The Dolores star., 1921-05-13
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado
Western Newspaper Union News seriee.) }


the University of Colorado, died of
heart disease at Boulder.
Guy Newton, wealthy farmer and
cattle feeder of Mead, was held up and
robbed by two masked bandits on the
Liberty Hall roads after seven-mile
chase. The men obtained $12.
Rodents, mainly prairie dogs, Wyo
ming ground squirrels, and pocket
gophers are exterminated by poison.
ing and this work, also, is done by Bio
logical Survey experts in cooperation
with forest rangers.
zone of our first aims in predatory
animal work is to exterminate the gray
wolf" says Assistant Biologist S. Il.
Piper. Persistence in cleaning up
each wolf pack is to be the keynote.
but any of these hunters can be shifted
on short notice in case such a move
is warranted by depredations iE
given locality"
Walter S. Hotchkiss, renowned west
ern slope hunter, came in to Delta with
the pelt of an animal eight feet long
from tip to tip and weighing more than
200 pounds. Mr.. Hotchkiss states that
he has killed more than 100 lions. He
has run across the tracks of five more
lions of late and will keep up his hunt
for more of the animals which have
been destroying cattle.
Peter Mettunef, 80 years old, shoe
maker of Telluride, committed suicide
by cutting his throat with shoemak
er's knife at the top of a thirty-foot
telephone pole he climbed, and then
plunging head foremost to the ground.
Mettunefs skull was fractured and he
died six hours later. score of per-
sons watched Mettunuf's attempt to
kill himself but were powerless to re-
strain him.
The sewing club girls of Penrose,
who are starting with their first years
work, are each taking budget for the
purchase of their hair ribbons, stock
ings and handkerchiefs. In addition to
their sewing work, the girls will have
specific instructions in the care of
these three articles and will be held
responsible by their mothers for the
purchase of the articles for the year
and for the care of them.
Two hundred and thirty forest Of
ficers are scattered over the fifteen
national forests of Colorado and they
know the thirteen million acres of for
est land intimately. One ranger will
know that there are three wolf dens
on his district, another has seen lion
tracks in two widely separated places.
and this knowledge will be invaluable
in mapping the locations of these killers
of livestock.
Sugar beets are now being used by
boOtlegSers in the manufacture of
liquor. Sheriff Wilson of Delta coun-
ty, captured n large still at Hotchkiss
recently in which sugar beets were
being used instead of corn or the 9TH
er ingredients commonly used by dis
tillers. An auto radiator was also be-
ing used for the condensation of the
booze. The still was of thirty-gallon
capacity. Two men were captured in
the raid.
PueblO's airplane landing field ad-
joining the state fair grounds, and
iueuI ipi tie pulpost, Is ollcIeu tlle
United States War Department for the
accommodation of three planes from
the government field at Sacramento,
Calf, to be sent across the country to
map war airplane routes. The planes
are to make the cross-country trip the
latter pare of May or early In June,
according to communication from
Maj. B. NJ. Atkinson, commandant at
Sacramento.
The Boulder Territorial-Pioneer So
ciety is to be formed as a result of a
meeting of pioneers at Boulder in con-
nection with Community week. J. e.
Hubbard, Prof. f. l.. Chase and Mrs.
II. e. Arnett were appointed a COM
mittee to draft bylaws. A meeting
be made to preserve historical pictures
and buildings Of that region.
Charles Mahl of Monte Vista has
had two and one-half acres of yellow
sweet clover pasture for the past two
years, growing on land that it white
with alkali. Last year it pastured
three head of cows all summer and
Aoui iois at hishl uullHS tle Sulli-
mer season. Mr.. Mahl stated that he
had to turn forty head OF stock in on
this pasture twice to keep it down.
The country population Of Colorado
has been increasing for the last twenty
years, although the per cent OF the pop
ulation that is from the country has
not increased all the time. The rural
population of Colorado in 1900 was
202 $50; in 1910, 297 ,427 in 1920, 373,-
S6S. In 1900, 30 per cent of the people
of Colorado lived in the country; in
1910, 81 per cent; and in 1920, 30 per
cent.
Tobe ]. Guess of Norwood, we'll
known ditch rider, was critically in
jured when part of the bank of a ditch