The Dolores star., 1922-01-27
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
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and six other men were attempting TO
hold up Browns road house, ten miles
south OF here, was identified by police
as William Ryan, &c, of Denver.
Washington.-Nom of new
Colorado postmasters have been sent
to the Senate as follows: Francis NJ.
Wheeler, at Campo, and Loran G. Den
ison, at Telluride John Il. Gilmore
was named TO be postmaster at Grey
bull, Wyo.
Loveland.-Clyde Walters, Pat Cliff
ford, +. Owen Brown, p. C. Clemens,
James c. Christensen and George W.
Lind of the state engineering depart
ment, recently began a survey to deter
mine the route of the new proposed
paved state highway, lending from
Fort Collins through Loveland and on
toward Denver.
Loveland.-Jean V. Knapp, a gradu-
ate of the Loveland high school, and
son of Under Sheriff |. o. Knapp of
Larimer county, who has been in Geor-
gia for some months, has been appoint
ed as state veterinarian of the state of
| Florida. He is n graduate of the ami
NAL husbandry department of the Colo
rado Agricultural College
Cripple Creek.-The world famous
| big trees, known as the sequoa. of Cal
| ifornia, grew at one time in Colorado
Near Divide, in the Cripple Creek dis
| trict, can be seen the petrifed stump
of such tree, and at an elevation of
| 1900 feet, while scientists have held
the tree never grew above 1000 feet.
| This stump is twenty-three feet in da-
meter and seven feet high
Denver-A financial report made by
| Warden Frank j. kratke of the coun-
| ty Jail to Mayor Dewey &. Bailey
| showed that II cost the city and county
| of Denver S6S, ,50S to maintain the Jail
| during the year 1921, as compared to
an expense of S6O,67O during the year
1920. Bread for that institution, the
county hospital, Steele hospital, Sand
Creek hospital, the county farm and
the City park zoo, the report shows,
cost the city approximately 5000.
Pueblo.-Roy and Claude Monroney,
sons Of b. #. Monroney, Illinois farmer
who surrendered to the authorities and
told that he had killed his wife, dauxh-
ter and sons, went East upon receiv-
Ing word Of the tragedy. The Monron-
ey brothers are proprietors of local
barber shop. According to local ad-
vices the slain son and daughter Of Il.
| F. Monroney were half-sister and half
brother Of the Pueblo men, as the
woman slain was their stepmether
Pueblo.-Mrs. Hazel S. Gunby of
Fowler has filed suit in District Court
In Pueblo asking damage amounting to
1886 ,920.55 from the Colorado & South
trn Railroad Company for injuries she
sustained and for the death of her
mother. The women were driving "A
car from Denver to Fowler, March 10,
| 1921, and were struck by C. & S.
train at the Roselawn cemetery cross
ing, the older woman being instantly
killed, the machine demolished and
Mrs. Gunby sustaining serious injury.
Alamosa.-The San Luis valley, one
Of Colorados most famous sections, is
the bed of an ancient lake, and is 100
miles in length and thirty miles in
width. From the northwest to the
southwest flows the Rio Grande river,
and into it flows many smaller
streams. The valley forms one of the
great artesian well sections of the
United States, and an abundance of
water Is found from 100 to 500 feet.
A late report says there are more
than 5000 such wells in the valley.
There are five counties in the valley.
and farming and stockraising has in
creased to proportions believed impos-
sible few years ago.
Denver.-The United States census
enumerators in 1920 found 400 .7O2
horses and 31,126 mules In Colorado.
but in the same year the county as
SCISSORS found only 337, ,9O3 horses and
2a.6S2 mules. However, the figures
show that these animals have not be-
come extinct in the state, despite the
advent of the tractor and automobile.
Rocky Ford. = Colorado growers
shipped 3,20O cars of cantaloupes in
the 1921 season. For standards they
received 50 a hundred, and S1.75 for
flats. More than 5000 acres were
planted in cantaloupes, honeydews and
"hteFineions anu lne tOtil receipts
amounted to s3,50O,00O. These canta-
loupes We're shipped to all sections of
the United States, but the bulk went
east OF the Mississippi river.
Denver-The stranger in Colorado
becomes confused when irrigation is
spoken OF and he hears the frequent
expression of an acre inch of water"
He doesn't understand 1t. An acre inch
Of water is an acre of water one inch
deep and 1t weights little more than
100 pounds. Experts have figured the
use Of water down to a nicely, so the
experienced irrigation farmer knows
exactly how much water he needs for
his crops.
La Junta.-Earl Scarlet, 25 years