The Colorado statesman., 1920-05-22
Pithy News Notes
From All Paris of
Colorado

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Great Western Sugar Company will be
located on the w. A. Purvis 2OOucrC
farm adjoining the town limits OF
JOhnstown.
Alex Miller, the dcaf-mutc who is
lodged in the Weld county Jail on a
charge of having murdered Adam
Shank, his wife and four children four
months ago, will be tried the week of
May 81.
The substantial growth OF Golden is
shown by the annual report of IL: T..
Curry, city clerk, who said that ST.
6S009. the largest amount ever col
lected in water rents, was taken in.
The report shows that it cost SIS, ,T33.Gi
10 run the city in the last year. The
city debt is Sl39,OOO.
Professor w J Morrill,, state forest
er and head of the forestry department
of the Colorado Agricultural College,
has distributed this spring at cost
about $1,000 small trees, including
Seeding elm, honey locust. black locust
and Russian olive, and about 15,Ooo
three ycar-old pines. These trees have
gone chiefly 10 farms in eastern Colo
RADIO.
Tony Hanna, well known Fremont
county miner and popular catcher for
the Canon City baseball team, was run
over by Il loaded car in the Wolf Park
coal mine. sustaining Injuries that re-
suited in his death on The way I" the
hospital Hanna was accidentally
thrown from the loaded car on til"
way to the shaft. the ear passing over
his body and manglng him So badly
That he never rcg;lined consciousness
and died before he reached the huspital
in Canon City
With MontroSp at one end and Du.
range at the other end of probably the
greatest cNpausc Of scenic beauty in
the world, tO he made accessible Ia
travel, thousands of citizens are eager
ly awaiting the completion of the l)u-
range Silverton highway This road
will enable thousands of tourists each
wear To visit one part of Colorado HAT
has been IL closed book to all except
tourists who seek the most rugged
scenery, regardless of the trouble and
Inconvenience Of getting to it.
A. f.. Evans Dumwody, Il wealthy res
ident of Colorado Springs for twenty
years, dropped dead in Philadeil hia,
Pa, of heart disease, according 10 Il
message received from there. He and
his wife, Mrs. Sarah DunwOdy, left
Colorado Springs with the intention of
spending several weeks in the East,
where they visited frequently. Mr..
Dunwody, who WAS - years old, came
to Colorado Springs many years ago
for his health and had lived part of
each year since then in that city.
Thousands of dollars worth of fur.
niture seized by the police in Denver
during raids on alleged gambling
houses has been turned over to the
Salvation Army by Chief of Police
Hamilton Armstrong and VIII he used
in furnishing that organizations new
quarters in Denver. such furniture
is usually destroyed, hut realizing
that it would he put to good pur'
pose by giving 1t to the salvation
Army, Chief Armstrong consented TO
its being disposed Of in that manner.
Alberto Madrid. railroad worker at
Trinchera. who was arrested mt that
place and lodged in the county jail at
| Trinidad, confessed to District Attor-
ney ]. w. Hawley that he attacked
with an AK Valentine Anaya, bafber
| at Trinchern, while the latter was
asleep i'm his bed. inflicting injuries
which are expected TO cause the death
of the victim Madrid declared the
assault was committed with the mo-
tive of robbery and that he had taken
$50. all the money that Anayu had AT
| the time.
A fund has been opened at Fort Cot
Iins to finance Il recount. if il car be
obtained. of Fort Collins population.
The Commercial club lelegraphed Con
grcSsman Charles Timberlake asking
him to endeuvor to prevail upon the
Census Bureau to make Il second count
for the city.
The Boy Scouts of Longmont, Louis
Vile, Nederland and Boulder will co
operate in field day exercises at the
| Colorado ChautauQua at Boulder an
May 20 The Boulder brass band will
assist in the program and will lead the
parade. An extensive program, fol
lowed by an all-night pow-wow at the
camp of Troop No. 3, south of Boulder
has been arranged for by Scout EXecu
tive C. w. Badger.
Citizens of Grand county and north
western Colorado generally. holding 2
mass meeting at Hot Sulphur Spr'' gs,
| following the opening of the Moffat
road, adopted resolution in which
they expressed their gratitude TO res
| idents of Denver, the operating force
| Of the Moffat road, the State Highway
Commission and others for their ef-
| forts in breaking the recent serious
snow blockade on the Moffat system.