Cheyenne record., 1920-12-02
COLORADO
STATE NEWS


Nine pardons granted by the Colo
rsdo. state board Of pardons became
effective Thanksgiving day.
The Colorado Power Company is en-
larging its plant at Sterling; more
than $4,000 will be expended.
H. G. Smith has sold his ranch in
Norwood near Telluride. to the San
Miguel Development Company.
The Ralph w. Tenhaeff ranch of
8,10O acres, near Fort Morgan, has
been sold to Eugene C. Eaton Of Hax
tun.
Plans are under way to rebuild tn
Currie Canning Company at Grand
Junction, recently destroyed by fire at
loss of $4,000.
y Frank Peras, a Mexican, is In Jail
in Trinidad in connection with the kill
ing of Guadalupe Hernandez, rail-
road section worker, which took place
at Gallinas on the Santa Fe railroad.
Following q community celebration
at Graylin Heights schoolhopee at
which his wife gave several readings,
John Kobler. 80 years old, wealthy
farmer living near Sterling, shot his
bride to death and killed himself.
Two paving districts, estimated to
cost a quarter of million dollars each
and storm sewer district for Univer-
sity hill that will cost $157, ,694.54, have
been ordered by the city council Of
Boulder.
Civic officials and business leaders
of Colorado, Wyoming and New Mexi-
co will convene the afternoon and
evening Of Dec. 8 and the morning Of
Dec. o in Denver to discuss matters
Of education. The conference will be
held under the auspices of the depart
ment of the interior.
An Increase Of $3.50 a year has
been granted the teachers in the Colo
RADIO Springs schools and the tax levy
for the school district has been set at
1899 mills, an increase Of IL mills
over the 1920 figures. The Colorado
Springs teachers have requested an ad-
ditional increase to bring the wage
standard up to that recently awarded
in Denver. School operation here will
cost 100000 in 1921. 81
Discovery Of suitcase, filled with
dies, metal, moulds and other counter
feiting paraphernalia, by police in a
small shack In Pueblo is believed to
furnish evidence against Roy BOhan-
non and Elmer Cameron on the charge
of counterfeiting. BohannOn and Cam
eron were arrested on charge of
holding up r. 8. Writ, taxi driver.
When searched, spurious CONS were
found in their possession. Charges
were filed against the pair for high
way robbery by the city authorities.
Contracts calling for the expendi-
ture Of $4,000 in the construction Of
a steel cable mule bridge across the
Grand cafion Of the Colorado, 5000
feet below the rim of the canon, have
been awarded by the national park
service. The bridge will be cen
structed west of Bright Angel trail,
according to Arno B. Cammerer. rep
resenting the service. Plans and gen.
eral specifications were furnished by
NJ. d. McEniry, chief of the field
division Of the United States general
land office.
Workmen have begun erecting the
framework for the walls of the new
and larger machine shops at Utah
Junction for the Denver & Salt Lake
Railroad, the "Moffat road" The
building will occupy the site of the
shops destroyed in the fire Of Nov. 8,
when the loss was $25O,OOO A third
Of million dollars is being spent in
rebuilding and the purchase Of equip
ment to take the place Of that de-
stroyed. BY the first of the year the
construction and installations will be
completed.
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.
Sentences ranging from five years
and -one-half to twelve years in the
District Judge A. F. Hollenbeck Of the
Third judicial district to the four
young men who held up and robbed
William Coss, son of j. F. Coss, pub
Usher of the Walsenburg Independent,
on the Walsenburg- Pueblo road. All
four pleaded guilty.
The estimated production Of pota.
toes in Colorado for 1920 is 11,1s0,OOO
bushels, as compared with 100000
bushels in 1919, according to the Of
ficial report of the State Board of I'm
migration. The quality of potatoes for
this year is figured at 90 per cent of
normal, compared with S5 per cent
last year and 30 per cent average for
the last ten years. In the United