The Dolores star., 1919-05-02
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
The miners strike has been settled
at Leadville on the basis of mini
mum wage of 81, cut of 80 cents II
day.
Fifty-one Seniors will be graduated
from Colorado college at the com
mencement exercises in June, accord
ing to the official list reported by the
registrar.
The town of Byers, in Arapahoe
county, is enjoying an Unprecedented
building boom. Several new business
structures are being built, as well as
u number of homes.
AS result of woodtick's bite re
Ceived about two weeks ago, Fred
Yale, farmer residing near Collbran,
became infected with blood poisoning
and died at Grand Junction.
james H. Chatfield, for many years
Justice of the peace in LittletOn and
widely known throughout that district,
is dead in Hoquiam, Wash, according
10 information received from there.
Fire of unknown origin destroyed
all of the buildings of the Sunnysid"
mine at Eureka except the transform
er house. with a loss estimated at
$25O,OOO, that is partly covered by in
Surance.
\ most ambitious project for the eX-
termination of 100000 prairie dogs
in territory including about 5000
square miles in Fremont, Teller, Park
and Chaffee counties has been organ
lied in Canon City.
In 1918 there were 14,12S,30T acres
of patented land in Colorado assessed
as grazing area, of which very small
amount is in cultivation. Much of this
land, perhaps 40 per cent, will ulti-
mately he farmed.
The San Juan basin will have from
fifteen to thirty days longer tourist
season than usual, as the people of
Durango, PagOsa Springs, Del NOrte
and Monte Vista are planning to open
Wolf Creek pass the latter part of
May.
Las AnimaS has had visit from
burglars. They entered the office of
the Las AnimaS Lumber Company and
robbed the safe of SO in cash and Il
certificate containing twenty war saw
ings stamps, besides IS in postage
stamps.
Robert Burnett, farm laborer, liv-
ing ut Eaton. shot his wife seven times
without causing death, and then shot
himself in the head. Burnett died in
Stantly. His wife is in the Greeley
hospital. There is no chance for her
recovery.
The total area of patented land in
Colorado, according to reports Of
county assessors, is 26,490, l56 acres,
while the total area of government
homestead land, national forests. state
land and national parks and monu-
ments is 2G,997, ,02O95 acres.
There are S,5S3,S99 acres of patent
ed land in Colorado assessed as dry
farming area. Less than 100000
acres of this is in cultivation and per
hnpS 100000 acres more of il might
be cultivated successfully under prop
er dry farming methods.
Howard NuSbaum, 4-year-Old son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Nusbaum of Mont
rose, ran away from home with his
twin brother, Harold, and little La
verne Williams, and wandered TO Il
place two miles east of the city. There
Howard fell from plank crossing an
irrigation canal and was drowned.
State officials have estimated that
the inheritance tax from the Werner
Il. Reed estate, which is variouSly
placed at from S1S,OOO0OO to S2O,OOO.-
coo, will double the amount of any
previous single Inheritance tax paid
into that department. The tax is ex-
ptcted TO be in the ncighborhOod of
ST5O,OOO.
Delta is to have new So 900 fac
tory soon. II will be a mill for max
ing potato flour. The COMPANY has
been incorporated as the Farmers Pro
duce and Milling Company. A half
block of city lots on Kellogg avenue
has been purchased for $4,000, and
ground is to be broken inside of three
weeks
Werner u. Reed, one of Colorados
wealthiest citizens, an oil magpate.
mining man, philanthropist and author,
died at Coronado Beach, Calf, follow
ing long period of i'll health. Pneu-
monia developing caused his death, but
not until three hours before the end
did his physicians consider his condf-
tlon serious.
Charging his former partner in the
business not only with
stealing his wife and breaking I'D his
home, but also with attempting to
steal his youngest son, w. J. Woods,
IS, stepped out of his garage door In
Sterling and shot George Dykes, 81,
five times, firing once, it is said, while
Dykes lay on the ground. Three of
the bullets took effect in the right leg,
one in the body and one penetrated an
ear and grazed Dykes face. None, 1t
is said, will prove fatal.
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