The Raymer enterprise., 1920-11-18
Pitiy News Notes
From Al Parts of
Colorado

to improve the public library, parks,
streets and alleys.
Work has been started on the par.
ish house of st. Nicholas church oi
Platteviils. The building will cost
$7.750.
The final chapter was written In
Denvers tramway controversy when
the striking car men voted almost
unanimously to return to work.
The Great Western Sugar Company
paid beet growers In Logan county
$2,500.0S0. This is the highest
amount ever paid in that district.
Grand Junction police believe that
the bank bandits who were killed near
Colorado Springs recently were the
same men who operated successfully
In this district.
A new sugar factory Is to be built
at Wellington by the Du Pont Sugar
Company, a new organization Of Den.
yer and Colorado and Iowa men, which
plans to build chain Of sugar fac.
tories In the state.
James N. Collins, Democratic nom.
inee for governor, who was defeated
In the recent election, expended the
sum OF s2,753.G5 in conducting his
campaign, according to n statement
filed with the secretary Of state.
After deliberating three minutes a
jury In the West Side Court In Denver
brought In a verdict OF not guilty In
the case Of NJ. Bruce Ammons, 60 years
old, who was charged with the murder
OF his son.in-law, Joseph JardinO, at
the Ammons home last July.
A jury in the District Court at
Cripple Creek returned a verdict
finding William Sloane, 80 years old,
guilty of murder In the first degree
and recommending life imprison-
ment. Sloane. on the night Of July
3, last. shot and killed Night Mar
shall Harvey c. Neese, who was at
tempting to arrest him.
Whisky In Colorado can not be
transported from one place to another
under the decision Of the United
States Supreme Court. which permits
q person who owns whisky stored for
personal use to move or withdraw 1t
at his option. This was the assertion
OF Frank ]. Medina. federal prOhibi-
ton enforcement officer for this state.
Unusual alarm Is felt by the beet
growers Of the country near Montrose
that the large crop will be total loss
unless a host Of laborers are procured at
once to harvest the large crop before 1t
Is frozen in the ground. While virtu.
ally the entire crop in the eastern sec.
ton of the state has been harvested,
only small percentage has been mar
keted there.
Fire Of an unknown origin destroyed
the Currle fruit canning factory, one
Of the largest canning plants In the
West, at Grand Junction. The loss is
estimated at 100000, according to Of
ficials Of the company. The fire
started In the elevator shaft. The
structure was three stories high. The
factory employed 200 persons, mostly
girls. II had just finished canning to-
matoes and had started on the apple
crop. About $4,000 worth Of apple
butter was ruined.
Out Of 1920, 900 acres of nation
al forest land in Colorado. only 144
acres were burned over by forest
fires in the season just ended, ac-
cording to Wallace Hutchinson of the
forestry service. The cost of fighting
the fires, 118 in number, was 1881.
Timber destroyed amounted to 371,-
900 board feet. worth approximately
s1.113. Seventy-eight per cent OF
the fires were less than quarter of
an acre in extent The record is con-
sidered an excellent one when COM
pared with that of former years.
The gates of Denver were thrown
open amid a rousing welcome by the
city's leading citizens and representa-
tives of more than twenty civic organ
izations to the Parkto-Park trail blaz-
ers to celebrate the completion Of the
dedication of Americas master high
way" $500 miles long. connecting
eleven national parks and unsurpassed
for scenic grandeur.
The primary object Of the mining
convention in Denver is the revival of
mining. From 1913 to 1920 seven typ.
ical Colorado mining counties showed
decrease Of about $20,0OO,OOO in valu.
alton assessment for taxation purposes.
This decrease has to be made up for by
other counties. Every taxpayer in
Colorado Ia interested in the revival of
mining.
c. N. johnson. so, a Cherokee In
dian who shot and killed his 25-year-
old wife after they had quarreled,
his head, at his home at Cedars.
was found dead with a bullet hole in
near La Junta. Julian Whatley,
fathar NJ Mrs Johnson Ia mtaainp o
and it is believed he killed johnson.
Police have started search for
Whatley.
The Colorado Stockgrowers' Associ-
alton called its annual convention to
meet In Denver December q and %.
Revision of the constitution and BY.