Gilpin observer., 1920-04-15
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

cattle, w. II. Hopper, prominent cat
tleman living on Tallahassee creek, Is
in hospital in Cafion City in seri-
Gus cOnSition as the result of bullet
wound received in his right leg and
the loss Of blood. Charles Rauber, &
well-known rancher living in the west
ern part of Fremont county, is in jail
at the same place charged with the
shooting. The battle is said to have
resulted from an alteration over cat
tie belonging to Hopper. who main
tained that Rauber, who was being
paid by him to feed them, was not
obeying an agreement they had made.
Greeley has 1929 residents, accord.
Ing to the unofficial census completed
by local publishing company, which
is preparing city directory. The un-
official census was taken with a great
deal of care and its figures tally close
ly with estimates of the city officials,
based on number of water users, and
also with statistics showing the in-
crease in housing facilities. The count
taken for the city directory in April,
1918, showed 1927 people. The Off
Clul lSSV CELSIUS COUNT UIl NTetley HIN
not been published as yet.
A change of venue to Greeley in
Weld county will be asked in the case
of Rienzi Dickens, accused of muir
dering his father, William III. Dickens,
LOngmont pioneer and banker. on Nov.
80, 1915. Rienzi Dickens attorneys al
lege popular prejudice. RienZi Dick
ems has been ordered to ap-
pear in the District Court
on Wednesday, April IA, when District
Attorney II. w. Fleming will ask for
Judgment on the remittitur in the SUI
preme court, and date for new
trial of the case.
field, probably in Colorado, for the
purpose of patroling the United
States national forests in Colorado
and other states in this district, is
very likely, according to Allen s.
Peck, district forester The air serv
ice fire patrol of the United States
forest service is meeting with great
success on the Pacific coast, accord
ing to Fred Morrell, assistant district
forester, who has just returned from
the Law Enforcement conference at
San Francisco
Ray Sherman, a student at the Uni
versity of Colorado and son of G. II.
Sherman, a banker and mining man
of Boulder, is dead; Harold Muth, IL
companion, lies seriously injured at
the county hospital in Denver, while
John Evans, Harold Aitken and Bea-
trice Williams, college chums of the
two men, sustained minor injuries as
a result Of a collision between their
automobile and machine driven by
John Musser at East Seventeenth ave-
nue. and Franklin street, in Denver.
Five thousand people attended Hol-
ly's fourth annual dairy celebration,
which. for magnitude and general ex
cellence, eclipsed any of the shows
given in previous years. There We're
more than 100 entries in the pure. bred
HOlstein cattle show and more than
sixty entries in the horse show. A fine
poultry show was added to this years
exhibition for the purpose of stimulat-
ing the poultry industry in the Holly
district of the lower Arkansas valley.
An auction sale of 5,966 acres of
state school land, which was held in
the House of Representatives at the
capitol by the State Board OF Land
Commissioners, netted $125, ,220.62. The
average sale price per acre was S2O.09,
and the land is located in AlamOsa,
Bent, Clear Creek, jefferson, COnejOs,
Ebert. FL Paso, Larimer, Lincoln, Lo-
gan, Montezuma, Rio Grande, Routt,
Washington and Yuma counties.
Announcement has been made by
President c. A. Duniway Of Colorado
College that tuition at the college next
year will be $120 year, an increase
of $40 year. Increases in salaries
of professors is responsible for the
boost, he said. 1t is estimated that
the increase will add $4,000 n year to
the college funds.
Twenty-Five landowners Of the Gree.
ley-Poudre irrigation district, including
members of the GreeleyPoudre board,
have taken physical possession of the
Cobb lake inlet canal. Men who were
engaged with scrapers and other i'm
plements on the embankments of the
canal have been ordered off the prop.
erty and have been warned against
further trespassing, according to re.
ports from Greeley.
John Rack, farmer, charged with
manufacturing liquor on his ranch,
eighteen miles south Of Fort Morgan,
was convicted in District Court and
sentenced to serve six months in the
county Jail and to pay the costs of the
trial. Rack pleaded guilty after TWEEN.
ty-five witnesses had been heard The
| trial of Alexander Burghard who yas