The Dolores star., 1919-07-18
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

Ouray. The vote was unanimous.
Anderson l., Mason, pioneer of Colo
rado, and one of the first settlers on
the land where Denver now stands,
died at his home in jamestown at the
age of 10.
William Wise, years DID, son of
Robert Wise, rancher living four
miles from Paonia, was instantly killed
as result of being accidentally shot
by his sister, Mary, years old.
Every cent of the $4,000 appropri-
ated by Congress for the United States
mint at Denver will be spent to i'm
prove the mint's sweep cellar. accord
Ing to Thomas Annear, superintend-
ent.
G. S. Kelch, superintendent Of the
American Refrigerator Transit Com
pany is in Grand Junction making ar
rangements for handling approximate
ly $500 cars of fruit and 500 cars of
potatoes.
The total acreage of corn grown in
Colorado in 1909, according to the cen
Sus report, was 326,559 acres. In 1919
five counties in the eastern part of the
state have more than 100000 acres of
corn in cultivation.
The per capita assessed valuation of
property in Colorado for 1918 was ST.
3S494, compared with $1,21G30 for
1917. Jackson county leads in this re-
spect, with S4,70S.T9, and Huerfano
county has the lowest, $7SS.33.
All the jefferson county men who
served in Uncle Sans military or nav
al forces during the war were guests
Of the city of Golden and people came
from all section of the county to at
tend the "Welcome Home" day cele-
bration held there.
John Mccoy, 10 years old, was cleo
trocuted in the Jessee mine, two miles
from breckenridge. He was dscov-
cred in an unconscious condition by
one of his fellow workmen. who ran
over the mountains to town for n phySi-
elan. y 4iO-vOlt wire was found on
his head and his hands were badly
burned.
A suitable appropriation for the de-
velopment of the Rocky Mountain Ma
tional park will be made by Congress
at the next regular session. Positive
assurance to this effect has been
given Representative Naile by Repre-
sentative J. w. Good of Iowa, chair
man of the committee on appropria-
tions.
Six Colorado counties Weld, Morgan,
Logan, Adams, Washington and Yuma
have more land planted in corn this
year than was planted in the entire
state. These figures, although not yet
complete, Indicate that the acreage de-
voted TO corn in the state this year will
more than double that of 1909 and con-
siderably larger than that of last year
The superintendent of transportation
of the Cashin mines which recently
opened in the Paradox section after
three years of idleness, has offered to
contribute $4,000 toward the construc-
tion of road from their mines to
Montrose if the county will contribute
II Ike amount, so that they can locate
their offices in this city instead of at
the mines as now situated.
The first attempt ever made to sail
an airplane over Pixies Peak will be
made about July 20 when the flying
circus from Ellington field performs
mt Colorado Springs Lieut.. G. G. Nc
Mutt, the Denver aviator, who made
the HoustOn-to-Denver flight during
The Liberty loan drive and also made
many spectacular flights in Denver
and along the route, will attempt the
feat
MeXicanS ranSacked both of the AuIt
hotels and took watches, oil stock and
cash amounting to $1,000 from room
ers in the two places. When they were
discovered by Ed Curtis at the Auli
hotel the bandits drew gun and
forced Ed and Charles Curtis, both
sons Of the proprietOrs to hold UP their
hands while they escaped by rear en-
trance. At the Cottage Home hotel the
burglars secured 5000 in oil stock and
IA gold watch from n room Occupied by
Walter Chase, also a watch and a S12
check from J. A. Kennedy
The loophole by which many auto
owners have escaped the paying of
their automobile licenses was closed
when the Supreme Court rendered a
decision against Samuel Ard of Logan
county, asserting that he had violated
the motor vehicle law by not paying
his license. Ard had been fined by the
District Court in his home county but
had appealed the case on the ground
that the state was using the police
power to produce revenue, and that,
therefore, the law authorizing the H.
cense fee was unconstitutional. He
also contended that the tax placed a
burden on some and exempted others,
thus creating "class legislation"
While Colorado ranchers are EN-.
ploying all the harvest hands they can
obtain, calls are coming in daily from
other Western states for, more and
more workers, the latest Of these being
message from the Nebraska State