The Colorado statesman., 1919-03-01
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado


graph Company, is dead at his Den
Yer home.
As soon MS the frost is out of the
ground work will be started on the
electric light plant which is to be tine
latest addition to Craig.
Government reports show that there
are now 100000 hogs in Colorado,
worth $500, 900, as compared with
1924 in 1910, worth 81 ,56S, 15S.
Proposals for an appropriation of
$T50,000 for a tuberculnr hospital in
Colorado were rejected by the United
States Senate, according to dispatch
from Washington.
r. ID. May, % years old, fireman on
the Moffat road, was overcome by gas
III the snow sheds at Corona and died
two hours later in the railroad eating
house at Kremmling.
That Colorado is likely to receive n
large appropriation for the building of
roads and trails In the national forests
of Colorado is the prediction of fores-
try officials in Denver
The total value of all animals on
farms in Colorado is estimated by the
government at $172,751, 900, compared
with $163,975, 400 for 1917, an increase
of about SO per cent.
At the city election April LIST the
taxpayers Will vote on bond issue
of $4,000 for the building of n new
city hall at Longmont, and an issue
of $4,000 for the improvement of
city parks.
At q monster smoker of the Alamosa
Automobile Club a committee was
named and plans made to erect a
$4,000 building here as memorial
10 the soldier and sailor dead of the
San Louis valley.
Work on the memorial gateway at
the army recuperatlon camp, the gift
of union labor of Denver, will begin
the memorial was let Monday. The
gateway will cost $4,000.
Officials OF eight Denver bonding
companies appeared before the Little
ton town board and offered tentative
bids for the floating of a $4,000 bond
issue, the money to be used in the con-
struction of Il new municipal building
at LittletOn.
Death has sna&ched patient from a
hospital, prisoner from the county
Jail and a criminal case from the Dis
trict Court in Pueblo when John Rene
gar, reported well enough to be return
ed from the hospital to the county Jail,
collapsed on the steps of the hospital
and died three minutes later.
The Denver Motor Club is making a
drive for new members. The member
ship now includes 1900 Denver pleas
ure car drivers, but as there are over
$4,000 owners of such cars in the city
the field for growth is large. Plans
are also underway to improve the
clubs picnic ground and clubhouse at
Idledale, near Morrison.
Leadville is undergoing record win
ter. The snowfall has been remarkably
light and the water mains and pipes
oil over the city are freezing. Warren
G. West, manager of the Leadville Wa
ter Company, said that this winter Is
the worst he has ever seen in Lead
vile for freezing pipes. In one resi-
dence the pipes froze three times In
two hours.
Leadville's big welcome home recep-
ton to the returned soldiers and sail
ors was great success. The program
included speech on government insur-
ance by Capt c. NJ Cauthorn of Fort
Logan, delivered mainly to the return
ed boys, but listened TO with interest by
all, and community singing, led by Fri-
yate Hjalmar Graft. The rest of the
night was spent in dancing.
Julio Chavon, q Mexican, pleaded
guilty to killing mountain sheep IN
Glen canon near Glenwood Springs,
and was fined $780, This is the first
conviction of its kind in a number
of years.
The western slope from Delta to Du-
range again is blanketed with snow as
the result of Sundays storm. Zen
inches fell at Paonia, foot at Somer-
ser. five inches at Montrose, eight at
Ouray and in the hills an extremely
heavy fall.
The magnificent Hotel Colorado, at
Glenwood Springs, together with It's
ample and beautiful grounds and hot
and cold mineral springs, may be pur-
chased by the United States govern
ment as the nucleus for the largest
army and navy officers recuperation
camp in the world.
The field artillery branch of the ar
my at Washington has recommended
the establishment of a field artillery
unit at thu Colorado Agricultural Col
lege. Fort Collins, as well as the es-
adjustment of an engineering corps
unit at the University of Colorado
Boulder, according to information re-
ceived in Fort Collins.