The Colorado statesman., 1920-02-07

held back the shipment of potatoes in
the Carbondale district, leaves hun
dreds of tons of the valuable tubers
still unmarketed.
The school board OF Golden is TO be
asked TO call special election on the
question of voting bonds to the amount
of S13O,O00 for building II new high
school In Golden.
After deliberating twenty-five min
utes, the jury in the case of Giacomo
Corriente at Trinidad found him not
guilty of the murder of his brother,
Sam Corriente, on oct. 21, 1919.
The Farmers Union is considering
erecting flour mill at Rifle. A big
meeting held there brought out eighty
two members and the determination to
build a mill seemed almost universal.
ii. A. Gitz, farmer near Monte
Vista, died, the victim of the influenzn
epidemic, which has caused Monte
Vista authorities To place II ban on all
public congregating ana public amuse-
ments.
G. ID. Jackson, station agent for the
Colorado, Wyoming x Eastern railroad
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of cattle and thirty-four cars of sheep
have been shipped from Walden, He
bron and LaRand, Colo, between Aug.
9th and Dec. 3lst.
The purchase of six locomotives from
| the Colorado Midland railrOad by the
| Mexican government has been completed
for price reported to he S150,00O. The
engines are to he delivered as soon as
possible for use on the federally oper-
uted roads in Mexico.
The government is now building II
splendid road from Thompsons
| Springs, Utah, to Moab, Utah. the To-
cation of the recent oil strike. The
road is to cost 100000 for the thirty
seven miles when completed and will
| be twenty-four feet wide on the flats,
eighteen on hillsides and sixteen feet
| in deep cuts 1t is being pushed rapid
ly.
Sending his attendant on false
pursuit by declaring another patient
had planned escape and had just fled
| around corner of the building as
they walked from the dining hall TO
Al ward, Don p. BlackwoOd, former
|
the state hospital for the insane last
month, escaped from the state institu-
ton at Pueblo.
Denver time will be set ahead one
hour on May ! as n result of the city
Council passing the daylight saving
ordinance on final reading. The bill
carried by vote of TO 3 and it Is
understood that Mayor Dewey c.
Bailey, who favors the move, will sign
| the ordinance Under the terms OF
| the ordinance the clocks will be
turned back TO standard time Oct. 1.
Leon NJ Hattenbach, member of the
Senate of the Colorado Assembly and
city Industrial commissioner, died at
the steering wheel of his automobile
while he was driving on Wadsworth
street, jefferson county, coming to-
ward Denver Mrs. Hattenbach and 9
year-old son, Leon, Jr., We're the only
other occupants of the car. Heart fail
ure was said to he the cause.
The construction of the consolidated
| school building at Monument will be-
| gin with the coming of spring weather,
| according TO an announcement made by
| the school directors at the office of
the county superintendent of schools
| Plans for the building are now being
| drawn and the school board is prepar-
ing to advertise for bids on the build
ing contract in the near future.
A report comes from Cripple Creek
| that the Lincoln Mining and Milling
| Company, which recently opened
| large gold ore reduction plant there is
| now negotiating for the purchase of
the Cripple Creek short Line railroad
In the interest of better highways
and more attractions for tourists
movement is under way to annex to
Pueblo county portions of Custer
county, in the vicinity of the Rye and
Beulah districts. 1t is said that Gus
ter county favors ceding the district
to Pueblo county and 1t is likely that
bill will be presented at the next
Legislature changing the boundaries
Of both counties.
Colorado National Guardsmen, who
were called for federal service along
| the Mexican border, may receive
claims against the federal government
totaling $4,000 as n result of Adjt
Gen. William A. Spangler's successful
| efforts to have the cases reopened at
Washington. The claims were origi-
nally disallowed, because of misun-
| derstanding, according to a message
received by the State Military Depart
ment, which arose while the chief of
| the claims bureau was in France
The State Cooperative Crop Report
ing Service, with the assistance of
county assessors, will endeavOr to
make much more complete report ON