The Colorado statesman., 1920-11-20
Pithy News Notes
From An Parts of
Colorado

The City Council of Loveland plans
to improve the public library, parks,
streets and alleys.
Work has been started on the par
ish house of st. Nicholas church of
Platteville. The building will cost
$7,750.
A swing that went wrong, while
John l.. Lemons of Denver was chop
ping wood, led to his death in ST.
Luke's hospital.
The final chapter was written in
Denver's tramway controversy when
the striking car men voted almost
unanimously to return to work.
Grand Junction police believe that
the bank bandits who were killed near
Colorado Springs recently were the
same men who operated successfully
in this district
Dave Williams, negro, on trial in
the District Court before Judge j. A.
Park for the murder of John Shan
non on July of this year, has been
found guilty of voluntary manslaugh-
ter by the jury.
One of the largest ranches in the
Pixies Peak region, the former
Zanger ranch, has been sold by its
present owner, Jonathan Bingham, to
II. d. Richeson and others. The
ranch consists of $40 acres.
Completing her record with pro-
duction of 1O,6S6.6 pounds of milk and
62OS7 pounds of fat, Rainbow's Ro-
sette, 3112S6, owned by the Agricul-
tural College here, is now champion
of her class in Colorado. Her record
was begun at 4 years and s months
of age.
C. NJ. johnson, so, a Cherokee In
dian who shot and killed his 25-year-
old wife after they had quarreled,
his head at his home at Cedars,
was found dead with bullet hole in
near La Junta. Julian Whatley,
father of Mrs. Johnson. is missing
and it is believed he killed Johnson.
Police have started a search for
Whatley.
The gates of Denver We're thrown
open amid rOusing welcome by the
city's leading citizens and representa-
tives of more than twenty civic organ
| iZations to the Park-to-Park trail blaz-
ers to celebrate the completion of the
dedication of "America's master high
way" $500 miles long, connecting
eleven national parks and unsurpassed
for scenic grandeur.
A road project calling for the ex-
penditure of $57,5OO, for the con-
struction of one and three-tenths
miles of concrete road between Den
yer and Boulder creek has been sub
mitted to the United States bureau
uf public roads for federal aid The
road is to be eighteen feet wide. If
approved by the Washington office.
date.
X. v. Kyrklund of Colorado
Springs, retired boatswain in the
United States navy, received one of
the thirteen distinguished service
medals which have been awarded in
that branch of the service. Kyrk-
lund is credited with having saved
the lives of about II 900 American
soldiers and sailors while serN ng
aboard the U. S. S. Downs, torpedo
boat destroyer.
Eight new military units, includ-
ing a tank corps company, equipped
with fifteen tanks, a squadron of
thirteen airplanes, combat engi-
neering battalion, squadron of cav
airy. two batteries and one regiment
of field artillery and a medical corps
regiment, have been allotted to Colo
RADIO temporarily under the new re-
organization plan of the National
Guard, according to announcement
made by Adjt Gen. w. A. Spangler.
The Great Western Sugar Company
paid beet growers in Logan county
s2,5OO,OOO. This is the highest
amount ever paid in that district.
Fire of an unknown origin destroyed
the Currle fruit canning factory, one
of the largest canning plants in the
West, at Grand Junction. The loss is
estimated Mt 100000, according to of
ficials of the company. The fire
started in the elevator shaft. The
structure was three stories high. The
factory employed 200 persons, mostly
girls. 1t had just finished canning to-
matoes and had started on the apple
crop. About $4,000 worth of apple
butter was ruined.
Out of 13,25O,OOO acres of nation
al forest land in Colorado, only IA
acres were burned over by forest
fires in the season just ended, ac-
cording to Wallace Hutchinson of the
forestry service. The cost of fighting
the fires, 11S in number, was $4S1.
Timber destroyed amounted to 371,-
900 board feet, worth approximately
S1,113. Seventy-eight per cent OF
the fires were less than quarter of
an acre in extent. The record is con-
| sidered an excellent one when com