The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1921-01-14
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

tiOn at the National Western Stock
Show at Denver, January 10. Three
teams of former soldiers from agricul-
tural colleges of the West are to COM
pete for special prize offered by the
vocational board. Many men chose
agricultural training and now at the
end of two years are showing results.
The teams are chosen by districts, ac-
cording to H. Allen Nye, head of voca-
tional training, and are as follows.
No. II, Utah, Colorado and Wyoming
No. u, California, Nevada and Ari-
zona; No. 13, Washington, Oregon and
Idaho. More teams are entered this
winter in the annual contests for the
National Western cup than ever be-
fore, and for the first time a contest
is being pulled off for secondary agri-
cultural schools, high schools and such
Institutions. The cup was won last
year by Kansas and the year before
by Nebraska.
Farmers of Colorado benefited to
the extent Of $7OO,O52 during the last
year through efforts of the Colorado
Extension Service, according to re-
port made to Governor Shoup by Act.
ing Director A. E. Lovett. Work of
the department was carried on In
twenty-nine counties by boys and
girls clubs, agricultural fairs, farm
improvements demonstrations, agron-
omy specialists, moving picture exhibit
tions, extension schools and other
agencies.
Five years from now the public lands
of Colorado will be practically a thing
of the past, and their history may then
well be written. According to the report
of the commissioner of the general land
office published in December, 1920,
there are S,941, ,1S5 acres of vacant pub
lie lands in Colorado; five years age
there were 17,236,114 acres of public
lands in this state-showing that dur
ing the interim S,294,929 acres have
been filed upon.
c. W. Johnson of Manzanola, Colo,
has presented bill for S40O to the
sheriff of Utah county, Utah, for ex-
penses in connection with the burial
of Billy Johnson, whom he thought
was his son. Billy" johnson commit
ted suicide at Payson, Utah. The body
was sent to his supposed father at
Manzanola. Mr.. johnson buried the
body, but later he heard from his son
at Denver.
Robert L. Lackey, prominent sheep
rancher, was ordered to pay his wife,
Matte Lackey, S16,5OO alimony by
Judge Cornforth, at Colorado Springs.
Mrs. Lackey stated on the witness
stand that her husband recently had
transferred all his property to escape
paying the alimony. Lackey announced
that he would stay in jail cell before
he will comply with the courts order.
For the first time since 1906 Colo
RADIO man participated in the delibera-
tions of the national board for the pro-
motion of rifle practice, which has con-
vened in Washington in response to a
call issued by the government. Capt.
Arthur b. Smith of Denver, small arms
instructor for the Colorado National
Guard, is the Colorado representative.
Colorado's coal production during
1920 exceeded that of the preceding
year by nearly 100000 tons and fell
only about quarter of million tons
short of the 1918 output when the
twenty-one coal-producing counties of
the state established high production
record of 12,65S,O55 tons.
The first cases of death from the So
called sleeping sickness" reported in
Las Animas county occurred when
Letiza Maglia, 25 years old, of Stark
y,
broken sleep for eight days. Mike Sir
CHA, 20, of Ell Moro, died after an ILL
ness of four days.
R. V. Ellington of Denver has re-
Gently been appointed as state super
visor of trade and industrial educa-
tion. This work is carried on under
the direction Of the State Board of
Vocational Education, cooperating
with the national board.
Sportsmen are forming an organiza-
tion which will make accessible to the
public the famous Conejos Lakes re-
gion of the Rio Grande National For
est, Colorado, according to information
received by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.
UoNerHor oHOup HAS StdH1peu MS us
approval upon the S7,000,0O0 highway
budget for 1921 prepared by the State
Highway Commission and sent it back
to the commissioners with recon-
mendations concerning the spending of
the highway fund.
According to the verdict of the cor
oner's jury in Pueblo, Antonio Rom
ero committed justifiable homicide
when he inflicted a beating and gun
shot wounds upon Aululio Augon, after
having found his wife in the latter's
arms.
Mrs. A. A. Splitter was strangled to
death at Sterling when her hair and a
shawl around her neck became caught
in an electric wringer connected to a
washtub over which she was bending
in the back yard of her home.
The bank clearings over the figures
for 1919 increased $12000,00O, accord