The Colorado statesman., 1921-03-12
Pithy News Notes
From All Paris of
Colorado
lwe.iern New.papsl unIon Nev. serIes.l

Albert Estrada, %, laborer, was
shot at Pueblo and died In II hospital
there. The killing is said To have been
the outcome of an argument started In
pool game. No arrests have been
made.
The postoffice at Springfield. fifty
miles south of Lamar and county seat
of Baca county, was looted by robbers,
who escaped In an automobile. Ii Is
estimated that the robbers got $500 In
cash and approximately 800 worth of
stamps.
Another rich strike is reported at
the Vlndicator mine at Victor, At the
twentieth level and at depth close to
1000 feet the company is reported to
have found an extension of the old Lilly
vein, which in former years has pro-
duced extraordinary rich bonanza
values
The mutilated body of n man, skull
crushed, rope around his neck, throat
cut and many slashes on his body, was
found in cabin three miles from
Graneros, Colo, and thirty-two miles
south of Pueblo. The only means of
identification may lie in ring on n
finger. with the letters &C $ 4 '15.'
Howard Rigsby, the 13-year old son
of Mr. and Mrs. Vechel Rigsby, lost
the thumb of his left hand as the re-
suit of the explosion of dynamite cap
with which he was playing at Sterling.
Young Rigsby was trying to reduce the
size of the cap TO use ii in pistol
when it exploded.
State inheritance tax collections dur
ing the first quarter of the current
fiscal year amounted to SOC, ,S3004. ac-
cording to the semi-monthly report of
Attorney General Keyes. OF this sum
ST., 2,094.13 was collected during the last
half of February. Twenty-three es-
tates paid inheritance tax during the
last two weeks.
Homesteaders purchased at public
auction 5000 acres of state school
lands, according to John f. Vivian,
register of the land board. This was
the first auction held by the board
since JAN II. Total receipts from the
sale was SSS,570, an average of S1J.Sl
per acre, which records of the land Of
flee show to be higher than the gen
eTtt uNtEdSt price VI pitNiphf' s'h'es''
Following a conference with several
citizens, Governor Shoup announced he
would ask the Senate finance and
House appropriations committee to in
clude in the long appropriation bill
S25, 900 with which to buy Il silver serv-
ice for the new superdreadnaught
Colorado, which Mrs. Max Melville, the
daughter of United States Senator
Samuel D. Nicholson, will christen at
the shipyards at sCamden, n. J.,
March %.
Following numerous complaints OF
moonshne stills operating night and
day and a general open territory"
supplying hundreds with Illicit wet
goods in southwestern Colorado and
northwest New Mexico, nearly dozen
United States federal internal revenue
officers, assisted by Sheriff George
Rowe and his deputies, of La Plata
county, seized eight separate and elab-
crate stills in operation and arrested
ten men.
"A competent staff of instructors is
maintained at the University of Colo
RADIO to see that students who gradu-
ute are not Only HeHluily tiulitu, pul
also physically developed" said DIR. G.
E. Kennedy in an address before the
Boulder Commercial Association.
physical education does not only
mean competitive sports for the stu
dents, it means, in addition. correc-
tive system of overcoming physical de-
fects," he continued. Dr. Kennedy is
at the head of the physical education
department of the university.
John NJ. Richardson of Denver
through his attorneys, has filed suit in
the Fremont county District Court in
Canon City, for S5S,307 damages
against G. V. Hodgin, j. Victor Nc
Candless and James Belknap in their
unofficial and individual capacities for
alleged negligence while serving as
county commissioners of Fremont
county in 1920. The alleged negli-
gence, the plaintiff claims, resulted in
Jury to himself in an automobile acci-
dent on April 30, 1920.
Plans, specifications and estimates
on Colorado highway projects, to be
carried out at an approximate cost of
S2O5, $3.50, were submitted to J. s.
Bright, supervisor of the United States
bureau of public roads in Denver by
the State Highway Commission. Fed
eral aid to the amount of 80 per cent
on the work, which includes A miles |
Df concrete road on the Denver-Brigh-
ton highway, is requested. Other con-
struction work contemplated, embraces
two bridges in Montrose county, one
of seventy feet over the Uncompah-
gre river, and one of twenty-eight feet