The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1919-05-17
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado

hundred farmers will be patrons.
Denver schools will close for the
summer vacation on June 9th. A de-
lay of several weeks was caused in the
closing of the schools because of the
enforced vacation of two months last
fall on account of the Influenza cpl
demic.
John Lane, 10, and Margaret Rich
mond, TO- got marriage license at La
Junta. They were married once be-
fore when they were in their teens and
reared a family. Twenty-Five years
ago they were divorced, and have lived
apart since that time.
Hoy Wong, pioneer and sightless
habitue of Denver's Chinatown, is one
of nine blind persons granted relief
by the state under the terms of the
blind benefit bill passed by the TWEEN
ty-second General Assembly. Wong
will receive $500 a year.
Five men were injured, three of
them seriously, in the collapse of n
new concrete bridge over irrigation
ditch No. ., nine miles northeast of
scaffolding when the structure crum-
bled and they were caught and buried
in the ruins.
The women of Breckenridge yanked
Summit county over the top in the
Liberty Loan right on time with the
rest of the state. The county's quota
was 10000. The women alone brought
in $4,000. There is now $43,350
subscribed to the loan in the banks of
this county.
Two new county high schools will
be established in Adams county as a
result of the school election held in
that county. The schools are to be in
the north and south ends of district
running north and south through Adj
ans county, twenty miles east of
Brighton.
The total receipts from automobile
licenses in Colorado for 1918 was APP
proxmately $4,000. 1t is estimated
that license receipts will be doubled
under the new automobile license law,
which will mean a substantial increase
in the road funds of the state and the
several counties.
Nearly one-fifth of the population
of Denver were subscribers to the Vic
tory Liberty Loan, according to statis-
tics completed by the City Liberty
Loan Committee. There was 49,
subscribers, and the total raised in
Denver was $13, $50 about $780,
600 in excess of the quota.
Clifford S. Davis, the only Fremont
county man as far as known who has
been awarded the French CroiX de
Guerre for extraordinary valor in ac-
ton, has arrived at his Canon City
home after twenty-three months of ac-
tive service attached to both the
French and American armies.
One of the oldest buildings in Lead
vile, the Hyman Isaacs clothing, dry
goods and household furnishings store,
has collapsed. The building was erect
ed in 1879 and was at first of logs,
being one of the first two-stOry log
business buildings in Leadville. 1t was
remodeled about 1882 and a portion
was brcked
If conditions remain as favorable I'M
til the wheat harvest as they have been
up to the present time, Colorado will
produce approximately 15.459,0O0 bu-
shells of winter wheat in 1919, or near
ly 100000 bushels more than the com
bined production of winter and spring
wheat for 1917, which was the largest
crop ever grown in the state.
George Southcotte, 60, pioneer of
Colorado Springs and wealthy real
estate man, committed suicide by in
haling poison fumes. His body was
found by neighbor.
Sixty years ago this spring. John II.
Gregory discovered the elusive and
much-rumored gold of Colorado in
gulch between Central City and Black
Hawk. Sixty years ago the news was
spreading around the Clear Creek dis
trict, percolating into the villages on
the site of Denver and beginning the
great Colorado gold rush.
Alex Cooper, 20 years old, was ar
rested at Idaho Springs after he had
shot n neighbor, Joe Bridges. The
trouble arose over a burro owned by
Bridges son. The boy rode the canary
to school and parked it in the school
yard. Bridges, who was working di-
rectly across the street, saw Cooper
unite it. He went over and asked him
what he did it for. A quarrel followed
and the old man drew a gun and shot
Bridges, the bullet taking effect in the
hip. Bridges took the gun away from