The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1919-05-03
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado

from Colorado college at the coin-
mencement exercises In June, accord
ing to the official list reported by the
registrar.
AS result of woodtick's bite re-
ceived about two weeks ago, Fred
Yale, a farmer residing near Collbran,
became infected with blood poisoning
and died at Grand Junction.
James II. Chatfield, for many years
justice of the peace in Littleton and
widely known throughout that district,
is dead in Hoquiam, Wash, according
to information received from there.
The San Juan basin will have from
fifteen to thirty days longer tourist
season than usual, as the people OF
Durango, Pagosa Springs, Del Norte
and Monte Vista are planning to open
Wolf Creek pass the latter part of
May.
Las Animas has had a visit from
burglars. They entered the office OF
the Las Animas Lumber Company and
robbed the safe of $75 in cash and
certificate containing twenty war saw
ngs stamps, besides $S in postage
stamps.
Robert Burnett, farm laborer, liv-
Ing at Eaton, shot his wife seven times
without causing death, and then shot
himself in the head. Burnett died in
stantly. His wife is in the Greeley
hospital. There is no chance for her
recovery.
The range of useful nonmetals found
in Colorado is almost as wide as that
of the metals, but their production has
not been so extensive up to the present
time. Coal ranks first among the non
metals in value of output and perhaps
in the total value of known deposits.
A reward of 500 will be paid by
the Colorado Springs Automobile club
for the arrest and conviction of any
one stealing IN automobile belonging
to a member OF the club. The new re-
ward supplanta an offer of $50 for
the arrest and conviction of anyone
stealing a car from Ell Paso county.
Confessing to the shooting of Jacob
Mellinger, proprietor of store at
J Rush, Earl and Tom Combs, cousins,
are in the county Jail at Colorado
Springs, where they will face charges
of deliberate murder. The two men,
attempting to rob the store, shot Mel
linger through the back and then tried
to escape.
Robbers entered the general store of
f. L. Gregory, in Cheraw, and carried
away a quantity of articles. The rob-
berry was not discovered until Mr..
Gregory went to the store to open up
and it is possible that the robbers had
from four to six hours start of the
officers AS soon as he discovered the
theft he notified the sheriff's office in
La Junta.
U. S. District Judge Colin Neblett
sentenced Edwina G. Padilla, of Stee-
pie Rock, n. NJ, to serve one year and
one day in the Colorado state peni-
Tertiary for embezzling $1,000 or more
from the postoffice funds, of which
she had charge while postmistress. She
plead guilty to the charge, explaining
that she needed money for a surgical
operation and for vacation.
w. o. Garrett, farmer AZ years
old, and for a number of years post
master at Plains, forty miles south
west of Holly, is dead, and Alonzo
Scheenman, about 80, neighbor, on a
farm adjoining that of Garrett, is in
the county Jail at Lamar as his con-
fessed slayer. The tragedy which re-
suited in CARROTS death occurred on
the farm of one of the participants,
when Scheenman was closing up gap
in a fence in which the two men were
interested as cattle passage.
A most ambitious project for the ex-
termination of 100000 prairie dogs
in n territory including about 5000
square miles in Fremont, Teller, Park
and Chaffee counties has been organ-
lied in Canon City.
John w. Spencer, supervisor of the
Battlement forest, with headquarters
Grand Junction, has made requisi-
ton upon the federal government for
1O5, 900 black spotted trout which will
be distributed in the streams of this
section of the state. Another requisi-
. ton, about one-fourth as large, will be
made upon the state government. The
hatcheries at Glenwood also will make
volunteer contribution.
From present indications, La Junta
will be transformed into a veritable
flower garden the coming summer, If
the school children carry out the plan
that has been outlined for them. Sew
eral weeks ago orders were taken
among the school children for penny
packages of flower and garden seeds.
When the orders were all complied it
was found that the total amount of
money raised for these penny pack
ages amounted to $50. The order was
placed and the seeds have arrived.