The Dolores star., 1919-12-19
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
The Red Cross Christmas Seal sale VIII
take place all over the United states
from December l to 10. 1919.

fed in the MesitaSan Acasia territory.
seems n 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.
William Edwards Of Trinidad. a
brakeman on the Santa Fe coal run
between Trinidad and Starkville. was
| joted from the top of "A car and was
ground to death under the wheels of
| the next car.
AT II hearing on estimates for gov
ernment reclamation projects held he
| fore congressional committee, SNn,-
900 was asked for the Grand Valley
| reclamation project and 100000 to
continue work on the Uncompuhgre
project in Colorado.
There were twice as many babies
| horn in Pueblo in October than there
were deaths. according 10 statistics
given out by the city board of health.
OF the babies born. The majority of
them We're boys. The health report
shows that there We're eighty-SiN
babies born in October aud fifty-threc
We're boys
Jurisdiction over delinquent girls he
tween the ages of 16 and IS years was
taken away from Juvenile courts of the
state by Il decision OF the Colorado Su
preme Court, which declares the act of
1911 on this subject unconstitutional
The 1911 law provided thai the defini-
tion Of delinquency should apply to all
girls under the age of is years.
A contract has been awarded by the
State Highway Commission to George
Toupnine of Grand Junction for The
construction of the first quarter of a
mile of the proposed concrete road
from this city to raIisade. Appropria-
tions have already heen made for an
additional three miles on This road, cN-
tending the concrete roadway to Fruit
dale
An unusual prcponderancc of youth
ful criminals of quasi and Scmi-miS-
chief makers, ranging in ages from II
TO u years, was the outstanding fe:-
lure OF the records and convictions In
the West side court in Denver during
November Twcnty-tw" lads to the re-
formatory in Buena Vista was the
months toll. with automobile stealing
aS the main avenue of conviction.
Ten miles of the new roadway up
Big Thompson canon leading tn 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 nj 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 l919-l92O bien-
nial period a grand total Of SS26,G9T.6 81,
or more than $4,000 in excess of what
it 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.
JuN-t Jplil flouSi, lpI more iiIiii
forty years the dean of mining in tha
San Juan country and especially Hins-
dale county, is dead. Had he lived un-
til Christmas he would have been 81
years of age. He had been county
judge at Lake City, the county seat Of
Hinsdale county, for many years and
was highly esteemed and respected by
the entire community.
Increases of from IL to - 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 SO monthly.
Pueblo is proven hy the figures given
out by the city building inspectors of
flee For eleven months 50 far this
year the value of buildings constructed
or under construction is 10 per cent
greater than that of the first eleven
months of 1918. There were 55l build
ing permits issued so far this year and
the value of these buildings approx
mates $685.. 1850 compared to 432 permits
with n valuation of S367. .3O7 last year
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 large acreage of land.
Pueblo is to have new electric pow
er house, according to a 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