The Dolores star., 1921-03-25
Rthy News Notes
From An Paris of
Colorado
twrsicrn Newspaper Union News ser,c.

new nigh school building The vote
resulted - 10 . for the bond issue.
An unusually high wind, which fol,
ioWed narrow path like tornado.
udnHlged numerous buildings on Dixon
Heights, five miles from Colorado
| Springs
a mass meeting was held in Icna-
cio To protest against the high cost of
gasoline. Consumers there are paving
u cents gallon, while in Denver gas
sells FOR 20 cents Il gallon.
lwenty-four dollars a head should be
| me maximum assessment on cattle. ac-
cordihS to resolution passed at
meeting of the Uncompahgre Valley
cattle and Horse Growers Associa-
tion held in Montrose.
Attorney John l.. Stivers of Mont
rose, Colo, has been appointed receiv-
er for the Colorado Nanadium Com
| pany OF MontroSc by order of Federal
Judge Robert l.. Lewis on a petition
filed by w. l.. Smith, New Jersey
stockholder and creditor of the com
pany.
Over S2,OOO,0O0 will be loaned to the
farmers of Colorado within the next
eighteen months under the federal
farm loan act which has just been held
constitutional by the United States
Supreme Court, according to estimates
of those in close touch with the situa-
ton.
Colorado regained its rank as eighth
among coal producing states in 1920,
according to estimates officially an
nounced by the United States geoIOg,-
cal survey. Its production for the
year almost equalcd the record out
puts of 1917 and 1918, and final fig
ures for 1920 may bring the year up to
figures of the former years.
Jack Reed of Red Cliff was found
dead in bed with bullet in his head,
and Mrs. Jack Nye, suffering from 4
wound in her side, was picked up in
the yard. The woman said that Reed
had shot her and then turned the re-
volver on himself. She is being held
for investigation by the authorities at
Red Cliff.
Governor Shoup has named Clyde
Dawson of Denver to represent him al
the launching of the battleship Colo
RADIO at the shipyards of the New York
Shipbulding Corporation in Camden,
NJ. j., on March %. Mrs. Max Mel
vile, daughter of Senator Nicholson,
was named about two weeks ago to
chriSten the new dreadnought.
The Weld county grand jury at
Greeley returned five indictments
against Elvin ID. Lockard, bookkeeper
and confidential secretary to William
G. Roberts, owner of the Roberts Loan
and Investment Company, who COM
mitted suicide last July when threat
cned with exposure of embezzling and
swindling operations involving $780,,
600.
McPhee & McGinnity, Denver lum-
Der merchants, suffered Il loss of $780,
600 when fire destroyed a planning mill
and box factory of the New Mexico
Lumber Company at Ell Vado, n. NJ.
The loss was covered entirely by in
surance. Two buildings, 100000 fruit
boxes and much raw lumber were con-
sumed. Reconstruction will begin at
once.
Shippers all over the San Luis Val
ley and the southern part of Colorado
and northern part of New Mexico are
much encouraged over the report that
the New Mexican Central railroad has
purchased the narrow gauge Santa Fe
branch of the Denver 4 Rio Grande
railroad. This branch runs from
Santa Fe to Antonito in the lower end
of the San Luis valley.
Fully half of the grain crops in Colo
RADIO last year are still on the farms,
according to official estimates released
by the United States Bureau of Crop
Estimates. F'ifty-four per cent of the
corn crop is still in the granaries, us
and 2S per cent of the wheat crop, rs
compared with Is per cent last year.
Albert Six, Cora Six and her IA
ycar-old son, all of Fowler, Colo, are
in Mnnequa hospital in Pueblo as the
result of family quarrel. The boy
. Is Sitlu 10 nave llItu lNo
shot gun at Six, the shot striking the
man in the chest and then turned the
gun on his mother, who was struck In
the chest and arms when she placed
her arms over her face for protection.
An increase of 81 an acre is shown
in the sale price of public lands in
Colorado during the biennial period
ending Nov. 30, 1920, according to the
report of the State Land Board now
being compiled by the State 1mmigra-
tion Department for the Colorado year
book. This report shows that an aver
age of S21.3S per acre was paid by
bomesteaders. This Is $11 more than
was paid during the period ending in
1916.
Automobile riding without chap
erone; dancing after II o'clock at
night and mountain parties, after
dark, that do not consist of more than
one couple, are on the list of "don'ts'
r.