The Elbert County tribune., 1920-04-16
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

| cattle, w. ii. Hopper. a prominent cat
| fleman living on Tallahassee creek is
in n hospital in Canon City in n seri-
| GUS condition as the result of bullet
wound received in his right leg and
| the loss of blood Charles Rauber, a
| well-known rancher living in the west
ern part of Fremont. county, is in jail
at the same place charged with the
shooting. The battle Is said to have
resulted from an alteration over cat
tie belonging TO Hopper. who main
| famed that Rauber, who was being
| paid by him to feed them, was not
obeying an agreement they had made.
Greeley has 1929 residents. accord
ing to the unofficial census completed
by local publishing company. which
is preparing city directory. The un-
official census was taken with great
deal OF care and its figures tally close
| ly with estimates of the city officials.
based on number of water users, and
also with statistics showing the In
| crease in housing facilities. The count
taken for the city directory in April.
| 1918, showed IL DOT people. The Off
| cial 1920 census count on Greeley has
not been published as Yet.
A change of venue to Greeley I'm
Weld county will he asked in the case
of Rienzi Dickens, accused of muir
dering his father. William H. Dickens.
Longnont pioneer aud banker. on Nov.
80, 1915. Rienzi Dickens attorneys al-
lege popular prejudice Rlenzi Dick
ems has been ordered to APP
pear in the District Court
on Wednesday. April ~. when District
Attorney r. w. Fleming will ask for
judgment on the remittitur in the SUI
preme court, and date for new
trial of the case.
The establishment of an airplane
field, probably in Colorado, for the
purpose of patroling the United
States national forests in Colorado
and other states in this district, is
very likely, according to Allen S.
Peck. district forester. The air serv-
Ice fire patrol of the United States
forest service Is meeting with great
success ON the Pacific coast. accord
ing to Fred AIorrell. assistant district
forester who has just returned from
the Law Enforcement conference at
San Francisco.
Ray Sherman, a student at the Uni
versity of Colorado and son of c. X
Sherman, Il banker and mining man
of Boulder, Is dead Harold Muth, "A
companion, lies seriously injured at
the county hospital in Denver, while
John Evans. Harold Atlleu and Bea-
al. II. a..
two men. sustained minor injuries MS
n result of collision between their
automobile and n machine driven by
John Musser Mt East Seventeenth ave
nue. and Franklin street. in Denver.
Five thousand people attended Hol
ly's fourth annual dairy celebration,
which, for magnitude and general ex
cellence, eclipsed any Of the shows
given in previous years. There were
more than 100 entries in the pure bred
Holstein cattle show and more than
sixty entries In the horse show \ fine
poultry show was added 10 this years
exhibition for the purpose of stimulat-
ing the poultry industry in the Holly
district of the lower Arkansas valley.
state school land, which WAS held in
the House of Representatives at the
capitol by the State Board Of Land
Commissioners, netted S125.22o,6 GO. The
average sale price per acre was 5000.
and the land is located in AlamosiI.
Bent. Clear Creek. jefferson. Coneios,
Elber;, FL Paso, l.niimer, Lincoln. l.o-
gan. MonteZumu. Rio Grande. Routt.
Washington and Yuma counties
Announcement has been made by
President C. A. Duniway of Colorado
College that tuition nt the college next
year will be Sl2o year. an incrcms
Of $40 year. Increases in salaries
of professors is responsible for the
boost he said. 1t is estimated that
The increase VIII add $4,000 year to
the college funds.
Twenty-Five landowners of the Gree
ley-Poudre irrigation district, including
members of the Greelcy-Poudre board.
have taken physical possession of the
Cobb lake inlet canal. Men who were
engaged with scIapcrs and other i'm
plements on the embankments of the
canal have been ordered off the prop
erty and have been warned against
further trespassing, according To re
ports from Greeley
John Rack, farmer, charged with
manufacturing liquor on his ranch,
eighteen miles south of Fort Morgan,
was convicted in District Court and
sentenced to serve six months in the
county iail and to pay the costs of the
trial. Rack pleaded guilty after TWEEN
ty-five witnesses had been heard. The
trial of Alexander Burghard. who was
arrested with Rack, will be held soon.
The state of Colorado has not the