The Dolores star., 1921-03-18
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
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has accepted a similar position in
Montezuma county, Colo.
A O. kelso. well known Morgan
county farmer, is dead, following a
lingering Illness of about two years.
Mr.. Kelso has lived in that vicinity for
nine years
Alamosa taxpayers will vote at the
April city election on the issuance of
81, 600 city bonds to be loaned to the
school district for the purpose of fin
ishing the Alamosa High school.
The posiofficc at Springfield. fifty
miles south Of Lamar and county seat
Of Baca county, was looted by robbers,
who escaped In an automobile 1t is
estimated that the robbers got 500 in
cash and approximately 500 worth of
stamps.
Another rich strike is reported at
the Vindicator mine at Victor. At the
twentieth level and at Il depth close to
1900 feet the company is reported to
have found an extension of the old Lily
vein. which in former years has pro.
duced extraordinary rich bonanza
| values.
The mutilated body of n man. skull
crushed, a rope around his neck, throat
| cut and many slashes on his body, was
| found in cabin three miles from
| Graneros, Colo, and thirty-two miles
| south of Pueblo. The only means OF
identification may lie in ring on Il
| finger, with the letters &C \ Is
| Howard Rigsby, the 13-year old son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Vechel Rigsby, lost
| the thumb OF his left hand as the re-
suit of the explosion of a dynamite cap
with which he was playing at Sterling.
Young Rigsby was trying to reduce the
size of the cap to use it in n pistol
when it exploded
| State Inheritance tax collections dur
| ing the first quarter of the current
| fiscal year amounted to S56, ,S30.04. ac-
| cording TO the semi-monthly report of
Attorney General Reyes. OF this sum
| 2,094.13 was collected during the last
| half of February. Twenty-three es.
tates paid Inheritance tax during the
| last two weeks.
In an effort to emphasize the need
| for prevention, detection and suppress
| sion of forest fires in Colorado and
other states of the mountain districts,
| the Forestry Department of the gov
| ernment will distribute 172,OOO signs,
buttons and stickers this year, accord
| ing to Evan w. Kelly, national forest
| inspector of Washington, d. c.
James w. Burns, 53, was smothered
to death in an alley while digging
Oh 1,
eblo. He was in the employ of d. f.
| Burke, plumber. AS he stopped to lift
| shovel of earth the ground back of
him caved in. crushing and smothering
him before William Pratt. Il fellow
worker, could aid him.
Homesteaders purchased at public
auction 1900 acres of state school
lands, according to John f. Vivian,
register of the land board This was
the first auction held by the board
since Jan. 10. Total receipts from the
sale was $SS,510, an average of $l5.Sl
per acre, which records of the land of.
flee show to be higher than the gen
eral average price of previous sales.
report issued by Earl Wilson,
|
that the insurance department has
earned S3O5,OOO during the month OF
February. This represents per cent
tax on all premiums issued by the 46G
companies operating in the state. 1t is
expected receipts of this department
will reach S5O0,OO0 in 1921. This is
the largest sum ever collected in In
| surance tax
Albert Estrada. %. laborer. was
shot at Pueblo and died in hospital
there. The killing is said to have been
the outcome of an argument started in
pool game. No arrests have been
made.
Following conference with several
citizens, Governor Shoup announced he
would ask the Senate finance and
House appropriations committee to in.
clude in the long appropriation bill
$4,000 with which to buy silver serv-
ice for the new superdreadnaught
Colorado, which Mrs. Max Melville, the
daughter of United States Senator
Samuel ID. Nicholsen. will christen at
the shipyards at Camden, n. j.,
March %.
Following numerous complaints Of
moonshine stills operating night and.
day and general open territory"
supplying hundreds with Illicit wet
goods in southwestern Colorado and
northwest New Mexico, nearly dozen
United States federal internal revenue
officers, assisted by Sheriff George
Rowe and his deputies, of La Plata
county, seized eight separate and elab-
crate stills in operation and arrested
ten men.
Great interest centers around the
announcements Of the 1921 program OF
the Augusta mine in the Crested
Butte section of the county, The Al