The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1919-04-26
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.


memory of mis- wife, who died several
months ago, and has promised 800 In
books each year TO the library Mrs
Pierce was keenly Interested in the
welfare of the library. She was the
daughter of former Congressman
Towner of Corning, Iowa, and her
mother for number OF years was
president of the Iowa state Library
Board.
The present rate of tonnage produc-
ton in the San Juan mining region
will enable that section to occupy first
place during the years to come as the
most productive mining section in our
great mining state of Colorado. The
rugged San Juan mountains, emprac-
ing an area eighty miles long by from
twenty-five to forty miles wide, with
its hundreds of submits exceeding H.
600 feet in elevation, is only just now
beginning to produce the precious met
ais on big scale.
One alleged bandit killed and three
youths in Jail at Aztec, n. NJ, closes q
week of terrorism in the San Juan re-.
gion in which two automobiles ana a
motor driven velocipede were stolen,
homes robbed and officers led a chase
over two counties and out into the des-
ert within fifteen miles of Gallup, N.
NJ, where the alleged band was final
ly captured. The boys range In age
from 16 to 20 years.
Corporal John b. johnson, late of
Co. e, Fifth Engineers, Seventh divi.
sion, and formerly an officer of the
Colorado state penitentiary, returned
to Canon City, having just been dis
charged from the recuperation camp at
Macarthur, Okla. johnson had a thrill
ing experience in the war. On Oct. 1s
in the st. Mihiel drive he was wound
ed and was in the hospital recovering
from his wounds for five months.
A youthful band of automobile
lice in Pueblo through the arrest of
four of the gang. The arrest was
brought about by the police finding the
cap of one of the boys following an
exciting chase of two of the gang,
when the patrol was forced to speed
to its ability and the police officers
took shots at the tires of the car in
which the thieves were riding.
Tho government has notified the
Colorado agricu,turol ColIaga tbot +he
denortment of animal husbondrv. con.
Quoted for ten wears by the gov.
eminent and college in cooperation,
is to be transferred to Buff
falo. Wyo before July 1. OF the
eighty fine breeding horses owned by
the department. the government will
take forty and the other forty will be
auctioned by the college.
Tho ,oroos+ o,oss in tho b;storv ot
tho Odd Follows Iodpe in western Colo
RADIO WINS initiated in Grand Junction
with bip ceremonials. including n ban
ouet and fraternaI addresses. The class
was composed of sixtv-eight members
and represented every district in the
county. Walter NJ. Merrill, grand pa
triarch of the state, was among the
higher officials of the lodge to attend.
Cripple Creek grocer has been ar
rested by Sheriff Won Phul on a
charge of having in his possession
nearly n ton of Jamaica ginger. which
he has been selling as d beverage.
His arrest followed that of a woman,
IN whom four hotties of the ginger
was found and who was CARRYING a
ouon,itv internally.
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