The Colorado statesman., 1919-12-06
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado

take place All over Ine InlttQ 0lhheS
from December to 10. 1919.
There are about 10000 lambs being
fed in the Mesita-San Acasia territory.
The proposed auditorium at Mesita
seems a certainty. Over $1,000 has
been raised already.
George L. Murray, son of Mrs. ella
A. Murray, returned to his mother at
Colorado Springs after being reported
missing" in the United States army
since April.
Proposals for a 100000 bond issue
to erect an auditorium, gymnasium
and additional classrooms at the local
high school were overwhelmingly de-
feated at Colorado Springs.
Increases of from is to 25 per cent
in all city salaries are provided in an
ordinance adopted by the city council
at Colorado Springs. Patrolmen, fire
men and city clerks Jared best with
increases of from $50 to $35 monthly
The average yield of wheat in Colo
RADIO this year is approximately twelve
bushels per acre, or fully 80 per cent
lower than the average for the past ten
years. The low figure is the result of
an exceptionally unfavorable wheat
season.
Wilson L. Turman, AZ years old, city
attorney of Sterling, dropped dead
while attending the council meeting.
Mr.. Turman was sitting in the meeting
and H-as engaged in conversation when
stricken. Mr.. thurman was formerly
county attorney of Logan county
Pueblo is to have a new electric pow
er house, according to recent an
nouncement by w. +. Raber, vice presi-
dent and general manager of the Ar
kansas Valley Railway, Light and Pow
er Company, which owns and operates
the electric light plant and street rail
way system of Pueblo.
]. C. Tooms, 46 years old, half owner
of barber shop in Pueblo, committed
suicide by shooting himself through the
heart The bullet pierced his heart
and lodged in the wall. Toombs is said
to have been in good spirits all morn
ing and he had just finished shaving a
customer when he shot himself.
There were twice as many babies
| born in Pueblo in October than there
were deaths, according to statistics
given out by the city board of health.
OF the babies born, the majority of
them were boys. The health report
shows that there were eghty-siX
babies born in October and fifty-three
We're boys.
A contract has been awarded by the
| State Highway Commission to George
! -. For n
construction of the first quarter of a
mile of the proposed concrete road
from this city to Palisade. Appropria-
| tions have already been made for an
| additional three miles on this road, ex-
tending the concrete roadway to Fruit
! dale
Ten miles of the new roadway up
Big Thompson canon leading to Estes
| Park, have been completed and auto
lists declare the road one of the best
| and safest mountain highways in the
state. The road bed is from twenty To
| thirty feet wide at all points, thus elm
| mating much of the danger to passing
vehicles that has always heretofore eX-
| listed.
| The State Inheritance Tax Depart
ment paid into the state treasury dur
! ing the first half of the 1919-192O bien-
NAL period n grand total of SS26O97 .64,
or more than $4,000 in excess of what
If was estimated the departments re-
ceipts would be for the entire biennial
period according to a report issued by
Attorney General Victor +. Keys, ex-
officio head of the department.
William Edwards of Trinidad, a
brakeman on the Santa Fe coal run
between Trinidad and Starkville, was
1 jolted from the top of car and was
ground to death under the wheels OF
the next car.
William Oakley, dredge master at
Tonopah gold dredge@ No. =, near
Breckenridge, who had been missing
three days was located at the Jacobs
ranch on the Blue river, twenty-five
miles from the dredge, by three men
who had trailed him steadily since his
disappearance He was in good physl-
cal condition despite his three days OF
wandering, but was apparently suffer
ing from temporary mental alteration.
Discovery of an artesian water basin
in the Larsen dry farming district
northwest of Grover has caused great
rejoicing among cattlemen and farm
ers The flow was struck on the Wick
ert ranch, which is fifteen miles north
west of Grover There is volume
sufficient to keep two-inch pipe
filled, and the water is free from sui
phur and other distasteful contents.
An engineer who investigated the well
believes that the artesian basin lies
under a large acreage of land.