The Colorado statesman., 1919-05-10
Pithy News Notes
From An Parts of
Colorado

The Nucla Lumber Company will
open its big sawmill in the Basin soon,
! TO help take care of the immense or
| ders for lumber now being received
| from all over that valley.
Henry Shaffer, employed on the b.
! G.. ID. Bishopp ranch at Virginia Dale,
! was eNonerated by corOncrs jury
| for the killing of Henry Hansen,
mover, who had been stealing from
the ranch
A complete copper still, bottling
works and dried fruit in large quanti-
ties, ready TO be made into white
mule" liquor, were the fruits of raid
on the home of Louis Strana, an Aus
TRAN, at Leadville.
The combined half interest of Ar
mour & Company and Swift & Com
pany, Chicago packers, in the Denver
Record-Stocknan has been purchased
by Arthur c. Johnson, well known
newspaper man of Denver.
-Four hundred and fifty miners are
needed in the Telluride district in adj
dition TO the present force. 1t is said
the operators have abandoned the plan
of cutting wages and are now paying
the highest scale in the state.
From the amount of farm prepare.
ton now going on the intention OF
Fruita district farmers Is that the 1919
crops will break all existing records.
Beets wheat, corn and various kinds
of vegetables are being planted In i'm
| mense areas
Oliver Peterson, who shot and killed
Earl Brown, near Dolores, March ~,
was acquitted of a charge of murder
by a Cortez jury after celebrating
for seven hours. Brown was killed
after all attack upon Mrs. Peterson,
the defense contended.
The meeting of the Delta County
Livestock Association, which was to
have been held in January and was
postponed because of the influenza ep-
idemic, has been set for for May 16.
Representatives from neighboring as
sociations will be present.
This late in the spring the miners
at the boarding house at the Noun
tain Top mine at Ouray are using
the second story windows for doors
due to the tremendous depth of the
snow. The snow is from ten to twelve
feet deep everywhere and in drifts
is stacked up to prodigious depths.
About $4,000 cattle were placed upon
range pasture in the Battlement forest
during the last week. OF that total
| there were $4,000 cattle ana 10000
sheep in the two districts immediately
north of Paonia. The Gunnison forest
reserve it is understood, has almost
an equal number.
The county fair committee has
chosen Oct. Z, s and as the dates for
the Douglas county fair this fall, and
is already at work on plans for big
er and better fair than ever before.
| The premium lists are to be issued
soon so the people may plan for ex-
hibits
James Dalton, convicted of compile
ity in the theft of an auto, after two
days trial, and taken to Jail at Ster-
| ling, complained of feeling i'll and
| doctor was summoned. The doctor at
once said Dalton was suffering from
a well developed case of smallpox.
Jurors and court attendants have all
been vaccinated.
The canning plant of F. F. Merritt
at Grand Junction was threatened by
fire of unknown origin. A rapidly
formed bucket brigade succeeded in
eXtinguishing the flames, with loss
of approximately 500. Besides 1000
cans, scorched machinery and some
damage to the building, no other
| losses resulted.
Because of the Wholesale invasion
| of the dandelion, an anti-dandelion
crusade was officially inaugurated at
Grand Junction when the city commits
sion offered l cent a pound for all
dandelion roots and prizes for those
| bringing in the largest quantity. The
| first prize carries a reward of 50;
| $3.50 and 81 for the second and third.
The campaign closes June l.
Fastened under big spring-toothed
| harrow on which he was standing
when his team started to run, throw
| ing him in front of the machine, j. o.
| Coming, q farmer near Plntteville,
| was dragged twice across a fOrty-acre
| field and his body rolled and pounded
almost to pulp. Coming was rushed
In a bleeding and unconscious condi-
ton to the Longmont hospital.
1.-The Huns were going good when we
got over there, and felt. a little fancy.
The first tangle, however, with the
khaki uniforms and they began to lose
their ginger, and little while later
1t was just like shooting rabbits" That
was the statement of Sergt. w. S. FL
lingwood of the 18th, who arrived at
his home in Delta feeling entirely
| nleased with his reception en- route