The Colorado statesman., 1919-08-16
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

Utilities Commission on the basis of
acquisitions received. The Palisade
| peach crop will require more cars for
shipment than ever before, $50 cars
being asked. Fifteen hundred cars for
| apples will also be used in that district
The San Luis district has asked for A.,
200 cars to handle its potato and vege-
table crops alone. OF the total cars
needed in the state from July to De-
cember, inclusive, 1900 will be used In
transporting peaches, 5000 for apples,
1895 for potatoes and vegetables, 400
for pears and mixed fruit shipments.
Suspension of assessment work dur
ing 1919 on unpatented mining claims
has been granted by Congress, the
| Senate adopting the House resolution,
which now goes to the President for
| signature. There are 5000 impatient
ed ore claims in Colorado which will
be benefited by the resolution, If
signed by the President. This means
relief from assessment work amount
ing to 100000, and will stimulate pro-
duction, according to NJ. B. Tombln,
secretary of the Colorado Metal Mill
ing Association.
Alfalfa, the great hay and feed crop
of the irrigated districts of the West,
is being rapidly developed as dry
farming crop in Weld county. In the
| Grover district, fifty miles northeast of
Greeley, farmers are putting up their
second crop of alfalfa. The crop is
planted in rows and is cultivated until
1t has gosten good start. The Gro
yer Community Club is urging every
new settler TO put in from twenty to
forty acres of alfalfa for hog posture
and for hay.
A total of 6,65135 acres of public
land located in Alamosa, Baca, Ebert,
Ell Paso, Kit Carson, Lincoln, Lo-
| gan, Moffat, Montezuma, Pueblo
and Weld counties were sold by the
State Land Board at public auction in
the state representatives hall in the
state capitol building. The average
amount received for each acre of land
was $3.50, or an aggregate amount of
| S105, 421.49. The sale reserves mineral,
coal, asphaltum and oil rights on the
land
The lives of at least four stunned
passengers from n wrecked autono-
bile were saved by Mrs. Henry NJ.
Jones, Jr., of Danville, ILL.,, on the Flor
ence-Victor highway when she dragged
them from the waters of Phantom
creek. Mrs. Tressie Wiggington of
Brighton, Colo, a scnoOl teacher, and
Hubert Stevens of Jewell, Kan, were
killed and six others injured when the
car left the highway and plunged down
the seventy-five-foot embankment.
Bonifacio Basques was killed and his
father-in-law, Rufacio Garcia, danger
ously wounded following quarrel ut a
dance hall with two men al Pueblo,
said to have been Juan Trajilla and
| Joe Savas. The quarrel started in the
| hall because the alleged murderers OBJ
iected to criticism by Garcia as to their
| actions. 1t was finished in the street
an hour or so later, when Trajilla and
Savas are said to have drawn revolvers
and fired upon Basques and Garcia.
| With a membership including men
who are leaders in their professions
from every part of the United States,
the Inter-Mountain Country Club, or
ganizing in Denver headquarters, is
| prepared to take over on Sept l the
| MOUNT AOTTlSOl IOlel property III DedT
Creek canon. The club has secured the
resort buildings and an additional 200
acres, sufficient TO give the organiza-
ton ample domain for its prospective
extensive outdoor activities.
A sheepherder, Leon Rispoud, was
| killed near Leadville when the mule
he was riding became frightened at an
| approaching automobile and fell,
throwing Rispoud under him. Rispoud
was driving pack train of four mules
when an automobile came down q hill
in back of them, throwing the train
into confusion.
DIR. ]. Walter Fewkes of the Smith
sonian Institute, Washington, d. c., is
at the Mesa Verde national park,
where he will spend the next six weeks
| to two months in excavating new ruins.
| He expects to make many new discov-
cries in these ruins, leading, perhaps,
to more definite information concern
ing the prehistoric dwellers of the most
magnificent ruins on the American con
| tinent.
| Pueblo's police department is union
| lied, receiving charter from the
American Federation of Labor, and APP
pointing representatives in the city's
trades and labor assembly. 1--WE are
| not contemplating n strike" said the
president of the new organization, "but
Pueblo's policemen are underpaid and
unless we are given substantial in
crease by charter we will be forced to
ask the aid of organized labor"
DR.. G. X. Olmsted of Denver was
chosen head physician of the Wood
men of the World by the board of
managers which held its regular quar-
terly meeting in Denver He succeeds