The Colorado statesman., 1920-08-21
Pithy News Notes
From An Parts of
Colorado

elevator.
The Monte Vista second annual
stampede" proved one Of the best
events of its kind held in Colorado in
recent years The program featured
| twenty of the best riders who took
part in the Cheyenne Frontier day
celebrations, including Miss Wyoming
More than 10000 persons attended the
fair, which was held at Monte Vista
on Aug. 1 to @. A special carload of
longhorn steers were shipped from
Texas for the occasion, in addition to
sixty head of running horses
william Ziensenhenne, Cripple
| Creeks near "Enoch Arden" has re-
turned to his wife and two children,
now grown to manhood, whom he left
eighteen years ago. He stepped out
of the automobile that had brought
him over the mountains from Colorado
Springs and entered n home that had
had another husband and hlther after
the wife he married twenty-three years
ago had remained faithful TO him for
ten years while, supposedly dead, he
was "hoboinG' around the country.
The Denver 4 Salt Lake Railroad
Company has filed with the State Pub
lie Utilities Commission Il petition re-
questing that it be permitted to adj
vance freight rates ON its line 10 per
cent over existing rates, instead of %
per cent as requested by the other
Colorado railroads located in the terri
tory west of a line drawn north and
south through the Colorado common
points. which include Cheyenne, Den
yer. Colorado Springs, Pueblo and Trim
idad.
Nearly complete reports received by
the State immigration Department
from county assessors show that the
area i'm cultivation in Colorado this
year is slightly in excess of o,ooo,ooo
acres, exclusive of orchards, compared
with total of 4,T95, 1872 acres reported
in cultivation by county assessors last
wear, These figures include the area
devoted to wild hay, amounting 10
about 100000 acres each year. Inc
largest increases in cultivated acreage
this year are in the areas devoted TO
winter wheat and corn, with consider
able increases in acreage of sorghum
crops and moderate increases In alfai-
ia acreage. The reports of county as
SCISSORS show that something more than
$50. 600 acres of raw land was broken
for the first time this year, compared
with about 3Tj,000 acres broken last
year.
Stirred to action by numerous auto
mobile accidents on state highways,
the members of the state highway com
mission have promulgated traftic
code for all state highways. The chief
nroyisions of the new traffic code for
automobiles on state highways are:
Speed limit for automobiles, thirty
five miles an hour on ordinary roads
and twenty miles an hour on noun
tain roads. Speed on all turns limited
TO eighteen miles an hour. Speed of
vehicles weighing between 5000 ana
10000 pounds limited 10 fifteen miles
and for vehicles weighing in excess OF
10000 pounds to ten miles an hour.
Width of vehicles using prairie ROADS
limited to twelve feet and mountain
roads to nine feet. Automobiles required
10 carry two front and one rear light.
All other vehicles. including bicycles
motorcycles and wagons must carry
one white and one red lamp. Vehicles
overtaking another vehicle going in the
same direction must sound Il warning
signal before passing. Vehicles going
in opposite direction must pass on the
right A vehicle passing another going
in the SAL direction must pass to IT,
left.
Charles McCarty, neld on bur
glary charge at Topeka, Kan, con-
tossed that he is an escaped convict
from the Colorado state penitentiary
at Canon City. He expressed a desire
TO be returned to Canon City rather
than stand trial.
The twenty-third annual meeting of
the Colorado Bar Association was held
in the court house at Colorado
Springs. At the same time and place
the annual meeting of the State
Judges Association was held. Speak
ers at the meeting We're w. L. Dayton,
president; Gov. Henry j. Allen OF
Kansas, Judge Jesse G. Norcutt of
Trinidad, and Senator Charles 5.
Thomas.
A new valuation on Logan county
land was established when Henry
rherkhorn, owner of II five-acre tract
n short distance south of Sterling,
along the Lincoln highway refused an
offer of $1,000 for his place. This is
equa; to $1,400 an acre, but includes
all improvements, and if the cost of
the latter were deducted the price
would represent at least $500 an acre,
as the improvements could be replaced
for $1,000.
Plans and specifications have been
completed in the office of X. G. Par
vim, state game and fish commissioner,