The Colorado statesman., 1921-04-09
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado
western Newspaper Union New, Service, }

A blaze swept the Denver shale
brlckyards at Swadley, II mile and n
quarter northwest of Arvada, causing
damage estimated at $4,000.
George a. Flanagan, for the past
four years secretary of the Colorado
Utilities Commission, has submitted
his resignation, to become effective
April @.
Henry c. Watson, the man who
made the Greeley potato famous
throughout the United States, died Mt
Long Beach, Calf, from heart trou-
BILE, according to word received in
Greeley.
Plans have been drawn at meet
ing of the Rocky Mountain Radio AS
sociation for the establishment in Den
yer of one of the largest amateur wire
less telephone stations west of the
Mississippi.
School expenses in Colorado have in
creased about $3,500,OO0 in the last
two years, according to figures made
public by the State immigration De-
partment. The statistics are compiled
from records of the state superlntend-
ent of schools.
Although the monthly production of
oil remained unchanged in the Colo
RADIO fields during February, there was
an increase of thirty-one barrels in the
daily average output compared with
January, the variance being due to the
difference in the length of the months.
As the result of an agreement be-
tween the Republicans and Democrats,
Golden will not hold an election this
spring and thereby save approximate
| ly $1,000. The plan is to let the pres
ent City Council hold over and to re-
ceive designations to those aldermen
| who do not desire to hold their office
longer.
| Two additional air mail routes out
| of Salt Lake City, one to Los Angeles
and another to Denver, are contemplate
ed by the government, according to
Col John A. Jordon, superintendent of
the western division of the United
States air mail service. He said that
the two routes may be established ear
| ly this summer.
The Leadville Chamber of Com
merce has recently issued a folder de-
scrbing and illustrating the charms
and advantages of Leadville, "City of
romance and beauty at the crest of the
continent" The illustrations are artis-
tic and a map showing the mining and
scenic region adjacent to Leadville
adds to the value of the folder.
| Denver will bloom with poppies May
| 80 when as reminder of the war sac
rifices 10000 French poppy blossoms
will be distributed on the streets. More
than 100 Colorado American Legion
posts including the Denver units,
launched a campaign that will termin-
ate on Memorial day with the wearing
by every American of a French poppy.
Six business houses were burglarized
in Kersey, near Greeley. The thieves
then stole a Union Pacific hand car
and made their escape on it. The safe
of the Boise-Payette Lumber Company
was opened and S45 taken. Efforts to
break the safes of the Kersey Lumber
Company and Tom l.. Schank's seed
mill were unsuccessful. Fifty dollars
was taken from the cash register in
the 4. A. Collins meat market.
Nicolas Topaz, Filipino cook, who
is charged with stabbing Mrs. f. e.
Walton, wife of the president of the
United Oil Company, and Mrs. Gus Lo-
rentz at Pine, Colo, n summer resort,
has been captured and lodged in the
San Miguel county Jail in Telluride.
Topaz, according to Sheriff Gary Kerr
of Golden, jumped $1,000 bond, which
was signed by w. II. Ellis of Edgewa-
ter, Colo
Donald Coleburn, a 10-year-old boy
of Wiley, was badly burned when a
kite string which in this case was a
| fine copper wire, struck highly
| charged electric wire. The heavy cleo
| trio wire carried $500 volts, which was
| transmitted to the boys body, knock
ing him unconscious.
One divorce to S.63 marriages is
| Colorado's record. This state ranks
| twenty-third in the Union in the num-
ber of divorces in proportion to mar
riages, says an announcement by the
International Reform Bureau. In other
words, though there are nearly one
eighth as many divorces as marriages
in the Centennial state twenty-five 9th
er states have propOrtionately more le-
gal separations.
The federal census bureau has
placed an average of $31.22 on farm
lands in Colorado. This is nearly
twice the figure fixed by the county
assessors, which was S16.45 in 1920. An
increase of 100000 acres of farm
land in the state is shown by the re-
port. The average increase in value
has been $5.21 an acre. Nearly 2S,OOO,-
900 acres of farm land is reported by