The Colorado statesman., 1920-11-27
Pithy News Notes
From An Parts Of
Colorado
Western Newspaper Union Nows Service

this year for the first time.
A rich discovery of gold ore has
been made In large mass at Bo-
nanza, an old mining camp in the low
lands of the San Luis valley.
A liberal appropriation for the Rocky
Mountain National park is meeting
strong opposition at Washington, ac-
cording to n dispatch from the capital.
Farm values In Ourny county In
creased from 81 1874, ,453 in 1910 10 ST.
o25, ,035 In 1920, according to census re-
ports announced In Washington, ID. {.
This is gain OF 44.3 per cent.
The twelfth annual meeting of the
Colorado Farmers Congress will be
held at the State Agricultural College,
Fort Collins, Colorado, November 10Th
to December 3rd, inclusive.
Charles Binder of the Milliken dis
trict has received check for S13,6OS
for sugar beets. This Is the largest
paid from the Loveland branch of the
Great Western Sugar Company.
Washington State University athletic
heads advise that there is no practical
BILE way by which a contest this year
may be contested with the football
eleven of the Colorado Agricultural
College.
Breaking through a glass door, in
| the rear of the Vie Davis Sporting
| Goods Company, at Loveland, robbers
made away with shotguns, shells and
other sporting paraphernalia valued
at more than $1,000.
Tr,..1.,, =, ,l,,f.i,,, of tb. Colorado Tux
Commission teachers salaries in Den
yer schools will be increased more than
S5O0,000. As result of the approval
of the Denver school boards applica-
ton. therate of levy for school taxes
in Denver county will be increased
mills on every dollar collected.
The fur value of 100 beavers trapped
| in the Cochetopa National Forest last
month by State Trnpper John Platz,
following extensive damage TO farm
lands in that section, yielded the state
game and fish department $1,000. This
indicates that beaver may become a
valuable crop, federal and state Of
| ficials say.
Almost 100000 acres of govern
ment land, unappropriated aund unre-
served, are waiting for the settler and
| homesteader in the Montrose district,
which will last at least twenty-four
years, according to figures given out.
| The acreage now is 1908, I'll acres, as
against 2,SO4,610 acres this time last
year.
| From the state penitentiary at Canon
| City comes the news that there is
deficit of $4,000, and from the Sol
diers' and Sailors Home at Monte
Vista, deficit of $4,000. Harry Il.
Mulnix, state treasurer, arranged for
| the sale of certificates covering this
| Indebtedness and bearing 4 per cent
interest. This1will provide funds for
the maintenance of the institutions
for the rest of the year.
Two gifts, totaling S1,150.000, from
the general educational board of New
York to Colorado educational lnstitu-
tlons, have been announced. The sum
of SS5O,0O0 from the Rockefeller Foun-
dation for the advancement of medical
science is awarded the University of
Colorado at Boulder for n new medi-
cal school and state hospital, on con-
dltion that the university and state
raise SS00000 for that purpose. Colo
RADIO College, Colorado Springs, Is
given 100000 for its endowment fund,
on condition that it raise 100000.
The Carnegie Corporation of New
York recently added $4,000 to Colo
RADIO Colleges endowment, making the
total $1,604,000
Gov. Oliver II. Shoup spent $50 for
meals and lodging and contributed 500
to the Colorado Welfare Association,
among other things, according to his
campaign expense account The ac-
count shows Mr.. Shoup spent n total
of S5,123, of which $4,000 went to the
state central committee, Republican
$500 to the Republicans in El Paso;
SO to the Hardng-Coolidge, 500
travelling expenses, $14S printed cards,
and $3.50 miscellaneous.
Benjamin ]. Salmon, conscientious
objector, on hunger strike in Wash
ington, D. c., has been transferred
from st. Elizabeth's hospital for the
insane to the Walter Reed hospital,
Washington. Salmon has been at
st. Elizabeth's hospital since July
| 20, when he was transferred from
Fort Douglas, Utah. He was de-
clared sane by board of twenty
five physicians at St. Elizabeth's
after two months observation. He
will remain at Walter Reed hospital
until court proceedings to secure his
release are disposed of, or until the
War Department releases him with
| out court action.
Plans calling for the expenditure of
approximately $50, 400 in the grading
and draining of three miles of road be-