The Colorado statesman., 1919-01-11
Pithy News Notes
From An Parts of
Colorado
asstsrn Newspaper Union News Service
COMING EVENTS.

Jan. 20-2l-Mlu- winter ihSNt'"H
Colorado Editorial Association AZ
Ian. 2iEMeeting Colorado County Com
missioners at Denver.
Ian 22-Colorado stock Growers AS
ISOLATION meeting at Denver.
Jan. 22-Meeting Farmers buuV"'''"'
Cooperative Union at Denver; ,
Jan, 2l-23-Mountain States Lumprt
Dealers Association meeting III Len
Jan. 23-24-Hardware and implement
Dealers meeting at Denver. pu..d-
Jan. 23-24-Western Shorthorn Breed
ers' Association ut Denver. . -,-..,
Jan. 23-24-Meeting Oldtime Co"ooSs D
Association at Denver. H..
Jan. 24-25-M Meeting Coiorhoo
Breeders Association at DehNtr,
Ian 2b-Meeting Colorado Auetioheets
Association at Denver e,.. a.,
Jan. 21-26-W estern STOCK Sho" az
Jar. 81 2s-Meeting American National
Live Stock Association at Denver
The annual intercollegiate track
end field meet will be held in Den
yer on May 81 at Union park.
Mrs. r. d. Shaw, formerly OF Den
yer, died at Fort Collins after a -FOUR
days illness with pneumonia.
The kettle has begun to call the
not black in the hearings in prog
ress before the Adams county grand
jury.
Farmers in the Hayden district re-
ceived more money for the 1918 crops
per acre than the previous value oil
the land.
Certificates of honorable service
will be given men leaving the naval
service before the expiration OF thef
terms of enlistment.
Nearly every city in Colorado Will
probably get one or two German can
mons for park or court house decora-
tions if the present plans work out.
Colorado Springs first wounded war
veteran returned last week. He Is
Earl Kinsman, who lost an arm in the
fighting at Chateau Thierry, July 3d.
Leadville's metal production in
1918 had value of $47S,925,416-
a record of which the highest mining
town in the world" may well be
proud.
Ex-Governor Carlson addressed. the
meeting of the Denver Manufacturers
Association in conjunction with invit-
ing soldiers to discuss the problem OF
unemployment.
Colorado will have general reye-
nue. surplus of more than $725.0O0
when the tax inheritance collections
for 1918 are all in, according to State
Auditor Charles Leckenby.
The federal bank at Wichita, ac-
cording to report just issued, made
loans during November to eighty-five
Colorado farmers, for a total of $20l,-
100 During the same period, twenty
two Colorado loans, for a total of S73,-
500 were paid off.
Soldiers who have been undeserved-
ly though technically branded on the
government records as "deserters,
are to have the stigma removed wher-
ever possible. The aid of every loyal
citizen in Colorado is asked to see
that this is done.
Colorado still has unsold 3,119,607
acres of land belonging mainly to the
school fund, but also the property OF
other state institutions such as the
penitentiary. Agricultural College,
State University, public buildings and
internal improvements.
The State Highway Commission in
making up its 1919 budget has laid as
extensive a foundation as it's funds
will permit for system of permanent
roads. In forming a nucleus for this
system it has selected dozen traffic
concentration points for the construc-
ton of concrete roadway, with the
idea of branching out from these cen
ters along the main thoroughfares as
rapidly as money can be obtained for
the purpose.
Federal, state and city flags have
been officially ordered at half staff
out of respect to the memory of ex-
President Roosevelt. Federal officials
are following the example of the au-
thorities at Washington, while Cover
nor Gunter and Mayor Mills issued
the instructions for the state and city
institutions respectively.
City Commissioner Andrew w.
Frandsen was the first Montrose man
to be fined for violation of the new
quarantine regulations. His children
came down town and the commission
er was at once handed request to
appear before Justice w. H. Franklin.
He was fined $6.75. daughter OF
Mr.. Frandsen is i'll with influenza
There are seventeen national forests
wholly within the confines of Colo
rado and two partly within the state
with 13,367 ,59S acres that are inside
the borders. Within these forests pri-
vate owners have 1,51O421 acres,
making total of 14.S7S,019 acres EN-
braced within the national forests.
The largest is the Rio Grande forest
with 1,136,SS4 acres. 1t is estimated
that there are $4,000, 100000 board feet
of timber in these forests worth ap-
nroYimate S26 nm ooO