The Colorado statesman., 1921-03-26
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado
(westsn Newspaper Union News Service.


mately 100000.
Yuma has voted an additional s62,-
600 school bond issue to complete the
new high school building. The vote
resulted IS to for the bond issue.
An unusually high wind, which fol-
| lowed n narrow path like "A tornado,
damaged numerous buildings on Dixon
| Heights, five miles from Colorado
Springs.
Sixty thousand persons, firms and
corporations of Colorado paid S6,9i6,-
273.l4 into Uncle Sans Golfers as fed
eral income tax I'm the first three
months of 1921.
A mass meeting was held in Igna-
clio to protest against the high cost of
gasoline. Consumers there are paying
AZ cents a gallon, while in Denver gas
sells for 20 cents a gallon.
Colorado Springs may issue at once
| its 5000 900 paving bonds, voted Mt
special election on Sept. 8, 1920, by
virtue of decision handed down by
the Colorado Supreme Court.
Mrs. Mary A Field of Holyoke was
| burned about the face and body when
an oil stove which she had started ex-
| ploded. Her husband grabbed Il blank
ct and smothered the flames. She is
recovering.
Four hundred pounds of poison was
mixed and distributed among the cat
tlemen around Montrose as the first
move in the most aggressive campaign
the United States Biological Survey
has ever made in that section against
predatory animals.
Attorney John l.. Stivers of Mont
rose, Colo, has been appointed receiv-
er for the Colorado Vanadium Com
pany of Montrose by order of Federal
Judge Robert T.. Lewis on a petition
filed by w. l.. Smith, New Jersey
stockholder and creditor of the COM
pany.
Over $2,OOO,OO0 will be loaned to the
farmers of Colorado within the next
eighteen months under the federal
farm loan act which has just been held
constitutional by the United States
Supreme Court, according to estimates
of those in close touch with the stua-
ton.
Jack Reed of Red Cliff was found
dead in bed with a bullet in his head,
and Mrs Jack Nye, suffering from a
wound in her side, was picked up IN
the yard The woman said that Reed
had shot her and then turned the re-
volver on himself. She is being held
for investigation by the authorities at
Red Cliff.
The rights of an Indian to priority
on a homestead was proved in the To-
cal land office at Montrose when w.
II. Evans, q white man, was refused
entry on a homestead near Sapinero,
due to the fact that John A. Blair, an
Indian, had already squatted on the
land and made the necessary improve
ments.
One of the most picturesque high
ways in the state of Colorado is prom
ised automobile tourists in the new
road through the famous Byers canon,
between Hot Sulphur Springs and Par
shall, which has been accepted by the
State Highway Commission. The new
road will form part of the Midland
trail.
A new sewer district to drain the
entire east side of the city of Love
land and to cost about $4,000, will
be built this season, the council hav-
ing passed the ordinance providing for
same and instructed the city clerk to
advertise for bids to be opened March
20, in order to get as early start as
possible on its construction.
Northern Colorado fair dates will
not conflict this year, as they fire.
quently have in the past. Six fair
dates announced are Morgan county
at Fort Morgan, August 1926; Wash
ington county mt Akron, Aug. 31-Sept.
.; Phillips county at Holyoke, Sept.
7-lO; Logan county at Sterling, Sept.
1916; Yuma county at Yuma, Sept.
2O-23; Weld county at Greeley, Sept.
1916.
Attorney w. W. Platt of Alamosa
and Oscar Lord of Mosca, who were
appointed as committee by the Ala
mosa county Chamber of Commerce to
ask the State Land Board to grant a
right-of-way for the Mosca Pass high
way over the state lands in Alamosa
county, have been notified by the land
board that the right-of-way has been
granted. The surveys on this road
have been completed and now that the
land board has granted the right-of-
way, construction work will begin at
once. More than a hundred farmers
along the route of the new highway
will donate labor and teams for the
construction. The road Shortens the
distance from the valley to Denver
more than forty miles, and provides an
ail-year route.
Anna Mudra, 15-year-old daughter Of
Frank Mudra, Czecho-Slav coal miner
Mt Oak Creek, who shot and killed her