The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1921-05-07
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

| in La Plata county; four and three
tenths miles Of gravel road between
Breed and Colorado Springs, Colo, In
El Paso county, and two and seven
tenths miles Of improved sand-clay
road between Limon and Madison,
Colo, In Lincoln county. Approximate
ly $21 ,O20 aid was requested and ap-
proved by the federal bureau in the |
improvement Of one mile Of improved
mountain graded road between Silver |
ton and Durango, Colo, officials said.
II can think of no more delightful |
place to 60 on vacation than Colo |
rado, a state Of true western hospital |
ity," commented President Harding |
after Senator Phipps, speaking on be-
half Of the citizens, had formally en-
| tended to the President the invitation
from the Colorado Legislature to make
the Rocky Mountain state his summer
home. Besides Colorado's invitation to
become its guest, the President was
presented with certificate Of life hon.
orary membership in the Denver Press
Club. On behalf of the club, Warren
r. Given Of Denver handed the Presi-
| dent a gold engraved membership card
Miss Helen Dove Of the United
States forest service Of Denver has
left for Rico, Colo, with forest serv-
ice surveying party, thus winning the
honor of being the first woman In the
entire United States to join party In
| that department Of the governmental
| service. She is scenic artist for the
Denver division during winter months
and patrol woman and fire lookout" at
Devil Head mountain in the Pike Ma
tional forest during the fire season.
| On her trip she will act as chainwom-
an and will be accompanied by her
chaperon, Mrs. Grace Stewart of Den
YER
The old Midland railroad bed will be
utilized in the construction of a county
highway in the Carbondale district has
become known following trip of In
spection over the route by county COM
| missioners. By using the abandoned
| roadbed considerable expense can be
saved to the county as the work of re-
pairing the old highway along the Fry
ing Pan river is in poor condition and
the work of getting 1t into shape would
be costly. Financial assistance will be
| given to the work by the forestry serv-
Ice.
A scientific kiss" purported to
| awaken dormant faculties, may cost
James A. Murdock of Los Angeles his
license. Murdock, who is almost 60
years old advertised as being ian in
comparable psychist and clairvoyant."
Miss Billie Blackburn, IT, got the kiss.
Her mother Mrs. Sarah Blackburn, got
bill from Murdoch for $199. The
board of supervisors has slnder con-
| sideration Mrs. Blackburns application
for revocation of Murdock's license
The latter made a sweeping denial Of
the charges.
| Several of the leading summer re-
sorts in the Platte canon have organ
| ized an association, which will open
| bureau of information, May Is, in the
| Albany hotel, for the benefit of the
many tourists to Denver, who desire
| short trip into Colorado's mountain
wonderland. Besides the public inform
ant who will be maintained, reserva-
| tions for hotels and cottages may be
made, and an outing of any duration
will be planned.
More than fifty students of the Uni
| versity of Colorado donned overalls
| and Joined In the work of rebuilding
the road up Bluebell cailon, above
| Chautauqua. They were granted
half holiday to permit them to partici-
| pate in the project which was carried
| out by the Lions Club. Many promi-
nent business men of Boulder, includ-
ing Mayor J. o. Billig, were in the ex-
| pedition. Regents of the university
were also present.
Twenty-month-old Robert Pierson,
who fell from third-story window of
| the Vincent hotel in Denver, died of In
juries sustained in his fall The baby,
who had been sleeping with his mother,
Mrs Josephine Pierson, awakened be-
fore the mother, and crawled out of
| the bed over the ledge of an open win
dow. Mrs. Persons first intimatlon
| of the accident was when her baby
was brought to her by a policeman.
| The fall fractured the base of the
baby's skull.
| After a spirited automobile ride,
| Sheriff Lewis Worker lodged Jose NJ.
| Gomez, 36, in the Crowley county Jail
at Ordway, following the killing of Pas
quel Compos, Al, for years resident
Of southern Colorado, in the main
street at Sugar City. Scores of pedes-
trians and farmers witnessed the
shooting The shooting Is said to have
| followed a series of quarrels between
! Gomez and Compos.
Delegates from all quarters of the
globe will gather in Montrose during
the first week of June to attend the
meeting of the General Missionary
| Society of the United Presbyterian
church. More than 250 are expected
to be in attendance at the convention
Two women and two men were fined