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Gunnison news-champion., 1921-06-10
RAILROAD SERVICE VA
ALlM0sA IN FEW DAYS

As we go to press Agent Hogan II
the Rio Grande railroad phones News-
Champion that be received this morn
ing orders to sell tickets to Denver
via Alamosa, the track having been
repaired SO that leaving here at regu-
lar time tonight, one will get into Dem
yer at eight o'clock Sunday evening.
Train No. will leave Denver at 500
in the morning, reaching Gunnison the
third following day. 1t is hoped that
this schedule may be speeded up SO
that this trip can be made in two days
shortly. Regular fare will be charged
altho by the longer route. 1t will
be ten days before thru service via
Canon City can be resumed, altho
trains can now go to Florence.
Passenger, express and mail SER
the Rio Grande shortly by way of Al
to use the Midland across the South
above Manitou. However, with the
line laid to Pueblo, trains can carry
thru over Mosca pass to Alamosa and
thence north on the narrow gauge to
Salida, thence distributing to Gunni-
son and Leadville.
"At 3:45 Tuesday afternoon the
c. & s. passenger train that Monday
started for Leadville, returned to
Leadville. The train reached Breck.
enridge on it's way east before it got
news of the washout at Waterton
The trainmen, after consulting with
the passengers for Denver, took the
train as far as Pine Grove, where the
passengers hired an automobile for the
rest of the trip to Denver.
Gunnison news-champion., 1921-06-10
MEANS DISASTER TO FARM
CROPS IN EASTERN COLO.

II Il hardly appreciated yet, what
tremendous loss viii come to the farm
ers Of Eastern Colorado from the
bursting Of reservoirs Dozens Of
them have gone out, including some
very large ones. This means that the
farmers who have escaped the floods
arc no better on than those who live
on the lowlands, sinee their stored
water for summer use has gone fol
the season. Il win be . case Of the
dry farmers ahead.
The los from this source alone may
run into millions of dollaxs.
Gunnison news-champion., 1921-06-10
COMMISSIONERS MEET
MONDAY, JUNE gTA

The regular monthly meeting Of the
Board Of County Commissioners was
held at the court house Monday with
all commissioners prsent.
w. p. Sammons was appointed
water commissioner for District No.
81, and l.. H. Easterly for District No.
SO.
In line with the Forest Protection
Week propaganda, q resolution was
made to help the forest service in
every respect in prevention and ex-
tinguishing forest fires.
Errors in the taxation of the Gunni-
son Bank & Trust Co. and N. w.
Hartman were corrected.
The commissioners decided to at
tend in body the meeting of road
officials TO be held at Grand Junction
on June 10th, for the purpose of
forming an organization Of road Of
ficials for the second district Of the
State Highway Department Of Colo.
The constable's bond of r. H. And
rews was approved.
The board authorized the assign
ment Of the tax certificates on the
Czar and Czarine lode claims in the
Goose Creek mining district to the
AAShkhs 1Viu NAHhhiB aiu nihiinB
company.
They resolved to favorably endorse
the Rainbow Route as q part of the
National Park to Park Highway sys-
tenn. Various road officials are meet
ing at Salt Lake City this week for
the purpose Of determining upon this
route.
. The sum Of s27,713 due Gunnison
county under the Road Bond Consti-
tutional Amendment passed at the last
General Election was distributed over
county highways as follows:
Somerset -Bardine road, $9,450
Gunnison- Monarch Pass, $4,000
Parlin to Saguache Co. line, $1,000
Crawling four miles east Of Gun.
nison, $500.
Crawling and reconstruction or
Lake Fork and Gunnison bridges
1000.
Crawling and reconstruction OF
Gunnison-East River bridge, $1,000.
Grading and concret work, lola ts
Hinsdal county line, $1,000.
Sapinero to Delta Co. line, $1,563.
On recommendation Of the lola
Powderhon Cattle and Horse Grow
ers' Association. the board sent 1
resolution to our representatives II
Congress recommending that certain
lands in the vicinity Of Powderhorr
and lola be incorporated in the nation
al forest.
Gunnison news-champion., 1921-06-10
FIRST Of SATURDAY NIGHT
BANJO CONCERTS TO Be
GIVEN TOMORROW

The first Of the Saturday night
"pop" concerts by the Normal High
school band will be given tomorrow
evening Mt the Main street band stand
beginning ut 1880. The concerts will
continue throughout the summer as n
result of the activity of the Chamber
of Commerce. Prof. Damson will di-
rect the band. The first programs is
as follows:
I Stars and Stripes Forever Sousa
2 Eyes of Brown-Concert Schot-
tische -------Hu Huff
3 Our Favorite Rag-Characteristic
March HUFF
A Summer Evening in Hawaii
Descriptive Overture Wheeler
5 Popular Music
6 A Dream ------ J. c. Bartlett
Comet Solo-Ralph Walker
z Lassus Trombone -- Fillmore
(Trombone Smear)
8 National Emblem-March- -Bagley
Gunnison news-champion., 1921-06-10
FUNERAL OF c. /.
N|EDERAUT ON
TUESDAY

On Friday, June 8, At l:25. occur
red the death Of Charles Niederhut,
after lingering illness covering two
years.
Charles H. Niederhut was born on
January 10, 1898. He was the only
child Of Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. G. Nieder-
hut. A niece, Mrs. Olive Fisher, was
adopted into the family and brought
up as O daughter. The family came
TO Tin Cup in 1900, where the father
engaged in the mercantile business.
In 1904 they moved to the Haymaker
ranch on the upper Gunnison, which
Mr.. and Mrs. Niederhut purchased ex-
pressly for the boy, who liked ranch
ing. Charley was educated in Tin Cup
and Denver.
On May 23, 1918, he enlisted in the
United States army and was assigned
to Headquarters Company, 35th U. S.
Infantry, with whom he served until
February s, 1913, when he returned
home. He was stationed at Nogales,
Arizona and Camp Travis, Texas.
He was i'll when he came home from
the army, suffering from tumors Of
the intestines. This disease is general
ly recognized as incurable, but the
boys family, in a desperate effort to
save him. took him to New York and
to the Mayo Brothers at Rochester,
MINI, and every possible place where
it was thought he might be helped.
Charley was cheerful to the end, al
ways living in hopes Of recovery. He
leaves his parents, relatives and
friends heartbroken.
The funeral was to have been held
Sunday, but due to the Pueblo flood,
"a IL a. .vuk1< kov. az,
family relatives to reach here from
Denver. However, when It was seen
that the relatives could not possibly
arrive in time, the funeral was set for
Tuesday. One Of Charley's last re-
quests was for a military funeral, and
practically every ex-service man in
Gunnison and nearby towns was pres
ent to pay . last respect to their
buddy 6gone West" The Woman's q
Relief Corps. headed a procession
which marched from the court house
70 the church to the strains Of q
funeral dirge, played by the Normal
High School band. A the church the
ex-service men formed . double rank
from the roadway to the door thru
which the casket, draped with the
Stars and Stripes, passed. The band
played the National Anthem. The
palf bearers were all ex-service men
and old friends Of Chariey's. They
were Jack Andrews, Roger Teachout
Clarence Lehman, Ed Miller, Palmer
Vader and Richie Walker. DIR. Clem
Davies delivered a beautiful funeral
sermon, and q quartet composed Of
Mrs. Jarius Williams, Mrs. Grant
Rutland, Messrs. Harry Fogg and E
G. Palmer, sang Beautiful Isle Of
Somewhere" and abide With Ne"
At the cemetery DR.. Davies read
the burial service, after which Mis-
Laura Millspaugh read from the
Christian Science Text book. Car
Walker sang, and firing squad und-
er direction Of Sergeant Earl Mellow.
ell, fred three volleys over the grave
aTaps" was sounded BY F. Georgs
Damson as the casket was lowered In
10 the grave.
An unusually large cortege d
friends attended the funeral party Il
the cemetery, and Witnessed with re
Rret the last rites over the body OF on
Of Gunnison county's finest younl
Gunnison news-champion., 1921-06-10
BASEBALL

The Gunnison baseball team was
put to its first real test Sunday after
noon in the snappiest ball game play
ed 20 far this season. Pittser and
Sievcrs for Gunnison, and Zonas and
Tipka for the E1ks. Pittser famed
sixteen men while Zonsa famed
twelve. Pokenhom was the heaviest
and most condstent hitter Of the day.
Nibs Lashbrook Knocked out : hoaae'
run with two men on. Ouray go&,
three hits, Cumnison nine. The gone:
was the most peffect exhibifipa Of
baseball this pear, Cunnison playing
IN entirely erTorless game and Ouray
making oaly two.
Gunnison news-champion., 1921-06-10
PUEBLO SLOWLY RECOVERING FROM
REIGN OF DEATH AND DISASTER

men has been at work clearing the
streets of debris, removing dead ami
mails, and cleaning out the stores and
other business places.
Part of the city is again electrically
lighted. The gas company have pre-
parations nearly completed for sup
plying gas for heat and light. The
city water plant is functioning and
tomorrow water purefier will pre-
pare daily five million gallons of
water for drinking purposes.
Gunnison news-champion., 1921-06-10

Pueblo, Tuesday, June 7:-
The only official estimate Of the
amount Of damage from the flood was
one Of 81, 1000 900 by the Pueblo Man
ufacturers' Association. Other esti-
mates vary from $4,000, 900 to $20.-
000, 900.
transportation east and north from
the city is just now declared to be the
greatest need.
After days Of search through the
debris In the flooded districts, &fty-
two bodies have been recovered -
might. These include forty-two Ia II
nsoFgue, ten recovered late IN tie ~.
sEneon on St. Charles meca. The lasl
Gunnison news-champion., 1921-06-10
Amy of workers attack flood area; City partly
lighted and water plant in operation; Railway
transportation partly restored and supplies ar
irving; Public. health service making canvass

Beginning Friday afternoon. the en-
tire eastern slope Of Colorado expert
enced the most awful foods ever
known in the history Of the white
man. Pueblo bore the heaviest bur-
den. $50 blocks of that city being
flooded and over 80 business houses
destroyed or flooded. In the Union
depot Friday night and Sunday tn
water rose from 10 to IA fet deep.
Hundreds of lives are lost, but es-
Inmates now vary at from 800 to SOC
instead Of 5000 as first thought. Dam
age in Pueblo is estimated at from
FIVE to twenty million. In the whole
state (for all eastern sections Of Colo
RADIO received the deluge,) Some peo-
pie think the damage TO property will
reach forty million Of dollars.
Train service with eastern Colorado
was entirely cut of since Friday
night, and in response TO popular de-
mand the News-C Champion got out q
little daily four days Of the week, de-
failing the flood stories as received
Most Of this type appears in this is
sue and records the successive stages
Of the disaster.
The first disaster was brought
about by the breaking Of the C. F. &
/. dam on the Trinidad road. This
water rushed into Minncqua Lake at
Pueblo and from there over the strick.
en- city.
The water rose steadily and at eight
o'clock Friday night the lower part
of the city was four to fifteen feet
under the swirling torrent. The AS
sociated Press estimates the loss OF
life at from 500 to 5000, and 1t il
certain that the loss will reach the
lesser figure. The property. loss will
amount to untold millions.
On Saturday the water stood fifteen
feet deep around the Union Depot al
Pueblo and the constant onrush Of
water from the heavy rains and frc.
quent cloudbursts has kept the water
near this level ever since. The only
bridge left at Pueblo is the Santa Fe
steel bridge. The Vail hotel report.
ed destroyed by fire, is still standing
altho badly damaged by water. A
number of fires are reported from
the factory district, but the retail
district is undamaged evcept by the
water. A number Of stores had the
front smashed in by houses floating
down the streets. The buildings Of
modern construction have withstood
the food very well.
The Fountain river which joins thu
Arkansas at Pueblo, caused the Sun.
days flood, when . reservoir neal
Colorado Springs went out.
Peppersauce bottoms and the Grovs
lowlands at Pueblo, are the worst suf
ferers, being completely inundated
loss Of life here is beyond estimation
A number Of factories have been burn
ed, but no fires have started in the re
lief districts. The report Of tht
Crews-Beggs' building collapsing, il
untrue.
Missouri Pacific train No. IA wa,
washed away Friday night with con
siderable loss Of life. No informa
ton is available on this train.
Gunnison news-champion., 1921-06-10
ALL GUMM|sOn PEOPLE
ARE ACCOUNTED FOR

After diligent inquiry News-C Cham
pion is able to say that up TO date no
Gunnison citizens or immediate rela-
tives have been lost in the maelstrom
which struck Pueblo Friday night. One
by one the anxious ones are receiving
wires or phone messages that assure
them Of the safety Of loved ones.
There is great property loss in the
stricken districts and some have lost
their all, but the life loss is diminish
ing with latest reports.
Gunnison news-champion., 1921-06-10
the soloists and readers reflected
great credit on the Fine Arts Depart
ment Of the Normal.

The Normal class play. "You Never
Can Tell" was given Tuesday after
noon and evening. This play, rs is
Continued on Fourth Page)
Gunnison news-champion., 1921-06-10
SITUATION CANNOT BE ExAG-
CERATED. SAYS COL HAMMOCK

Pueblo. Colo, June s-"whsn I
nrst arrived here this noon, issued
warning to newspaper correspon.
dents against exaggerating state
ments In regard to loss Of life and pro
been over the devastated area Of Pueb-
10. know now no exaggeratiou ID pos
sible." said Colonel Pat Hamrock.
adjutant general and commander Of
the the Colorado troops on duty here
tonight. s.-r
1T 10 absolutely impossible 70 do
more than venture guess - to the
number Of people who must have been
killed In the flood Of Friday night be
continued. II don't care to begin
guessing. ! know that something un.
der a hundred bodies have been found
but no man alive can tell how many
more corpses are hidden In the piles
Gunnison news-champion., 1921-06-10

A pretty baby daughter was the ar
rival Sunday at the home Of n. B.
Herrick, county treasurer. Mrs. Her
rick and baby are getting along nicely.
Gunnison news-champion., 1921-06-10

C. T. Rawalt and wife succeeded in
getting into shelter at Canon City dur.
to complete their trip to Denver, be,
ing delayed nearly a week.
Gunnison news-champion., 1921-06-10

Herbert Chase and wife Of Deltl
left Wednesday from Gunnison for a
auto trip east.
Gunnison news-champion., 1921-06-10
OURAY ELks INITIATE
TWENTY-TAREE HERE

The Ouray Elk Lodge initiated %
Gunnison men into their order at the
/. O. o. F.. hall here last Saturday
night. Another class will be initiated
in Gunnison in sixty days, at which
it is hoped that separate lodge may
be established in Gunnison.
The initiation ceremonies began at
$3.50 and lasted until nearly twelve.
Miss Louise Carron spent Wednes-
day with her folks, Mr.. and Mrs. Val.
Carron on the Cochtopa.
Gunnison news-champion., 1921-06-10
BO0T[EGGER IS
TAKEN IN BY
. SHERIFF PAT

A Salida bootlegger came to grief at
the hands Of Sheriff Hanlon and
Undersheiff Lehan early this week.
They had their eyes on one, Fred Hart
Of Howard, q little town near Salida,
who was ostensibly selling Oldsmo-
biles in this territory.
Saturday night, he was due to CAY
ry keg to the dance ut Almont but
the officers made observations from
the long grass in Masons & Odd Fell
lows cemetery. The car stopped at
the culvert over the big irrigating
ditch in front of the cemetery and
deposited a jug. After Hart's de-
parture this jug was found to contain
ten gallons Of moonshine, nicely cool
ed by the swiftly flowing stream.
Coming to town Hanlon and Lehan
searched the car but found nothing
incriminating. That evening, about 8
o'clock the car made hurried trip
eastward to secure the cache. II
wasn't there. Unbelievable! Some
thing must have happened!
The joy supply failed in certain ex-
pected localities that evening, but Hart
did not know what had happened un-
til Monday morning, when his Olds-
mobile at the Rainbow Garage was
guilty and was fined 500 and some,
$50 costs by Justice Florer.
-
Charley Cowan returned Saturday
from Lake City, having resigned the
throttle on that branch TO Merle Dun
lap. Mr. Cowan and his wife and two
expect to start the first of
next week for an extended trip east.
They will visit Niagara Falls, New
York, Boston and return by way Of
d. C. and st. Louis.
Gunnison news-champion., 1921-06-10

NJ nsss Hs.apa.ss-
- Gunnanun CouueV.
ComUsoone WoUoumoD
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-04-27
CABLE QUESTION
w., 49,. MAY BE DECIDED
Japan and France Said to Have
Aereed-Session Of Insernation-
al Communications Confer
once Held At State Depart
.ment.

Washington, April 21'-apan
and France are understood to have
accepted the American principles OF
distribution Of the former German
Atlantic and Pacific cables at a ses-
sion of the international communi-
cations conference held late today at
the state department.
While details of the operation Of
the cables to be sllocated are yet to
be worked out, the acceptance by
Japan and France Of the American
view is expected to make possible
an early agreement on all such ques:
tons.
Actual working out Of the distri'
button Of the Pacific cables by
which it is understood the United
States will receive the line from
Guam to zap, and Japan that part
of the line from zap extending for.
merly to Shanghai, it was indicated
tonight will be deferred pending the
clearing up Of the status of the is,
land of zap.
In addition to the cable from
New York to Brest now in posses
sion of France, the United States is
also expected to receive from Great
Britain the cable now extending
from Halifax to Pnzance, which be.
fore the war, was laid from New
York to Emden, Germany. .
In exchange it is understood,
Great Britain will receive n of the
present American cables connecting
Canada and Great Britain. Borman
Davies, former. under secretary of
state who, since the converting OF
the conference has acted as chair.
man, presented his resignation TO-
day and it was accepted. Under Sec
rotary of State Fletcher was elected
as chairman in his place Resignation
of MT. Davis as a commissioner has
yet to be accepted by President
Harding.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-04-27
WHY WE NEED A NEW
HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING
proper Gander.)

proper Gander.)
Will the citizens of Abbeville fail
US now in this new undertaking? A
new High School is an opportunity
that offers advancement, education
ally and morally. Who will benefit
from it? on, the citizens of Abbeville.
More important still will be the in
creased educational facilities offered
your sons and daughters. Our build
ing hardly holds the pupils enrolled
now. Each year there has been a
greater increase in the number of pu-
pills. What will it be next year?
Where shall we put them all? Both of
our auditoriums have long since been
cut into class rooms in. order that we
might have aplace for every child.
The physics room is now being used
as a class room.
Besides not having enough class
rooms, we have not an auditorium
now that we r using it for some
thing else. An auditorium is some
thing that every school should haye
and something that the Abbeville
High school has not. Whenever stang
ers visit our school they always crit
else US for not having an auditorium.
Let US show them what Abbeville can
do-that she can have a high school
as good or better than that of any
other town.
After graduating from vi school
we have enough units but we r so
severely criticized for not having an
auditorium and for being so badly
overcrowded that we hardly get full
credit for u work, How can we
remedy this? Simply by having a new
building with all modern. high school
equipment. Thing what a new build
ing with manual training, a library,
auditorium,a gymnasium would mean
to US. I am sure that it would attract
both girls and boys who had not in
tended to finish High School, besides
holding a charm for those faithful
ones who would stay on any way.
So let's all get the spirit and go
whole-soul into the moveemnt. When
we get the teachers, pupils and par
ents working under the impulse, moth
ing short of wonders a be expect
ed. The expression opportunity
knocks once at every door" can be ap-
piled here. An opportunity for n Of
the most needed things has come to
Abbeville. Will she take advantage of
this opportunity of becoming one of
the leading High school towns or will
she live to regret the great things
which might've been.-A. Faulkner.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-04-27
TARIFF URGED
TO SAVE SOUTH
Association Appe.l' to Pre''dens
and consre,i-Many Faults
Found.

Washington, April 21.-The Sou
ern Tariff association, claiming rep
resentation Of almost every variety
Of enterprises in the South, today
appealed to President Harding and
congress for a protective tariff,
which, it declared, WAS imperatively
necessary to a the South from
stthe throes Of an economic disaster
Of unparalleled intensity"
A memorial presented to the
house ways and means committee
said agriculture "lies pr~ostrate," the
manufacturing industry us threat
eaed with paralysis and the mineral
industry is ~"entirely imperative"
The immediate enactment Of "such
tariff schedules as will equalized
the cost of production in this ceun-
try with that of foreign countries"
was asked.
A copy of the memorial alter was
presented to President Harding by a
committee, who asked the support OF
the administration in their efforts
The president was also asked to at
tend the next meeting Of the asso-
citation, which will be held in@Colum-
bia, s. c., within the next two or
three months. The investigation was
taken under advisement by the presi
dent.
Announcement also was made at
headquarters here Of the association
of the intention Of organizing the
entire industrial and agricultural
South in a movement for the esta-
blishment of an American protective
tariff.
Work is to begin at once on the
South Carolina branch.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-04-27
MOTHERS ALMANAC.

. proper Gander]
i tell you, when it comes to dates,
My mothers just "the bossw
She tells ME all I want to know :
'Thout ever gettin' cross. ,
You'd think she'd get mixed up some
times
At school I. know I do ~
Bout Washington, and Plymouth
Rock,
And 1892.
But mother says: "The war with Spain
Was fought in '98-
The year you all had chicken pox,
Exceptin' little Kate. .
s'That year, of course, the Spanish
ships
Were sunk in Cuba's channels;
Twas summer, for I'd put away
!, You children's uannels.
eThe Boer was in Africa
That was a dreadful thing
Began in '99, I know,
Jack broke his arm that spring.
Twas ~nineteenfour, and winter, too
When Japs and Russians fought,
You almost had pneumonia then
From that bad cold you caught"
There's six of US, and we're mixed W
With hist'ry just that way,
Sometimes it's measles, Group o.
mumps,
But there's no date that ever stump!
My mother, night or day!
C. Leo, in St. Nicholas
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-04-27
WOULD LEND CATTLE
MEN 500, 900, 900

Chicago, April 1.-Legislation di-
recting the secretary of the treasury
to turn over 500, 100000 of the
profits of the Federal Reserve Bank
to Federal Land Banks to be loaned
by the latter institutions on stock
cattle for the purpose Of assisting
cattle producers has been recon-
mended as a part of the Congress
sional program by w. P. G. Harding
governor Of the Federal Reserve
Bank, according to a statement to-
day by Everett C. Brown, president
of the National Livestock Ex-
change.
Enaction of such legislation, in
the opinion of Mr.. Brown, would en-
able a multitude of livestock men,
:"who might otherwise have been
forced out of the business, to con-
tinue production. CONSUMERS also
should receive a benefit from the
increase in production thus made
possible, the statement declared,
adding:
This plan for adequately financ-
ing livestock production follows a
suggestion of M. L. Mcclure, form
or president of the National Live
Stock Exchange to the International
Farm Congress.