Gilpin observer., 1919-03-27
COLORADO
STATE NEWS


western Newspaper Union News Service.
The Child Welfare station is prov
ing to be one of the most wonderful
ORGANIZATIONS in the city of Pueblo,
both educationally.. and philanthropic-
ally.
The school board for the city of En-
glewood has tentatively sold bonds for
$4,000 for construction of new high
school building during the coming
months.
Colorado has more than 12,OOO,O00
acres of agricultural land that has
never been broken, or enough to sup
port farm population more than
twice as great as the state now has.
Approximately 10000 acres of sugar
beets have been contracted in Weld
county by the Great Western Sugar
Company. This is almost double the
normal acreage which Is about 10000
acres.
Leaving a note pinned to his coat,
that my body will be found ON the
bed with a bullet through my heart"
Dewey 8. Newhouse, 20, shot and
killed himself at the home Of his cou-
sins, Mr.. and Mrs. VIII Hubka, near
Calhan.
Colorado Springs and the Pixies
Peak region will spend $4,000 in ad-
vertising during the coming year. In
addition the hotels and amusement
owners will spend an additional $1,000
as part of the publicity advertising
campaign.
The Fort Collins House Building and
Development Company is corporation
formed just recently, with capitaliza-
tion of $4,000, for the purpose of
building fifty bungalows in Fort Col
Inns, ranging in cost from $4,000 to ST.
900 each.
A prairie fire that started - the
Thomas Ord pasture near Falcon and
about ten miles east of Colorado
Springs caused damage to 5000 acres
Of pasture land and completely de-
stroyed 300 tons of hay before it could
be checked.
With more than $25O,00O worth Of
new buildings, public and private, al
ready under process Of erection and
more in prospect, the building boom
which has struck northern Colorado
towns seems to be most pronounced
at Windsor.
Silos are swelling the profits Of the
cattle and lamb feeders Of the Greeley
district. Silage raised on farms east
of Greeley has been selling at $40 a
ton from the silo> Some fields have
yielded thirty tons to the acre, max
ing $500 crop on $3.50 land.
Edward Simpson, a timber contrac-
tor, living five miles from Tabernash,
shot and killed Otto Fierabund, Ger
man who had been working for him.
The men Quarreled over wages due the
German, who followed Simpson into
: his home and threatened his life.
Although totally blind, Emil Ander-
son, a Greeley farmer, pleaded his own
case and cross-examined witnesses so
cleverly that he>won a $25 verdict
against Robert Ragen of Loveland in
Justice Court. Anderson claimed that
Ragen took advantage of his blindness
and misrepresented team of horses
sold to him.
Five Greeley banks and the bank of
KeOta will finance extensive expert
ments in the summer following system
Of dry land farming In the KeOta dis
trict, fifty miles east of Greeley. Units
of ten farmers, each of whom will sum-
mer fallow fifty acres Of land, are be-
ing made up, and the banks will ad-
vance $40 on each acre, plowed, sum-
mer fallowed and cropped. Thirty
farmers have already entered the ex-
pertinent, and the $4,000 necessary for
financing them will be available May 1.
Breckenridge has set up q Quaran-
tine against the town Of Dillon, on ac-
count of FLU" Thirty cases of the dis
ease are reported at Dillon. Persons
going to Breckenridge from Dillon will
be placed in quarantine until 1t is de-
termined whether or not they have the
disease.
The Greeley Home Building Com
pahy, syndicate, will build sixty
houses in Greeley this summer. Con
tracts for lumber and other material
for the first group of six houses have
been let to lumber company and
agents are buying every available lot
In the residence district south of State
Teachers College.
A unit of the reserve officers train
ing corps is to be re-estnblished In
Denver, according to information from
Washington. Training will probably
begin about April 1. All physically
fit students Of the university will be
eligible to take the course, which will
require three hours week. The stu
dent officers will receive S12 month