The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1921-01-28
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
(w..eru Ne-.p.per uaIen Ns.. s.r,c.. !,

Roland G. Parvin, state game and
fish commissioner, announced that
100000 perch and bass had been sent
TO Wray, Colo, and to the MinneQua
lake in Pueblo. These fish, which are
from four to five inches long, were OBJ
tanned from the lake at Platteville.
| Colo.
Decision to withhold financial sup
| port from the Colorado School Of
Mines magazine and refuse to furnish
headquarters in the school buildings
for the editor of the publication, was
voted by the board of trustees of the
school at a recent meeting. at which
publication of an article derogatory
to the institution was considered.
| Contracts have been signed by the
Axial Basin Development Company
for the construction of twenty-eight
miles of railroad connecting Craig the
present terminus of the Moffat road,
with the company property at Mount
Streeter, where there has been devel-
aped and placed in shape for produc-
ton one of the largest coal properties
in the country.
| NICtol II. AeyCsr dttoliey SeueId al
| of Colorado, ruled that ministers IL
censed in other states have power to
perform marriage ceremonies in Colo
rado. The question came up at the
request of A. Il. Burks of Steamboat
Springs. In ruling on the question At
torney General Keyes said minister
is not a licensed official and if the
marriage was not against public pol
| icy there was no law against it.
Jose Ramon of Cordova, Colo, will
receive S1,035 for injuries received in
an old Apache Indian uprising, in
which he fought as a federal soldier, if
the United States Senate passes bill
making the appropriation which was
reported on favorably by the commit
| tee on claims The lower house al
ready has passed this bill, and also one
of similar kind to aid Mrs. Joseph G.
Akins, the widow of an officer killed
| in the uprising. The latter bill has
not been reported out, however.
Employees of the Fort Collins factory
of the Great Western, Sugar Company
now are receiving CHECKS due them of
the prize money or bonus awarded by
the company for efficient service
throughout the last season. The total
sum being given out to Fort Collins
| workers is S74,92021. Seven hundred
and ninety men participated iii the
prizes. of which 235 lost no tine from
theiiS work during thie entire $eason
and consequently received full share
each of $112.S7. The payment Of this
prize money adds $1.OS a day for the
entire season to the income of these
men, or 13k cents an hour. The Love
land factory of the Great Western
paid to its men total in bonuses of
s67 ,990.03, making total paid out in
Larimer county in bonuses by the
company of S142,910.24.
No state with the exception of Mon
tana has shown so rapid an increase
in the acreage of land under cutiva-
tion in the past decade as Colorado,
and few states have shown a larger
percentage of increase in the number
of farms. Within the past ten years
approximately 100000 acres of gov
ernment land has been homesteaded,
while large areas of privately-owned
land have been broken and placed un-
der cultivation. Records of the State
Immigration Department show that
this movement has been much stronger
in the past five years than in the pre-
ceding five years, and that there was
an actual decrease in the population
of the state during the first two years
after the 1910 census was compiled
The increase in subsequent years has
been due primarily to agricultural de-
velopment, which has been much more
marked in the non-irrigated than In
the irrigated districts.
The Great Western sugar factory at
LongmOnt divided SS4211.93 among
the employees of the local factory as
result of the record of the 1920-21 cam
paign. All share alike in the prize
money, regardless of wages drawn
during the campaign. The amount
paid to each employe was S120.
Application is to be made to United
States forest officials and to govern
ment and state game wardens for a
million trout to stock the streams and
lakes of Boulder county. meeting
soon is to be held to organize BOul-
der county fish and game club to
unite the Sportsmen of all commune
ties in that section. Fred Fair and
Pete Johnson of Boulder and Charles
Carroll of Longmont are behind the
movement.
Dewey Lawrence, "a years old, line
man for the Colorado Springs Light
and Power Company, was almost in
stantly killed when he cut into live
wire while making adjustments on a
pole at Colorado Springs. ]. H. Fish
er, Lawrence's partner, who was work
ing on the pole with him, realizing his
partners error, cut one of the wires
TO break contact, but was a fraction
of a second too late.
Joseph Perkinson, 80 years old. a
farmer forty miles east of Wray. Colo,
was shot and killed by Novice Ashley.
| II vearS old duripU q nuorrol TN,