The Dolores star., 1920-12-10
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

fringement of the game laws was de-
tected in the Colorado national forest.
near Fort Collins. Surveyors turned
their fnr-seeing instrument ON party
of hunters who We're several miles dis
tnnt. They saw deer being strapped
across the saddle of one of the horses.
For two days the hunting party was
| tracked. Eventually one OF the party
was located and search warrant was
| obtained. An investigation revealed II
saddle with deer hair and specks of
blood clinging TO 1t. In Fort Collins
before Justice Sarchet. Charles Thom'
MS. rancher. made Il vicarious sacri'
flee of S12O. Though denying his guilt
of participating in the killing of the
deer, Thomas pleaded guilty and paid
n fine of 800 and $50 costs.
Declaring that the economic loss to
the state of Colorado from the raw
ages of tuberculosis approNimates
| Sl6,OOO,OOO annually, and about 2,030
persons died of this disease in the
state last year, Acting Governor
George Stephan has issued II procla-
nation, naming Sunday, Dec. ., as
tuberculosis Sunday. The proclama-
ton calls upon the people of the state
to support the Colorado tuberculosis
Association in fighting the white
plague by purchasing Christmas seals
and aiding the association in every
way possible during the campaign for
funds. Dec l to 10.
William Coss, son of ]. +. Coss,
newspaper publisher of Walsenburg,
| will recover, following an attack on
the Walsenburg-Pueblo road by five
highwaymen, who beat him into in
sensiblity, and stole his new touring
car which he had just purchased in
Pueblo. Four men have been arrested
and charged with the assault They
are said to have confessed to the sher-
iff. They are Raymond Chase. Gary,
Ind; Wesley Wentworth, Denver;
Ralph O'Lcary, Boston, and George
Cooksley of England.
The National Farm Congress, an or
ganization of 5000 farmers of the
country, will meet in Colorado in 1921,
according to J. j. Gauld, superintend-
ent of the Myron Stratton Home farms
at Colorado Springs, who represented
the state at the convention ut Colum-
bus, Ohio. There will be more than
1000 delegates to the convention,
which will be held either in Denver or
Colorado Springs, Gauld stated. The
decision will be made next spring by
the executive committee.
The average of yields per acre this
year of all crops combined, duly
weighed. compared with their yields
for recent years in Colorado, is 1851
per cent, and in the United States is
1863 per cent. The production index
for the United States is about 81 per
cent more than last years aggregate
production and G.S per cent more than
the average of the preceding five
years, 1914-lS.
Retail meat prices in Denver will
fluctuate with the wholesale cost of
meat in the future, according to an
nouncements made by Denver meat
dealers following a meeting of the Den
yer Retail Grocers and Meat Dealers
Association. 1t was decided at the
meeting that hereafter reductions on
the retail market would be made ac-
cOrding to reductions on the wholesale
market
The voters of Mesa county have bal
l0ted in favor of the S15O,000 bond is
sue which will give Mesa county a
S25O,0O0 courthouse The sinking
fund which the county has been laying
|
by for years will make up the balance
of the amount needed to erect one of
the finest courthouses in the state.
The new structure will probably be
ready for occupancy in two years.
A dividend of 100000, half of the
original investment of the stockhold-
ers of the Midland Terminal Railway
Company, has been awarded and paid,
according to announcement by 4. Il.
Carlton, president and receiver of the
company. Notices of the dividend and
checks in payment We're mailed.
President Newton e. Dougherty of
the Colorado Farmers Congress has
announced that the sessions of this
years Congress have been postponed
until later in the year and that the
new date will be announced as soon as
it is definitely known.
Frank NJ. Draper, former principal
of the public school at Wray, Colo.
has been cXoneratcd of charge of
misconduct in hearing before the
State Board of Education. 1t had been
alleged the principal had put his arm
around the waist of a pupil.
The Nanadium Corporation of Amer.
lea, operating vanadium and tungsten
mines in Colorado, has announced the
complete shutdown of all its works at
Fanndium, Fall Creek and Placerville.
between ten and eighteen miles west
of Telluride.
campaign to raise $4,000 to be
used in uncovering prehistoric cliff
dwellings in the southwestern section
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