The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1921-11-11
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

| MANY Colorado farmers will compete
for prizes on u wide variety OF ma!
md grains ut the international Hay
md ,;rnjn Show. to be held in cnnnec-
,ion with The International Live Stock
I,xnosition III the Chicago Union Stock
ards Nov. 20 10 Dec 3. Prizes total
ms $4,000 are offered on corn, wheil''
oats, rye, barley. soy beans ficld peas,
| Es,fir and milo, alfalfa. clover ana iiiii-
! othy. The Colorado State Bo;trd o.
Immigration has arranged to nave
| Iohn Howell of Montiose and James
| Morrison. county agricultural aSeni lor
! logan county, represent the poara ~
| the show and look after al! Colorilao
| exi,ibits that are sent with no one ac-
ea,nnnnyins them. This has been done
10 eneours ge Colorado farmers VINO are
unable 10 % 10 Chicago 10 prepare eA-
Libits and send them with the assur-
ancc that they will be properly en-
tered and cared for until the Judging
is completed and collected ana re-
turned 10 the owners when the show Is
over. Colorado growers were 1aifly
well represented AT this show last year
and made an excellent showing. con-
sidering the fact that growers from al
parts OF the United States and from
Canada we're among the competitors.
Colorado exhibits took iwenty-seven
prizes. including four firsfs and five
seconds.
total of 2S3 deaths in Denver We're
recorded by the city bureau of vital
statistics for the month of October,
1921. us compared to an aggregate OF
sOl for the corresponding month the
previous year. according TO II monthly
reporf made by Miss Florence Leitch.
registrar. Thirty of the mortali-
Ties were children under | year old.
The record for the same month in 1920
was twenty-ciglit. Other deaths rec
ortied included Two from poison, taken
with suicidal intent, one by hanging,
three by firearms, one by asphyxiation
five by accidental falls, three by rail
road street car and automobile acci-
dents. three by crushing aud four by
murder.
Aztec, New Mexico. has become an
oil and gas center with very good pros.
poets of through railroad and agri-
cultural development of the surround
ing country undreamcd of by the most
optimistic resident. A group of Aztec
men, believing 1t to be an oil region,
formed local company. financed il
and brought in two drilers and sunk
a we'll. Al less Than 1000 feet the drill
struck gas and IS spouting more than
forty feet, is wet. and experienced oil
men assert that it is sure indication
of the presence of new oil field.
f. y. Sherfick, "a years old, ii farm
er near Paonin, died from the effects
of wounds received when he was gored
by Il bull in the corral back of his
home Shcrfick's wife played a he
roic part in the incident, beating off
the enraged animal with a club in
vain effort to save her husbands life.
The bull attacked Shcrfick. according
to his wife's story, when he went INTO
the corral to do some work. He at
tempted to jump over the fence, but
was knocked down.
There will be no permits issued for
the manufacture or sale of beer in
Colorado, according to a message re-
ceived by f. Fl. McClenahan. director
of prohibition enforcement in Colo
RADIO, from Roy A. Haynes, federal
commissioner. The reason is given
that no such permits will be issued
for any state where there is bone
dry state prohibition, and 1t will be
recalled that Colorado was dry before
the nation.
The annual meeting of the State
Farm Bureau will be held on the cam
pus Of the Agricultural College at Fort
Collins, Dec 8 and 10. Farm bureau
delegates to the Farmers Congress,
which will assemble Dec. 6. will save
thereby considerable railroad expense
as well as other incidentals.
Prof. w. l.. Carlyle, for years con-
nected with the State Agricultural Col
leee at Fort Collins, has been selected
as manager of large model stock
farm and cattle ranch owned by the
Prince of Wales, and located in Alber-
ia, Canada.
Thirty days each was the sentence
passed at Pueblo by Federal Judge
Robert Il. Lewis upon James A. Nc
Donald and Alexis Bylne, who plead
ed guilty to transporting stolen au-
tomobile from st. Cloud, Mimi, to
Colorado The men have been con
fined in jnil since their arrest Santos
Juarez. 17-year-old Mexican youth
pleaded guilty to robbery of the post
office at Crook, Colo, and was sent
enced to two years in the reformatory
at Boone, Mo-
Fort Lyons Naval and Marine Hos
pitaI at Las Animas has been aban-
doned to the Veterans Bureau by the
United States naval hospital corps
I Thirty Officers and sixteen enlisted
men Of the navy and marine corps have
been ordered to Denver and most OF
them have reported to the Fitzsimons
General Hospital at Aurora for treat
ment.