Cheyenne Wells record. (Cheyenne Wells, Cheyenne County, Colo.) 1???-1969, 1921-07-14
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

nan. Rust in company with o!s
ru,;snie. local youth, starred ~
climb to the top of the hi"uii'a,n' Nv"
they were caught in severe p'iNA,a
and lost their way. After pat''''s w.
,,oment for hours the Southcrher sa'e
out only about 800 feet from '"e Np'
r;Illispie wrapped his helr'ess .u'
nonion in his own coat ana s'r"se'
IN tho summit house, reaching there
At midnight. A rescue part! was '."
mt and succeeded In fndihs '"e
freezing boy.
The Denver & Interurban rallro'u'
witch has been in the hands OF re-
ceiycr since the institution OF SUI.
two years ago by the Guarantee lr"s'
Company of New York, mas nee'i
turned to its owners by hctioh Vi
Federal Judge Robert +. Lewis oh"''
the terms of the decree handed dowh
Inv Judpe Lewis the complaint OF 'he
Guarantee Trust Company Is d's'i''sse"'
The action, however, is contingent Oh
tIe puymcnt by the owners of all COSTS
of the suit and all unpaid liabilities Oh
the rOnd.
The Federal Farm Loan Bank VIII
extend loan of ut least $l,oOo,ooo 10
Pueblo county and other Arkansas val
lev rapchers, The loan Will come III
directly as loan to the lrrlea'io''
companies for repairs to bitches, reser'
yoirs and intakes. but will be in re.
alIty aid given to farmers whose iahu
must be assessed to meet the cost OF
repairs to the irrigation systems. rms
cost has been estimated Mt least 81
100000.
Ascending Sneffels peak, fourteen
miles west of Ouray, Colo, during the
progress of one of the worst summer
bliZZards ever seen In that section OF
Colorado, six Grand Junction men
came near losing their lives. They
became maroOned on the peak in ter
rIble gale which drove dense clouds
of fine snow at low temperatures up
on them, making 1t impossible to find
shelter or get away from the singing
blast.
: The Western Light and Power Com
puny have voluntarily put IN order
into effect reducing street car rates
in Boulder from 10 cents to IN cents
q ride. Less than four months ago
they were granted permission to raise
the fare from 5 cents to 10 cents The
company found that the higher rate
reduced the travel to such an extent
that instead of profiting by the raise
the company lost.
Mike SalaZar, Mexican 26 years
old, was sentenced to hang during the
week of July II, for his confessed part
in the murder of Gaudenclo Silva, Il
fellow cOuntryman, mt Morley, Colo,
on the night of Nov. %. 1920, will be
spared from the gallows. The State
Board of Pnrdons, in a special session,
ordered that SnlnZars sentence be
commuted from death to life imprison-
ment.
Fifty horses, ten trucks and five
tractors with sufficient labor to man
the equipment, are hard at work put
ting Pueblo county highways into
shape. Three temporary bridges on the
Santa Fe trail We're taken out and cul-
verts over n wide area were destroyed.
The three bridges have been restored
and the North Santa Fe trail opened
to traffic.
The new Colorado division of market
ing authorized by the last General As
sembly has been established. William
F. Allewelt Of Greeley was appointed
director of the division by the eXecu.
tive committee of the State Board of
Agriculture. He has assumed his new
duties, establishing headquarters at
the Agricultural College.
Because of the decreasing demands
of guard duty in the Pueblo food dis
trict, twenty-three Colorado rangers,
who have been stationed in that area
since June 4, have been relieved and
ordered back to their stations in va.
rious parts of the state by Ranger
Captain Orville Dennis.
Gus Hampton, 20 years old, EN-.
ployed as coal miner at the Black
hawk mine of the Triangle Coal Com.
pany, four miles below Durango, was
almost instantly killed when, upon
stepping from the room in which he
was working, a falling rock, weighing
about 100 pounds, struck him on the
head, crushing his skull.
Automobile tax collections in Den.
yer for the first six months of the cur.
rent year, aggregating $246, 1896, ex-
ceeded the collections in the same dis.
trict for the entire year of 1920, nc.
cording TO the semi-unnual report of
the state motor vehicle department,
issued by Secretary of State Milliken.
The suit filed by School District No.
so, Lafayette, against the Union Pa.
cific railroad, Northern Coal and Coke
Company, and the Rocky Mountain
Fuel Company, was thrown out of
court by Judge Neil +. Graham of
Boulder.
Less than ten hours after she is al.
legged to have kidnapped her 3-yeur-old