The Colorado statesman., 1920-03-20
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Citizens OF Cedaredge will vote on
a bond issue this spring for the in
stallation of cement sidewalks through
out the town.
Boulder has purchased 400 acres OF
land along the watershed of North
Boulder creek to protect the city's wat
er supply.
Denver's population is 2oS,973, ac-
cordlng TO semi-official reports of the
census recheck now being made In
Washington.
Frank Heagler, 20, was Instantly
killed at Fort Lupton, at the Indus
trial Sugar Company's plant when The
cable of huge steam shovel broke,
allowing a two-ton bucket to strike
him on the back.
Colorado's school fund is receiving
yearly revenue of So, ,025.25 from
oil leases ON state school land, accord
ing to report compiled by Horace
Havens, mineral superintendent of the
State Board OF Land Commissioners.
William Hogan of New York city
Company for 100000. alleging that as
n consequence of one of the milk com
panys horses having bitten his wife
few months before his baby Jeanette
was born, the child came into the
world physically deformed.
A luncheon meeting in honor Of
President L. NJ. Hopkins of Dartmouth
College and DIR. Louis Parkhurst Of
Boston, nationally known educator,
is to be held by the Denver Civic ana
Legislative Bureau on April 1st. The
two educators will visit Denver at
that time during tour in the interest
of educational advancement
George Barrick, A, and Earl Walker,
81. were smothered to death by cave
in at The 'Golightly clay mine near
Golden. The bodies of both men were
recovered by fellow workmen an hour
after the accident. The cave-in oc-
Cured in new vein, which Is sup
posed 10 be very solid md came with
out warning whatever, according to
Witnesses.
The work OF paving the Santa Fe
trail will begin when the contractors
will start the excavation work. Sev-
araI one-mile sections will be laid this
spring, the first just east of Rocky
Ford, then mile just west of La
Junta and other sections in ManZan-
ola and Fowler. In few years the
entire trail from the Kansas line 70
Denver will be paved
More than $1,000 was raised at
Montrose by committee to insure the
construction of the new court house
for Montrose county on new site,
instead of building il on the present
site of the old court house which has
served the county since its incorpora-
ton, but which is now being sur
rounded by wholesale houses, produce
markets and railroad switches.
Colorado employees of the Colorado
Fuel and Iron Company suffered a
loss of S2,471, ,005 in wages as result
of the recent steel strike, and Wyo-
ming employees of the corporation lost
S161 400, making a grand total OF 81
632 ,504, according to report flleu
with the State Industrial Commission
by Fred Farrer, general counsel for
the company.
Alexander 4. vogelsang, the first as
sistant secretary of the interior, has
designated 423,050 acres of land in
the Leadville district as chiefly valu-
able for grazing and the raising of
forage crops and as subject to entry
under the stock raising homestead
applied for heretofore by several hun
dred homesteaders in the Leadville dis
trict.
Mrs. Charles b. Timberlake, the
wife of the representative from tho
Second Congressional District of Col.
orado, died at the Emergency Hospi-,
tal, Washington, ID. c., from an attack
like sleeping sickness, superinduced
by influenza.
Employees of the Colorado Springs
Light, Heat and Power Company have
asked for wage increase of 40 per
cent. Rush L. Holland, vice president
of the utility company, said that 1t was
impossible to grant the workmen n
raise under the existing operation con-
dtions 1t is probable that the EN-
ployes will petition the City Council
for an increase in gas and electric
rates so that the wage increase may
be granted.
Approximately $3OO,0 900 of permanent
state school funds have been invested
in state, school and water bonds since
the first of the present month, says
State Treasurer Harry L. Mulnix. or
this amount $95,O0O was used to pur
chase state bonds of the national de-
fense series of 1917 to provide funds
with which to take up certificates of
Indebtedness issued in connection with