Gunnison news-champion., 1921-03-25
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
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ing The structure will cost approx
nstely Sl6o,oso.
Yuma has voted an additional $62,-
90 school bond issue 10 complete the
new high school building The vote
resulted IS 20 ) for the bond issue.
An unusually high wind. which fol-
lowed a narrow path like tornado.
damaged numerous buildings on Dixon
Heights, five miles from Colorado
Springs.
Sixty thousand persons. firms and
corporations Of Colorado paid $500
2I3.14 into Uncle Sans Golfers as fed
eral income tax in the first three
months of 1871.
A mass meeting was held In Igna-
clio to protest against the high cost OF
gasoline Consumers there are paying
~ cents a gallon, while In Denver gas
sells for 20 cents gallon.
Colorado Springs may issue at once
its 100000 paving bonds. voted at .
special election on Sept. s. 1920. by
virtue of a decision handed down BY
the Colorado Supreme Court
Mrs. Mary A Field OF Holyoke was
burned about the face and body when
an oil stove which she had started ex-
ploded. Her husband grabbed blank.
ct and smothered the flames She Ia
recovering
Four hundred pounds OF poison was
mixed and distributed among. the cnt.
tlemen around Montrose as the first
move In the most aggressive campaign
the United States Biological Survey
has ever made In that section against
preditory animals.
Attorney John l.. Stivers Of Mont
rose, Colo. has been appointed receiv-
er for the Colorado vanadium Com
pany of Mon.rose by order OF Federal
Judge Robert =. Lewis on a petition
filed by W. l.. Smith, New Jersey
stockholder and creditor Of the COM
pany.
Over 81. 2.0OO, 900 will be loaned to the
farmers of Colorado within the next
eighteen months under the federal
farm loan act which has just been held
constitutional by the United States
Supreme Court. according to estimates
Of those In close touch with the situa-
tion.
Jack Reed Of Red Cliff was found
dead In bed with bullet In his head,
and Mrs. jack Nye, suffering from 4
wound in her side, was picked up in
the yard. The woman said that Reed
had shot her and then turned the re-
volver on himself. She is being held
for investigation by the authorities ut
Red Cliff.
The rights Of an Indian to priority
on homestead was proved in the 10.
cai land office at Montrose when w.
L. Evans, a white man, was refused
entry on homestead near Sapinero.
due TO the fact that John A. Blair, an
Indian, had already squatted on the
land and made the necessary improve
inents.
One Of the most picturesque high.
ways in the state Of Colorado is prom
ised automobile tourists in the new
road through the famous Byers canon
: between Hot Sulphur Springs and Par
/ shall. which has been accepted by the
State Highway Commission. The new
/ road will form part of the Midland
/ trail.
A new sewer district to drain the
entire east side of the t1ty of Love
land and to cost about $4,000. will
be built this season, the council hay.
| ing passed the ordinance providing for
! same and instructed the city clerk to
I advertise for bids TO be opened March
Z -, in order to get as early a start rs
| possible on Its construction.
! Northern Colorado fair dates will
not conflict this year, as they FREE
| quently have in the past. Six fair
| dates announced are Morgan county
at Fort Morgan, August 1926; Wash
/ ington county at Akron, Aug. 3l-Sept
z; Phillips county mt Holyoke, Sept
7-lO: Logan county at Sterling, Sept
1915; Yuma county at Yuma, Sept
2023; Weld county at Greeley, Sept,
! l4-l6.
Attorney w. ". Platt Of Alamosa
and Oscar Lord Of Mosca, who were
appointed as committee by the Ala
mosa county Chamber Of Commerce to
+. ask the State Land Board to grant
/ right-of-way for the Mosca Pass high.
| way over the state lands In Alamosa
county. have been notified by the land
board that the right-of-way has been
granted. The surveys on this road
have been completed and now that the
land board has granted the righf-of
way, construction work will begin at
once More than hundred farmers
along the route Of the new highway
will donate labor and teams for the
construction. The road shortens the
distance from the valley to Denver
more than forty miles, and provides an
/ all-year route
Anna Mudra, ,15-year-old daughter OF
Frank Mudra, Czecho- Slav coal miner