The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1921-08-12
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
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COMING EVENTS.
Morgan County Fair. Fort Morgan.
Aug. 24-26: w. J. OFT. secretary.
Arkansas Valley Fair Rocky Ford,
Aug. so-sept. 2; J. l.. Miller. sscre-
Washington County Fair. Akron, Aug.
s1-sept. 2: Joe X. Powelson. secre-
tary.
Teller County Fair. Cripple Creek, Sept,
S: D. J. Upton. secretary.
Larimer County Fair. Loveiand. Sept,
usff:, scs J; n, w; Thompson; ,rafr ,scrstary rts
$40.
Henry Sebold, 9 years old, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Sebold of Brighton,
was drowned while swimming in
pond four miles west of Brighton.
Mrs. Mary Amanda Goodfellow, 81
years old, widow of Charles Goodfel-
low, pioneer mining man, and herself
Il resident of Colorado since 1862, died
suddenly at Greeley of heart trouble
g. F. Warner, for fifty years a resi-
dent of Colorado and postmaster of
Concrete for ten years, and one of
the most widely known men in the
state, died suddenly of acute indiges-
ton.
Ralph ]. Mockett, who lost his life
in the wreck of the steamship Alaska
Off the coast of California was Colo
RADIO boy. He was resident of Red
Cliff, where his father, J. II. Mockett,
is prominent mining man.
AS workmen clean Pueblos streets
Of debris, they continue to find bodies
buried under several feet of mud An
other body was located back of the
Taub Brothers clothing store on Union
avenue. Another was found on the
river bank near Vineland, making the
total now seventy-four.
The Ignacio State Bank at Ignacio,
twenty-six miles southeast of Durango,
was robbed of 5000, secured from q
cash drawer and safety deposit boxes.
The robbers were unable to get into
the steel safe, the report said. The
bank is capitalized for $4,000. The
robbers are believed to have escaped
in an automobile
William Timm of Montrose has
COInDltltu Tile IlOL opIlukS
club house, and the addition will ena-
BILE this resort to accommodate more
people. The cost of the structure was
S12,5OO. The club house is 125 feet
long and thirty-flce feet wide, is two
stories high and at one end there is
an auditorium which will seat 800 per-
sons.
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Colorado have announced the appoint
ment of forty new assistant professors,
assistants and instructors. All of the
new appointees have fine scholastic
records made either in the University
of Colorado or other educational insti-
tutions of the country. Most of them
have masters degrees and few are
doctors or pf,iio~opny.
The country population of Colorado
has been increasing for the past twen
ty years, although the per cent of the
population that is from the country
has not increased all the time. The
rural population of Colorado in 1900
was 202. $50 in 1910, 297, ,427; in 1920
737,S ,S6S In 1900, 80 per cent of the
people of Colorado lived in the coun-
Try; in 1910. 81 per cent; and in 1920,
80 per cent.
AT least $500 ears will be required
to move the wheat crop in that section
of northeastern Colorado served by
the Burlington railroad. according to
Il report made to the State Public
Utilities Commission by William Reid
one of its inspectors, after a trip
through Logan and northeastern Weld
counties. The wheat crop, Reid re-
ports, is one of the best ever harvest
ed in this section of the state The
commission will make every effort to
assist the farmers in obtaining cars
and getting their crops to market.
Dry land wheat that has just been
threshed OH the C. A. Jeffries farm
ran forty-five bushels. machine meas
ure to the acre, and weighed out
sixty-two pounds to the bushel, which
is almost record for dry land wheat
In Larimer county. The Showalter
wheat in the same district averaged
forty bushels to the acre.
Mrs. Amelia Cachines, So. wife of
Tony Cachines, a former northeast of
Broomfield, was kiXed when a horse
hltched to buggy ran away and she
was thrown out. her neck being
broken. She was the mother of five
children She and her husband were
returning from Lafayette and she had
stepped out of the buggy to look in
his rural post box for mail when the
horse became frightened and ran.
After being tossed about in the
waters of the Platte river within the
limits of Denver since the morning of
June Is, when he was drowned while
going to the rescue of his brother,
who had been caught IN the swollen
Hood waters at that time, the body Of
Charles Bryont, Jr., S-year-old son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Bryant, was re-
covered from the river in a badly de-
composed condition.
There now is in thp hands of tba