The Colorado statesman., 1920-02-28


Denver Automotive Show win be held
in Denver, March to o. at Stock
yards Stadium.
Robbers entered the Acacia Drug
Store. at Aurora, and stole merchnn-
disc estimated by H. Mcdowell, propri-
etor of the store To be worth $1,000.
The Cox Mercantile Company store
at Fruita was entered by burglars and
$50 worth Of clothing was confiscated
and some cash taken from the regis
ter
Twenty-seven building permits, in
volving the expenditure of more than
! $4,000. have been issued by the city
of Fort Collins since the first of the
year.
A tract of 5000 acres in the Black
Forest, northeast of Colorado Springs,
owned by GOV. O. ii. Shoup and asso-
ciaas, is to be cut up and sold for
farming land.
Residents of Nucla are planning to
drill an urtesian well with the hope
thar they may strike oil also while aft
er water. \ fund of $1,000 is being
raised to finance the work.
The number of swine in Colorado at
the beginning of this year is estimated
at 3S2 900, compared with 100000 last
year, and the average value per head
is SIS. compared with S22 last year.
The Ford assembling plant i'm Den
yer, closed during the war, will he re-
opened on March II, according to
Emory Alton. the Ford Manager The
plant will give immediate employment
to 22j men.
Julian Martinez, wealthy ranchmnn
near Monte Vista, was arrested ny
Warden Glen Goad for killing deer out
Of season. Martinez was taken TO Del
Norte. where he pleaded guilty and
was fined $40.
The number of mules on hand in
Colorado this year is estimated ut 81
300, compared with $1,000 last year,
and the average value per head is eS-
timated mt SlO1. compared with S1O7
last year.
Three drafts which total more than
S2OO,O 900 and large number of checks
which bring the entire amount to S31O,-
600. mailed from Pueblo, Feb 6, have
failed to arrive at their Denver des-
tination and bank officials fear thar
they either have been lost or stolen
from the mails.
Al meeting of the Larimer County
Fair Association in LOveland the fair
this year was set for Aug. 81, Sept. l,
>. 3. The Larimer county fair is one
of the largest in the state and is recog-
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one of the best advertising mediums in
the fair field in the West.
Mrs. Anna L. Mccormick, G6 years
old. IA pioneer of Cedaredgc, who ar
rived in Denver May 3, 1874, and was
married there in 1882, is dead. She
was one of the prominent residents Of
Cedaredge and her death has occa-
stoned general sorrow. She had spent
fifty-six years in Colorado.
Theodore $. Smith, 81, farmer,
committed suicide at the home of
his mother. Mrs. Belle Harper, who
lives on Ralston avenue, just outside
of Arvada, by shooting himself in the
head with II revolver. Harper had
been despondent for several days. He
is survived by his widow and baby
and his mother.
Work on the Loveland- Estes Park
road is progressing fast and one of the
finest roads in the state will be open
to the public by June l, according to
Contractor Dooling. Five road gangs
are now at work and pushing the grade
from higher to grade of I per cent
all the distance from Loveland into the
park.
Carl Howelson, well known profes-
sional ski jumper is directing II crew
of workmen in preparing the Steam
boat ski course for the midwinter
Sports Carnival to he held on March
and ,. Among those practicing on
the course are several amateurs not
over II years old and some have sue
ceeded in riding" it well over 100
feet.
A large still producing enough
moonshne to supply Morgan county
and its surroundings for weeks was
discovered in operation on farm,
eighteen miles south of Fort Morgan,
by Sheriff f. A. Morse More than
hundred gallons of whiskey, ready for
customers, was awaiting shipment
huge supply of barley, corn and raj
sins were also seized.
With disbursements of SS,413,94S.3
in 1919, Denver paid out more money
than in any other year in the history
of the city, according to statistics COM
piled on the cash balance and receipts
for the past year by City Auditor f. d.
Stackhouse Not only were the dis
bursements much larger than in other
years, but the receipts, totaling ST.
| 716,715.59, exceeded any previous