The Colorado statesman., 1920-04-24
Pithy News Notes
From An Parts of
Colorado

| Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Three persons We're frozen to death,
third killed in an accident, and
fourth is reported dying MS the result
of exposure suffered during the uu-
usually violent April storm which
swept across Colorado recently.
Steamboat Springs has donated
plot of ground and water for a new
fish hatchery and has subscribed more
than $1,000 to supplement the amount
appropriated by the last legislature.
Work is to begin soon. and 1t is eN-
pected the plant will be ready for
spring hatch of rainbow trout.
Routt county will be benefited by
the appropriation of $4,000 to open
the Gore road. which will give short
route TO Denver This road will open
through highway across tie entire
length of the county, which will be
passable at least TWO months logger
than any other road over the range.
A total of 40 saigon ioads of trash
represents Grand functions cleanup
campaign. The rubbish has leen
hauled. making the cleanup one of the
most eXtens We in the city's history.
| City Commissioner Holmburg is plan
ming new ash can ordinance and
other plans 10 make the city cleaner
and more sanitary.
l.. L. Hennigan OF Loveland was
sentenced to from two TO four years
In the penitentiary for the theft of
twelve sacks of IS spuds from a farm
er near town. Ralph LaNasSer, who
was apprehendcd by writing back from
| Nebraska for supplies for stolen mo
torcycle, was sentenced to the reform
atory in Buena Vista.
A new broad gauge railroad is being
| built by the United States Portland
| Cement Company nj Concrete, Just
east of Florence The line will tap an
| enormous deposit Of limestone on Bea-
yer creek. Work is progressing rapid
| ly under the direction of james Spry-
| ker of Denver, who has IL contract for
the entire line. The new quarrieS to
be tapped will he ready for operation
by May ], when it is hoped to have the
road completed.
Every employe OF the Out West
| Printing Company received amounts
ranging from 500 to $4,000 from the
estate of Charles Il. Ferrin. president
of the company. who recently died at
Colorado Springs. In the will which
was read the Salvation Army, the Y.
NJ. C. A. and the Y. w. c. A. are named
MS residuary legatees These three or
| ganizations will share equally between
$4,000 and 100000. the residue of an
estate valued at from 100000 to S123,-
600
In a fit of insane jealousy prompted
by the estrangement of IL woman's af-
fections from himself 10 a 19-year-od
hoy, Henry Ritter, ~. shot and killed
Mrs. Bessie Rails, 2S, IL divorcee and
reputed heir to an immense fortune,
| in Denver. As the woman fell to the
| floor dead, Ritter turned and fired one
shot at her alleged sweetheart, Earl
| Brown. The bullet went wide, and Rit-
ter then trained the pistol on himself
and dropped TO bed with bullet
through his heart.
The manufacturing survey now be-
ing conducted by the State ImmiSra-
| tion Department reveals the fact that
the alfalfa milling industry is rapidly
! coming to the front rs one of the lead
ing manufacturing industries in the
state, with an annual output worth
above S5,0OO,000 This industry has
developed very rapidly in the past
| four years and is increasing in import
ance each year II is highly developed
In the Arkansas valley and in the
north-central part of the state, in the
districts where alfalfa is most eXten-
sively grown.
Insect control work to wipe out the
bark BEETLES that have killed millions
of feet of valuable timber in the Du-
rnngo, San Juan and Montezuma ma
tional forests of southern Colorado,
will again be started this spring, ac-
cording to report by Assistant Dis
trict Forester c. NJ. Granger of the
Denver Forest Service headquarters
In view of the tremendous demand
for gold metal, it is interesting to note
that among the recent developments
is the opening Of the famous Shafter
mine at Idaho Springs. The mine,
which has a record production of more
than million dollars, has lain idle
for years, owing to the death of the
principal owner, Thomas Patton of
New York.
Peter G. Mcnamara and Charles Te-
revich, cagemen at the Tomboy mine,
were instantly killed at Telluride
when they We're caught between the
cage and timbers in the shaft They
were riding up in an empty car on
the cage plntform when the car tipped
as the weight shifted, throwing both
into the timbers breaking their necks
and crushing their heads. Terevich