The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1921-02-25
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.


power gang Of the Smuggler- Union
Mining Company. were making their
way to the Blue Lake pumping station
Of the Smuggler-Union Mining Com
pany to make repairs on transformers
| and pumps, when slide broke and
caught the three and swept them down
the hillside for more than three hun
dred feet.
The farmers of Morgan county have
unbounded faith in their business, and
in order to make their business more
secure and steady are cooperating
whole-heartedly In the membership
campaign. Every farmer in the county
will be asked to become a member OF
the Farm bureau. Many farmers have
declared that falling prices make it Inn
possible for them to pay membership
in cash at this season of the year, and
to overcome this obstacle, the commit
tee has arranged to accept 200 pounds
Of wheat or ten bushels of sheIled corn
in lieu of the S5 cash membership fee.
Attorney General Keyes was elected
president of the Colorado Society, Sons
Vi IIlt lAIllGTICdI ItNOiutiOit, ut u JOiht
annual banquet and meeting of the or
ganization with the Colorado Patriotic
League in Denver. Former President
Malcolm Lindsey was elected vice
president, Dr. James r. Willard, secre-
tary; w. u. Wyncoop. treasurer, and
]. P. Martin. chaplain, for the ensuing
year. Following the election of of
ficers, eleven gold medals We're pre-
sented by Attorney General Keyes to
active patriotic workers during the
World war.
Fort Morgan's new lighting system
was put into service when lights were
turned on by Mayor Lockwood and
City Electrician w. Fl. Harold The
great difference between the old light
ing system and the new was very
striking. What had, few years ago,
been looked upon as one of the most
modern and up-to-date systems for
lighting the town, appeared obsolete
and insignificant when the new 600
candle power lights were flashed on in
place of the eighty-candle power sim
gle lights.
The county commissioners of Min
eral county have received notice from
the State Highway Commission of an
appropriation of $4,000 for the Creede
and Lake City highway The money
will be available about July l. This
money will be sufficient it Is thought
to provide good auto highway from
Creede 10 Lake City. and with proper
extension 10 the southwest this road
would he one of the main highways Of
travel from that section of the state
to Pueblo and Denver
Copies of the income tax primers,
recently issued by the Bureau of In
ternal Revenue, which contains ques-
tIons and answers relative to the fiji
ing of income tax returns. are now
available at the office of the collector
Of internal revenue, Custom House.
Sixteenth and Arapahoe streets. Den
yer. Colo. Copies may be obtained
only through collectors offices. and
are not being mailed from Washing
ton.
The Walsenburg Building Company
has received from George W. Roe, Pu-
eblo architect, the plans for a $4,000
apartment house to be erected at
Walsenburg The building will be of
pressed brick and stone, and will CON
tain forty apartments.
Mistaking coated pills for candy.
twelve-months old baby of Mr. and
Mrs. Willard Peterson OF Flagler ate
dozen cathartic tablets, and is in Sc
rious condition. Quick use of stomach
pump saved the infants life.
For the second time in eleven years
the Trans-Mississipp Golf Associa-
tion's annual championship tourna-
ment is to be held in Denver. The
dates have been set for August s to 13.
Announcement has been made by the
officials of the Great Western Sugar
Company at Lovcland, effective March
l, there would be Il slight reduction in
the wages paid employees. Most of the
reduction will be to the men who work
by the hour, and will amount to about
10 per cent. Some of the men working
by the month will also be reduced, the
average for this class of labOrers being
So a month less than has been paid.
Preliminary reports made by the
census bureau on all counties in Colo
RADIO, received and complied by the
State Immigration Department, show
a substantial increase in every class
Of livestock for the state in 1920 over
1910. The largest percentage of in
crease is for swine, being more than
100 per cent. while the lowest percent
age of increase is for sheep.
After statewide search lasting four
months, Russell A. Gordon, former
Walsenburg railroad man. was ar
rested by Sheriff Harry j. Capps of
Huerfano county on charges of rifling
mail pouches. stealing registered let
ter which contained $1,000 in currency,
and burning the railroad station.
valued at S3O,500. in Waisenburg,
Sept ID. 1920.
The new national headquarters of
+h- L,lI-c lo1oo may ha located in Dem