Cheyenne Wells record., 1922-01-19
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
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1 gI-,suo ""S
taken In by the State Board of Land
Commissioners In the sale Of 1905
acres of state lands, according to Al re-
port nnitlc public. Most of the land
sold IL In ROutt county.
PueblO.-Firemen responding to IN
alarm found Mike Jones, 81 years old,
Pueblo resident and 0ne.time New
York City contractor, suffering from
serious burns. Department officials
believe Jones was burned when the
house In which he lived alone. caught
fire from an Ovcrheated stove. ~
LOngnOnt, COlo.--Sfiss Martha Don
ovan, 81 years old, the daughter OF
| Postmaster r. +. Donovan, died at the
I.Ongmont hospital after an operation
for appendicitis. For one year she
was an instructress at the Canal Zone
government school, giving up the
teaching on account of i'll health.
l.ittletOn.--Less than ten hours after
he was arrested by Sheriff Robert Nc
Namara of i.ittletOn and state Officers
on charges of violating the prohibition
law, John Lebin, 80 years old. was SEN
| fenced to from one to two years III the
Colorado penitentiary. Lcbln pleaded
guilty to the charge before Judge Sam
uel W. johnson.
Denver.--'The stranger in Colorado
becomes confused when irrigation is
spoken of and he hears the frequent
| expression of IN '',rcrc inch of water.
He doesn't understand IT. An acre inch
Vf water Is an acre of water one incl
deep and 1t weights n little more than
100 pounds. Experts have figured the
use of water down to Il nicely, so the
experienced irrigation farmer knows
exactly how mnch water he needs for
his crops.
Grecley.--Dcnrsth"n Elnnd Wyatt,
| II years old, one of The most we'll
known pioneers of northern Colorado,
ended his life by firing bullet into
his brain. III health, accompanied by
IL recent announcement by physicians
that death was not far off prompted
| suicide, relatives say. Several weeks
ago Wyatt burned his toe on an cleo
| tric bed warmer. Gangrenc developed
| In the wound and amputatiOn was be-
ing considered.
Boulder, COl0.--One student has
been expelled and nineteen others pen
allied by faculty committee of the
University Of Colorado, which found
| them guilty of Overindulgcnce in intON-
| iCating liquor. OF these, seven have
been suspended until the spring, and
one refused admittanr~; six will not
he allowed to register until September,
1922 and one has been suspended for
II year. Four students were repri-
mantled and their parents notified Of
the action.
Denver.---This city has been visited
by the stOrk ut least 5,OOS times dur
ing the past year, according to state
| ments made by Miss Florence Leach,
registrar of the bureau of vital statis
| ties. The total birth record for the
| year 1921 compares to Il total of 4,78l
births during the preceding year. That
| IL still greater increase in the number
Of births will be chalked up when all
struggling reports have been received
| by the department was the opinion OK.
| pressed by officials Of the health lie
purtment.
La Junta, COlO.--"YOu'vc stolen my
watch!" With this accusation, Ed
ward l.. Mclnerny, %. years old, Il sail
or patient OH leave from the Fort Ly
ons naval hospital, leveled Il pistol ut
Il companion sailor, II. +. Brennan, and
pulled the trigger. The shooting oc.
Cured III u chair car which was
stopped in La Junta The bullet. how
ever, missed Brennan, although he was
but three feet away from the revolver.
| Thinking that he had killed his com.
pani0n. McInerncy trained the gun on
himself and blew out his brains.
Denver.-The United States census
enumerators In 1920 found 42O,702
horses and 31,l28 mules IN Colorado,
but In the same year the county as
SCISSORS found only 337 ,9O3 horses and
28,8S2 mules. However, the figures
show that these animals have not be.
come extinct In the state, despite the
advent Of the tractor and automobile.
Pueblo, ColO.-Two men are dead as
a result OF two accidents on the rail.
roads here. Jesus Miranda. an EN-.
| lead, 3,7OO,OOO pounds Of copper, and
| Western railroad, WIS killed when he
was struck by fast passenger train
| three miles west of here. A negro, said
| 10 be known as Van Bibbs, was fatally
| hurt when he fell between two cars of
| Il moving Santa Fe freight train in the
Pueblo yards.
Rocky Ford. Colorado growers
shipped 1920 ears of cantaloupes in
|
received s. Il hundred. and S1.T5 for
flats. More Than S,UD acres We're
planted in cnnsaloupes. honeydews and
watermclans and the total receipts
amounted to S3,5OO,OOO. These canta.
! lOupes were shipped to all sections of
the United States, but the bulk went
east of the Mississippi river.
Denver-The metal mines Of Colo.
RADIO in 1921, according to c. W. Hen.
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