The Colorado statesman., 1921-08-13
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

bic Construction Company OF fueblo
for the building Of fifty houses, which
are to be sold st cost and on easy
payments 10 employees OF the company
who lost their homes in the flood. The
total sum TO be expended will be close
to $4,000, and the houses will be of
three, four, five and six rooms, all
thoroughly modern. They will be
built near the old c. F. Il l. hospital.
work to begin at once.
Hereafter Montrose flremen will not
be in danger Of being run over by auto
lists following them to fire. The
City Council has passed an ordinance
forblddlng any automobile TO he with
in 200 feet of fire apparatus going TO
a fire. Complaint has been filed fre-
quently with the council that when
ever the companies turn out they are
followed by stream of autos racing
after them, and when the men spring
to make coupling they are in danger
of being run down.
Two bandits with ropes let q third
down the side OF a Pullman car on
Denver & Rio Grande train No. be-
tween Grand Valley and Rifle, and he
cut the screens in the windows and
robbed three hammocks In the berths.
One woman reported the loss of 500
in travellers checks and $40 in cash,
and two other passengers reported
losses, but the amount was not made
public. So far as is known only the
three hammocks were robbed.
The federal census bureau has
placed an average of S31.22 on farm
lands in Colorado. This is nearly twice
the figure fixed by the county asses
sors, which was $16.45 in 1920. An in
crease of 100000 acres of farm land
in the state is shown by the report.
The average increase in value has been
1921 an acre. Nearly 2S,000,0O0 acres
of farm land is reported by the county
assessors tax rolls.
Howard Penn, q negro, enraged be-
cause he had been elected from Mex
lean restaurant in Eaton, kicked in
the window of hardware store,
helped himself to n rifle and ammuni-
tion, and returning to the restaurant
proceeded 10 lombard it, The Mexi-
cans ran through the rear door, and
Penn was arrested by the town mar
shal and placed in the Greeley Jail.
Colorado Springs may be immediate
ly chosen as a site for vocational
training center for disabled soldiers,
according to statement made by II.
Allen Nye of Denver, who has been
looking over the situation. Under
present plans the new building will be
large enough to accommodate at least
300 soldiers. The proposed site con-
tains about 300 acres in the foothills.
An increase in attendance is re-
ported by the university summer
school at Boulder The total for the
second term is 1,246 as against S14
year ago. During the first term the
registration was 1851 compared with
1907 in 1920. The total for the sum
mer is 3,197 as against 2,1S1 in 1920.
Richard Hart, % years old, son of
prominent mining man of Red Cliff,
was killed and five others narrowly
escaped death when an automobile in
which the party was returning TO Red
Cliff from Leadville, plunged down
thirty-foot embankment four miles
west of Tennessee pass.
School expenses in Colorado have in
creased about $3,500,000 in the last two
years, according to figures made pub
lie by the State Immigration Depart
ment. The statistics are compiled from
records of the state superintendent OF
schools
Business men of Grand Junction are
giving their enthusiastic support TO
hn nf hn WnGtarn Generate
Products Company, who are planning
the erection of $4,000 plant in the
city in the near future.
George Washington Musser, former
chief justice of the Colorado Supreme
Court, and for more than thirty years
n resident of Colorado, died at his
home in Denver, following Il heart at
tack.
One man was blinded for life and
another may never recover his sight
as the result of an explosion in lime
stone quarry at lngleside, near Fort
Collins. The men, Lee Chavez and
Frank Florez, We're lowering Il keg of
black powder into shaft when the
keg struck a rock The explosion
blew the eyes of Florez almost entirely
from his head. All the skin was blown
from Chavez face, but physicians said
his sight might be saved
The city of Loveland faces a dam
age suit for $500 to be started by ].
S. Bainbridge for damages because of
injuries received by slipping on an icy
sidewalk and breaking his leg last De-
cember. cambridge presented the
bill some months ago, and after ne
gotiations offered to compromise. The
finance committee of the council re-
| fused the offer.
Announcement has been made that
| the stntn firemen,S nneetinn To he held