Cheyenne Wells record., 1921-12-15
COLORADO NEws NOTES.


the West for great deal of interest
TO them Is being crowded into those ten
Dusy days. From all over the United
states, delegates to American National
Live Stock Association are coming to
colorado Springs on fare and One-
third rate that gives them stOpOver
privilege on the return trip In order
thht they may attend the National
Western Stock Show In Denver, Jan.
l4-2l. On the sixteenth of January the
annual meeting of the Colorado Stock
Growers Association will be held In
Denver and with the fare and half
open rlie from all states west of the
Missouri river on tickets to Denver and
return, good from Jan. IA to Jan. 80,
inclusive, all indications point to the
largest attendance of prominent stock
men of the West that the National
Western Stock Show has ever had.
More than $4,000 was derived by
the State Board of Land Commission
ers In the sale of 3,O8O acres Of state
lands TO actual settlers, according to
Registrar George Stephan. The land
Is lOcnted In nine counties md the
price averaged S12.11 an acre. Sixty
one thousand acres of lands viii he
nuctioned to the highest bidders by
the commissioners Dec. 10. The sale
| will be conducted on the county court
house steps at Las Animns, Colo. The
| land will he sold In tracts varying
from forty 10 100 acres. The minimum
price per acre has been set ut So Mr..
Stephan said.
Plans for the construction of II S1O,-
O000O0 electrical smelter on the site of
the Old Hardy ranch In ArnpnhOe cOun-
ty, near the city limits of Denver, were
made public by Charles L. Huvener,
president of the Utnli-COIorado Mining
and Milling Company, and also presi
dent of the COloratlO-Utah Mines Hold
ing Company of Kansas City, which is
backing the proposed smelter. The
plants daily production Is estimated at
25,W0 to 10000 tons of ore daily, and
1t is estimated that it will give employ
men, TO about G,OOO men.
Superintendent Thomson of the Es-
teS Park fish hatchery, hns pet wea
sci that is the sole survivor of IL family
Of one mother and three little ones,
the mother being shot several months
ago and the two other weasels being
killed by Its companion. After shoot
ing the mother, he put the three little
ones in box and tried to raise them.
1t was a survival of the fittest and the
other two were killed by the one he
now has, which has developed into Il
pet that he plays with as IL it were a
little kitten.
james Ynger Hamilton, who attained
the rank of major In the World War,
and who served In the Spanish-Amer-
lean War, has been elected commander
Of the Spanfsh-American War Veter-
ans post In Pueblo. w. c. Porter was
chosen senior vice commander; Rer-
nard Greenwood, junior vice command
er: II. !. Spar, chaplain, and Walter
llainey, officer Of the day. Records OF
the post were lost In the flood md re-
Mobilization of the post Is to begin Mt
once.
State Treasurer StOng has appealed
to the State Supreme Court for re-
view Of District Judge Charles G. But
ler's recent decision directing him to
abide by the instructions of the Colo
RADIO Industrial Commission in the use
OF state compensation insurance funds.
The dispute arose between the commits
sion and the state treasurer several
months ngO over the investing Of 500,
900 available funds In the insurance
department in government bonds.
The safety vault of the First Ma
tional Bank Of Mead, Colo, was brok-
en- into and 800 In cash and securities
the value OF which hrs not been de.
termined, were taken. Finger prints
on the door of the vault were positive.
Iy identified as those of Joe Clark,
convicted hank robber, and RevertO
Martinez, a Mexican, who escaped
from tn. Weld county jail nfter saving
their way through quarter inch
steel wall.
Three days on bread and water was
all that Cy Check OF L0veland could
stand, and then he notified City Mar
shol Williamson that lie was ready to
go to work Oh the street. He had been
fined SD and costs for disturbance and
refused to pay the fine and went to
Jail. He then refused TO ent unless the
marshal carried meals to him. His ac-
lion brought about rule to work ev-
eryb"tly In the city Jail, for any cause
wi,ateve", on the streets OF the city.
The Rocky Mountain National Park
enjoyed the largest travel this year of
any Of the national parks In the
United States, Stephen r. AIather, d.
rector of national park service, an
nounced. He gave the total number
Of visitors To the Rocky MOunain' pnrk
as 273.73I. against 240.986 IN 1920.
Mesa Verde National Park had 1908
visitors, as compared with $3.50 in
1920.
Denver stands twentieth In IL list Of
fOrty-fOur representative American cit
ics with population of more than
1OO.OO for It's 1921 building program,
according to a comparative statement
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