The Colorado statesman., 1920-03-20
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.


to put down u well near Fruita. Inter
ests controlling the Werner n Reed
estate are reported to be contemplat-
Ing an oil well 10 bo drilled near Iona,
Colo, on the Reed lands. Gas and OIL
seeps In various parts OF the western
slope contiguous to Grand Junction
have caused exI erts 10 believe that the
center of the supply Is under the
Grand valley.
The Lions' Club OF Longmont has
been organized with charter member
ship of slxty-seven. All lines OF busi-
ness and professions of the city are
represented. The club holds weekly
luncheon every Thursday noon. The
members are enthusiastic over the out
look for the future. ]. $. Schey Is
president of the club, DIR. w. X. Ben
son, vice president; Charles Norris,
second vice president; DIR. S. B. Nc
Farlnnd, third vice president; II. L.
Hudson, secretary, and g. f. Young
treasurer
A report has just been received OF.
deal under way in Pueblo, backed
Dy several business men, which, If sue
cessfully carried out, will give Pueblo
one of the largest and most complete
athletic fields west OF the Mississippi
river The site for the field has al
ready been selected and leases have
been secured on all the land under con
sidcration The deal will be pushed at
once in order to have the field finished
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ball clubs Of Pueblo for their big
games.
ColoradOs road building equipment
is TO be placed under fire insurance
protection at once, it has been decided
by the State Highway Commission.
Attention was called to the complete
lack of insurance on S250,000 worth
of motor trucks, autos, graders and
other highway equipment belonging to
the state, when a valuable state auto
mobile used by Thos. J. Ehrhart, state
highway commissioner, was destroyed
in the blaze which recently gutted the
Tom Roberts Garage in Denver.
Word has been received in Denver
of the death at his home in Omaha,
aged 81, formerly OF Denver. He was
Colorado pioneer of 1857, when he
was engaged in mining in Gilpin coun-
ty. He was the first Republican post
master and the second postmaster to
be appointed in Denver, having bcen
named for that office in March, 1880
He was son of Gen. Samuel Curtis
of Civil war fame, for whom Curtis
street was named.
Everyone I'm Colorado is interested
in roads Practically all the public
service organizations are doing their
bit The United States Forest Serv-
ice is doing its bit. In 1912 1t built
one mile of road; in 1919 it built sixty.
four miles of road in Colorado. Dur
Ing the last eight years the forest
service has built PIT miles OF roads in
Colorado at total cost Of S172,00
During the same period it has main
tanned 48S miles at cost OF about
$4,000.
Three minutes after he had eaten
the evening meal, brought to him by
Jailer John McLachlan, Jacob Baker,
alias Jacob Becker, 80, a blacksmith.
held merely for investigation, com
mitted suicide at the city Jail in Den
yer, by hanging himself in the cell
which has become known as "the hoo
doc CELL" following the escape there
from recently of Virgil Trimble and
two other prisoners.
C. A. Mclaughlin, government hunt
er, located in the vicinity of Estes
Park, has bagged his fourth mountain
lion this winter. The last one he cap
tured was at the mouth of the Love
land Grand Canon. Mclaughlin. In
company with John Griffith, of the
park, tracked the lion for ten miles
before it was located In the den and
shot.
The bodies of about $4,000 of the
American dead in France will be re
turned to the United States, while be
tween 10000 and 25,00O will remain
permanently inferred overseas, Secre
tary Baker has informed Chairman
Wadsworth of the Senate Military
Committee.
l. Bennett and Thomas Long of Nor
wood used skis for the first 125 miles
of their trip to n point where they
could get train to carry them tC
Pueblo where they went to join the
navy. Both were successfui in the ex
animation and were sent to Hampton
Roads, Virginia.
Recruiting for the United States
army in the Wyoming division of the
Denver district exceeded all other di'
visions for the past month except that
of the city of Denver, according to
Capt. C. B. Cox. Captain Cox is in
Denver to make his report to the of
ficer in charge of the Denver district