Cheyenne record., 1921-06-30
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

ter. John Ferrero, janitor at the HUN.
for dependent children In Denver. s"
himself up to Sheriff Frank sml,i' VI
Fort Collins, declaring he was reaav ~
begin serving years sentence III VI"
state penitentiary, which was iiipus.
on him in the County Court III for'
Collins a month ago If he refused "
contribute $50 month to the suppoi'
of his wife and six children III ho'
land. After he was sentenced ne M"s
given thirty days In which to cons'aei
the matter, but he came back tie 'a!
his time for consideration expired anu
said that he would go to the pehitel-
tiary for life, officers stated, rnther
than contribute a cent to the support
of his wife.
AS the Platte river has droppeo
gradually from the highest FLOOD si"se
recorded since 1893 to normal 1io"'
estimates of the damage done d! lhe
raging stream and its numerous 'ripu'
taries in Weld county have steaa''s
increased, rather than decreased
That the total loss from the
the S2,OOO,OOO mark is the consensus
of opinion of engineers, farmers, couh-
ty officials und railroad men who nave
surveyed the situation from their own
points of view. Weld county's loss on
roads and bridges Is somewhere pe-
tween $15OOOO and 100000.
An official statement from the Amer
lean Red Cross of the flood sufferers
in Pueblo has been given out. Inc TO-
tai number of families registered IN
Pueblo district was given at 1,IO2' be
sides 383 homeless men, it states, ana
600 houses were listed as totally de-
stroyed. The total number Of persons
affected by the flood, according to the
statement, is $685.. The Red Cross re-
port for La Junta shows, according to
the statement. 1856 families registered,
representing 760 persons.
Secretary of War Weeks, through
Senators Nicholson and Phipps, claims
that he had been quoted incorrectly
regarding the Pueblo fund situation,
according to message received In
Pueblo. The message said that Secre-
tary Weeks statement was miscon-
strued when he Is alleged to have de-
clared that Pueblo was asking for too
much federal aid. The message was
in answer to one sent the Colorado
congressional delegation by Colorado
business men.
Another link has been added to the
Durango-SilvertOn highway, which, al
though completed last year, has never
officially been declared open. The
highway will be known as the Duran
gO-Sllverton-O Ouray highway, 1t being
decided to include the former famous
toll road between Silverton and Ouray
US part of the highway. This route
will permit tourists to travel through
the most scenic part Of the United
States.
The fourth annual convention of the
Colorado State Aerie of Eagles was
held recently in Trinidad. Delegates
from all but three aeries of the state
were present. Mayor E. H. Day de
livered an address of welcome, which
was responded to by State President
William Mcintosh of Aspen.
Airplane patrol for the detection OF
forest fires in the Pixies Peak region
around Colorado Springs. Colo, has
been permanently established, accord
ing to an agreement entered into by
the government and the Western Air.
craft Company Of Colorado Springs.
SIxty-five thousand dollars of fed.
eral funds will be spent on the Rocky
Mountain National park projects dur
ing the fiscal year beginning July l.
This sum exceeds by $55,OOO any fund
ever before appropriated by Congress
for use on these Fairgrounds.
Colorado College receives 100000
by the terms Of the will left by the
late Henry Roger WolcOtt, one of
Colorado's pioneer mining men, whose
estate totals more than 100000, ac-
cording to petition filed in the Coun-
ty Court in Denver.
What promised to be murder
mystery" of the great flood at Pueblo
followed the finding of the skeleton of
Il woman in n box in an alley off the
main business district. Colorado
Rangers estimated that the woman had
been dead eight or nine months and
an investigation was started to deter.
mine the identity of the murdered
woman. Il. II. WINNER, manager of
the Gallup Saddlery Company, blew
the murder" theory to pieces with the
announcement that the "b0dy" was the
mummy of cliff dweller which had
been in the store for at least fifteen
years. The mummy floated into the
alley during the flood
The federal government has refused
TO grant an emergency appropriation
of S3,5OO,0O0 for road reconstruction
work in Colorado and the State High
way Commission is left with only the
funds already granted for federal aid
projects with which to carry on the
enormous amount of repair work made
necessary by the recent floods. This
was the statement made in Colorado
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