The Colorado statesman., 1921-02-05
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado
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| stHntiy hlllcu when Ht lel li'ih " P'HS
he was riding, The lad was riding the
pony and driving home his fathers
cows when the accident occurred.
Work at Longmont has started in
wrecking the city hall to make way
for new $4,000 municipal building.
The new hall will contain council
chambers, rest rooms, a gymnasium
and office rooms for city officials.
Among the chief needs which will be
discussed at the annual meeting of the
Grand junction Chamber of Commerce
in February, the need of advertising
western Colorado's wonderland to the
world will receive great attention. A
plan VIII be discussed for an advertls-
Ing campaign which will virtually in
troduce TO new fields the possibilities
of that part of Colorado.
Mrs. Bertha NJ. Dickey, who entered
a desert claim on land six miles from
| Clmarron n year ago and whom the
| government has tried to dlspossess up
on the claim that the land was too
rough for cultivation and therefore
should be re-deslgnated as grazing
land, won in a contest case heard In
the Montrose land office after she had
proved by several witnesses that ,he
land was actually in cultivation, hav-
ing been plowed with a tractor last
fall.
Uncle Sam paid the Colorado State
Highway Department approximately
S952, ,122.7S as the government share
of the constructed federal aid road
work in the state during 1920, accord
ing to District Engineer ]. S. Bright
of the United States Bureau of Public
| Roads. This money represents the
federal payments on forty-seven pro-
iects under construction or completed
through the state" Bright said. ''Twen-
ty-two separate projects were COM
pleted during the year at total esti-
mated cost of S1,036, 1854, of which
the federal government was requested
to pay $41o,se7.88."
Charles r. Stockton, furniture deal
er of Bristol for a number of years, is
dead, and four other persons are In
the hospital suffering serious injuries
as the result of an accident which oc-
Cured six miles between Bristol and
Holly. The injured are Joseph Eel
lars, who is suffering from a broken
leg; G. X. Hite, badly bruised, and
Henry Thompson and Ernest Burke Sc
verely bruised about the face and
body. Stockton, cellars, Thompson
and Burke, all of Bristol, We're en-
route home from Holly when the ma
chine in which they were riding col
lided with a horse and buggy being
driven by G. r. Hite, who is a we'll
known Prowers county farmer. 1t is
said a binding snow storm was the
cause of the accident.
No state with the exception of Mon
tana has shown so rapid an increase
in the acreage OF land under cultiva-
| ton in the past decade as Colorado,
and few states have shown a larger
| percentage of increase in the number
| of farms. Within the past ten years
| approximately 100000 acres of gov
ernment land has been homesteaded,
while large areas of privately-Owned
land have been broken and placed un-
| der cultivation. Records of the State
| Immigration Department show that
| this movement has been much stronger
| In the past five years than in the pre-
| ceding five years, and that there was
| an actual decrease in the population
| of the state during the first two years
| after the 1910 census was complied
| The increase In subsequent years has
been due primarily to agricultural de-
yelopment, which has been much more
marked in the non-irrigated than in
the irrigated districts.
Thieves who have been getting su,h
good hauls of late at Grand Junction
met with different reception at the S.
b. Parker home In that city. The in
truders We're greeted by a volley of
shots from the Parker family arsenal
and the neighbors took up the fusil-
lade, sending the would-be robbers
away at a record clip.
Decision 10 withhold financial sup
port from the Colorado School of
Mines magazine and refuse to furnish
headquarters in the school buildings
for the editor of the publication, was
voted by the board of trustees of the
school at recent meeting at which
publication of an article derogatory
to the institution was considered.
Jose Ramon of Cordova, Colo, will
receive S1,035 for injuries received in
an old Apache Indian uprising, In
which he fought as federal soldier If
the United States Senate passes bill
making the appropriation which was
reported on favorably by the commit
tee on claims. The lower house al
ready has passed this bill, and also one
of a similar kind to aid Mrs. Joseph g.
Atkins, the widow of an officer killed
in the uprising. The latter bill has
not been reported out, however.
Noncoloradoans attending the Univer
sity of Colorado next and subsequent