The Raymer enterprise., 1919-05-08
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts Of
Colorado
wsst.rn Newspaper Union New, service.

Year, according To present indications,
There has been no frost damage 10
fruit around Palisade.
Three new steel bridges are TO be
built this year on the Lizard Head
highway. They are to be built by the
state al Stapleton, Dolores and Monte
lores, all in Nontezuma county.
About 10000 cattle were placed upon
range pasture In the Battiement fores,
during the last week. OF that total
there were 1900 cattle and 10000
sheep In the two districts immediately
north OF Paonia. The Gunnison forest
reserve. 1t Is understood, has almost
an equal number.
James Dalton, convicted OF compile
| ity In the theft Of an auto, after a two
days trial, and taken 10 Jail at Ster
ling, complained OF feeling i'll and \
doctor WIS summoned. The doctor al
once said Dalton was suffering from
a well developed case Of smallpox
Jurors and court attendants have all
oeen yacclnated.
The Farmers Produce Milling Com
pany, which plans TO put up forty
ION potato flour mill at Delta, has
closed deal for the purchase OF all
the buildings and property Of the Del
"a Fruit Growers Association and will
build Oh the land acquired and will
nave some large warehouses, offices
and Il residence thrown in TO use In
he business.
Because OF the wholesale invasion
Of the dandelion, an anti-dandelion
crusade was officially inaugurated at
Grand Junction when the city commits
sion offered ] cent a pound for all
dandelIon roots and prizes for those
bringing in the largest quantity. The
first prize carries reward Of s.:
k2 20 and 81 for the second and third.
The campaign closes June l.
Prices received by the war depart
ment In the sale OF surplus supplies
totaling Sl40,O0O,O0O. the war depart
ment announced, averaged 81 per cent
Of the initial cost. Military railway
material disposed Of brought 1000
900; exactly what these supplies cost
the government. Aircraft production
material was sold at 30 per cent Of
its cost and ordnance supplies brought
81 per cent.
Paul W. Lee Of Fort Collins and
Charles Hayden Of Walsenburg. CON
slituting the commission TO ree0dlfy
the laws Of the state, will be unable
to proceed with their work until the
Supreme Court has decided whether
law containing the emergency clause
but not the safety clutch, becomes ef-
fectiye Immediately or ninety days
from the day when II has been signed
by the governor.
Lightning struck the farm residence
of ID. Is. Smith south of Fl Morgan,
tearing \ great hole in the roof, but
owing to the heavy downpour Of rain
burned. The family was sitting at the
table eating supper when II heavy bolt
Of lightning struck the house, the
lightning coming down the chimney,
striking the floor and rendering the
entire family unconscious for an hour.
W. o. Garrett, farmer ~ years
old, and for a number Of years post
master at Plains, forty miles south
west OF Holly, is dead, and Alonzo
Scheenman, about 30, neighbor on a
farm adjoining that OF Garrett, is in
the county jail at Lamar us his con-
fessed slayer The tragedy which re-
suited in CARROTS death occurred on
the farm OF one of the participants,
when Scheenman was closing up a gap
in fence In which the two men were
interested as a cattle passage.
From present Indications, La Junta
will be transformed into veritabe
flower garden the coming summer, II
the school children carry out the plan
that has been outlined for them Sev-
eral weeks ago orders were taken
among the school children for penny
packages Of flower and garden seeds.
When the orders were all compiled II
was found that the total amount of
money raised for these penny pack
ages amounted to $50. The order was
placed and the seeds have arrived.
-Four hundred and fifty miners are
needed in the Telluride district in ad-
dltion 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.
L. $. District Judge Colin Nebleit
sentenced Edwna G. Padilla, OF Stee-
Pile Rock, n. NJ, to serve one year and
one day in the Colorado state peni-
tentIary FOR embezzling $1,000 or more
from the postoffice funds. OF which
she had charge while postmistress. She
plead guilty to the charge, explaining
that she needed money for surgical
operation and for vacation.
A jury in the District Court at Colo
RADIO Springs, awarded Mrs. Martha
Babb OF Denver, the s1,220 In gold
found on her son. Frank Lewis, mem
Der OF the Jones bandit gang which