The Colorado statesman., 1919-09-20
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.


ming pool and city park with play
ground and equipment at a meeting IN
Boulder. The matter was proposed by
returned service men, who said they
preferred that a memorial of some
practicable good be erected to them in
stead of marble shaft. The PROPOSE
tion will be voted on at the election in
November.
The horribly mutilated bodies of
three unknown men were discovered
along the right of way of the Missouri
Pacific railroad, two miles from Olney
Springs. Sheriff Worker of Crowley
county believes the men were Mexi-
cans, but it has not been determined
whether they were accidentally struck
by a train or the men murdered and
the bodies placed on the tracks.
Revenue from automobile licenses
will reach $500,000 this year, 1t is esti-
nated by Secretary of State holland.
Up to Sept. l, collections in Denver
alone amounted to $127 ,565.T5, while in
the remaining counties of the state col
lections totaling S311,251.34 had been
reported, making reported collections
of S43S.S .S17.O9
An oil rig is now being shipped TO
Fountain from Wichita, Kan, and will
be set up as soon as it arrives, so that
drilling operations can he begun at
once. The undertaking is looked upon
as an important test of the oil-produc-
ing possibilities of the favorable struc-
lures said to exist in the vicinity OF
Fountain.
The State School for the Deaf and
Blind at Colorado Springs will receive
a legacy of approximately $1,000 from
the estate of Miss Maggie j. Williams
of Fort Collins, who died in July, At
torney General Victor f. Keyes said
after returning from Fort Collins,
where Miss Williams will was filed for
probate.
Colorado Springs eighty-seven post.
al employees will receive an increase OF
S13,050 annually in their pay if the
new pay bill recently passed by the
House is adopted by the Senate and
signed by the President. The measure
makes the increase retroactive to July
l, 1919, and payable at the rate of
$3.50 a month.
One Colorado county, Weld reports
through its county assessor 431 Silos
this year and the number is being con.
stantly increased. The silo is becom.
ing an important factor in the agricul.
tural development of the state, partic'
ularly in the counties east of the
mountains and in few counties in the
Grand river watershed
The 1919 sugar beet crop in Colo
RADIO will break all previous records,
according to reports received from the
four beet sugar producing companies
of the state. The prediction of a ban.
ner yield is considered remarkable, in
view of the drought and the destruc
ton wrought by the web-worm in GER
tain localities.
Under new regulations announced by
officials of the Colorado National
Guard members of the guard are to re
ceive regular pay under the provisions
of the national defense act of June
1915, provided drill requirements ar'
met. Pay for privates will be one
fourth that allowed men in the regular
army.
Despondent because of i'll health
Joseph L. Parker, 81, formerly drug
gist at Cullman, Ala, committed sui
eide in a lonely cabin near Evergreen
by shooting himself thru the head
Parker was suffering from tuberculo
sis.
5,631 acres of broom corn in 1909
grown in thirteen counties. County as
SCISSORS report approximately 1900
acres this year grown in twenty-seveI
counties.
While Illegally hunting ducks, it is
said, fifteen miles north. of Durango
Frank Mcconnell, aged 3S, and owner
of poolroom in Silverton, lost his life
in a mysterious drowning.
A meeting of the pioneers of north.
western Colorado will be held in
Steamboat on October at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. James II. Crawford
the founder of Steamboat Springs
and among the first settlers in north
western Colorado. Pioneers, althc
their number is growing fewer every
year, will come from all over the
county to talk over the old days
when this country was but a wilder
ness.
The Rocky Mountain Lumber Com
pany, of which a number of Influential
Weld county business men are the
principal officers, have closed trans
action with the government for the
af nOD 600 faat Of Stan1inp
timber on the upper forks of Elk river
This company already has employed 8
large number of men and expects tc
cut 100000 feet this winter.
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