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


poeits in the Ragged mountains in
western GunDison county is announced
~ one Of many development projects
10 be undertaken in that county this
Hsinimer.
Greeley painters and paperhangers
wore given n ~ per cent Increase in
wages by the contractors. The men
have been receiving so cents an hour
fer an eIglit-hour day, but the wage
was raised to 81 an hour
Trout streams in the Montrose sec
tion will be wonderful meccas for an
si9rs this year. according to announce
nent by George J.. Price, secretary OF
the MOntrose Fish and Game Club,
who stated that arrangements had
bNeu made for an unusually large
stOck for the local streams.
Arthur Davis, "a, "a taxi driver, was
cut 10 ribbons when his car hit the
rear end of truck near the Union sta
ti0n at Pueblo. He was hurled through
tho windshield and fell to the pave
snent thirty feet from where the COLI
sinn occurred. He died few minutes
later
With the arrest in Denver of a man
giving the name Of "A. r. Jones'" the
local police and state brand inspectors
believe they have captured the man
who has stolen at least $4,000 worth
~ cattle in Colorado during the last
few weeks Jones is being held in the
Denver city Jail.
Inheritance taxes received by the
state for the last half of March to-
taIed S59,S25.9i bringing the total re-
ceipts for the biennial period to date
10 slightly over Il million dollars. The
largest taxes We're on the estates OF
AHelia o. Peters and Lewis e. Colds
b0tough. which We're appraised at
uoorc than 100000 each
Experimentation work will be- cmpha-
tie University of Colorado. which
opens June Il. Three courses in Amer
icanization will he conducted and the
tFnining will be supplemented by lee
tures delivered during the quarter by
noted educators and AmericanizatiOn
workers from all parts of the country.
Grand Junction will raise 81 900, and
Mesa, DcBeu,c and Palisnde will each
raise like amount, to make the ST.
00o which the government says must
~ raised to pay for the building OF
the link road between Mesa. Colo, ana
the national forest. The edge to con
nect Mesa. Colo. with the Mesa lakes.
The government is to spend Sl2.Oo0 on
the rnnl. work on which will he start
ed shortly.
One thousand, five hundred and six
typieces OF war material captured by
american troops from the German
army will he distributed in Colorado,
nccOrdng to :: confidential memoran-
dun sent by the War Department to
Chairman Julius Kahn OF the House
military committee. The various
states will share, according to the per-
centage OF troops furnished in the al
l0tment of 2,I97 pieces OF artillery, L.
90 war vehicles and S41,11T small ar
ticles OF various kinds.
CHIEF QuarterInaster Edeart l.. Ost-
rnnder, who resides at Golden, Colo,
re-enlisted at the navy yard, at Ports
mouth, v L.. and has been trans
feried to the U. s. Navy Recruiting
Station. Denver, Colo. Chief 0stran-
der is considered first.clnss athlete.
inotorcyclipg being his long suit, and
iafeady for a race at any time. While
at the Portsmouth station lie organized
the All Navy basketball team that won
~ of the A games they played, there
by carrying away the big cup. While
In The Asiatic fleet he was coXswain of
- fas N ~,
cleaned up the station.
Five hundred pounds of coal fell
from the roof of II mine near Lafay-
cite, pinning James Snow TO the
ground and so badly injuring him that
he may lose n leg. He was taken to
the University hospital ut Boulder
and surgeons stated that il wnS the
worst injury OF the kind they had
ever seen.
according to information received by
the Colorado Cooperative Crop Report
ing Service, through the Colorado
branch of the U. S. Bureau of Mar
keta, there are in the state yet to be
shipped only about 800 cars of poia-
toes from the 1919 crop, compared
with about 5000 cars at this time last
year. Shippers in the Northern Colo
rad0 district were receiving So per cwt
for POTATOES about the middle of
March, which is said to be the record
price at that season during the his
fOrytof the potato industry there Rec
or6eEof the Bureau of Crop Estimates
nn&sthe Bureau of Markets show that
upsfQ March 10th there had been S,574
ca914nds of potatoes shipped from
points in Colorado, compared with
11y& carloads shipped to the same
daeq last year and total shipment
fro4 the 1918 crop of 1891 carloads. |
twenty-five citizens of Olathe have
dOneted 81 900 each toward the fund