The Colorado statesman., 1919-11-29
Pithy News Notes
From All Paris of
Colorado
western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
The Red Cross Christmas Seal sale will
take place all over the United States
from December / to 10, 1919.

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the Portland tColo.) postoffice and es-
capped with $1,000 in stamps, thrift
stamps and liberty bonds, and robbing
the drug store in which the postoffice
Is located of another 1920 worth OF
jewelry and stock.
More than 100000 acres of the
patented land of Colorado, or about II
per cent of the area of the state, is
classed as non-irrigated farm land.
This class of land has increased more
rapidly on the tax rolls in the past five
years than any other.
George Golden, negro, serving a
| life sentence, made a sensational dash
for freedom at the state penitentiary at
Canon City, but was captured after he
had scaled the twenty-five-foot wall,
swan the Arkansas river and reached
the foothills in South canon.
Two million bushels of wheat are
tied up in the wheat-growing districts
of eastern and northeastern Colorado
on account of the impossible condition
OF the roads following the recent storm,
according to William c. Reid, inspector
for the State Utilities Commission.
Fire of an unknown origin complete
ly destroyed the Hatcher building at
Pagosa Springs. The records of the
San Juan National forest were COM
pletely destroyed by fire, but the price
less records in the offices of the coun-
ty assessor, the county treasurer, Red
Cross and the Pagosa exchange were
removed before the fire got anuer way,
The loss is estimated at $1,000, accord
ing to fire officials.
Reports received by the State Immi-
grafton Department from the smaller
cities and towns in the state show that
a large number of professional men
from other states have located in Colo
RADIO this year as a result of the de-
partment's 1919 survey of business and
professional openings. A considerable
number of business openings also have
been filled but not nearly so many as
professional openings.
r. l.. Stringer, 50 years old, pioneer
fruit grower, who was placed on trial
at Canon City on a charge of murder
ing his stepson, A. H. Sutphen, 30
years old, was acquitted in the Ere
mont count District Court. Sutphen
was killed on the evening of July 4th.
Stringer shot Sutphen with shotgun
pleading self-defense. Joseph ii. Maui
pin, former attorney general of Colo
RADIO, handled the case for the defense.
Sixteen Mexicans, including nine
arrested in Denver, have been
taken to FL Paso, Tex, in charge of
ID i'm, GRO
tion inspector, to be deported to Mex
leo as a result of being arrested fire.
quently, officials say, on charges OF
petty crime. Four of the number
were placed on the train at Colorado
Springs and three more at Pueblo. OF
those taken into custody at Colorado
Springs and Pueblo two were women
and three girls.
Reports of county assessors made to
the State immigration Department in
dicate that approximately 60 per cent
of the land in cultivation in Colorado
this year is irrigated, compared with
about 80 per cent in 1909. The rapid
increase in the acreage of non-irrigated
land cultivated compared with very
slight decrease in the acreage of irri-
gated land, has resulted in a sharp de-
crease in the average yields per acre
of nearly all crops grown in the state.
The decrease is especially marked in
winter wheat, where less than u per
cent of the acreage is irrigated, com
pared with 51.1 per cent in 1909.
The proposed new highway over
Berthoud pass, between Empire and
Fraser, Colo, a distance of twenty
seven miles, will cost about 100000,
according to the survey just completed
by crews working under the direction
of A. e. Palem, senior highway en-
gineer of the Federal Bureau of Pub
lie Roads.
County school and road funds in
Colorado will be swelled to the extent
of S11504S9S within the next few
days when checks aggregating that
amount will be mailed to the various
counties by the state treasurer, under
an allotment of receipts from grazing
fees and timber sales on forest areas
In the state. ..
One hundred and fifteen separate
road projects, of which the United
States government will bear half the
cost, will be carried out in Colorado
during the coming year. These roads
total $40 miles and will cost, 1t is esti-
mated, S5,342 349.15. Work on a num-
ber of them has already been COM
menced and quite a number are near
ing completion, according to reports
made by the state highway commits
sion's engineers in charge. This is the
greatest roadbuilding program ever
undertaken in the states history.
Approximately $S5O,OOO will be
turned into the state treasury this year
by the state insurance department, rep
resenting the net earnings of the de-