The Colorado statesman., 1919-04-12
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado

lOr lHree uuyS, June fth, Jun anu otii'
Asa Sterling, a years old, president
of the First National Bank of Greeley,
director and stakeholder in nearly ev-
cry business and irrigation enterprise
in northern Weld county, is dead at
Greeley.
c. r. Beers of Mancos has been
awarded the concession for furnishing
transportation to the visitors to the
Mesa Verde National Park during the
coming season. The park will be open
to visitors on May l.
There are ut present 154 national
forests in the United States, of which
fifteen are wholly and two partly
within the stateo Colorado. Forty
two of the siXty-three counties In the
state have national forest areas.
Kenneth, the 2-ycar-old son of Mr.
and Mrs. Roy Corey, fell from his high
chair at the family table in Olathe and
struck on pairing knife lying on the
floor with such force that the blade
was driven four inches into his brain.
The City Council of Lafayette has
granted the use Of the city park as a
playground and athletic field for the
use of the schools. A baseball dia-
mond and tennis courts have been laid
out, also guarter-mile running track
built.
The board of education of school
district No. u have decided to sub
init proposition to the voters at the
annual school election, May 9th, to
bond the district for 100000 to erect
an addition to the school building at
Ignacio.
c. o. Earnest, well known Montrose
banker, has been elected president OF
tie Chamber of Commerce by the new
directors, in executive session. Sec
rotary f. f. Schuyler, whose record
has been splendid, is retained for an
other year.
The Supreme Court of Colorado sus-
tanned the citation and fine for con-
tempt of court entered by Judge John
A. Perry of the District Court of Den
yer in October of 1915 against Juven-
lie Judge Ben b. Lindsey when the lat
ter refused to testify before the former
Judge in the murder case of Mrs. Ber-
tina Wright, charged with killing her
husband, John A. Wright.
The University of Colorado has is
sued the first volume of new series
of publications called University of
Colorado Historical Collections. In
this series, II it receives enough sup
port, it is intended to publish docu-
mentary material relating to the his
tory of Colorado before 1915. The gen
eral editor Is James F. Willard, head
of the department of history.
Crawling from his Grip in which his
mother had laid him for few min
utes while she went to another part OF
the house, the 2-year-old son of Mrs.
Henry Lachmann at Windsor, slipped
from the window sill and was caught
by his clothes on a nail, hanging with
his head down until he died. A cor
oner's inquest disclosed the fact that
he had been checked to death by the
clothes pulling around his throat.
A coroner's jury at Agullar investi-
gated the explosion in the Empire
mine of the Empire Coal Mining Com
pany, in which thirteen miners lost
their lives on March 31st. The verdict
as returned found that the explosion
was due to an accumulation of gas ig-
nited in some manner unknown, and
that both the fire boss, Joe Jackson,
and the mine foreman, William Wad-
dell, had been negligent In the dis
charge of their duty.
Every public school pupil in Little
ton is happy because a new modern
and up-to-date high school Is in sight.
The voters, in addition to electing a
new set of town officials, voted $780,
600 for that purpose.
Eleven out of twelve members of
Boy Scout Troop No. 8, the first scout
organization ever formed in Greeley,
wore their country's uniform during
the war. One, Lester March of MILL
ken, was the first Weld county boy to
be killed in action. He died last June
near Chateau Thierry, when the ma
rines, of which he was member We're
blocking the Hun advance. Another
member John BEEN, died of influenza
while in camp at Lincoln, Neb.
A big business deal was closed at La
Junta when w. Il. Andrews and son,
Harold, took II ten-year lease on the
building now occupied by the Public
library, and will put in another. drug
store, in addition to the one they al
ready own. The new store will be one
of the finest in the state, and will be
up-to-date in all details. The fixtures
will cost about $4,000, and when the
building is ready for occupancy it will
be one of the show places of the val
ley.
For those who desire overseas duty
1t now looks that definite promise
can be made for those who enlist in