Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1920-10-15
Pithy News Notes
From An Parts of
Colorado

| A. j. Bryant and Navajo MartiDas,
prisoners in the San Juan county Jail,
escaped by digging out notar between
the bricks in wall OF the jail, last
| week at Silverton.
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 materiallze.
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 SIS and
500.
Colorado's coal production amounted
to SS5,000 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 6,129,000
| tons.
Demands for skilled and common
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 rush season, have been able to
secure ample help, reports coming to
this office show
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| 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. 90 un-
der an order of the United States Dis
trict Court to satisfy judgment for
| $36,000 600 obtained by bondholders of
the Western Pacific Railroad.
District Judge G. ii. 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 at 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 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 affdavits denying that
this was true.
The average size of farms in Colo
RADIO this year. as reported by county
assessors. is 2S5.7 acres, compared
with 2S0.S acres last year. The aver
age size of farms as reported by the
census bureau in 1910 was 293.1 acres.
1t is possible that the average size of
farms as reported by the census bu-
reau this year will he 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 us
to the Rustic, which is to be given
Oct. II, 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 l, ,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
larger number than was reported last
year 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 1859 this year; Phil
1ps county, 146 last year and pa this
year; Elbert county. II last year and
131 this year; Prowers county, 81 last
year and 81 this year; Weld county.
1856 last year and 504 this year Weld
county ranks first in number of farm
tractors and Logan county second.