The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1921-01-14
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
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yer of heart failure.
The forty-seventh annual convention
of the Colorado State Grange will be
in session in Denver Jan. 1920.
The new Methodist church at Mont
rose, built at cost of $65000, was
dedicated with Bishop Charles l.. Mead
in the pulpit.
Senator Thomas has appointed Will
lam Day Preston, 315 South Seven
teenth street, Colorado Springs, to
Annapolis Naval Academy.
The students of the School of Mines
are soon to organize themselves into
an associated students council for the
purpose of self-government.
The First Christian Church of Cliff
ton, recently dedicated, is said to be
the largest and finest church edifice in
city under 1000 in population in the
state.
The legislative appropriation bill
which was reported out of committee
| in Washington, d. c., carries with it
$244,S 800 appropriation for the Denver
mint.
The Stockmen's and Merchants
Bank of Pagosa Springs, Colo, has
ceased to function through dissolution,
according TO notice filed with the sec
| retary of state.
William NJ. Kincaid of La Veta, Colo,
! will carry the vote of the Colorado
electors to Washington, ID. c. The six
electors, meeting at the state house in
Denver, cast their ballots for Harding
and Coolidge.
The Roaring Fork Electric Light and
| Power Company of Aspen has brought
suit in the District Court of Pitkin
county against the State Tax Commits
sion to recover taxes paid on excess
valuation. The valuation was $115,2S0
as against 500, 9,766, which the company
claims is the actual valuation.
X. H. Hildebrandt, an employe of
the Great Western Sugar Company at
Brush, was instantly killed when he
was knocked down and run over by
an automobile driven by Harry Razor,
IS years old. The accident occurred
in front of the sugar plant as Hide
brandt was going to work.
j drive for membership in the Fre-
mont County Farm Bureau began in
the Beaver Park district and will be
continued throughout the county dur
ing January. There are at present
$50 members, and it is desired to make
the number at least 500. County
Agent A. J. Taylor is in charge.
Polo will feature the horse show
which opens on the evening of JAM. ~
! in the big stadium at the stockyards
in Denver. Denver's society folk will
ride the fastest of ponies and the
| thousands of visitors to the National
Western Stock Show will be given the
opportunity of witnessing this fascin-
ating sport.
The board of commissioners of Doug
las county have filed an appeal to the
Supreme Court in an effort to. collect
taxes from the city of Denver on the
Cheesman dam and adjacent property.
District Judge Sheafor recently ruled
that the county was without authority
to levy taxes on the reservoir property.
The suit involves about $4,000.
Despite falling prices, Weld county
crops will bring farmers of the county
approximately S2O,OOO,OOO for 1920, ac-
cording to the annual report of County
Agricultural Agent Mason E. Knapp,
made to the county commissioners.
The sugar beet crop brought nearly
| S10,000,OOO, while the wheat crop at
the average price at which it was sold
realized more than S6,0000OO. The
| bulk of the potato and hay crops are
yet to be marketed.
Litigation which has covered many
years was closed when the board of
directors of the Uncompahgre Valley
Water Users Association accepted
settlement of claims against bondsmen
who were sureties for the Taylor
| Moore Construction Company, which
became insolvent when they made the
first attempt to construct the Gunni-
son tunnel for the Water Users Asso-
| citation.
Twelve conventions will be held in
1 Denver within the next two weeks.
The Stock Show, which opens on the
18th, will be the headliner, and will
consume the whole week. The list of
| conventions, and the date of their re-
spective openings are as follows: Colo
RADIO Lumberman's convention, Jan.
! 13 the II. l. p, a hardware mems as
! sociation, Jan. %; county commission
ers, Jan. II; Mountain States Ice Man
ufacturers, Jan. II; Old-time Cowboys
convention, Jan. 10; the Colorado
| Creamery Butter Association, Jan. 10;
Colorado Sheriffs' convention, Jan. 20;
Colorado Auctioneers' convention, Jan.
90 Colorado State Editorial Associa-
finn Ian 21 Colorado State 90 ono
of Building and Loan Associations,
Jan. 81.
Deaths in Denver for December,
1920, totaled Alb, exceeding the num-
Der for the same month in 1919 by
81, according to Miss Florence Leach,
registrar of vital statistics at the city
hall. The December figure included
flaIIi i,aII,let.s fi..c s.IiiLilaa.; LII.