The Raymer enterprise., 1920-10-14
Pthy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
More than 5000 In diamonds and
other jewelry was stolen from the
palatial home OF L. II. Guldman head
Of the Golden Eagle Dry Goods Com.
pany In Denver.
Denver will have another mountain
park In the near future II plans o!
Deputy City Attorney Minor T.
Gleaves for the requirement Of 34u
acres near Georgetown materialize.
The deraillng OF passenger train
on the Rio Grande Southern railroad
at Valley View, nine miles south OF
Ridgeway. Colo, resulted In the In
jury Of twenty-five persons, none sert
ously.
There are more than $500. 900 acres
Of land, not including orchards, 10
cultivation this year, compared with
1870, ,948 acres last year, Howard Sui
livan. deputy state immigration com
missioner, has announced.
The celebration Of the opening Of
the Poudre canon road as far up al
to the Rustic, which is to be given
Oct. l2, Columbus Day, will be an elab
crate affair, and plans are rapidly
taking shape for the occasion.
Orchard mesa, the highland section
lying across the Grand River south
Of Grand Junction, was awarded the
sweepstakes on community exhibits at
the Intermountain Fair and Live Stocb
Association fair at Grand Junction.
William Norell Of Walden accom-
panied q shipment Of cattle to Omaha
and while the train stopped neal
LaSalle, Colo, couple of tramps helt
up one Of the men who were with
Norell and secured between SIS ane
500.
Recruiting offices for the Colorado
national guard have been opened II
Denver. with Col Joseph c. Taylor II
charge. All members OF the old guard
organizations will be mustered out ant
new units are to be recruited In Den
yer as well as over the state.
The tramway strike cost the city
and county Of Denver more than $3S,
700. The figures indicating what thu
taxpayers must pay for the city's un
preparedness to meet such situatIon.
as the rloting incident to the strike
were made public by Deputy Cit!
Auditor Alvin II. Plckens.
Frank Crawford, thirty-three. super
intendent Of the United Gold Mine.
Company's Elkton and FL Paso minei
at Cripple Creek, was fatally injured
when he and a horse on which he wa.
riding fell over seventy ty-five-foot EN-
bankment near Anaconda. Lacerations
about the head and internal injuries
resulted from the fall.
Colorado's coal production amountet
to $4,000 tons In August, according Il
figures based on railroad shipments
announced by the geological survey
The August output exceeds that o.
July by $4,000 tons, the figures show
During the first eight months OF tn,
year 1920, Colorado produced 6,129,0N
tons.
A fifty-cent Increase In the price,
Of all coal, effective Oct. /, was an
nounced by the Colorado Fuel ant
Iron Company. 1t was explained tina
this increase was due to the wage In
creases recently granted the men. ant
that no further increases, as near a.
can be Judged at this time, are an
ticipated In the near future.
II present plans are realized. thu
Denver 4 Rio Grande railroad will bt
purchased by the Western PacifI,
Railroad Company next month, accord
ing to information received In Denver
The property Is to be sold at the fed
eral building in Denver, Nov. 90, un
der an order Of the United States Dis
trict Court to satisfy a Judgment fol
500, 10000 obtained by bondholders 0,
the Western Pacific Railroad.
Approximately $500 teachers are ex
pected to attend the annual convention
Of the Colorado Education Association
to be held in Denver, Pueblo ant
Grand Junction from Nov. 2 to Nov. 6
Lieut.. Arthur C. Wagner Of tht
naval air service, who formerly wal
connected with the Denver police de
partment, was killed ut Hartford
Conn.,, when naval airplane in which
he was riding with Lieut.. Com. VII
liam Merrill Cory, Jr., commanding Of
flcer Of the aviation section of the At
lantlc fleet, crashed to the ground OF
the Hartford Golf Club course.
Reports Of county assessors to tn,
State immigration Department show
that Phillips county again leads thu
state In percentage of its land II
cultivation, with Logan and Sedgwick
adjoining counties, ranking second ant
third respectively. The report this
year shows that Phillips county ha.
Abs per cent of its area under cult
walton, Logan county, 34.G0. and Sedg
wick county, 3003 OF six counties
in the northeast corner of the state
each shows more than 20 per cent Of
Its area in cultivation, while for thu
state as whole the nercentnn 90 |.