The Holly chieftain., 1921-12-15
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.


the West for a great deal of interest
to them is being crowded into those ten
busy days. From all over the United
States, delegates to American National
Live Stock Association are coming to
Colorado Springs on fare and one
third rate that gives them IL stopOyer
privilege OH the return "trip in order
that they may attend the National
Western Stock Show In Denver, jan
14-21. On the sixteenth of January the
annual meeting of the Colorado Stock
Growers Association will be held In
Denver, and with the fare and hall
open rate from all states west of the
Missouri river on tickets to Denver and
return, good from Jan. II to Jan. 80
inclusive, all indications point to the
largest attendance of prominent stock
men of the West that the National
Western Stock Show has ever had.
More than $4,000 was derived by
the State Board of Land Commission
ers in the sale of 1860 acres of state
lands to actual settlers, according to
Registrar George Stephan. The land
is located in nine counties and the
price averaged $1211 an acre. Sixty.
one thousand acres of lands Will he
auctioned to the highest bidders by
the commissioners Dec 10. The sale
will be conducted on the county court
house steps at Las Aninias, Colo. The
land will be sold in tracts varying
from forty to 100 acres. The minimum
price per acre has been set at $40, Mr..
| Stephan said.
Plans for the construction of $40,
100000 electrical smelter on the site of
the old Hardy ranch in Aiapahoe coun
| ty, near the city limits OF Denver, We're
made public by Charles e. Havener,
president of the Utah Colorado Mining
and Milling Company, and also presi-
dent of the Colorado Utah Mines Hold
ing Company of Kansas City, which Is.
backing the proposed smelter. The
,';dlt':, daily production IS estimated n!
25,000 TO 50,eoo tons of ore daily, and
it is estimated That it will give employ
nent TO about 5000 men.
Superintendent Thomson of the Els
tes Park fish hatchery, has pet wea-
sci that is The sole survivor of famil,
of one mother and three little ones
the mother being shot several months
ago and the two other weases being
killed by its companion. After shoot.
ing the mother, he put the three little
ones in a boX and tried TO raise them
1t was a survival of the fittest and the
other two were killed by the one he
now has, which has developed into
pet that he plays with as if it were q
little kitten.
James Yager Hamilton, who attained
the rank of major in the World War,
and who served in the Spanish-Am
lean War, has been elected commander
of the Spanish-American War Veter-
ans post in Pueblo. w. 9. Porter was
chosen senior vice commander; Ber-
nard Greenwood, junior vice command
er; II. ]. Sparr, chaplain, and Walter
Rainey, officer of the day. Records of
the post were lost in the flood and re-
habilitatiOn of the post is to begin at
once.
State Treasurer StOng has appealed
to the State Supreme Court for re-
view of District Judge Charles G. But
ler.s recent decision directing him to
abide by the Instructions of the Colo
RADIO Industrial Commission in the use
| of stnte compensation insurance funds
The dispute arose between the commits
| sion and the state treasurer several
months ago over the investing of $780,
coo available funds in the insurance
| department in government bonds
The safety vault of the First Ma
| tiOnal Bank of Mead, Colo, was brols-
| en- into and 500 in cash and securities
| the value of which h,s not been de-
termincd, We're taken. Finger prints
| on the door of the vault were positive
| ly identified as those of Joe Clark,
convicted bank robber, and Reverto
Martinez, Mexican, who escaped
from the Weld county Jail after saving
their way through quarter inch
steel wall.
Three days on bread and water was
| all that Cy Check of LOveand could
| stand, and then he notified City Mar
| shol Williamson that he was ready to
| 90 to work Fun the street He had been
fined $25 and costs for disturbance and
| refused to pay the fine and went to
| Jail He then refused to eat unless the
marshal carried meals TO him. His ac-
ton brought about n rule to work ev-
crybody in the city Jail, for any cause
whatever, on the streets of the city.
| The Rocky Mountain National Park
| enjoyed the largest travel this year OF
any Of the national parks in. the
United States, Stephen Il. Mather, di-
rector of national park service, an
nounced. He gave the total number
of visitors TO the Rocky Mounain park
as 273,737, against 24O,966 in 1920.
Mesa Verde National Park had 1908
visitors, as compared with $3.50 In
| 1920.
Denver stands twentieth In N list of
forty-four representative American cit
les with population of more than