Gilpin observer., 1919-07-10
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
western Newspaper Union New. Service.

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Thirty-six five-ton Packard arm,
trucks In addition to the 200 truck.
and passenger cars previously allotted
to Colorado by the War Department
for use on state and county road.
have been shipped, Elmer Il. Som
mers, chairman of the State Highway
Commission, was informed in a tele
gram from Washington.
r. L. Stringer, SO, during famil,
quarrel at Canon City, shot and killed
his son-in-law, o. A. Stephen, "a. New.
Of the killing did not become public
until Stringer surrendered to Sheriff
Newcomb. Stringer refused to give
any details of the tragedy to the sher
If, except to state that he killed his
son-in-law during a quarrel.
After seventeen years of expensive
litigation, the estate of Winfield Scott
Stratton is about to be settled and re.
moved from the courts. The accounts
were presented to the local Probate
Court at Colorado Springs and within
week or ten days it will be closed
up. The property has assets of sew
eral million dollars.
Judge w. p. Kinney was reelected
president of the Colorado Springs
Mining Stock Association at it's annual
meeting held at Colorado Springs.
Irving Howbert was elected to succeed
the late ]. Addison Hayes as vice pres
ident and Fred H. Shantz succeeds
Charles d. Hopkins as secretary. It is
the twenty-fifth year Of the exchange
Charles Bellamy was killed and
Charles Cleary of Fleming, Colo, was
probably fatally injured when a road
ster driven by Fred Sharp hit ditch
and overturned near Haxtun. The
latter was only slightly scratched
Bellamy's chest was crushed and his
head nearly severed from his body. He
was taken to a hospital for treatment,
but lived only an hour.
Denver got its first glimpse Of the
completed lighting system on the Civic
Center when the lights were turned on
to test them and judge the effect, pre-
paratory to the dedicatOry ceremo-
MES, which are planned for Colorado
Day, Aug l. Experts pronounced the
system perfect. The lights are SO
placed that there is scarcely q sus-
picion of a shadow anywhere within
the grounds.
The Lafayette Farmers Elevator
Company has let to the Burchard Con-
struction Company of Lincoln, Neb.,
the contract for the erection of new
elevator at this place. The building
will be 40x75 feet in dimensions, and
will be located on a site recently pur-
chased from Frank Miller just south
of town on the right of way of the
Colorado & Southern railway. The
cost of the building will be $4,000.
Total collections by the inheritance
tax department for the last fifteen
days of June amounted to S12,96O 10,
bringing the total for the new bien-
nial period to S415,515.36, according to
figures given out by Attorney General
Victor Il. Keyes. The largest tax
against any estate was that of Isaac
Berlin of Denver, the amount being
$3.50. The estate of Albert Hahen-
wald was given the second highest tax,
it being S24O95.
Building operations in Denver for
June totaled 1921 $50 or more than
double the cost OF operations for
June, 1918, according to the monthly
report issued by Frank NJ. Ladd, chief
of the building inspection department.
Permits were issued for the erection OF
fifty-three brick residences ut cost OF
S27S,5OO. This item alone Is greater
than the total for June of last year,
which was 1926, 900 Seventy-thrse
garages, two churches, u hospital and
an airplane hangar are also Included
in the months building activity.
Only $500 will be available for
range Improvement In the national for.
est district in which Colorado 10 in.
cluded under the federal agricultural
appropriation bill,, which passed by
congress, is now awaiting President
Wilson'S signature. A total of $1,000
has been asked
The Great Western Sugar Company,
with headquarters in Denver, set a
precedent for sugar companies by an.
nouncing an eight-hour day for all EN-.
ployes in its factories, the company
according to w. ID. Hoover OF the firm
being the first sugar concern to estab.
lish the new hour basis.
George Coburn, 10, son of Earl Co
burn of Greeley, and Harold Coburn
II, his cousin, son Of Charles ID. Co
burn of La Sale, were drowned IN
Seeley lake, four miles northwest OF
Greeley, when they became alarmed b,
high wind which arose on the lake
and attempted to swim lis yards tc
shore from raft which they had beer
polling. Jess Fraker, who was with
them, was pulled from the water un
conscious after he had swan most oi
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