The Raymer enterprise., 1920-12-09
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts Of
Colorado

Western Newspaper Union News Service
Plans are under way to rebuild the
Currie Ca2ning Company at Grand
Junction, fecently destroyed by fire at
u loss Of $4,000.
The Weld county commissioners
have voted to thoroughly modernize
and double the capacity of the Greeley
hospital at cost Of $4,000.
Odell de Noya, Usage squaw, was
granted divorce from Wesley de
NOya, Usage brave, In the District
Court OF Colorado Springs on charges
of cruelty.
The victory Of the Republicans In
Colorado at the polls in the general
election cost sl25,es5.7s, according to
a statement OF expenses filed with the
secretary Of state.
Two paving districts. estimated to
cost a quarter OF million dollars each
and storm sewer district for Univer.
sity hill that will cost sl57, ,S94-54, have
been ordered by the city council Of
Boulder.
The Denver 4 Rio Grnnde Western
Railroad Company has been incorpor-
ated with a capital OF SJ0,0O0,O00 by
the filing Of papers with Secretary OF
State James X. Noland. Headquarters
Of the corporation will be in Denver.
Increases In the salaries Of the coun.
ty school teachers is assigned as the
reason for the increase In the tax lev
les for Montrose county for the year
1921. Other school expenses for next
year also helped to boost the tax rate.
Official count Of the ballot cast In
Colorado In the last election shows
Presidcnt-elect Harding carried the
state by 6s,3l2, according to announce
ment made by the state canvassing
board. The report shows Harding re-
ceived a total OF 173. .2iS ballots us com.
pared with 10i,936 cast for Cox.
Colornto's first budget to be submit.
ted TO the Twenty-third General AS
sembly by Governor Shoup In January,
under the provisions Of the budget law
enacted two years ago, will not exceed
05,714.70. Appropriations by the
General Assembly for the biennial pc
riod must be kept within this sum-
Sentences ranging from five years
and one-half to twelve years In the
state penitentlary were meted oct by
District Judge A. r. Hollenbeck OF the
Third judicial district to the four
young men who held up and robbed
William Coss, son of J. +. Coss, pub.
Usher OF the Walsenburg Independent
Oh the Walsenburg-P Pueblo road. All
four pleaded guilty.
Charles Taylor. sheepherder, who
was arrested On charge Of attempt,
ing TO extort $1,000 at the point Of q
gun from his employer, Charles Lin.
gelbach, wealthy flockmaster OF
northern Colorado and with holding
Mrs. Lingelbach as hostage until the
money was forthcoming. committed
suicide by taking poison in the Weld
county Jail at Greeley.
Following an alleged family quarrel
in which Charles A. Frost was arrest.
ed upon peace warrant and later re,
leased on bond, Lee Parrish snrren.
dered after he had shot and seriously
wounded Frost at his home. The bullet
grazed the right side Of his face and
he was taken to hospital. Several
quarrels are said to have taken place
between Frost and his fathe. in law
during the past two months.
Nine coal companies, operating In the
Routt county fields, have filed with the
Public Utilities Commission request
that the recently installed trweekl!
passenger service over the Moffat line
be continued. The reason given is that
curtailment of passenger service giyes
n greater service to the freight trains
and aids materially In the transpOrta.
tion of coal by affordlng more cars and
more service.
A verdict Of not guilty was returned
by West Side Criminal Court jury In
the case of Ralph Bitter, l6.year-old
Denver lad. charged with passing
fictitious check for 5000.
Field Representatives OF the Holly
Sugar Company at MontrOse reporl
that beet harvesting In that section Is
completed and that practically oil OF
the bcets are now on top of the ground
although thousands OF tons are yet to
he hauled to the dumps. Because OF
the lack Of sufficient cars, both the
Montrose and Olathe beet dumps have
had to dump thousands of tons on the
ground near the dumps, which will
later be loaded In cars and shipped 10
the mill.
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 at C0lum.
bus. Ohio. There will be more than
2,0O0 delegates to the convention,
which will he held either In Denver OF
Colorado Springs, Gauld stated. The
decision will be made next spring by
the executive committee.