The Colorado statesman., 1919-04-05
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

Michigan, was caught by the Huerrano
county sheriff in possession OF an auto
mobile which he had stolen from the
:hief of police at Colorado Springs
The sherlffs office was notified to be
ON the lookout for Tiff, and deputy
caught him up a short distance norlh
OF Walsenburg. From COLORADO
Springs he drove to Pueblo, where he
stole new spotlight and set OF
new side curtains from an accessory
dealer. Driving along the street lie
inquired from Pueblo policeman the
road to Walsenburg. The officer men
toned the fact that he was driving
without a tail light. He took the hini
and stole a red lantern n few blocks
further on Reaching Rye, Tiff broke
into garage and stole some gas and
oil. His next stop was ut the Clate
Hill store at Green Horn. He broke
into this store and stole cigars, to-
bacco, candy, crackers, canned goods,
n couple of watches, some other small
articles and few dollars in cash.
The war between the sugar beet
growers of Montrose and the Holly Su-
| gar corporation has been definitely set
tied and the growers will plant plenty
of sugar beets. The total crop will be
about 10000 acres or enough to fur
nish 10000 tons The beet growers
won their $10a-ton price for all beets
delivered up to a certain time, late in
the fall, and after thai the market on
sugar is to determine the price. Every
thing has been satisfactorily arranged.
A whisky-laden automobile, which
was taken by the sheriff when its
driver fled, was confiscated with the
liquor by County Judge Hood at Brigh-
ton when the case came up. Alice May
Richards, mortgage of the car, Will
carry the case to the Supreme Court
in an endeavOr to get possession of 1t.
When the car was abandoned by its
driver a bloody coat and smashed
windshield showed the effects of the
sheriff's buckshot.
Reports from fifty-one school dis
tricts out of a total of ITO in Weld
county show that twenty-seven nation
alities are represented in the schools
and that twenty-One of these are found
in Greeley. In the siXty-one districts
LIZ children were reported as being
| of foreign parentage, and 3,1S5 of
American native born parentage Rus
slams lead the foreign group, with IA
per cent.
Montrose is the third best banking
city on the Western slope at present,
and the bankers say to watch for one
year and see who's who on the West
| a,
sources of $3,265, 513.9S. Grand juno
ton is next with $3,245, 652.1S, and
Montrose third with S2,3SS, 1902. The
population of the three cities at pres
ent is: Grand Junction, 10000; Duran
go, $500, and Montrose, 81, 100.
Tomey Kitzer, employed at the Cres-
son mine, was crushed flat as piece
of paper at Victor when sixteen tons
of rock fell ten feet, catching him I'M
der it. The rock wassused as a coun-
terweight on the Cresson mine tram
way cable and the cable parted while
Kitzer was standing under the weight.
A fellow workman who was on top Of
the counterweight sustained broken
! leg when ii fell.
That at least nine of the thirteen
piers already erected on Hyle bridge,
across the Platte river east of Greeley
are defective and will have to be re-
placed or at least repaired at an enOr-
nous expense is the opinion of the
county engineer, who has just made an
inspection of the bridge, and taken
large quantities of disintegrated gravel
and pebbles from the piers.
Pixies peak will be assembled by
battle tank as an advertising feature
of the Victory Liberty Loan before the
loan campaign begins. ]. NJ. Worley,
| publicity director Of the loan organiza-
ton of the Kansas City district, asked
authority from the treasury to have
the tank now at Kansas City make the
ascent and the permission was
granted.
| County clerks are allowed to record
| discharge certificates of returned SOL
diers without charging a fee, accord
ing to an opinion rendered by Attor-
ney General Victor E. Reyes. The
opinion was given in response to an
| inquiry by State Auditor Arthur M.
| Stong, who has received numerous re.
| quests from county clerks asking II
the state auditors office, in conducting
examinations of county records, would
hold the clerks responsible for the fees
in such cases.
Labor leaders and state officials
who have to do with industrial affairs
assured Samuel ID. Nicholson, state
| chairman of the coming Victory loan
campaign, that labor stands ready and
willing to meet the obligation to be i'm
posed on it and will make n sacrifice
in order that Colorado may again sub
scribe more than its loan quota.