The Colorado statesman., 1921-11-19
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado
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nOunccu ny JOln ". NuileTy, SeneThi
agent of the Burlington freight depart
ment IN reduction of time of the
Burlngton's through freight train to
Denver.
Pueblo refused to adopt the city
manager plan of municipal govern
ment, voting IL down by majority of
T2S. Unofficial tnbulation OF the vote
put 1t at 2,77S for the amendment and
1896 against 1t, with the result that
Pueblo will continue under the present
form Of commission government.
The civic Improvement ticket won
at the city election mt Montrose. There
was not much of an issue involved,
though three tickets were in the field.
Those chosen for city commissioners
are A. l.. Anderson, c. NJ. Thompson,
w. G.. Haney, J. j. Gatschett and w.
A. Scribner. The $4,000 bond Issue
for n water works system was car
ried.
To assist in the campaign to raise
100000 needed to complete the fund
for the new University of Colorado
medical school and state hospital, four
teen seniors of the university have
gone to different parts of the state TO
organize the work. The campaign will
be conducted from Nov. % to Dec. 3,
during which time 100000 citizens of
the state will be asked to give 81 each.
Five soldiers from Fitzsimons Hos
pital in Denver escaped Serious Injury
when they were pinned beneath an
overturned automobile at Pomah cross
Of
The car was driven by Sergt. George
Beebe. Numerous accidents have oc-
Cured lately mt this point in the road.
A dangerous curve and lack of warn
ing signs are held responsible.
Aztec n. NJ, lying just across the
border line between Colorado and the
former state, will be the first city in
the San Juan basin to be heated and
lighted by gas. The Aztec Oil Syndl-
cate has secured the pipe for the cree
ton of n gas plant that will carry the
gas from the oil well, situated about n
mile from the city, to the homes and
business houses of the community and
work will begin at once upon the con-
struction.
With three deaths from acute alco-
holism in Denver in October, the total
of deaths from imbibing moonshine so
far this year is eleven. For all of
1920 only five deaths from alcoholism
were reported to the city health au-
,horities. According to the report OF
Miss Florence Leach, registrar of vital
statistics, the total of deaths from
drinking. bootleg in Denver in October
| l.; Of On
this year.
The American State Bank at Gran
ada, Colo, was robbed by yeggmen
who dynamited the voult and smashed
the safety deposit boxes therein. The
robbers got $500 in money belonging
TO the bank and an equal amount from
the safety deposit boxes which be-
Ionged to customers. One hundred and
thirty-five dollars of the money the
bank lost was in pennies. The rob
bers overlooked several thousand dol
lars in cash and bonds at the rear of
the vault.
Weld county, Colorado, unclasSified
half century ago so far rs its agri-
cultural values We're concerned, ranks
rs the twenty-slxth county of the en-
tire United States in value of crops
and live stock, according TO a federal
census report made public in Denver.
In list of the fifty leading counties
of the nation, Weld holds this position
with n total crop and live stock value
in 1919 of 23,203,475. Its crop value
alone was S21, ,19S,360 giving it rank
ms the twenty-third county.
Appropriation of 100000 of the
state highway for maintenance pur-
poses. to be expended under the direc-
ton of the highway department along
with 100000 to be furnished by the
counties, has been approved by Gov
ernor Shoup. The governor met with
the members of the highway advisory
board and discussed the budget for
| 1922 with them.
All Colorado is TO be represented in
/ the Colorado Industrial Exposition and
Prosperity Carnival to be held Feb. 20
! ~ i'm the AUDITORIUM at Denver. Coop
Grafton of 40, 900 women members of the
| Colorado Made Goods Club is assured,
according to Il. c. Dawson of the ex-
position committee. AT least 80 eX-
hibit booths are expected. An overflow
structure may be needed.
A glare of automobile lights caused
the death of William Hopkins, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. James Hopkins of Pueb-
10, when the automobile in which he
and Marvin G. Woodward were driv-
Ing to Pueblo from Colorado Springs
ran into small buggy driven by n
prospector who was on his way to
breckenridge, at Il place three miles
north of Pueblo. Woodward was driv-
ing, but not injured.
Paper money is taboo in Telluride
from now on. After n period of sever