The Colorado statesman., 1919-10-25
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado
Western Newspaper Union News Service,


public roads, will be formally opened
this week. This road os the result of
cooperation by the federal depart
ments with the State Highway Com
mission and Boulder county.
Carl Gustave Swanson, 40 years old.
employed at the Tomboy mines, near
Telluride, was instantly killed when Il
horse he was riding plunged from the
road near Smuggler, falling distance
of 500 feet into the canon below. He
was horribly mangled with practically
every bone in his body broken.
one of the most important silver
strikes made In recent years was dis
covered in the famous old Champaign
mine, near Alma, in the Fairplay dis
trict, when a six-inch vein of red car
Donate ore that averages S9l ounces OF
silver and five ounces of gold, running
81 200 to the ton, was found
Edward Skoog, Rio Grande Southern
freight conductor, suffered the loss of
his left leg in an accident when his
train was entering the local yards at
Durango. As he was swinging off the
rear of the caboose the hand grip
broke loose and he was thrown under
meath car of ore attached to the rear
of the caboose.
During the absence of s. Okuri and
his wife, who were working in a beef
field, which is located two and half
miles northeast of Brighton, their two
children, and years old, respective
ly, were burned to death when their
house caught fire. The parents left
their children playing in the kitchen
few minutes before the fire.
The sentiment of the $500 coal min
ers in the Trinidad district concerning
the impending coal strike appears to be
against the plan. The result of bal
lot taken in the Berwind-Tobasco camp
shows that 1852 miners are against the
strike, while g. voted in favor of 1t. OF
the 46 women who voted, A are
against the strike and in favor OF 1t.
Private Hubert Il. Johnson of Com
pany b, 9th Machine Gun battalion, U.
s. Marines who showed exceptional
courage under fire during the engage
ment at Belleau Wood in which the
Marines lost so many men, is to he
presented with the CroiX De Guerre
and citation from the French govern
ment. Private johnson is a native of
Fort Morgan, Colorado.
John A. Lohrey farmer of Gilcrest,
is the defendant in a S1a.950 damage
suit filed in District Court at Greeley
by Charlie Thomas. Thomas suit is
brought as the result Of a collision in
which he lost his left leg, Sept. II,
1919 Thomas was riding a motorcycle
within the city of Greeley when he
was struck by an automobile driven by
Lohrey.
That the United States is at last to
have the privilege of hearing a real
Indian opera with a real Indian girl
as principal is now an assured fact, for
Denvers own Indian soprano, Tsa-
nina, has been engaged for II coast-to-
coast tour to sing the title role in Cad
mans opera "Shanewis,' which has
had unusual success at the Metropoli-
tan Opera house, New York City.
The voters of Grand Junction, at the
city election Tuesday, Nov. H. Will de-
eide whether or not to waive the bonus
of 81 600 for the year, beginning Jan.
II, 1921, which sum, according to its
twenty-fiYe-year franchise granted by
the city July II. 1908, the Grand June
ton Street Railway & Interurban Com
pany annually must pay after the fran
chise has been in operation for a per
iod of twelve and half years.
The Colorado State Board of Immi-
grafton will make an effort during the
BILE statistical information for the state
as a whole and by counties on the man
ufacturing industry. This information
has never been available in Colorado
by counties and no surveys have been
available at all except those of the
census bureau every five years. The
funds appropriated to the Immigra-
ton Department for the biennial peri
cd were not sufficient to enable it to
collect this information, but it expects
to complete plans for cooperating
with commercial bodies in the larger
cities and towns for making the ncces-
sary surveys. The city of Denver,
through its industrial bureau, is at
present making survey of the manu-
featuring industry within the city linn
its and the completion of this will
mean much toward the completion Of a
survey for the state. There is con-
slant demand for statistics of the man
ufacturing industry in the state by
counties and the immigration De
partment expects in the near future to
each year.
The advocation of tunnel through
Marshall pass and the delaying of the
broad gauging of the line from Salida