Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1921-07-01
Pithy News Notes
From An Parts of
Colorado
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he has left Fort Morgan for Califor-
mia to play the leading part in pic
ture.
Ten Chinese and two negroes were
captured several trucklonds of furni-
ture. lottery paraphernalin and china
ware were seized and $1,000 in cash
confiscated by Denver police In II raid
on alleged oriental gambling houses In
Hop alley.
Owners of land along the Big Thomp-
son river, south of Lovelnnd, are plan
ming on dyking the river with sand
bags to force it back into its old chan
mel from the new channel. fifty yards
from the old, which was washed by
the flood to a depth of sixteen feet,
through two or three fields in the bot
toms.
Farmers residing in the vicinity Of
the eastern edge of El Paso county
were compelled to work in shifts in
the fight which was waged to eradi-
cate the hordes of grasshoppers which
laid waste farm land and threatened
destruction of many acres of valuable
crops. Trenches, twenty miles long,
were dug in many places by the farm
ers.
Joe Innocence, is years old, is dead
and Fransco Ochlnpinto, 33 years old,
Guy Applegate, 80 years old, and Joe
Innocence, 81 years old, the latter
brother-in-law of the dead youth, are
in jall in Greeley as the result of a
rftcbad battle ,t-itb county ond fafaral
officers for possession of an Illicit
whisky still, in operation near the
Colorado Wyoming dividing line in
northern Weld county.
On representations made by William
L. PassmOre, in charge of the public
sampling works at Idaho Springs,
which handles ores from the Gilpln and
Clear Creek county mines, a reduction
in freight rates from Idaho Springs to
Leadville has been granted. On ores
up to $50 per ton the rate is So per
ton, while ores worth 500 or over
that figure pay 50. Rates of $3.50, "a
and $3.50 cover ores between $50 and
500 per ton in value.
Pueblo must have federal aid to pre-
vent a recurrence of floods or there
will be no business blocks rebuilt on
their old sites, according to H. H. Sell
domridge, receiver of the Mercantile
National Bank of that city The ac-
counts of the Pueblo food which ap-
peared in the eastern press fell far
short in conveying an adequate con-
ception of the catastrophe which has
visited this unfortunate city, accord
ing to Mr. Seldomrdge.
The sheepmen of southwestern Colo
RADIO who use San Juan forest service
range, have agreed through their rep
resentative, H. d. Abrams, to pay
three cents per head for all sheep
driven over the Durango -SIlverton
highway in reaching their range, ac-
cordlng to statement made at Dur
ango by Supervisor H e. French of
the forest service. Heretofore there
has been some controversy from driv
ing stock over the highway.
Weld county will produce 100000
bushels of wheat this year, judging
from present indications. Figures
compiled by the field men of the coun-
" aSSeSsOF SHOW tilul llieTt are LOO,
900 acres planted to wheat in the
county this year. Because of the large
amount of moisture the yield will be
from thirty to fifty bushels on the non
irrigated land as well as in the irri
gated districts. There are $4,000 acres
Of wheat on the irrigated farms and
about 100000 on the dry land.
Registration at the University Of
Colorado closed with 1878 students en-
rolled for the first term, which will
close July 90. The second term will
open the following day and continues
for period OF six weeks. Many Of the
present students are expected to stop
at the end of the first term, and new
ones will undoubtedly enter, as many
inquiries have been received.
Flood waters in the Animas valley
caused a loss of 1851 per farm or a
total of S31 800 for thirty-seven prop
erty holders. according to report
made in Durango ut meeting of resi-
dents of the valley presided over by
George w. Greaves. f. w. Jeffrey and
]. II. McCord constituted the commit
tee which formulated the report after
investigation of the inundated area.
All restrictions on tourist traffic by
train or automobile into Pueblo has
been lifted by the military authorities
following request by President
Lovern of the City Council. Pass of.
ficers stationed at Colorado Springs
Denver, Canon City, Walsenburg and
other points have been relieved from
duty on the main highways Restric
tions on freight shipments also have
/ been removed.
Stalled on a railroad track near
Fort Morgan, the automobile of l.. E
| Jeffery of Brush was completely de
molished by freight train. Mr.. JEFF
IL. /. IL. L.