The Raymer enterprise., 1921-03-24
Pithy News Notes
From All Paris OF
Colorado
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Yuma has voted an additional $62,-
600 school bond issue to complete the
new high school building. The vote
resulted s. to 5 for the bend issue.
An unusually high wind, which fol.
lowed q narrow path like q tornado,
damaged numerous buildings on Dixon
Heights, five miles from Colorado
Springs.
A mass meeting was held In Igna.
clio to protest against the high cost Of
gasoline. Consumers there are paying
AZ cents gallon. while In Denver gas
sells for 20 cents gallon.
Twenty-four dollars head should bs
the maximum assessment on cattle. ac
cording TO resolution passed at q
meeting Of the Uncempahgre Valley
Cattle and Horse Growers Associa.
tion held In M0ntrose.
Attorney John l.. Stiyers OF Mont.
rose, Colo, has been appointed receiv-
er for the Colorado vnnadium Com.
pany Of Montrose by order OF Federal
Judge Robert T.. Lewis on a petition
filed by W. l.. Smith, New Jersey
stockholdes and creditor Of the com.
pany.
Over s2,0OO,000 will be loaned to the
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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.
ton.
Colorado regained Its rank as eighth
among coal producing states In 1920,
according to estimates officially an.
nounced by the United States geoloEi.
cal survey. Its production for the
year almost equaled the record out.
puts of 1917 and 1918. and final fig.
ures for 1920 may bring the year up to
figures Of the former years.
Jack Reed OF Red Cliff was found
dead in bed with bullet In his head,
and Mrs. Jack Nye, suffering from q
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 at
Red Cliff.
Governor Shoup has named Clyde
Dawson Of Denver to represent him at
the launching Of the battleshlp Colo.
RADIO at the shipyards of the New York
Shipbuilding Corporation In Camden,
NJ. j., on March %. Mrs. Max Mel.
vile, daughter of Senator Nicholson,
was named about two weeks ago to
christen the new dreadnought.
The Weld county grand jury at
Greeley returned five indictments
against Elyin d. Lockard, bookkeeper
and confidential secretary to William
c. Roberts, owner Of the Roberts Loan
and Investment Company, who com.
mitted suicide last July when threat,
ened with exposure of embezzllng and
swlndllng operations involving $780,.
600.
McPhee 4 McGinnity, Denver lum.
ber merchants, suffered loss of $780,.
600 when fire destroyed q planning mill
and box factory Of the New Mexico
Lumber Company at FL vado, n. NJ
The loss was covered entirely by In
surance. Two buildings, 100000 fruit
boxes and much raw lumber were con-
sumed. Reconstruction will begin at
once.
Shippers oil over the San Luis Val.
ley and the southern part of Colorado
and northern part OF New Mexico are
much encouraged over the report that
the New Mexican Central railroad has
purchased the narrow gauge Santa Fe
branch of the Denver & Rio Grande
railroad. This branch runs from
Santa Fe to AntonltO. In the lower end
| VI lne san LUIS valley.
Fully half of the grain crops in Colo.
RADIO last year are still on the farms,
according TO official estimates released
by the United States Bureau Of Crop
Estimates. Fifty-fOur per cent Of the
corn crop Is still in the granarles, rs
compared with 35 per cent last year,
and % per cent of the wheat CROP as
compared with Is per cent last year.
Albert Six, Cora Six and her IA.
year-old son, all of Fowler Colo are
In Minnequa hospital In Pueblo as the
result Of family quarrel. The boy
Is said to have fired two charges from
n shot gun at Six. the shot striking the
man In the chest and then turned the
gun on his mother, who was struck in
the chest and arms when she placed
her arms over her face for protection,
An increase Of 81 an acre is shown
In the sale price of public lands in
Colorado during the biennial period
ending Nov. 30, 1920, according TO the
report Of the State Land Board now
being compiled by the State Immigra.
tion Department for the Colorado year
book. This report shows that an aver.
age of $2l3S per acre was paid by
homesteaders. This is Sl1 more than
was paid during the period ending in
1916.
Automobile riding without n chan.