The Dolores star., 1920-04-09
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.


crossing the Cotswold sheep with the
black Knrusule sheep, the hardy wire
wool sheep from Europe, with aston
ishing results. He has secured larger,
healthier sheep with a finer and gloss
Ter wool, but the black spots which
come In the wool makes his problem
one of further breeding to eradicate
this feature.
Collections of the state fish and
game department from fishing and
hunting licenses and minor incidental
sources set Il new mark during the
fiscal year which ended November
3Oth last, reaching total of S113,-
612.69, according to figures just com
piled by state examiners. Resident
fishing licenses brought the largest
share of the collections, the receipts
from this source being $6S, 102.9O. Big
game license receipts were next with
n total Of $27, ,485.
The Norwood school bond issue car
ried at the election by q vote Of three
to one. The amount of the issue voted
Is S2S,0OO which will be added to the
$4,000 issue voted Inst fall and used
for the building of a new school house.
The bonds are to draw 6 per cent In
tereSt. The district valuation of the
Norwood school is S973,63O and the
present school tax IS ten mills. Two
and sevcn-tenths mills additional tax
will be required to pay off the extra
bonded Indebtedness.
The Colorado state treasury is facing
a deficit which can only lie avoided
by continuance of Inheritance tax re-
ceipts at the 1919 rate, according to
tax total was almost $1.00O,000, al
though only $4,000 as estimated for
the entire biennial period. This unex-
pected figure was due to the settle
ment of an unexpected number of large
estates. Receipts are now very much
slower.
A years gain In resources of 261
state and savings banks and trust
companies of S17,294,9 4,925.3S is shown
in an abstract report by State Bank
Examiner Grant McPherson. The gain
is on total resources for the close of
business February %. 1920, compared
with March 4, 1919. Resources OF ma
tional banks are not included in the
report. which shows total resources
for the state institutions of S12O, 1O9,.
S93.76.
Alex Miller, the deaf mute who Is
held IN the county Jail at Greeley.
though no information has yet been
filed against him, will probably not be
arraigned before the May term of the
District Court and possibly not until
the November term, according to As
sistant District Attorney F. J. Green,
who said that the arraignment and
trial may occur close together without
the formality of preliminary hearing
The beet growers of the Western
Slope won a decisive victory over the
Holly Sugar Corporation when that
company agreed to pay the growers u
minimum price Of $40 ton for the
1920 crop, based upon so sugar and
Sill a ton additional for each 81 over
50 that the seaboard prices Of sugar
average during the four months of No
vember, December, 1920, and January
and February, 1921.
The Red Cross official who discOv
cred the Grand Duchess Olga hiding in
a boxcar near Odessa is no other than
Neil McGregor, husband of Mrs. Nina
McGregor, formerly Miss Nina Coates
of Denver. Word to this effect has
just been received In n letter from Rus
sian Red Cross headquarters to Mrs.
McGregor now visiting in Greeley.
The home of Sam Richie, q miner at
Rockvale, was completely wrecked
when a bomb placed by bIackhanders
Richie, was the only person in the
house at the time. Matore had been
sleeping, but just before the explosion
went into the kitchen to get drink of
water. He escaped injury.
Manitou park, for years famous
become the site next year for sum
,ner military school and camp for boys.
This was virtually assured when Col.
J. w. Wilson, head of the New Mexico
Military Institute at Roswell and Maj.
+. II. Spencer Of Denver, associated
with him, obtained an option on 3,4SC
acres comprising the park from ]. S.
Wilson, the owner.
Petitions have been sent out to the
landowners in six of the school dis
tricts surrounding Saguache proposing
consolidation of the district with the
town schools Of Saguache. 1t is not
planned to erect new buildings at this
time since II is thought that the old
ones will accommodate all pupils who
may be added to the enrolment
through such action.
Il. p. Marcellus, rancher living ten
miles west of Grand Junction, was run
over by switch engine in the yards
at Minturn, Colo, while on the way
to Cheyenne, Wyo., with a carload of
blooded Holstein cattle. He ded at
Leadville while he was being taken to