The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1921-08-19
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
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COMING EVENTS.
Morgan County Fair. Fort Morgan
Aug. 2l-26: w. J. OFT, secretary.
Arkansas Valley Fair. Rocky Ford
Aug. so-sept. .: J. L. Miller, sscrs-
Warrington County Fair. Akron Aug
S1-Sept. .; Joe X. Powelson. secrs-
Teller County Fair. cripple Creek. sept
Larimer County Fair. Loveland. Sept
5-S: j. w. Thompson, secretary.
Moffat County Fair at Naybeli. Sept
$40.
Edgar 7. Conquest has been nomi-
mated to be register of the land office,
Sterling, Colo. and James ID. Gallup.
to be register of the land office, Buff
falo, Wyo.
Carl W. Hall, 81 years old, of Den
YER, was instantly killed mile north
of Longs Peak inn, when an automo-
bile he was attempting to repair
slipped from q jack and rushed his
head.
The State Inheritance Tax Depart
ment collected total of S58,O05.89
during the first half of August, ac-
cording to a report issued by J. o.
Blackman, collector. This sum was
collected from thirteen estates
Eugene Wickham, Jr., II, died in
Fort Collins after being compelled
to stop there on account of Illness
while on trip from Arapahoe, Nebp
to Estes Park with DR.. J. E. Walters
and party, for whom he was driving
the car
More than $500 an acre off truck
farm Is the record pust made by Tim
Satio, a japanese farmer, near Kellm,
who has started harvesting his early
cabbage crop. He has received $40 n
ton for the cabbage, and has sold over
$500 worth.
Entries for the running races, ladder
contests and wet tests for the
state firemen's convention to be held
at Loveland, Sept. s, 6 and 7, during
the county fair, closed with nearly 800
entered from twenty-one diff
rerent departments of the state.
An unmasked man held up three
clerks at the BrOadmoor hotel at Colo
ado Springs and took $50 out Of the
money drawer, rounded up the clerks,
wo bellboys and telephone operator
nto the elevator, ordered them to ride
o the top floor, and escaped In an
from which he forced the
to alight.
Thomas H. Boland, 40, a a-plumber of
pueblo, was killed by bolt of light
ling as he was riding in an automo-
,ile twenty miles west Of Pueblo.
Three other occupants of the car were
,eithexstRdnredsneS shocked. 1t is re-
ported ea was riding S}ccS,,t
= md out of the car.
Y I'm ubwn by motor truck while
highway bridge at Glenwood
Springs, Iris Mangnall, IL years old.
daughter of H. ]. Mangnall, was in
stantly killed The girl lodged one
machine and stepped directly In the
path of the big truck. Deacon at
tempted to stop his machine, but the
wheels skidded on the plank flooring
of the bridge, struck and run over the
little girl.
Federal aid in the amount of $685.
477.54 was requested by the State High
way Commission of the United States
bureau of public roads in the proposed
construction of five miles of concrete
paved road, covering two projects near
Denver. The first project consists of a
six-tenths of a mile stretch beginning
at the end of the Berkeley-Aryada
stretch and extending through the
town of Arvada; the second proposed
concrete stretch calls for four and
four-tenths miles on Federal boule-
ward toward Broomfield. The total cost
of construction is estimated at S194.-
$500.
The Loveland school district has re-
ceived about $1,000 from the county
superintendent as its share of the S13,-
096 received by the county in the dis
tributlon of state school funds. The
apportionment was made at the rate OF
SO per school pupil as shown by the
last census.
The War Department has no inten.
ton of abandoning Fort Logan, Colo,
as an army post, but 1t will be impos.
slble to station complete regiment
there. This information was given to
the Colorado senator's by Secretary
Weeks. The action of Congress in re.
ducing the personnel of the army
makes 1t impracticable to increase
Fort Logan to regimental post, they
were informed.
The July output of mines in the
Cripple Creek district amounted to
$685., ,5S0.7S, an increase of $29, ,4OS. .ss
over June. while there were 847 cars
of ore shipped, bringing the total
shipped since Jan. 1 to 1000. The to.
tai number Of tons treated In July
was 1882. an increase of 3,211 over
June. The Golden Cycle mill in Colo.
rado Springs treated 1900 tons. the
Independence mill 1882, and the Lin
coin mill LILO.
The 1922 session of the state great
council Of the Improved Order Of Red.