Gunnison news-champion., 1921-04-15
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
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TIE K-rs-y drug store was robbed
Of $ ~ worth OF high grade merchan-
dis hy thieves who used an automo-
bile 90 carry the loot. There is no
cieU 20 the thieves
tn trial Of Rlenzi Dickens. charged
witt the murder Of his aged father.
VII am II. Dickens, banker OF Long
mour Nov. 30. 1915. has been post
pougd until September.
Il. preliminary report issued by
the census bureau OF the State Irnmi-
srail0n Department for the Colorado
Yea Book shows that the total area
Of Irrigated land In 1919 Was 3.3&s.3s5
acr. ns compared TO 2,ss2032 acres In
leb This Is a gain Of 1913 per cent
A EohcmIan metal miner who Ia
kno IN as Thomas Adams was shot and
fatally wounded by Walter r Behr.
sHp, p,rlntcndcnt OF tn. electric power
station. Idaho Springs, while he was
trying TO XIII Town Marshal William
Ives with long knife.
The Fort Collins American Legion
has started a movement TO have set
asit" tract OF forest land near Estes
PaTk for a playground for ex-seryice
men Of the state and elsewhere. A site
ais y asked FOR an Institution for cx-
ser .rc men who are suffering from tu-
ber eriIos.s
The city OF Denver formally with
drer It's suit against the highway com
mis- on, which aroused storm of pro-
ties from throughout the state. when
Cit Attorney James A Marsh APP
pes -ed IN person before Judge C. J.
Morley OF the District Court In Dem
yer
with four business buildings now
undor way In the heart OF the business
sect ION Of Grand Junction about ten
new buildings In course OF erection and
may more planned for early starting
the building boom Is taking form rap
idly There is bitter battle on
az, 0st rent hogs
Tie Holly Sugar Corporation, oper.
atlns factory In Swink. has Just is
sue checks agEregating $4,000 to
farmers, the amount Of the bonus Of
81 ton promised last year. Contracts
for this year are coming in rapidly.
With every promise OF the usual large
acreage. contrary TO recent reports
that the factory would not operate this
year.
The residents OF ophir and Ophir
Loop have drawn petition asking the
state highway TO aid them In building
a road between Ophir and Sllyerton.
The proposed road would follow the
old wagon road in many places and the
expense Of the road will be compara-
lively small. 1t is the plan TO have the
ophir road to join the Silverton-D Duran
go highway at Hoffman park
Ole Hansen, ti7. a resident OF Jeffer-
son county for nearly forty years,
whose home was two miles east of
Golden, was gored 10 death by bull
on n neIshboring ranch while attempt
ing TO save the life Of a woman. Han.
sen WAS working In his field when Mrs.
Burgiand, nother-ln-iaw of Steve Ros-
ers, who owns the bull. shouted for
Hansen TO come to her assistance.
Congressman Taylor and Vale Of
Colorado and thirty.sis other congress
men are home from a trip to Panama.
While there they were special guests
~ American officials of the canal zone,
and attended a reception given by
President Porras Of the republic Of
Dar I'm, -. a
at Jsmaicn. and also touched at Cuba,
where they visited the Atlantic fleet.
Gamblers and bootieggers are re-
sponsfbie, II is believed, for the murder
of Marshal Jack Lindamood at Foun-
tain. Colo, when IL was at first
thought the sensational crime had been
committed by gang OF bank robbers
in an attempt to rob the First National
Bank at that place.
With assurance OF approximately
$50, 600 allotment by the federal bio
logical survey for the Colorado district
the coming fiscal year, coupled with
the &12-5O0 annual appropriation by
the State Legislature. L. B. Crawford,
iHspcNtoG, uuS
announced he will start an immediate
campaign for the determination OF the
mountain lions and the gray wolves
in Colorado.
The Stevens-Barr Lumber Company
at Fraz!er. Colo, suffered $4,000
loss from fire which broke out In
the planning mill of the plant. The
planning mill and 10000 feet OF lumber
were completely destroyed. The other
buildings Of the company were saved
from loss By the prompt arrival Of fire
fighters and equipment on special
engine dispatched from Tabernash. The
cause Of the fire is unknown.
Nitrogiycerin and crowbars opened
the vault Of the Bennett State Bank at
Bennett. Colo, for robber gnng. but
nothing Of value WAS faken II IN he-