The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1919-07-26
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado
Newspaper Union News Service.

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slator, capitalist and one of the found
ers of Grand Junction, died at his home
in Palo Alto, Calf, according to mes
sages received.
A team composed of seventeen men
of Colorado's National Guard will rep
resent the State at the national rifle
matches to be held at Caldwell, n. j.,
the week of August %.
Former Governor James Bradley Or
man, receiver of the United States
land office in Pueblo, and dominant
figure in the history of Colorado since
the early SOS, succumbed to stroke
Of paralysis at the family residence in
that city.
The acreage cultivated without ir-
rigation in Colorado has increased
close to $50 per cent since 1903, while
there has been comparatively slight
Increase in the acreage cultivated I'M
| der irrigation. The result has been
sharp decrease in the yields per
acre of almost all crops.
What is believed to be the first case
of typhus fever ever recorded in Den
yer caused the death of Harley VIII
son, a decorator. Wilson, who was 81
years of age and has been employed
by the Denver Omnibus and Cab Com
pany, became i'll June %. The attend
ing physicians recognized the disease,
but were unable to stop its progress.
That the beet acreage tributary to
the Windsor factory of the Great West
ern Sugar Company has been reduced
| a nIn nv
the ravages of web worms and drouth
is the estimate of factory officials.
The officials expect another attack
from the worms early in August and
have made big preparations to fight
the pest
Mrs. Guy U. Hardy, wife of Repre-
sentative Hardy of the Third Congress
sional district of Colorado, has accept
ed an invitation to sponsor 9,60o-tOn
steel steamer, which is to be launche,
in Seattle Aug. 16. Mrs. Hardy will go
to Seattle with her husband to attend
the convention of the National Edi-
torial Association, of which her hus-
band is president.
James Luttrell, a negro, who for
years was employed as wire drawer
at the steel plant at Pueblo, who died
recently, had diamonds in his teeth.
Luttrell had a passion for diamonds,
it is said, and this passion led him
to have his front teeth set with dia-
monds by a local dentist, and they
were valued at several hundred dol
lars. Whenever he smiled, the effect
was particularly brilliant, and it is
said that he rarely had his lips closed.
Mrs Jennie Murphy, six months
bride Of John ]. Murphy, is in jail with
her husband charged with attempting
| TO aid him to escape from the county
| iail, where he is held on q charge of
forgery at Pueblo. 1t is claimed that
Mrs. Murphy visited the Jail and gave
her husband some bananas. Inside
each banana was hard steel saw ca
pable of cutting through the steel bars
in rapid time. Murphy hid the saws in
his cell, but the jailer in making his
rounds and searching the prisoners dis
covered them.
Better roads boosting received new
encouragement upon advices that the
State Highway Commission had allot-
ted 100000 to Mesa county for road
construction. The amount, 1t Is I'M
derstood, will be equally divided be-
tween the Palisade concrete road ana
the proposed concrete road between
Grand Junction and Frulta. The Pal
isade road has been under construction
for some time. The Fruita road was
ordered surveyed by the county COM
missioners several weeks ago with a
view of asking for state and federal
aid
| Denver will begin the construction
of the south wing to the Colorado Mu-
scum of Natural History in City Park