The Colorado statesman., 1920-04-03
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

TO completion in Delta. The largest
plant will be the Holly Sugar Mill. The
other plant IN the Colorado Packing
| Company.
Allan France, an employe of the
pickle company at Brighton, died at
Denver hospital OF concussion of
the brain, sustained when he fell
twelve feet from ladder on which
he was working at the pickle plant.
Various organizations of Olathe plan
to raise $4,000 for the construction of
u modern community house in honor
of the soldiers, sailors and marines
who served in the great war, according
TO plans started at mass meeting.
Miss Dorothy Lell, 19-year-old daugh-
! ter of Mr.. and Mrs f. l.. Lell of Ash
Mesa. died on her birthday. following
an illness of several weeks of pneu-
monia, which she developed after she
had recovered from influenza.
A. A. Bennett of the Trinidad Fin
and Feather Club has announced that
| 10000 Eastern brook trout have been
placed in the small streams in various
parts of Las Animas county. These in
addition to the carload Of trout fry
put in late last summer have made the
streams i'm the Stonewall country fair
| ly alive with fish.
Undersheriff William Stretcher, who
was injured at Boulder when city
automobile and fire company truck
| collided in a heavy wind storm, died
mt University hospital in that city. He
was the third man 10 die from injur-
| les received in the accident, the others
being Chief OF Police, l.. +. Bass and
Joseph Salter, 1T-year-old son of City
Manager Salter.
George f. Adams, 60 years old.
resident of Greeley for 40 years, is
dead following Il paralytic stroke. Mr..
Adams came to Colorado in 1879 and
homesteaded at Seely's lake. He is
one of the wealthiest cattlemen in
Weld county and is said to have ac-
cumuated fortune of S20O,0OO. lie
| was "A member of the w. o. w. and
knights of Pythias.
A. II. Mohler, former president of
the Union Pacific, will go to Greeley
April 25th to attend II meeting of the
Greeley-Poudre Land Owners Associ-
alton. Mr. Mohler, ]. X. Mullen of
| Denver anu i. L. anu W ''''>
lev comprise the Landowners EXecu-
tive Committee which is working out
the problem Of rehabilitating the
Greeley Poudre irrigation district.
Caroline Jones, lI-year-old school
| girl, was found guilty of voluntary
manslaughter at Durango. This YER
dict was returned by the juryV which
had been out twelve hours, after hear
| ing her trial on IL charge of shooting
and killing Carl Bay, II young returned
soldier, in an alley ut the rear of his
home in bayfield, last January. Under
| the Colorado statutes the penalty for
voluntary mansaughter is imprison-
ment at the state penitentlary for
from one to eight years. Miss Jones
| displayed no signs of emotion when
the jury's finding was returned. The
defense announced it would appeal.
Figures based on the last official
| college census returns, given out In
1913, show the per capita cost of state
education in Colorado as the lowest
among sixteen Western states, accord
| ing to comparative statement Just
issued by George Norlin, president of
the University of Colorado, in Boul-
der. The per capita cost on That pa
| sis was: Colorado, 66 cents; Kansas,
9S cents Nebraska 92 cents; Iowa,
72 cents; Oregon, SO cents; California,
| T3 cents Washington, % cents; North
Dakota. 81 cents South Dakota, 80
| cents: Michigan, T3 cents; Minnesota,
S1.13; Wisconsin, S1.67 Arizona, S1.O6;
Montana, $1.04; Idaho, $1.S1; Utah,
| w .hn ie in ha .apnnlnV
of the Biological Survey of the govern
ment in its efforts TO exterminate
predatory animals in the Rocky Noun
tain region, killed big mountain lion
near Echo, about fifteen miles up the
river from Canon City.
Mrs. Mary Caten, IS, was instantly
killed and her husband was seriously
injured when an automobile in which
they were riding turned over on the
Goodnight road near Pueblo. Caten
lost control of the car, he said, in ex-
planning the accident.
Ross Henry Anderson, 81 years old,
a farmer of the Cowan district, near
Hugo, was instantly killed when an
automobile in which he was driving
turned turtle, pinning him underneath.
The accident was caused by the break
ing of the steering gear
Herbert Whorten, 13 years old, will
probably lose his left foot as the re-
suit of being thrown under heavy
disk harrow on a ranch twenty-siS
miles east of Hudson. The three
horses attached to the disk ran away,
and the youngster was thrown from
his seat and the heavy machine passed
over him. The boy was taken to
| Denver for surgical treatment.