The Colorado statesman., 1919-06-14
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado


Wolf creek pass is open. Several
cars have crossed already, making the
trip from Pagosa Springs to Del Norte
in five hours. The pass is open two
weeks earlier than last season.
Colorado leads all states in the pro-
duction of beets, and the 1919 crop, ac-
cording to present indications, will be
the largest in the history of the sugar
beet industry here.
Clifton II. Wilder, editor of the
Courier of Alamosa, has been appoint
ed as head of the state department of
safety to fill the term of Charles ].
Wall, who resigned recently.
Samuel II. Womack, 80 years and Z
months old, who claimed to be the dis
coverer of the first silver mine ID
Colorado and father of Robert Wo-
mack, who discovered the first gold
mine in the Cripple Creek district, died
at his home in Colorado Springs.
A complete counterfeiting plant
ready for operation was unearthed
and the two men held responsible for
its erection taken into custody in
Boulder canon, eighteen miles west OF
Boulder, by Roland X. Goddard of the
United States secret service, Sheriff
Robert Euler and two deputies.
An offer of 500 acres of land by
the city of Colorado Springs for a site
for a military sanatorium cannot be
accepted by the government, the comp
troller of the treasury ruled because
Congress in authorizing construction
of military hospitals did not include
Colorado Springs among the places
named.
The first distinguished service med
Wendell w. Jacobs of Colorado
Springs by Lieut.. Col. G. NJ. Barney,
commander of the Denver army re-
cruiting station. Private Jacobs was
with Company c, 341st Machine Gun
Battalion, and was cited for extraor-
dinary heroism.
The Greeley Commercial Club will
protest efforts of the railroads to
change the minimum loading require
ments for lambs shipped from north
ern Colorado. Local shippers say that
the proposed change will cause an ad-
ditional charge of $50 upon every car
load of lambs shipped from the Gree
ley and Fort Collins district.
The week of June 22nd to 2Sth, in
elusive, has been declared mo acci-
dent week" by Hale Haddon, regional
director of railroads, and in this week
the 100000 railroad employees in the
central western region will not only
be watchful against accidents to them
selves, but to the public. 1t is an ed
ucational week designed to prevent
railroad accidents.
Denver will receive six pieces of
German artillery and two machine
guns with shells for display purposes,
if n bill introduced in the federal
House of Representatives by Con-
gressman William N. Vale is passed.
The bill provides that the guns shall
be from the captures made by the
American expeditionary forces and de-
livered to the United States under the
terms of the peace treaty.
Salida stockmen and business men
have signed contract for six air
plane flights to be held in that city
July 4th and 9th by Aviator Brock of
Chicago, one of the most daring ex-
hibition fliers in the country. Two
flights will be given each afternoon
and one at night accompanied by fire
works bombardment. Ten thousand
visitors are expected in Salida on the
two days from western and southern
Colorado.
Hay is Colorado's banner crop. Its
value last year was about 42,0O0,00O,
or approximately as much as the val
ne of the states total metal output
for the same year
The gold ore production in the Grip
pie Creek district in May amounted
to 55,376 tons, carrying a gross bull
lion value of S691, ,S61.45, which is an
increase over April of $4,000. The
general average of all ore produced
was $10.5S. Nine hundred and ninety
tons were shipped to the smelters,
which returned $50 per ton. The divi-
dends paid during the month by the
Cresson and the Golden Cycle Com
panies amounted to $4,000.
Ernest Jannucci, a coal miner, was
shot in the left arm and left hip at
Louisville, by three unknown holdups.
Jannucci had just alighted from car
from Denver and was walking up the
street toward home when three men
stepped out of an alley and command
ed him to throw up his hands. The
coal miner refused and dashed away
amid the flying bullets. One bullet
lodging in his left arm and another
in his left hip. He was rushed to
the hospital where his condition is not
considered serious.
All public offices in cities having a
population of 25,000 or more closed at
1 o'clock Saturday afternoon and will
be closed every Saturday at that hour