wis.
Colorado will be compelled TO con
duct its fight against social diseases
single-handed for the next two years
according to telegram received from
Washington, by DR.. r. /. Drinkwater
secretary OF Ine DOdru OF neAltn. tOl
two years the government has con
tributed to the state board on a IDOL
lar-for-doilar" basis. During the bien
NAL period just ended Colorado ex
pended total of S17, 600 in this work
Births in Denver during 1920 ex
ceeded the number of deaths by 1853
according to the official figures com
piled by Miss Florence Leach, regis
trar of vital statistics. There wer.
4,798 births in Denver during the year
This is the greatest number of birth.
ever recorded in Denver in a like pc
riod. The number of deaths was 4,
40S. In 1919 there were $3.50 birth
and 3,741 deaths.
Examinations for the end of th,
first semester in the 1920'21 scholastic
period at the Colorado School O.
Mines tinternational) closed, and tn,
second semester was commenced will