The Colorado statesman., 1921-10-15
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

beuting the heavy freight rates Ia the
transfer or their stock 10 the mnrket
by driving the cattle overland. Sew
eral lots Of drives have appeared on
| the market this season, hut the long
est drive was completed when g. IL.
| Mccoy, William Henry and O. G. Mu-
| gruge Of Grand county arrived In Den
yer with 1S2 head Of cattle from Rndi-
nm. Colo, n distance of l35 miles. The
cattle we're qunrtcrcd at the Union
Stnckyurds and were pronounced by
local Traders to he In the finest condi-
tiuu after their long trip on the road
which consumed ten days.
4 contract for 1000 yards Of car
nets has been let by the state Board
of Capitol Managers TO the Daniels X
| Fisher Stores Company. About 1000
yards of the carpet will be laid In the
new state office building. The carpet
is of special design and bears the seal
of Colorado woven into the nap. 1t Is
brown in color which was adopted by
the members of the board for ull the
offices Of the state capitol building.
Future rcpIacemcuts of carpet in the
|
contract made with the local store. The
total cost of the carpets is about SlS,-
| 600.
The longevity of man has been no
| ticeably increased during the past few
yenrs in all countries" declared Or.
| w. W. Grant of Denver, a recognized
| authority on cancer, in an address be
fore nearly 1000 Pueblo people mt the
municipal auditorium. "This longevity
is increasing more noticeably among
women than men," he added, and stat
ed further that the mortality rate had
been reduced considerably in every
disease with the exception of cancer,
| q which statistics show three times as
many women die as men.
]. II. Weisgerber. n Pueblo telegraph
| operator, while touring the country in
| an automobile recently, had an eNcit-
| ing experience with blue racer snake.
| The snake, which was five and ii half
feet long. crawled under the ear after
having bitten into the tire. The car
was Stopped. but no trace of the snake
could be found. Eventually, it was dis
covered in the battery box only to be
| lost again an the mechanism of the
machine. When finally located in the
dust pan it was killed.
A special committee from the Den
yer Civic and Commercial Association
| has presented request to Governor
| Shoup that Colorado be fully repre-
sented Mt the proposed conference of
state water commissioners to he held
/ In, Oct II The meet
| ing is to be held in order that plans
may be made for the settlement of
state water disputes by arbitration in
conjunction with n federal commits
sioner to be appointed by the Presi-
dent.
Sheriff Ernc A. Morse of Morgan
county received postal card from
| Woody Rogers, Georgia convict, who
| escaped from Officers while being TAX
en- from Fort Morgan to Georgia. Rog-
ers was arrested at Fort Morgan sew
| erul weeks ago on charges of forgery.
1t was then learned that he had es-
capped from the Georgia penitentiary,
where he had been serving life SEN
| tence for murder. Rogers sent greet
| lngs" to Sheriff Morse.
with the completion of repairs on
| the large fire truck which has been
out of commission for some time,
| Grand Junction has three auto fire
| trucks and one of them is the most
modern machine known-a pumper
with capacity for $50 gallons per min
ute and costing S12,950. The city
plans to sell the smaller truck to
Rrulta.
John Williams, 81 years old, pioneer
miner and prospector was found dead
| in his cabin on the outskirts of Silver
ton. He came to the Triangle country
| in 1880 and was known as Johnny Be
| hind the Rock" He had been in poor
health for several months, and a few
days ago suffered n severe fall on the
streets.
Gladys Warren, years old, was IA
tally burned at her home in Colorado
| Springs when her clothing caught fire
| from some unknown cause. Mamie, an
elder sister, seized Gladys, who ran in
| to the yard carried her back into the
house and plunged her into Il tub of
water. Gladys, however, had inhaled
the flame and died later.
The shale men of Mesa county have
received an urgent invitation to attend
the American mining congress to be
held in Chicago, Oct. II to %. There
will be IL shale oil conference at the
congress and there will probably be
quite few attending from Grand
county.
The Atlas mine and mill, ten miles
west of Ouray, are running at about
capacity now with ninety men at work.
| The recent addition to twenty-ton