The Colorado statesman., 1920-06-26
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado

/. l.. Beckett of Great Divide has
been appointed postmaster at Craig 10
succeed V. g. Lcdford, who has re-
signed.
Arthur c. McClung, II rancher living
fifteen miles south of Yuma, died of
injuries received when he was kicked
by II horse recently.
Joseph Bell of Sterling. Colo, Bur
lington bridge worker, was killed by
bolt of lightning near Lysite, Wyor
during n thunderstorm.
George Fitch of Denver, who was for
several years teacher of science at the
Golden high school, has been appoint
ed superintendent of schools of Golden
To succeed w. H. Simons.
Two persons were killed and several
injured in wreck of Santa Fe pas
senger train No. 4 near Rene, twelve
miles south of La Junla. Over thirty
passengers We're injured.
John Trella, an employe of the Wolf
Park mine, was fined 500 and costs
in Justice of the Peace Court mt Canon
City for having given away liquor at
the marriage celebration of his daugh-
ter.
Bcrthoud pass is open TO automobile
travel. Rabbit Ear pass is still showed
in and is not expected TO be opened for
month. The Midland trail west of
kremmling is passable, but in very
poor condition.
The Loveland Stock farms of Mount
Pleasant, Iowa, nave purchased Il
white shorthorn heifer from the Max
well-AIilier Cattle Company of Steam
boat Springs To use in its show herd.
The price paid was Sl,SOO.
Accidentally coming into contact
with Il high voltage power line carry
ing 23,OOO volts of electricity. Austin
ovid. 26 years old, Il resident of Grip
pie Creek, and an employe of the Ar
kansas Valley Light and Power Conf
pany, was instantly killed at Cripple
Creek.
Members of the Colorado State Fire
mems Association have filed with Sec
retary of State james 7. holland II pc
tition, signed by $1,000 persons, for an
initiative measure providing for the
installation of the double platoon
system in all of the paid municipal
fire departments in Colorado.
The original plOw used to lay out
the Greeley townsitc in 1870 and por-
trayals of incidents in the history OF
the colony were conspicuous in the
historical pageant during the two-day
festivities in celebration of the found
ing of Greeley by Horace Greeley, fa-
nous editor of the New York Tribune.
Miss Mable Gillings, age n, of Bill
West Thirty-siXth avenue, WAS proba-
bly, fatally injured, and five other Den
YER girls were hurt when an automo-
bile in which they We're riding was
overturned on the Denver and Colo
RADIO Springs road. Miss Gillings suf-
fered n fractured skull and Il broken
shoulder. A
Miss Carrie Shore, 20 years old, of
Parshan, Colo, was killed, and Miss
Hannah Pettingell of Hot sulphur
Springs, Lieut.. Harold Beaton and
ANel Peterson of Parshall were slight
ly injured when the touring car driven
by Lieutenant Beaton plunged into n
gulch on the Dillon mail road, six
miles south OF NTelhinllllS.
Bows hunting for frogs near Craig
discovered what they believed was
doll floating in the water. They in
vestigated and hauled the supposed
doll ashore They were shocked to
find it was dead infant about Z
weeks old. They notified the authori-
ties and the coroner held an inquest.
~
baby was probably dead before being
placed in the branch of Fertilization
creek.
Colorado's financial balance June l
was Sll,120,62T.7 according TO the
quarterly report of State Treasurer
Harry f. MulniX OF this amount S3,-
6Ss,2l5.45 is on deposit in 26O banks
throughout the state. The balance is
invested in the various state funds. or
these the school fund has S6,lST, ,7S4.72
and the compensation insurance fund
has ST69, 1904.
The total valuation of Colorado's
public utilities is S229,195, ,120, IA de-
crease of S2,5S2, ,010 from the 1919 as
scssed valuation, according to II report
by the Colorado State Tax Commission.
The decrease is due largely to the fact
that the assessments of several rail-
roads have been greatly reduced dur
ing the last year and through railroads
having n combined valuation of S1TO,-
$40 having been dismantled within the
last year. The value of the Mountain
States Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany was fixed Mt ST., $40, an in
| crease of S225, 900 over the 1919 valua-
| ton, while the entire assessed valua-
ton of all of the telephone companies
operating in the state was fixed at
/ $40. $50, ,05O. or an increase of $259,250
| over last year.