The Colorado statesman., 1919-06-21
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
The Colorado Editorial Association
meet in Denver. July II, II. 1913.

| The Colorado Editorial Association
meet in Denver, July IL, IL. 1913.
Two hundred and seventy-nine grad
yates of State Teachers college re-
ceived degrees or life certificates at
the commencement held on the college
campus at Greeley.
The state inheritance taxs depart
ment will make n thorough investiga-
ton of the reported shrinkage of the
estate of w. S. Jackson, Colorado
Springs pioneer banker, from S10,00O,-
900 to a little more than S1,000,000.
The bids for the making of 100000
front tags and 10000 rear tags for au-
tomObiles have been let by Secretary
of State James II. Noland. Another
company of Denver, has been given
the work of making 1900 badges
which the law requires must be worn
by chauffeurs. Colorado concerns are
being given preference in the bidding,
said Secretary of State Noland.
Judge Henry G. Hersey of Denver
will hear the suit between the Lake
county and Summit county commits
sioners over the boundary between
|
hearing on September 10th at Lead
vile. Owing to the fact that District
Judge Francis Z. Bouck is a resident
of Lake county, he decided that an
outside or nonresident judge be asked
to hear the case.
Denver's livestock industry received
n $1,0O0,000 impetus and the city's fu-
ture as the great western cattle mart
was assured when advices from Wash
ington announced that all the railroads
would readjust their rates in and out
of Denver to enable stockmen through
out the entire West to market their
herds in Denver-thereby assuring
Denver pre-eminence as a cattle mar
ket and packing center.
Among the arrivals from France re-
Gently was Vernon r. Alspaugh and
his wife, charming little French girl
whom he married in Nantes, France
last December while member of the
Sixteenth infantry of the A. e. f. The
young couple went to Craig, Colo,
where they will live on Private Ais
paugh's ranch. Alspaugh was a mem
ber of the first American unit under
fire and was gassed during an engage
ment in the Toul sector in January
1918.
Many dry land farmers on the flats
| east of Loveland are plowing up their
wheat and will plant the land to corn.
This means that the lack of water has
killed the wheat off to such an extent
that it will not be worth harvesting.
The corn being put in will produce n
crop of fodder that can be used to feed
the stock on the farms. This is the
first time in many years that the dry
land farmers have had crop failure
and it simply means that instead of
many notes being paid off this fall
they will have to be carried over.
According to a current report of the
State Highway Commission a total of
S375,000 will be spent on federal aid
road projects in District 2 of Colo
RADIO. All of the money will be spent
for grading and draining. The roads
to be improved are Cherry Creek road
to Colorado Springs Junction, a dis
tance of forty-eight miles, the Burling
ton road in Kit Carson county for ten
miles north, east and west, the LimOn
east road for ten miles, the Colorado
Springs-C Canon City road, the Colorado
Springs Cripple Creek road, the Castle
Rock river road, the Cheyenne Wells
either north or west; Woodland Park
to Cripple Creek in Teller county !;
Buena Vista-Salida road in Chaffee
county Buena Vista to Divide in Chat
fee county Peyton-Ramah road in Ell
Paso and Park counties and the Farm
ers' highway in Lincoln county.
After a quarrel which lasted for sew
eral hours, c. M. ICY" Gibson, 40 years
old, local horse trader, shot Leonard
Hadley, 81 years old, at Loveland
through the right shoulder and
through the head. Hadley was rushed
to the hospital where he is in a serious
| condition
Cecil Roy McAtee, 9-year-old son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy McAtee, living four
miles north of Fort Collins, was ia
tally injured in Rist canon, seventeen
miles west of that city, when he was
| jolted from an automobile seat and
| crushed between the machine and a
| tree. The McAteeS had spent the day
visiting relatives at the head of the
canon and were on their way home
when the accident happened.
Il would rather die than go to
Canon City," was the remark of Franl
De West, who broke jail at La Junta
after being sentenced to the peniten
tiary to from eighteen months to two
years. De West was recaptured in
Pueblo, after making the trip by con
cealing himself underneath the coal or
the engine tender. The first sentence
was revoked, and he was resentenceo
to serve from five to eight years fol
his brief liberty.