Gunnison news-champion., 1921-03-11
COLORADO J.
STATE NEWS
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! Albert Estrada. =. q laboref, vas
shot at Pueblo and died In hospital
there. The killing ID said to have been
the outcome Of an argument started in
q pool game. No arrests have bess
| 0ade.
The postoffice At Springfield, fifty
miles south Of Lamar and county seat
OF Baca county. was looted by robbera
who escaped In an automobile. II 10
estimated that the robbers rot 500 in
cash and approximately 500 worth Of
stamps.
Another rich strike is reported at
the vindicator mine at Victor. At the
twentieth level and at depth close to
1000 feet the company Is reported to
have found nm extension Of the old Lily
vein. which In former years has pro
duced extraordinary rich bonanzs
values.
The mutilated body OF man, skull
crushed..a rope around his neck. throat
cut and many siashes on his body, was
found in cabin three miles from
Graneros. Colo. and thirty-two miles
south Of Pueblo. The only means of
identification may lie In a ring on a
finger. with the letters &C S A Is"
Howard RIgsby. the l3.year old son
OF MIR. and Mrs Vechel Rigshy, lost
the thumb OF his left hand as the re-
suit OF the explosion Of dynamite cap
with which he was playing at Sterling.
Young Rigsby WAS trying to reduce the
size of the cap to use II In a pistol
when IT exploded.
State Inheritance tax collections dur.
Ing the first quarter OF the current
fiscal year amounted to SJ6.S3004, ac-
cording to the seml-monthly report OF
Attorney General keyes or this sum
$12.O94.13 was collected during the last
half Of February. Twenty-three es
tates paid inheritance tax during ths
last two weeks.
HOmesteaders purchased at public
auction 5000 acres OF state school
lands, according to John +. vlvinn,
register Of the land board. This was
the first auction held by the board
since Jan. IL. Total receipts from the
sale was Sss,57O, an average Of 1881
per acre. which records OF the land OF
flee show to be higher than the gen.
eral average price Of previous sales.
Following a conference with several
citizens. Governor Shoup announced he
would ask the Senate finance and
House appropriations committee to in.
clude In the long appropriation bill
SIS. 600 with which to buy silver serv
Ice for the new superdreadnaught
Colorado, which Mrs. Max Melville, the
daughter Of United States Senator
Samuel d. Nicholson. will christen al
the shIpyards at Camden. N. j.,
March %.
Following numerous complaints OA
moonshine stills operating night and
day and general "open territory
supplying hundreds with Illicit wet
goods In southwestern Colorado and
northwest New Mexico, nearly dozen
United States federal internal revenue
officers, assisted by Sheriff George
Rowe and his deputies, of La Plata
county. seized eight separate and elab-
crate stills In operation md arrested
ten men.
"A competent staff of Instructors Is
maintained mt the University OF Colo
RADIO to see that students who gradu
ate are not only mentally trained. but
also physically developed" said DIR. q.
Z. Kennedy In an address before the
Boulder Commercial Association.
Physical education does not only
mean competitive sports for the stu.
dents. It means, in addition, correc-
tive system OF overcoming physical de-
fects," he continued. DR.. Kennedy II
at the head Of the physical education
department Of the university.
John n. Richardson OF Denver
through his attorneys, has filed suit In
the Fremont county District Court in
Caflon City. for $5S,3O7 damages
against G. v. Hodgin, J. Victor Nc
Candless and James Belknap in their
unofficial and individual capacities fol
alleged negligence while serving as
county commissioners of Fremont
county In 1920. The alleged negii-
gence, the plaintiff claims, resulted in
the death OF his wife and serious in
jury TO himself In an automobile icci.
dent on April 80. 1890
Plans, specifications and estimates
on Colorado highway projects, to be
carried ont at an approximate cost Of
s206 800, were submitted to J. 8.
Bright, supervisor Of the United States
bureau Of public roads in Denver BY
the State Highway Commission. Fed
eral aid to the amount Of 50 per cent
on the WORK, which includes A miles
Of concrete road on the Denver Brigh-
ton highway, II requested. Other con-
struction work contemplated. embraces
two bridges In Montrose county. one
of seventy feet over the Uncompah-
! ere river and onn 0f fwenty-eiRff feet