The Arvada enterprise., 1919-03-27
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Newspaper Union News Service.

VI s"h'Ea'ious Ill lle CITY Oh l'uebio,
both educationally and phllanthropic-
ally.
The school board for the city of En-
glewood has tentatively sold bonds for
$4,000 for construction of new high
school building during the coming
months.
Colorado has more than 12.OOO,OO0
acres of agricultural land that has
never been broken, or enough to sup
port II farm population more than
twice MS great us the state now has.
Approximately 10000 acres of sugar
beets have been contracted in Weld
county by the Great Western Sugar
Company. This is almost double the
normal acreage which Is about 10000
acres.
Leaving note pinned to his coat,
that my body will be found on the
bed with bullet through my heart"
Dewey s. Newhouse, 20, shot and
killed himself ut the home Of his cou-
sins, Mr.. and Mrs. VIII Hubka, near
Calhan.
Colorado Springs and the Pixies
Peak region will spend $4,000 In ad-
vertising during the coming year. In
addition the hotels and amusement
owners will spend an additional 5000
as part Of the publicity advertising
campaign.
The Fort Collins House Building aud
Development Company is a corporation
formed Just recently, with capitaliza-
ton Of $4,000, for the purpose Of
building fifty bungalows in Fort Col
Inns, ranging In cost from $4,000 to ST.
900 each.
A prairie fire that started = the
Thomas Ord pasture near Falcon and
about ten miles east of Colorado
Springs caused damage to 5000 acres
of pasture land and completely de-
stroyed 300 tons OF hay before 1t could
he checked.
With more than $25O,OOO worth of
new buildings, public and private, al
ready under process of erection and
more In prospect, the building boom
which has struck northern Colorado
towns seems to be most pronounced
at Windsor.
Silos are swelling the profits OF the
cattle and lamb feeders Of the Greeley
district. Silage raised on farms east
of Greeley has been selling at $40 n
ton from the silO. Some fields have
yielded thirty tons to the acre, max
ing II $500 crop on $3.50 land.
Edward Simpson, n timber cOntrnc.
tor, living five miles from Tabernnsh,
shot and killed Otto FIerabund, a Ger.
man who had been working for him.
The men Quurreled over wages due the
German, who followed Simpson into
his home and threatened his life.
Although totally blind, Emil Andcr.
son, II Greeley farmer, pleaded his own
case and cross-cxamIned witnesses so
cicvcrly that he won n $2J verdict
against Robert Ragen of Loveland In
Justice Court. Anderson claimed that
hagen took advantage of his blindness
and misreprescnted n team of horses
sold to him.
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Of ten farmers. ench Of whom will sum.
msr fallOw fifty acres of land, are be.
ing made up. and the banks will nd.
vance $40 on each acre, plowed. sum
mer nllowed ana cropped. Thirty
farmers nave h'rean! rhtere" the "S'
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Breckenridge has vet up 4 q'inrnn.
tine against the town of Dillon, on ac'
count of FLU" Thirty cnses Of the dis
ease nre reported At Dillon. Persons
going to Breckenridge from Dillon VIII
ne pihced III Quarantine uht'i II Is ue'
'erm'h"" w"e'her or not 'hcS nave III"
hs~ns"'
The Greeley Home Building Com.
pany. n syndicate, will build sixty
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