The Colorado statesman., 1919-02-22
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado

Nearly 100 cases OF influenza are re-
ported in the last week ut Victor and
Goldfield. There are only ten cases
in Cripple Creek and the schools have
reopened.
The acreage of wheat harvested in
Colorado in 1918 was $4,000, as com
pared with 340,T29 acres for 1909. The
increase has been largely in the acre
age devoted to winter wheat.
There are approximately 63,OOO
farms in Colorado. as compared with
6,17O in 1910, 400 in 1900 and 16,3S9
in 1890. The average size of farms
has increased slightly since 1910.
The Summit County Winter Sports
Club will hold its first ski tournament
Mt Lake hill, near Dillon, March and
., Immediately succeeding the winter
carnival at Steamboat Springs.
The state of Colorado owned on
Nov. 80, 1918, 3,113,G06 acres of land,
scattered through every county in the
state This land with the mineral 1t
contains is worth more than S1O0OOO,-
900.
The first concerted effort to obtain
high school building for Englewood
was taken when, at n meeting the
Parents and Teachers club at Engle-
wood, petition was drafted asking
the city school board to vote such an
Improvement.
Colorado's S16,OOOOOO investment in
War Savings Stamps last year was "A
most excellent showing, according to
Associate Director w. Ward Smith of
the savings division of the United
States Treasury Department, who was
in Denver on tour to study organiza-
ton methods and results.
Jonathan Glover, Jr., recently dis
charged from Camp Macarthur, Cal,
met with an accident west of Greeley
that resulted in his death. He was
driving team of horses on beet
wagon, and they started to run. Leap
ing for their heads he missed the
lines, and fell in such n manner that
the hind wheel of the wagon passed
over his head.
w. c. Basey of Longmont has dis
covered a sure cure for the hiccough
epidemic. Upon falling victim to the
malady Mr.. Basey hiccoughed for the
space of several days without stop
ping, and finally, after the doctors
had failed him, he bought a pound of
chocolate candy and started to eat it.
Before he was half through the hic-
coughs had ended.
Three Indian policemen from the
Uintah district of eastern Utah have
been taken to Clark county, New, to
aid in tracking the murderers of VIII
liam Taylor and Ether Hancock, Uin-
tab county prospectors, slain there re-
Gently, presumably by Indians. The
Indian policemen We're taken to Ne
vada by insurance companies in which
Clark carried q $4,000 policy.
Fifty thousand dollars damage was
done when fire started at the rear OF
the New York store, owned by Rach-
ofsky & Son, pioneer Colorado mer-
chants of Loveland. The blaze was
discovered by members of the Elks
lodge, which occupies the second floor
of the building, and is believed to have
started from an ash pit or furnace.
at $4,000 and TO the building $4,000.
Further assurance that the Rocky
Mountain National park in Colorado
at last is to be developed in man
ner worthy of its unsurpassed scenic
attractions was given in Washington
when Senator John f. Shafroth OBJ
tanned n unanimous agreement from
. tl.a lf. 10 m SEN
ate to support the removal of tire limit
OF $4,000 upon annual appropriations
for the upkeep of the great federal
playground.
Thomas A. Rogen of Denver, for
merly of Colorado Springs, pleaded
not guilty at Littleton when given
preliminary hearing on the charges OF
bigamy and perjury.
Dave Shogrin, proprietor of Mont
rose restaurant, Is under arrest at Sa-
Ida, his romance of a few hours ended
by angry creditors in Montrose. He
is alleged to have done brisk busi-
ness in meal tickets at half price and
In checks for which the bank had no
money and then closed up shop, de-
parting with his head waitress, leaving
unpaid bills for several thousand dol
lars.
Upon receipt of information that the
Spanish trail had been accepted and
designated as the westward continu-
alton of the National Old trails, an in
vitation was extended for the associ-
alton to hold its annual convention
in Durango during the summer, and
while the designation of the conven-
ton town likely will not be made un-
til the April meeting of the National
Old Trails Association, 1t has heen in
/ timated from high official sources
that Durango is assured of the mid
| summer meeting, in which case it will
| ha the first national convention ever