The Colorado statesman., 1921-07-09
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

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regulations made by the military or
der providing that no person shall be
in the streets after 10 80 p. IN. with
out good excuse. No passes will be
issued, as was the case under martial
law. The city has been under martial
law since the flood of June and dur
ing that time not one house has been
robbed or n single holdup reported.
Only few cases OF looting occurred
but they were not important ones
Fifty Colorado rangers will remain
there indefinitely and will be in COM
mand of Colonel Newton.
+ Three hours after suit for S2S,2T4
had been filed against him in the Dis
| trict Court at Boulder. Col. j. A.
Owenby appeared before Judge Nell
| f. Graham and confessed Judgment.
The suit was brought by John w. Gay
nor. wealthy farmer of the Ni-wot-
Longmont district, who alleged that he
had loaned Colonel Owenby $20,65O,
which was the total of sixteen notes
issued in the years 1915, 1916 and
1917. OF this Indebtedness $1,000 was
made good to the Farmers National
Bank f Longmont by Mr.. Gaynor,
who signed promissory notes to that
amount, jointly with Colonel Owenby.
The threatened invasion of Ell Paso
county by grasshopper army moving
northwest from the southeastern cor
ner has been averted, according to j.
C. Hale, county agent. The grasshop-
pers descended on the county recently
and It was only through the hardest
sort of work that the pest was stopped
according to Hale, who declared thai
| farmers in the community worked day
and night in their efforts to head off
the grasshoppers. Poison bran and ar
senic were used in the battle against
the insects.
1t cost the state of Colorado S2S0Oo
to pay the salaries of National Guards
men on duty in the Pueblo flood dis
| trict, according to pay roll figures
compiled in the office of Adjt Gen
Patrick Hamrock. "Youcners for the
pay of guardsmen to the extent of ST.
500 have already been drawn" said
Colonel Hamrock in discussing the eX'
pense of guarding the flooded city,
land when the pay rolls for the last
contingent of troops are completed, the
total will run slightly over S2SOOO."
Pueblo county property owners, who
suffered financial losses during the
flood early this month, will receive
reduction in their tax for 1921, ac-
cording to an announcement made IN
| Denver by C. p. Link, member OF the
State Tax Commission. Mr.. Link has
just completed detailed survey of
the actual damage done in the county.
He places the total loss at $11,00O0OO.
A tax levy on this property will be re-
duced five-twelfths of the original as
sessment, the state official announced.
Officials of the Chamber of Com
merce of st. Louis have announced
they would request Carnegie hero
medal for Robert j. Taylor of that
| city, negro Pullman porter, who is
said to have saved twenty-siX lives
when Missouri Pacific train No. ii
was overturned in the Pueblo flood in
| June.
The new Colorado Division of Mar
keting authorized by the last General
Assembly, has been established. w. NJ.
Allewelt of Greeley was appointed di-
rector of the division by the executive
/ committee of the State Board of Agri-
culture. He has established headquar.
ters at the Agricultural College.
Pete Smith, well-to-do bachelor
farmer, about 40 years old, was shot
by another farmer, George hammers,
also well-to-do, southeast of Sedg-
wick near the Phillips county line.
Smith is thought to be insane.
Martin Gabrich, 40 years old, an
Austrian, alleged TO be the murderer
! of II. c. Baisch, has been captured at
| Ophir Loop, twelve miles south of
| Telluride, by Sam Richards and Jim
Penaluna, special deputies.
Thirty-two cavalry horses to serve
as mounts for Troop b of the Colo
RADIO National Guard cavalry have ar
rived in Denver from the government
| remount station at Fort Robinson, Ne
| braska, according to an announcement
| by Capt r. II. Jancke, the command
| ing officer of the troop. The horses,
which are said to represent the finest
| type of cavalry mount, are all of the
same color, a deep bay, and Troop b
will be known henceforth as the bay
horse troop" Captain Jancke said.
| The dam at Marshall lake will not
be rebuilt for the present at least, ac-
cording to A. ]. Shaw, receiver of the
+ Farmers Reservoir and Irrigation
Company, owners of the structure. "In-
asmuch as the dam is safe for the
present." said Mr. Shaw, "and because
we believe it to be to the interests of
the farmers, whose lands we irrigate,
the water will not be drawn out"
Frank w. Howbert, newly appointed
internal revenue collector for the
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