Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner. (Elizabeth, Colo.) 1920-1921, 1921-05-13
Pithy News Notes
From All Paris of
Colorado


ming ground squirrels, and pocket
gophers are exterminated by poison
ing and this work, also. is done by Bio
logical Survey experts in cooperation
with forest rangers.
Robert b. Wolf was reelected presi-
dent of the Colorado Springs school
board, l.. NJ. Hunt elected vice presi-
dent and Thomas j. Fox and Samuel ].
Giles reelected secretary and treas
urer. respectively.
Grand valley. Colorado. stands out
as virtually the only fruit district in
the United States that promises full
crop this year, according to the Off
cial report of the American Railway
Development Association. made public
by w. H. DIN, supervisor of ngricul-
ture of the Denver & Rio Grande.
The sewing club girls of Penrose,
who are starting with their first years
work. are each taking a budget for the
purchase of their hair ribbons, stock
ings and handkerchlefs. In addition to
their sewing work, the girls will have
specific Instructions in the care of
these three articles and will be held
responsible by their mothers for the
purchase of the articles for the year
and for the care of them.
Two hundred and thirty forest of
ficers are scattered over the fifteen
national forests of Colorado and they
know the thirteen million acres of for
est land intimately. One ranger will
know that there are three wolf dens
on his district, another has seen lion
tracks in two widely separated places,
and this knowledge will be invaluable
In mapping the locations of these killers
of livestock.
Sugar beets are now being used by
bootleggers in the manufacture of
liquor Sheriff Wilson of Delta coun-
| ty, captured a large still at Hotchkiss
recently in which sugar beets were
| being used instead of corn or the 9TH
er ingredients commonly used by dis
| tillers. An auto radiator was also be-
Ing used for the condensation of the
booze. The still was of thirty-gallon
capacity. Two men were captured In
the raid.
Three thousand two hundred and
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killed on-the forest ranges of Colorado
alone during 1920 Wolves, coyotes
and mountain lions were mainly re-
sponsible for this slaughter. The U.
S. Biological Survey plans to employ
constantly in the district at least four
or five expert lion hunting outfits, and
two or three wolf hunters OF proven
ability, according to word received by
District Forester Allen s. Peck.
Pueblo's airplane landing field ad-
| joining the state fair grounds, and
| ideal for the purpose, Is offered the
| United States War Department for the
accommodation of three planes from
| the government field at Sacramento,
| Calf, to be sent across the country to
map war airplane routes. The planes
are to make the cross-country trip the
latter pare OF May or early in June,
| according to communication from
Maj. b. NJ. Atkinson, commandant at
| Sacramento.
| Burned beyond recognition In less
than a minute, little 4-year-old Ernest
Nelavec was victim of playing with
matches at Sallda. The little fellow
was playing near an old wagon con-
taining some hay. He had picked up
n match somewhere and proceeded to
set fire to the hay. His screams at
tracted his mother, Mrs. Tony Nelavec.
She rushed around the hay-fllled wag-
| on and grabbed the suffocated and ter
ribly burned boy from the fire, but too
late. He gasped his last in his moth
er's arms.
| The Hayden school board has Sc
lected Charles A. Stoddard, at present
| principal of the community school at
Easton, H., for school superintendent
for the coming year Mr. Stoddard is
a graduate of Knox College of Gales
burg, Ill. He served in the air service
of the government for twenty-five
months, of which seventeen months
were spent in France and Germany.
Peter Mettunef, 30 years old, shoe
maker of Telluride, committed suicide
by cutting his throat with a shoemak-
er's knife at the top of a thirty-foot
telephone pole he climbed, and then
| plunging head foremost to the ground
Mettunefs skull was fractured and he
died six hours later. a score of per-
sons watched Mettunufs attempt to
kill himself but were powerless to re-
| strain him.
The country population of Colorado
has been increasing for the last twenty
years, although the per cent of the pop
ulation that is from the country has
not increased all the time. The rural
population of Colorado in 1900 was
202, $50; in 1910, 297 ,427; in 1920, 373,-
1853. In 1900. 30 per cent of the people
of Colorado lived in the country; in
1910, 81 per cent; and in 1920, 80 per
| cent