Cheyenne record., 1920-05-27
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
: A movement Is on foot ito obtain an
infantry company or a cavalry troop
in the reorganized Colorado National
Guard for Grand county.
A moderate measure of protection"
to enable the tungsten industry to de-
velop has been urged in the Senate by
Senator Phipps, Republican, of Colo
RADIO.
Potato planting has started in the
Greeley district and is well under way.
About 1900 acres will be planted this
year, as compared to 21,OOO planted
last year.
What is declared by mining men to
be one, Of the most important strikes in
the San Juan district in recent years
has been made by the Paymaster
Mines Company, operating the Paymas-
ter group of claims in the Red Noun
tain mining section.
The Rangely bridge, which fell into
the water three weeks ago, has been
raised and practically all the structure
saved. at saving to Moffat county of
$1,000. The bridge will be safeguarded
against future mishaps by concrete
abutments.
Anspering the spirit calling, she said
a few minutes before, Of a former hus-
band, James Waddell, who is dead,
Mrs. Josephine Stiles of Denver, the
wife Of Frank Stiles, committed sui
eide by poisoning in her bedroom at n
hotel in that city.
Montrose will entertain the western
slope July 4 with the largest celebra-
tion that has ever been planned in
MontrOse, according to arrangements
made at recent meeting of local bus
mess men. No FourtS Of July celebra.
tion has been held there for two years,
D. f. Evans, n Craig business man,
finished the preliminaries which will
result in the opening of coal mine
at the southwest limits Of Craig and
bring, 1t is predicted, the expenditure
of a quarter million dollars to that
district in the coming year. Mr.. Evans
has obtained options on two ranches
a total Of 4SO acres.
Crawling through hole in the stone
wall of the county Jail, previously dug
by Ed Williams in an attempted jail
break" 13-year-old Willie Still, Jailed
at Grand Junction for throwing rocks
at trains, successfully made twelve
foot drop to freedom and ran to his
home, where he was later found by
his father and returned to Jail.
1t costs the taxpayers Of the state OF
Colorado only 75.7 cents day to keep
a prisoner in the state penitentiary
The actual value of the upkeep of encf
of the $50 prisoners in the custody OF
Warden Tom lyman is 93 cents day,
but the 17.3 cents in addition to the
taxpayers cost is represented by the
farm and dairy products of the prison
by the prisoners.
Nine hundred persons will take part
in the pageant to commemorate the
founding of the Union colony. at Gree
ley, which will be given on the cam
pus of the State Teachers College on
Monday, June 14th. Two thousand
dollars is being raised by popular sub.
scription to pay the cost Of staging the
pageant, which will picture the com.
ing of the immigrants, the development
Of irrigation and the growth Of Gree
ley.
Weld county is now upon . cash
basis, with not a cent Of bonded in.
debtedness and with no registered war
runts outstanding. BY the calling in
Of $3s9,OOO worth Of registered war.
rants, of which $22S, 500 worth was
paid the last OF. the outstanding debt
Of the county was wiped out. This
makes 500, 600 worth of debts which
have been paid during the past two
years, Of which all but $35, 1000 was
registered warrants in the road fund
Thirty-five British merchants, repre-.
sentatives of the Royal Trade Board
of Great Britain, will arrive in Colo
RADIO Springs this week for stay OF
three days.
Carlos w. Hall Of jefferson county,
and one of ColOrado's lending pure
bred Holstein men, received word that
he had been named by the Holstein-
Freisan Association one of their twen-
ty-six judges in America and that he
had been selected to act as n judge at
the Nebraska state fair this fall. The
judges selected by this association
hold the judgeship for the remainder
Of their lives.
Railroad men have acquired new
mining property at Monarch lake,
about fifteen miles north of CRANKY.
on the south fork of the Grand river.
which is expected to develop into one
Of the big mineral discoveries Of Colo
RADIO. A small corporation has been
formed and work is being pushed. The
lead is said to be sixty-five feet wide
and Mt depth Of twenty-five feet gives