The Colorado statesman., 1920-07-17
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado

| Western Newspaper Union News Service
Grand Juuction's three banks, in
their statements just issued, show to-
tai resources of more than Si,6Ou.uOO,
This is the largest total ever known al
this time of the year in that valley.
\ number of new professors and in-
structors have just been appointed to
| positions in the Colorado Agricultural
| College nt Fort Collins. Among the de-
pnrtments which have found ii neces-
sary to increase the size of their
teaching staffs are the farm manage
mcnt, mathematics, horticulture, librl-
nv, animal husbundry, agronomy and
chemistry.
| J. G. Thompson was arrested by
Sheriff j. +. Whittier at Sterling
nfter the discovery of IA well-appOinted
whisky still in Thompson's home. The
still, which was of fifteengallOn ca
pacity, is the most complete yet found
In that part of the country, according
TO Sheriff Whittier. Four barrels of
mash aud four gallons of "moonshine'
were confiscated.
Two men were instantly killed and
one badly injured in an explosion at
the Sunnyside mine, Silverton. The
dead are l.. Edmunio Martinez and j.
w. Virgil. l. Valdez was injured. SIX
shots had been put into drift and the
men, thinking all of the blasts had eX-
ploded, went into the mine. They were
caught by the last explosion and liter
ally blown to pieces.
That all the lafes on Grand Mesa
are full to overflowing is the report OF
| c. Jacques, superintendent, who has
lust visited all of the important lakes
| He makes one exception only in re-
porting that Deep Ward lake only has
| 14.7 feet of water. The snow has not
all melted yet in the lake section ana
the supply of water for irrigation pur-
poses is very large.
The State Land Board held sale in
the House of Representatives. chamber
in the Capitol ut Denver at which 9ss}SI
acres of state land We're disposed OF
ut an average price of S22.60 an acre.
The highest price paid was SIP for
land in jefferson county, and the total
proceeds of the sale amounted To
S14I3SO. The land sold at the sale
last month was 5,SI0 acres. The gain
this month was 547 acres.
Harvey C. Neese, go night marshal
of Cripple Creek, was shot through the
| lung ut Cripple Creek by William
Sloane. former city fireman, and died
in the Sisters hospital seven hours
| later Sloan is in Jail charged with
the killing. The shooting took place
in the middle of the main business
IL is said under
the Influence of intoXicants and was
causing a disturbance.
The body of an unidentified man,
murdered, was found by party OF
tourists on the Salt Creek road, just
off the Santa Fe trail near Pueblo.
| There were indications that the man,
who is believed to have been an Ital-
ian. had been assaulted within the city
and the body carried by automobile to
the point where it was found. The
head had been beaten by heavy in
| strument.
The number of inquiries being re-
ceived by the State Immigration De
partment at the present time Indicate
| that the demand for Colorado lands by
| neople in other states is not quite so
| heavy as it was last fall and winter.
| The general impression is that II con-
siderable construction in the money
market has slowed down the demand
| for land to some extent in all parts OF
the country, but that renewed de-
mand will be evident Immediately art
er crops begin to market. Crop condi-
| tiOns in Colorado are exceptionally
| good at this time and land men gener-
ally look for an excellent movement of
farm land this fall.
The Colorado Packing Company
plant at Delta is nearly done and the
| plant is casting about for 800 girls to
| he employed there as soon as business
opens up.
News has reached Nucla of the
death in Laurel. Mont, of Thomas An
derson, G-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
| G. ]. Anderson, formerly of Nucla. The
little boy was struck by n string of
freight cars, run over and killed.
Jason C. Brown, 6S, pioneer rancher
of Turkey Creek Canon and of late
wears a resident of Canon City, was
killed early today when he walked out
ON the porch of the Cliff House, where
he was stopping, and fell off, his head
striking a large boulder. He was I'M
married and came to this region fifty
wears ago from Adell, Iowa.
Golden is about to initiate an eNten-
sive paving program. 1t is the inten-
tion of the Golden city officials to is
sue bonds for the construction of as
phalt or concrete paving from the end
of the Denver-Golden paved road
through the city, and to the foot OF
Lookout mountain. Other thorough
fares in the town are to be paved also.
The cost of the proposed improve
ments is estimated at 100000