The Colorado statesman., 1920-10-16
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado

Wettern newspaper Union NEWS SerNiSe.
A. ]. Bryant and Navajo Martinas,
prisoners in the San Juan county jail,
escaped by digging out motar between
the bricks in a wall OF the jail, last
week at Sllverton.
Denver will have another mountain
park in the near future If plans Of
Deputy City Attorney Milnor f.
Gleaves for the requirement of $40
acres near Georgetown materialize
william Norell of Walden accom-
panied shipment of cattle to Omaha,
and while the train stopped near
LaSalle, Colo, a couple of tramps held
up one of the men who were with
Norell and secured between S15 and
$50.
Colorado's coal production amounted
to $4,000 tons in August, according to
figures based on railroad shipments,
announced by the geological survey
The August output exceeds that of
July by $4,000 tons, the figures show.
During the first eight months of the
year 1920, Colorado produced 6, 6,129,0OO
tons.
labor are being met more promptly in
Colorado this fall than for several
years, according to statement made
by Labor Commissioner w. l.. Nor
rissey. Farmers and fruit growers in
many sections of the state, where hun
dreds of men and women are needed
| for a rush season, have been able to
secure ample help, reports coming to
this office show.
BENJAMIN J. Salmon, Denver Stacker
who has been on hunger strike in
| st. Elizabeth's Military Hospital for
the insane at Washington, ID. c., since
July 10, was declared sane by Justice
Bailey of the District of Columbia Su-
preme Court, according to dispatches
received. Salmon will remain in the
hospital pending the disposition OF
court proceedings against the War De-
partment for his release.
If present plans are realized, the
Denver & Rio Grande railroad will be
purchased by the Western Pacific
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. 20, un-
der an order of the United States Dis
trict Court to satisfy a judgment for
S36,OOO,O 900 obtained by bondholders Of
| the Western Pacific Railroad.
District Judge G. H. Bradfield Of
| Boulder has set Oct % as the date
| for the hearing of the motion for a
change of venue in the murder trial
| of Rienzi Dickens, who is now ut the
home of his mother in Longmont. At
| torneys for Dickens claim that preju-
| dice is so strong against their client
in Northern Colorado that it would be
| impossible for him to get a fair trial
in Boulder, Larimer or Weld counties.
| Affidavits supporting this claim were
| filed in the District Court two months
ago. Later District Attorney Fleming
filed counter affidavits denying that
this was true.
The average size of farms in Colo
RADIO this year, as reported by county
assessors, is 1857 acres, compared
with 2S0S acres last year. The aver
age size of farms as reported by the
census bureau in 1910 was 293.1 acres.
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farms as reported by the census bu-
reau this year will be considerably
| greater than that reported to the I'M
migration Department, since assessors
report only farms on which land Is
actually being cultivated, while the
census bureau receives reports on a
considerable number of very large
farms used only for grazing purposes.
| These pasture farms will increase the
average size of all farms considerably
over that reported by county assessors.
The celebration of the opening of
| the Poudre canon road as far up as
to the Rustic, which is to be given
| Oct. IL, Columbus Day, will be an elab-
crate affair, and plans are rapidly
taking shape for the occasion.
Complete reports made by county
assessors to the State Immigration De-
partment show 3,427 farm tractors
owned and operated by the farmers of
| Colorado, an increase of 1,1S0 over the
number reported by assessors last
year. Every county in the state but
six reports farm tractors in operation,
and every county but three, Adams,
Arapahoe and Washington, reports n
larger number than was reported last
wear. Some idea of the rapid increase
in this class of farm equipment may
be gathered from the reports made by
a few counties this year and last year.
Logan county reported 225 farm trac-
tors last year and 369 this year; Phil
lps county, 146 last year and 244 this
year: Ebert county, II last year and
131 this year; Prowers county, 81 last
year and 81 this year; Weld county,
365 last year and 504 this year. Weld
county ranks first in number of farm
tractors and Logan county second.