The Colorado statesman., 1921-04-16
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado
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final reading, thereby assuring a state
hospital and medical school for Colo
RADIO.
The Kersey drug store was robbed
of $1,000 worth of high grade merchan-
disc by thieves who used an automo-
bile to carry the loot. There is no
clew TO the thieves.
The trial of Rlenzl Dickens, charged
with the murder of his aged father,
William II. Dickens, banker of Long
mont, Nov. 80, 1915. has been post
poned until September.
The preliminary report issued by
the census bureau of the State lmmi-
grafton Department for the Colorado
Year Book shows that the total area
of irrigated land in 1919 was 3,34S,3So
acres as compared to 2,792,032 acres In
1909. This is gain of 1913 per cent.
A bohemian metal miner who is
known as Thomas Adams was shot and
fatally wounded by Walter e. Behr,
superintendent of the electric power
station, Idaho Springs, while he was
trying to kill Town Marshal William
Ives with n long knife.
The Fort Collins American Legion
has started a movement to have SET
aside a tract of forest land near Estes
Park for a playground for ex-service
men of the state and elsewhere. A site
also is asked for an institution for eX-
service men who are suffering from tu-
berculosis.
The city of Denver formally with
drew its suit against the highway COM
mission, which aroused storm of pro-
test from throughout the state, when
City Attorney James A. Marsh ap-
peared In person before Judge G. j.
Morley of the District Court in Den
yer.
With four business buildings now
under way in the heart of the business
section of Grand Junction about ten
new buildings in course of erection and
many more planned for early starting
the building boom is taking form rap
idly There is n bitter battle on
against "rent hogs"
The Holly Sugar Corporation, oper-
ating a factory in Swink, has Just Is
sued checks aggregaung Sl2o,OOO TO
farmers, the amount of the bonus of
81 a ton promised last year. Contracts
for this year are coming in rapidly.
with every promise of the usual large
acreage, contrary to recent reports
that the factory would not operate this
year.
The residents of Ophir and Ophir
Loop have drawn petition asking the
state highway to aid them In building
a road between Ophir and Silverton.
The proposed road would follow the
old wagon road in many places and the
expense of the road will be cOmpara-
lively small. 1t is the plan to have the
Ophir road to join the Silverton-Duran-
! 20 highway at Hoffman park
Ole Hansen, 81, a resident of Jeffer-
son county for nearly forty years,
whose home was two miles east or
Golden, was gored to death by bull
ON a neighboring ranch while attempt
ing to save the life of woman. Han
sen was working in his field when Mrs.
Burgland, mother-in-law of Steve Rog-
ers. who owns the bull, shouted for
Hansen to come to her assistance.
Congressman Taylor and Vale of
Colorado and thirty-six other congress
men are home from trip to Panama.
While there they were special guests
of American officials of the canal zone.
and attended reception given by
President Porras of the republic of
Panama. En- route home they stoppe
ot Jamaica. and also touched at Cuba,
where they visited the Atlantic fleet.
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sponsible, it Is believed. for the murder
of Marshal Jack Lindamood at Fouh-
tain. Colo, when it was at first
thought the sensational crime had been
committed by gang of bank robbers
in an attempt to rob the First National
Bank at that place.
With assurance of approximately a
$4,000 allotment by the federal bio
logical survey for the Colorado district
the coming fiscal year, coupled with
the S12.5OO annual appropriation by
the State Legislature, l.. b. CRAWFORD
chief predatory animal inspector, has
announced he will start an immediate
campaign for the determination OF the
mountain lions and the gray wolves
in Colorado.
The Stevens-Barr Lumber Company
at Frazier, Colo, suffered S5O,0OO
loss from q fire which broke out In
the planning mill of the plant. The
planning mill and 10000 feet of lumber
we're completely destroyed. The other
buildings of the company were saved
from loss by the prompt arrival of fire
fighters and equipment on special
engine dispatched from Tabernash The
cause of the fire is unknown.
Nitroglycerin and crowbars opened
.he vault of the Bennett State Bank at
Bennett, Colo, for robDer gang Dut
nnthinr of value was taken. 1t is be-