The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1921-08-12
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

The Colorado Fuel & Iron Company
Is letting contract to the 9. 5. Lam
bic Construction Company of Pueblo
for the building of fifty houses, which
are to be sold at cost and on easy
payments to employees of the company
/ who lost their homes in the flood. The
| total sum to be expended will be close
| to $4,000, and the houses will be OF
three, four, five and six rooms, all
| thoroughly modern. They will be
built near the old G. f. & l. hospital,
work to begin at once.
Two bandits with ropes let third
down the side of a Pullman car on
Denver & Rio Grande train No. be-
tween Grand Valley and Rifle, and he
cut the screens in the windows and
robbed three hammocks in the berths.
| One woman reported the loss of 5000
| in travellers checks and $40 in cash,
and two other passengers reported
losses, but the amount was not made
| public. So far as is known only the
three hammocks were robbed
One man was blinded for life and
another may never recover his sight
as the result Of an explosion in lime
stone quarry at Ingleside, near Fort
| Collins. The men, Lee Chavez and
Frank Florez, were lowering keg of
black powder into shaft when the
keg struck a rock The explosion
blew the eyes Of Florez almost entirely
from his head. All the skin was blown
from Chavez face, but physicians said
his sight might be saved.
| The federal census bureau has
placed an average of $31.22 on farm
lands in Colorado. This is nearly twice
the figure fixed by the county asses
sors, which was $16.45 in 1920 An in
crease of 100000 acres Of farm land
| in the state is shown by the report.
The average Increase in value has been
1921 an acre. Nearly 2S,OO0,00O acres
of farm land is reported by the county
assessors tax rolls.
Buford Ross, 40, brother-in-law TO ].
+. Harbour, Pueblo county commits
sioner, was perhaps fatally injured
when derrick, used in loading hay
| on a ranch twenty miles east of Pu-
eblo, fell upon him and crushed his
hips. 1t took almost twelve hours to
bring him to Pueblo to hospital be-
cause of the muddy roads, in which
| the ambulance was stuck twice.
The city of Loveland faces dam
| age suit for $2.5O0 to be started by J.
injuries received by slipping on an icy
| sidewalk and breaking his leg last De-
cember. Bainbridge presented the
| bill some months ago, and after ne
| gotiatlons offered to compromise. The
| finance committee of the council re-
fused the offer.
George Sargher, 80 years old, for
| twenty four years in business in Vic
| tor, is dead. Although in ill health
for number of years, it has not been
| though that his death was imminent.
He had attended picture show and
had returned to his store, when, ten
minutes after entering, he expired. He
was one Of the wealthiest men in
Victor.
Resolutions requesting Congress "tO
Immediately enact such legislation as
y
profiteering in the retail sale Of meat
and meat products have been adopt
ed by the North Park Stockgrowers'
Association in session at Walden, and
have been sent to Colorado's delega-
tion in Washington.
Publication of the national potato
crop estimate of the United States De-
partment of Agriculture for August
caused much Joy in the Greeley dis
triet. The estimate showed decrease
from the July estimate Of 6l,O0O,0OO
bushels, drop from 377 100000 BUSH
els to 316OOO,0OO bushels.
School expenses in Colorado have in
creased about So, SOC, 900 in the last two
years, according to figures made pub
lie by the State Immigration Depart
ment. The statistics are compiled from
records of the state superintendent of
schools.
City Commissioner James L. Lovern
of Pueblo sent kilograms to leading
engineering firms of the United
States inviting them to send represen-
tatives to Pueblo to discuss flood pre-
vention measures which may be taken
here. A date is to be set for the con-
ference. Among the firms invited is
the ]. NJ. O'Rourke Company of Chi
cago, builders of the Galveston sea
wall.
Howard Penn, negro, enraged be-
cause he had been elected from Mex
lean restaurant in Eaton, kicked in
the window of hardware store,
helped himself to a rifle and ammuni-
ton, and returning to the restaurant
proceeded to lombard 1t. The. Mexi-
cans ran through the rear door, and
Penn was arrested by the town mar
shal and placed in the Greeley jail.
Colorado Springs may be Immediate
oh ssitn for Naen ti0ual