Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1921-02-04
Pithy News Notes
From An Payts of
Colorado
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William NusseIman. 10-year-oid-son
of Fruith rsncher. WIS almost in
stantly killed when he fell from a pony
he was riding. The lad was riding the
pony and driving home his fathers
cows when the accident occurred
Work at Longmont has started In
vrecking the city hall TO make vay
for a new 10000 municipal building
chambers, rest rooms, a xyrnnss sium
and office rooms for city officials.
Among the chief needs which will be
discussed at the annual meeting OF the
Grand Junction Chamber OF Commerce
in February. the need of advertising
western Colorado's wonderland to the
world viii receive great attention A
plan will be discussed for an adVertis-
ing campaign which will virtually in
troduce TO new fields the possibilities
OF that part of Colorado.
Mrs. Bertha ~ Dickey, who entered
desert claim on land six miles from
Clmarron year ago and whom the
/ government has tried TO dlspOssess up
on the claim that the land was too
rough for cultivation and therefore
should be re-designated as grazing
/ land. won in contest case heard in
the Montrose land office after she had
I proved by several witnesses that ahe
land was actually in cultivation, hav-
ing been plowed with tractor last
fall.
Uncle Sam paid the Colorado State
I Highway Department. approximately
S9j2. l22.IS as the government share
of the constructed federal aid road
work in the state during 1920. accord
7 ing 10 District Engineer ]. S. Bright
OF the United States Bureau of Public
Roads. This money represents the
federal payments on forty-seven pro-
| jects under construction or completed
! through the state Bright said. Tween
/ ty-two separate projects were com
/ pleted during the year at total esti-
mated cost of 81 .O36. S35.44, of which
the federal government was requested
to pay S410,e67. .35.'
Charles T. Stockton, furniture deal
er of Bristol for a number of years, is
dead, and four other persons are In
the hospital suffering serious injuries
as the result of an accident which oc-
CURED six miles between Bristol and
Holly. The injured are Joseph Eel
lars, who Is suffering from a broken
leg; G. L. Hlte, badly bruised, and
Henry Thompson and Ernest Burke Sc
verely bruised about the face and
body. Stockton, cellars, Thompson
and Burke, all OF Bristol, were en-
route home from Holly when the ma
/ oh Inn Ia oh,
lided with a horse and buggy being
driven by G.. X. Hite, who is a we'll
known Prowers county farmer. 1t Is
said Il binding snow storm was the
cause of the accident.
No state with the exception of Mon
tana has shown so rapid an increase
in the acreage of land under cultiva,
tlon in the past decade as Colorado,
and few states have shown a larger
percentage of increase in the number
of farms. Within the past ten years
approximately 100000 acres of gov
ernment land has been homesteaded.
while large areas of privately-owned
land have been broken and placed un-
der cultivation. Records of the State
immigration Department show that
this movement has been much stronger
in the past five years than in the pre-
ceding five years, and that there was
an actual decrease In the populatio
Of the state during the first two years
after the 1910 census WAS compiled.
The increase In subsequent years has
been due primarily to agricultural de-
yelopment, which has been much more
marked in the non-irrigated than In
the irrigated districts.
Thieves who have been getting such
good hauls of late at Grand Junction
met with different reception at the S.
Il. Parker home In that city The in
truders were greeted by volley of
shots from the Parker family arsenal
and the neighbors took up the fusll-
lade. sending the would-be robbers
away at a record clip.
Decision TO withhold financial sup
port from the Colorado School of
Mines magazine and refuse to furnish
headquarters in the school buildings
for the editor of the publication, was
voted by the board of trustees of the
school at recent meeting. at which
publication of an article derogatory
to the institution was considered.
Jose Ramon of Cordova, Colo, will
receive $l,035 for injuries received in
an old Apache Indian uprising. in
which he fought as federal soldier, If
the United States Senate passes a bill
making the appropriation which was
reported on favorably by the commit
tee on claims. The lower house al
ready has passed this bill, and also one
of a similar kind to aid Mrs. Joseph G.
Atkins. the widow of an officer killed
in the uprising. The latter bill has
not been reported out, however