Cheyenne Wells record. (Cheyenne Wells, Cheyenne County, Colo.) 1???-1969, 1921-07-07
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

Newton, the military commander. City
authorities have put into effect nll the
regulations made by the military or
der providing that no person shall be
in the streets after 80 y. IN. with
out n good excuse. No passes will be
issued, as was the case under martial
law. The city has been under martial
law since the flood of June 3 and dur
ing that time not one house has been
robbed or a single hOldup reported
Only n few cases of looting occurred
hut they were not important ones.
Fifty Colorado rangers will remain
there Indefinitely and will be In com.
mand of Colonel Newton.
Three hours after suit for s2s,274
had been filed against him In the Dis
trict Court ar Boulder. Col. ]. A.
Owenby appeared before Judge Nell
F. Graham and confessed Judgment
The suit was brought by John w. Gay
nor, II wealthy farmer of the Ni-wot-
Longmont district, who alleged that he
had loaned Colonel Owenby S2O,65O,
which was the total of sixteen notes
issued In the years 1915, 1916 and
1917. OF this Indebtedness $1,000 was
made good to the Farmers National
Bunk Of Longmont by Mr.. GaynOr,
who signed promissory notes to that
amount, Jointly with Colonel Owenby.
The threatened invasion of Ell Paso
county by grasshOpper army moving
northwest from the southeastern cor
ner has been averted, according to ].
c. Hale, county agent. The grasshop-
pers descended on the county recently
and 1t was only through the hardest
sort of work that the pest was stopped
according to Hale, who declared that
farmers in the community worked day
and night in their efforts to head off
the grasshoppers. Poison bran and ar
senic were used in the battle against
the Insects.
1t cost the state of Colorado S2S,OOO
to pay the salaries of National Gunrds-
men on duty in the Pueblo flood dis
| trict, according to pay roll figures
\ compiled in the office of Adjt. Gen.
Patrick Hamrock. "voucners for the
pay of guarlsmen to- the extent of $27,-
800 have already been DRAWN" said
Colonel Hammock In discussing the eX-
pense of guarding the flooded city,
land when the pay rolls for the last
contingent of troops are completed, the
total will run slightly over $2S,OOO."
Pueblo county property owners, who
suffered financial losses during the
flood early this month, will receive
reduction In their tax for 1921, ac-
cording to IN announcement made in
Denver by c. p. Link, member of the
State Tax Commission. Mr.. Link has
just completed n detailed survey of
the actual damage done In the county.
He places the total loss ut $11.OOO,O00.
A tax levy on this property will be re-
duced five-twelfths of the original as
sessment, the state official announced.
| Officials of the Chamber of Com
merce of st. Louis have announced
they would request Il Carnegie hero
medal for Robert J. Taylor of that
city, negro Pullman porter, who is
! said to have saved twenty-siX lives
\ when Missouri Pacific train No II
was overturned in the Pueblo flood in
June.
The new Colorado Division of Mar
keting authorized by the last General
| Assembly, has been established w. NJ.
| AIIawe,t of Croe,ay v,s onnn;ntod IN.
rector of the division by the executive
| committee of the State Board of Agri-
culture He has established hendou,r.
ters mt the Agricultural College.
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