The Colorado statesman., 1921-01-15
Pithy News Notes
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teenth street, Colorado Springs, to
Annapolis Naval Academy.
The students of the School of Mines
| are soon to organize themselves into
an associated students council for the
purpose of self-government.
The First Christian Church of elf
INton, recently dedicated, is said TO be
the largest and finest church edifice In
"A city under 1000 in population in the
state.
OF the 26T,11S aliens that arrived in
| the United States for the first six
months of 1920 Colorado gave home to
| 919, according to the report of the
| United States Department of Labor.
The legislative appropriation bill
which was reported out of committee
| in Washington, d. c., carries with 1t u
| S244,SOO appropriation for the Denver
| mint.
X. II. Hildebrandt, an employee of
the Great Western Sugar Company at
Brush, was instantly killed when he
was knocked down and run over by
an automobile driven by Harry Razor,
| IS years old. The accident occurred
i'm front of the sugar plant as Hide
brandt was going TO work.
| Sorghum took n new place in Colo
RADIO agriculture in the year just end
ed. 29S,72O acres of grain sorghums
! 100. 79S acres of sweet sorghums and
| 24,O3O acres of sudan grass being
grown, this total of 444,S4I being
marked Increase over the 430,S92-acre
total for the previous year.
| A drive for membership in the Ere
| mont County. Farm Bureau began III
the Beaver Park district and VIII be
| continued throughout the county dur
ing January. There are at present
$50 members, and it is desired to make
the number at least 800. County
Agent A. ]. Taylor is in charge.
Colorado's open season on deer lasts
only four days, in October, but forest
rangers peering through surveyors
glass, saw party several miles distant
| strapping a deer to a saddle horse. Art
er two days trailing rancher was ar
rested, pleaded guilty to killing the
deer and paid fine of 500.
More than 10000 visitors passed
through the halls of the Denver mint
during the year according TO an actual
count by guards and attendants. The
heaviest month proved to be August,
when tourists from east and west meet
| in Denver Approximately 5000 peo-
pie passed through in this month alone.
The total number of marriage Ii
censes issued in Denver during 1920
was 4,OO4. This surpasses by over 800
which z 11t IL
censes, and that year broke all previous
records. For several years prior to
| 1919, the average number of licenses Is
sued was around 2,400, with the high
| mark 200.
The state of Colorado during the
year 1920 collected a total Of SS15,1OO
| in automobile license tax money, ac-
cording to a report by Secretary of
| State james r. holland. This is the
largest amount of auto tax ever taken
in by the state, and is nearly twice the
amount collected the previous year,
which totaled $491, 713.35.
Despite falling prices, Weld county
crops will bring farmers of the county
approximately $20,000,000 for 1920, &C.
| cording to the annual report of County
Agricultural Agent Mason Il. Knapp,
made to the county commissioners.
| The sugar beet crop brought nearly
| $4,000, 900, while the wheat crop at
the average price at which it was sold
realized more than $6000,000. The
bulk of the potato and hay crops are
| yet to be marketed.
Deaths in Denver for December,
| 1920, totaled Alb, exceeding the num-
Der for the same month in 1919 by
| 81, according to Miss Florence Leach,
registrar of vital statistics at the city
| hall. The December figure included
| four murders, five suicides and thir-
teen deaths by accident, none of these,
however, being deaths from auto acct
dents, an unusual record.
Twelve conventions will be held in
| Denver within the next two weeks.
| The Stock Show, which opens on the
| 18th, will be the headliner, and will
| consume the whole week. The list of
| conventions, and the date of their re-
| spective openings are as follows: Colo
| RADIO Lumberman'S convention, Jan.
10; the II. I. p, hardware mems as
sociation, Jan. %; county commission
ers, Jan. II; Mountain States Ice Man
ufacturers, Jan. II; Old-time Cowboys
convention, Jan. 10; the Colorado
Creamery Butter Association, Jan. 10;
Colorado Sheriffs' convention, Jan. 20;
| Colorado Auctioneers' convention, Jan.
20; Colorado State Editorial Associa-
ton, Jan. 81; Colorado State League
of Building and Loan Associations,
Jan. 81.
Deputy Sheriff Delliquadri, after a
chase of twenty-five miles, recovered