The Colorado statesman., 1921-07-16
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

climb 10 the top OF the mountain, but
they were caught in n severe blizzard
and lost their way. After battling the
element for hours the Southerner gave
out only about 800 feet from the top.
Gillsple wrapped his helpless com
pnnion in his own coat and struggled
to the summit house, reaching there
mt midnight. A rescue party was sent
out and succeeded In finding the
freezing hoy.
The Denver & Interurban railroad,
which has been in the hands of re-
celver since the institution of n suit
two years ago by the Guarantee Trust
Company of New York, has been re-
turned to its owners by action OF
Federal Judge Robert +. Lewis. Under
the terms of the decree handed down
by Judge Lewis the complaint OF the
Guarantee Trust Company is dismissed.
The action. however. is contingent on
the payment by the owners of all costs
of the suit and all unpaid liabilities of
the road.
The Federal Farm Loan Bank viii
extend n loan of at least S1,5OOOOO to
Pueblo county and other Arkansas val
ley ranchers. The loan will come In
directly as a loan to the irrigation
companies for repairs to bitches, reser-
volrs and intakes, but will be in re-
ality aid given to farmers whose land
must be assessed to meet the cost or
repairs to the irrigation systems. This
cost has been estimated at least ST.
100000.
Ascending Sneffels peak, fourteen
miles west of Ouray, Colo, during the
progress of one of the worst summer
bliZZards ever seen in that section OF
Colorado, six Grand Junction men
came near losing their lives. They
became marooned on the peak in ter
rible gale which drove dense clouds
of fine snow at low temperatures up
on them, making it impossible to find
shelter or get away from the stinging
blast
The Western Light and Power Com
pany have voluntarily put an order
into effect reducing street car rates
in Boulder from 10 cents to ~ cents
they were granted permission to raise
the fare from cents to 10 cents. The
company found that the higher rate
reduced the travel to such an extent
that instead of profiting by the raise
the company lost.
Crawling into the shallow water of
an irrigation ditch lateral which runs
near his home, Allan Harrison, ii
months old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Harrison, was drowned at
Evans. The infants body was found
by John Woolan, ditch boss. DIR. Fl.
w. Averill, who attended the child and
attempted resuscitation, said he evil
IDENTIFY had been dead for more than an
hour when the body was found.
Fifty horses, ten trucks and five
tractors with sufficient labor to man
the equipment, are hard at work put
ting Pueblo county highways into
shape. Three temporary bridges on the
Santa Fe trail were taken out and cul-
verts over n wide area were destroyed.
The three bridges have been restored
and the North Santa Fe trail opened
to traffic.
Gus Hampton, 2G years old, EN-
ployed as Il coal miner at the Black
hawk mine of the Triangle Coal Com
pany, four miles below Durango, was
almost instantly killed when, upon
stepping from the room in which he
was working, falling rock, weighing
about 100 pounds, struck him on the
head, crushing his skull.
Automobile tax collections in Den
yer for the first six months of the cur
rent year, aggregating $246, l52.66, eX-
ceeded the collections in the same dis
trict for the entire year of 1920, ac-
cording to the semi.annual report OF
the state motor vehicle department,
issued by Secretary OF State Milliken.
Hikes in charge of the Pixies Peak
branch of the Colorado Mountain Club
are to furnish q new and free enter
tainment to visitors in the Pixies Peak
region. Noted scenic points will be
visited on foot. The first of a long
series of such hikes has been held, and
sixty-one visitors participated. Botany
and geology of the region will be
studied on these trips as an educa-
tional feature.
Mike Salazar, a Mexican &c years
old, was sentenced to hang during the
week of July II, for his confessed part
in the murder of Gaudencio Silva,
fellow countryman, at Morley, Colo,
on the night of Nov. 2S, 1920 will be
spared from the gallows. The State
Board of Pardons in a special session,
ordered that Salazar's sentence be
committed from death to life imprison-
ment.
The new Colorado division of market
ing authorized by the last General AS
sembly has been established. William
f. Allewelt of Greeley was appointed