The Colorado statesman., 1920-04-10
Pithy News Notes
From An Parts of
Colorado

Opening OF the Muncey nara conl ue-
posts in the Ragged mountains In
western Gunnison county is announced
MS one of many development projects
to he undertaken in that county this
summer.
Greeley painters and .paperhangers
were given % per cent Increase In
wages by the contractors The men
have been receiving so cents an hour
for an eight-hour day, but the wage
was raised to 81 an hour.
Trout streams in the Montrose sec
tion will be wonderful meccas for an
glers this year, according to announce
ment by George l.. Price, secretary of
who stated that arrangements had
been made for an unusually large
stock for the local streams.
Arthur Davis, "a, "a taxi driver, was
cut TO ribbons when his car hit the
rear end OF truck near the Union sta
tion at Pueblo. He was hurled through
the windshield and fell to the pave
ment thirty feet from where the COLI
sion occurred. He died few minutes
later
With the arrest in Denver of man
giving the name of "A. +. Jones, the
local police and state brand inspectors
believe they have captured the man
who has stolen at least $4,000 worth
of cattle in Colorado during the last
few weeks. Jones is being held in the
Denver city jail.
Inheritance taxes received by the
state for the last half of March to-
tailed $49,S25.94, bringing the total re-
ceipts for the biennial period 10 date
TO slightly over Il million dollars. The
largest taxes were on the estates or
Amelia o. Peters and Lewis c. Colds
borough, which were appraised al
more than 100000 each.
Americanization work will be empha-
sized during the summer quarter of
the University of Colorado, which
opens June IA Three courses in Amer
icanization will he conducted and the
training will be supplemented by lee
lures delivered during the quarter by
noted educators and Americanization
workers from all parts of the country.
Grand Junction will raise $1,000, and
Mesa, DeBeque and Palisade will each
raise like amount, to make the S4''
600 which the government says must
be raised to pay for the building OF
the link road between Mesa, Colo, and
the national forest. 'khe edge to con
meet Mesa. Colo, with the Mesa lakes.
The government is to spend $4,000 on
the roal. work on which will be start
ed shortly.
One thousand, five hundred ana six
ty pieces of war material captured by
American troops from the German
army will be distributed in Colorado,
according to confidential memoran
dunn sent by the War Department to
Chairman julius Kahn of the House
military committee. The various
states will share, according to the per-
centage of troops furnished in the al
lotment of 2,19T pieces of artillery, H.
600 war vehicles and S41 ,111 small ar
tlcles OF various kinds.
Chief Quartermaster Edeart l.. Ost-
rander, who resides at Golden, Colo,
re-enlisted at the navy yard, ut Ports
mouth, n. H., and has been trans
ferred to the U. S. Navy Recruiting
Station, Denver, Colo. Chief Ostran-
der is considered n first-class athlete,
motorcyclipg being his long suit, and
is ready for a race at any time. While
at the Portsmouth station he organized
the All Navy Basketball team that won
40 of the A games they played, there
by carrying away the big cup. While
in the Asiatic fleet he was coxswan Of
the fast U. S. S. Denver race boat that
cleaned up the station.
Five hundred pounds of coal fell
from the roof of mine near Lafay-
ette, pinning James Snow to the
ground and SO badly injuring him that
he nav lose Il leg lie was taken to
the University hospital at Boulder
and surgeons stated that 1t was the
worst injury of the kind they had
ever seen.
According to information received by
the Colorado Cooperative Crop Report
ing Service, through the Colorado
branch of the U. S. Bureau of Mar
kets, there are in the state yet TO be
shipped only about 500 cars of pota-
toes from the 1919 crop, compared
with about 5000 cars at this time last
year. Shippers in the Northern Colo
RADIO district were receiving 50 per cwt.
for potatoes about the middle OF
March, which is said to be the record
price at that season during the his
tory of the potato industry there. Rec
ords of the Bureau of Crop Estimates
and the Bureau of Markets show that
I'D to March Goth there had been S,514
carloads of potatoes shipped from
points in Colorado, compared with
IL ,222 carloads shipped to the same
date last year and total shipment
from the 1Q1S crnn of l3RI7 carloads.