The Colorado statesman., 1919-07-12
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado
Western N.yraper Union News Service.


corn in cultivation.
San Juan county, the smallest coun-
ty in the state save Denver, has pro-
duced since 1873 metals to the value
of about $65, 900, the chief value be-
ing in gold, approximately $25,000,00
This is one of the leading metal pro
ducing counties in the state.
Cherries in the Uncompahgre valley
are bringing as high as $40 ton this
year. This is one of the best prices
ever recorded for sweet cherries and
the growers are having no difficulty in
disposing of their entire outputs to the
many shippers who are bidding for the
cherries.
Sixty thousand dollars in improve
ments will be made on the water sys-
TEN of the Modern Woodman sanato-
rum at Colorado Springs, according to
an announcement by DR.. ]. A. Rut-
ledge. The authorization was made by
the sanatorium committee of the board
of directors.
While Colorado ranchers are en-
ploying all the harvest hands they can
obtain, calls are coming in daily from
other Western states for more and
more workers, the latest of these being
a message from the Nebraska State
Labor Departments employment bu-
reau which asked for 1000 men.
Raymond Embler Walker, twenty
two years old, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
c. A. Walker, lowing in the Haskell
neighborhood, was drowned at Hugo
while fishing in the Blue lakes. Mr..
frnn ~
service in France, and was one Of the
most popular boys in Hugo.
The Great Western Sugar Company,
with headquarters in Denver, set
precedent for sugar companies by an
nouncing an eight-hour day for all en-
ployes in it's factories, the company,
according to w. D. Hoover of the firm,
being the first sugar concern to estab-
lish the new hour basis.
r. L. Stringer, So, during family
quarrel at Canon City, shot and killed
his son-in-law, o. A. Stephen. "a. News
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-
iff except to state that he killed his
son-in-law during a quarrel.
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-
nies, which are planned for Colorado
Day, Aug. 1. Experts pronounced the
system perfect. The lights are so
placed that there is scarcely sus-
picion of a shadow anywhere within
the grounds.
Total collections by the inheritance
tax department for the last fifteen
DAYS of June amounted to $12,960.79,
bringing the total for the new bien-
nial period to $415, ,515.36, according to
figures given out by Attorney General
Victor E. 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 S240.95.
Building operations In Denver for
June totaled $521 $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 at cost of
S27s,5OO. This item alone is greater
than the total for June of last year,
which was $225,600. Seventy-three
garages, two churches, hospital ana
an airplane hangar are also included
In the months building activity.
The loophole by which many auto
owners have escaped the paying OF
their automobile licenses was closed
when the Supreme Court rendered
decision against Samuel Ard OF Logan
county, asserting that he had Violateu
the motor vehicle law by not paying
his license Ard had been fined by the
District Court in his home county put
had appealed the case on the grouhu
that the state was using the ponce
power to produce revenue, and that'
therefore, the law authorizing the IL
cense fee was unconstitutional. de
also contended that the tax placed
burden on some and exempted others
thus creating "class legislation"
George Coburn, 10, son Of Earl Co
burn of Greeley, and Harold Coburn'
II, his cousin, son of Charles u. 70
burn of La Sale, were drowned III