The Colorado statesman., 1919-02-01
Pithy News Notes
From An Parts of
Colorado

pleted 32,549 pieces of work and si,-
900 was handled by the chapter.
Some $4,000 is to be expended in
betterments on the United States post
.oad between Breckenridge and
Kremmling this season.
The Apishapa Irrigation Company
has unloaded two cars of steel piling
to be used in the construction OIL a
big reservoir near Bloom.
Nebraska Aggies repeated their
last years performance and defeated
the Colorado Aggies in the stock
judging contests at the Western Ma
tional Stock Show in Denver.
Grand Junction and Grand Valley
business men are after settament
of soldiers in the valley untt the
plan suggested by Franklin h ane'
secretary of the interior.
Prof C. NJ. Heron of La Junta en-
tered several of his Single Comb
Buff Leghorns i'm the Chicago Ma
tional Poultry Show and won first
prize on hen, first on pullet and sec
ond on cockerel.
Will Mathieson, a farmer of the
Timnath district. accidentally killed
his 1S-months-old daughter by back
ing his automobile over the child.
Her neck was broken and she died
within a short time.
The Myron Stratton Home Corpor-
alton, as the holding company own
ing the Colorado Springs and Inter
urban Railway Company, has agreed
10 sell the street car lines to Colo
RADIO Springs. but no price has been
named.
A dairy COW belonging to C. S.
Donner of Great Bend pays for her
self every fifteen days. She was pur-
chased for S35 three years ago, and
in fourteen months produced $S47.SO
worth of milk, an average of $2.24
day.
Following the filing of o protest
petition by all the men of the stu
dent body, military drill has been
suspended at Colorado College and it
is likely that the Reserve Officers
Training Corps program will be
abandoned.
David Mulvaney, brakeman on the
freight train from Laramie, which
was held up at Greeley and eighty
one pints of contraband booze taken
from the caboose, pleaded guilty in
Judge Ewing's court and was fined
$500 and costs.
The annual ski carnival which was
to have been held in Steamboat
~ L
off, it was announced by the Steam
boat Springs Ski Club, because most
of the expert ski jumpers of the
country are in military service.
Action by the Railroad Administra-
tion on the suggestion of shippers,
backed by state officials of Colorado.
that the government take over and
operate the Colorado Midland railroad,
which has been sold to be dismantled,
is being withheld until a definite
proposition is submitted.
Senator Charles s. Thomas noti-
fled the Civic and Commercial Asso
citation of Denver that the acting
quartermaster general had declared
that the War Department had the
power to establish in Denver mill
tary purchasing headquarters and
quartermaster's depot.
Arapahoe county's valuation has
increased $536,210 in the last year,
according to figures of the county
assessor. Settlers proving up land
titles and general increase of the
county's prosperity are given as the
The 1910 vol finn nf
the county is s19,722,11O.
Spanish Influenza took a toll of
2,S71 lives in Colorado up to Jan. l.
All together 44,So3 persons were
taken down with the disease, accord
ing to official reports from county
health officers to thu State Board of
Health. In other words, of every 100
persons who contracted the disease,
6.43 died
Platteville's commercial club has
received definite assurances from the
Kuner company that the next fac
tory for putting up pickles and other
vegetables which the company estab-
fishes will be at Platteville, but that
the sudden ending of the war has dis
arranged their plans so that it is not
likely to be this year.
Keota's commercial club has made
a proposition to the Union Pacific
Railroad Company for the extension
of the Briggsdale branch to Keota.
If the company will build over for
mer survey the club has agreed to Sc
cure the right of way and donate =
600 days work with men and teams
on the construction of the line, and
also see that good roads are built and
along the right of WAY