Cheyenne Wells record. (Cheyenne Wells, Cheyenne County, Colo.) 1???-1969, 1921-10-13
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

| ~ u"'hi the chttle overland. Sew
eral lots Of drives have appeared ON
the market this season, but the long.
est drive was completed when c. h,
Mccoy, william Henry and o. c. Mu.
grhge OF Grand county arrived In Den.
yer with 1872 head of cattle from RudI.
nm, Colo, II distance Of 1876 miles. The
cattle were quartered at the Union
stockyards and were pronounced by
local traders TO he in the finest condi.
t'on after their long trip on the rond,
which consumed ten days.
A contract for 1900 yards of car
pets has been let by the State Board
Of Capitol Managers to the Daniels 4
Fisher Stores Company. About 2,5OC
yards Of the carpet will be laid In the
new state office building. The carpet
IL Of special design and bears the seal
OF Colorado woven into the nap. 1t is
brown In color which was adopted by
the members G: the board for all the
offices of the state capitol building.
Future replacements of carpet In the
state buildings will he made under the
contract made with the local store. The
total cost Of the carpets Is about $1S,.
900.
"Thc longevity of man has been no.
ticeably increased during the past few
years In all countries" declared DR..
W. W. Grant Of Denver, u recognized
authority on cancer, in an address be.
fore nearly 1000 Pueblo people at the
municipal auditorium. 'This longevity
Ia increasing more noticeably among
women Than men," he added, and stat.
ed further that the mortality rute had
been reduced considerably in every
disease with the exception of cancer,
Of which statistics show three times us
many women die us men.
J. H. Weisgerber, a Pueblo telegraph
operator, while touring the country In
an automobile recently, had an excit-
ing experience with blue racer snake.
The snake. which was five and Il half
feet long, crawled under the car utter
having bitten into the tire. The cal
was stopped, but no trace of the snake
could be found. Eventually, 1t WAS dis.
covered in The battery box only to he
lost again in the mechanism Of the
machine. When finally located in the
dust pan II was killed.
A special committee from the Den.
yer Civic and Commercial Association
has presented Il request to Governor
ShOup that Colorado be fully repre-
sented ut the proposed conference OF
state water commissioners to he held
In Washington Oh Oct. 10. 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 Il federal commits
siOner TO be appointed by the Presi
dent.
Sheriff Erne A. Morse of Morgan
county received a 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
eral weeks ago on charges Of forgery
1t was then learned that he had rs
capped from the Georgia pcnitentiary
where he had bccn serving life sen
tence for murder. Rogers sent greet
ings" to Sheriff Morse.
With the completion of repairs os
the large fire truck which has beel
out Of commission for some time
Grand .Jun<ficn has three auto fir,
trucks and one Of them Is the mos
modern machine knJwn--a punipe
with capacity for 7:O gallons per min
ute and costing :S1c:95O The cit,
plans to sell the smaller truck t,
Fraita-
John Williams. "a years old, piOnce
miner and prOspectUr, was found dea,
In his cabin em the 'outskirts Of Silver
ton. He cane to the Triangle countr,
In 1880 and was known as Johnny Re
hind the Rock" He had been In poo
health for several months, and few
days ago suffered IA severe full on tn
streets.
Glndys Warren, 4 years old, was ia
tally burned mt her home lin C0loratl,
Springs when her clothing caught fir,
from some unknown cause. Mamie. al
elder sister, seized Gladys, who ran In
to the yard, carried her hack into tn,
house and plunged her into "a tub O.
water. Gladys, however, had inhaled
the flame and died Inter.
The shaIe men of Mesa county hav,
received IN urgent Invitation to attent
the American mining congress to b,
held In Chicago, Oct. II TO -. Their,
will be sln,ie oil conference at thu
congress and there will probably b,
quite few attending from Grun,
county.
The Atlas mine and ,nill, ten mile,
west OF Ouray, are running at abou
capacity now with ninety men at work
The recent addition to Il twenty-toi
filter press has made the mill more ef
fIcient. The Atlas has the biggest puy
roll Of any mine In Ouray county.
Dr. Crum EpIer, for twenty-One
years In Pueblo, was elected president
of the Colorado State Medical Society
Al =.