The state herald., 1919-02-07
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado

western Newspaper Union News Service.
Red Cross workers at Ordway com
pleted $3.50 pieces of work and ST.
900 was handled by the chapter.
A proposition has been made to
the city of Fountain by private cap
ital to install $4,000 electric light
plant.
Gorton E. Rushton, pioneer of
Pueblo and owner of the largest jew
elry establishment in the. Arkansas
valley. died Tuesday, following q
long illness.
| Notice has been issued by the land
office at Montrose that on April 4,
1919, Twp. IL, south, II. 81 west. 9Th
p. m, which has been withdrawn for
resurvey, will be reopened to entry.
Colorado has the greatest extent
and widest variety of mountain
scenery found in the United States. 1t
has more than forty mountain peaks
above $4,000 feet high and approx
mately 325 above 10000 feet.
The R. o. T. C. and military train
ing will be continued at the Univer-
sity OF Colorado. both Governor
shoup and Acting President Ndrlin
told students gathered at assembly
In Boulder.
Eight sons In the draft, and all Of
them first-clsss scrappers. no9A being
over 81. This is the record of the
Webb family Of Royero. The parents
are Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Webb.
There also are eight girls In the fam.
ly.
The Denver & Rio Grande has be-
gun laying sixty.five pound steel from
Montrose east toward Salida. The
steel will be laid until 1t meets the
heavier steel which has been already
placed on the Marshall pass part Of
the line.
Pablo Martinez, a Mexican section
hand. who pleaded guilty to wrecking
Union Pacific fast train No. 109 last
October by throwing a switch. was
sentenced to fifteen years in the state
penitentiary by Judge Bradfield at
Greeley.
DIR. A. L. Hayes, prominent Victor
physician and owner Of q valuable
lease on the vindicator property, was
seriously and possibly fatally injured
when an automobile he was driving
plunged off fifteen-foot embankment
at the south end Of town.
The public demonstration in honor
OF the returned soldiers Of Fremont
county was held at the Y. M. C. A.
building at Canon City. when 100 OF
the boys in khaki" were entertained
at a banquet given by the welcome
home committee Of the local Red
Cross Society.
A memorial avenue of elm trees to
be called Liberty Lane" is to be
built this spring by the park commits
sion Of Colorado Springs to COM
memorate the soldier and sailor dead
Of FL Paso county. The trees will
extend through Monument Valley
park for three blocks.
Prof. Lowell J. Thomas. holder Of
the chair of public speaking In
Princeton University. a native of Vic
tor. Colo. was shot and seriously
wounded In a riot in Bremen. Ger
many. when an attempt was made
to assassinate him for an alleged at
tempt to split the Spartacan forces
in the national elections.
Freight rates on coal from Pals.
ade and Cameo to Grand Junction
are the subjects Of an appeal TO the
Public Utilities Commission by two
Grand Junction consumers and three
Palisade and Cameo producers Of
coal. They charge that the rates are
discriminatory and force Grand
Junction consumers to buy from coal
producers In Somerset and Bowie.
Two aliens now In the county jail
at Leadville. Sam Nelson. Swedish.
and Gus Lipkins. Russian, are to be
deported. They will leave here and
start east on . special train coming
from San Francisco to pick up en-
route all undesirable aliens who have
been ordered dcported.
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Thieves broke into the office OF the
Climax Molybdonum Company at Gil.
max. forced the company's safe and
escaped with registered Liberty bonds
OF the fourth issue valued at between
$1,000 and 5000. The bonds were
the property of employees OF the com.
pany that had been loft In It's safe for
security.
A miliion-doilar copper enterprise
for western Montrosc county was an
nounced by James N. Mcbride. rep
resentative OF n syndicate OF Michi-
gan and Colorado mining men who
have obtained an option on the old
Cash In mine. long owned by u Mich
Igsn widow. Mcbride In or his way
to the mine TO arrange for flota.
ton mill which will employ 600 to
1000 men. Tho mine In the only
one with native vein OF copper In