The Colorado statesman., 1919-07-05
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
The Colorado Editorial Association
meet in Denver. July IL, IL. 1919.

meet In Denver. July IL, IL, 1919.
The Colorado penitentiary at Canon
City has experienced the first escape
made by n woman prisoner ever re-
corded in its history. The escape took
place last week.
L. A. Toothaker, peach grower OF
Palisade, has the distinction this year
of sending the first shipment of fruit
from that section. The shipment was
made to Denver.
Teller county, CoIorado's banner
gold producer, has added to the
worlds gold supply up to the end of
1918 approximately $300,000,000. Gold
Is practically the only valuable metal
produced in the famous Cripple Creek
district.
Two experienced yeggs, working
with a crowbar, prowled four Denver
insurance offices, cracked five safes
and nine desks and made away with
Liberty bonds, currency and jewelry
valued at more than $1,000 in one
night.
Tentative plans for a 100000
building and loan association have
been accepted by leading business men
of Montrose. This is a direct result
of the unusual demand for houses in
this city, which at present greatly ex-
ceeds the supply.
Weld, the most important agricul-
tural county in Colorado, has approx
imately $4,000 acres of land in culti-
vation this year. Wheat is the largest
crop, with nearly 10000 acres, hay
ranks second, with about $1,000 acres
and corn third, with $1,000 acres.
The Rico mining district has been
producing steadily for nearly forty
years. There has been some agricul-
tural development in the river valleys
and stock raising is carried on to a
limited extent. LAUNDERING and tie
making have also been important in
dutries at various times in the past.
One hundred and sixty-one gradu-
ates received their diplomas at the
University of Colorado. DIR. Livings-
ton Farrand, former president of the
university, delivered the commence
ment address. Governor Oliver Shoup
gave a short talk on the work the in
stitution has done during the year.
Two motorcycle police are to be ap-
pointed by w. F. r. Mills, manager of
parks and improvements, to help po-
lice Denver's mountain highways and
parks, it has been announced. The
authority of the city to police the
parks was given through an act ere
ated at the last session of the Twenty
second General Assembly.
Forty volunteers, ,sncluding five pris-
oners from the county Jail at Colorado
Springs, fought a forest fire which
threatened for a time to sweep Engle-
mans canon. Sheriff John ii. Weir
and Forest Ranger Patterson led the
fire fighters. The blaze was extin-
guished after five hours unremitting
labor.
Thirty-six five-ton Packard army
trucks in addition to the 200 trucks
and passenger cars previously allotted
to Colorado by the War Department
for use on state and county roads
have been shipped, Elmer e. Som
mers, chairman of the State Highway
Commission, was informed in a tele-
gram from Washington.
The registration for the boys camp
at Kahnah creek closed at Grand
Junction with sixty-seven enrolled.
The party will spend the entire week
fishing and otherwise occupying them
selves along the creeks and in the
woods of that vicinity. 1t is the first
annual boys camp to be given in that
city under the auspices of the Y. NJ.
G. A.
Charles T. Crockett, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. E. L. Crockett of Pueblo, was
awarded the highest honors obtainable
at Colorado College when he was grad
uated with summa cum laude. The
honor bestowed upon Crockett is the
fourth of it's kind in the history of
the school, and it is the first time in
nine years that anyone has won the
honor.
Two million feet of timber, valued
at 81 thousand feet, was destroyed
in the forest fire in the San Isabel
National Forest, seven miles north of
Beulah, according to a rough estimate
made by A. G. Hamel, forest super
visor. Watchers are still on duty in
the fire area for the purpose of pre-
venting the fire spreading If it breaks
out in a new place.
The Lafayette Farmers Elevator
Company has let to the Burchard Con-
struction Company of Lincoln, Neb.
the contract for the erection of new
elevator at this place. The building
will be 40x75 feet in dimensions, and
will be located on a site recently pur
chased from Frank Miller just south
of town ON the right of way of the
Colorado & Southern railway. The
cost of the building will be $4,000.
Fifty of about ninety land owners