The Dolores star., 1922-02-10
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

Is on tnp for the Colorado State Fair
Correspondence has already been car
ried ON by Manager j. l.. Beaman look
ing to such Il result, and the record
live stock breeders association has ar
ranged To offer number of special
prizes Correspondence with manufnc
turers Of dairy equipment of all sorts
made everywhere, shows there will be
a tremendous showing made by all
such factories. All of the thousand
and one machines and appliances used
for the manufacturing OF the vast
number of milk by-products will he
placed on exhibition, and together
with these there will he demonstra'
tions in the manufacture of everything
of which milk is the base Dairy cat
tie people are taking so heartily TO the
proposition that 1t seems most Of the
cattle space in the new live stock pn-
vilion will be required for dairy cattle.
and the proposed Colorado State Fair
dairying exposition promises to be by
far the biggest and best thing of the
kind ever attempted in the West.
Denver.-The federal government
will spend more than S951 900 in Colo
RADIO in the next twcnty-four months
in the construction of highways and
important trails leading through or
near the fifteen national forests of the
state, it was declared here recently.
OF this sum more than S6oO,OoO Will
be devoted to the completion of nine
federal road projects as follows: Ber-
thoud pass, $4,000; Durago-Silverton
highway. $4,000: Red Mountain road,
S1OO,OO0; CumbreS pass, S130O00 /;
Cameron pass. ST1,OOO; North Hard.
scrabble road. 100000; Independence
pass, $4,000: Grand mesa, $4,000 ;
Arapahoe Glacier road, $4,000.
Montrose.-Thc plight of the settlers
in the uncOmpahgrc region was graph
icully presented to Secretary of the
Interior Fall by Il delegation headed by
State Senator John J. Tobin of Mont
rose. Several of the members of Con
greSs from Colorado We're present. The
secretary of the interior was asked to
defer the opening of the Uncompahgre
project for one year. A soon as the
project is opened the payment for
water rights will be due, and it was
represented to the secretary that the
settlers are not now in n condition to
make these payments. Secretary Fall
doubts his right legally to grant the
request for an extension of time.
Colorado SpringS-ln special cleo
ton Colorado Springs voters defeated
proposal to repeal the compulsory
vaccination ordinance, the Majority be-
ing 800 in total of 1000. An ord-
nance initiated by the fire department,
seeking an increase of pay ranging up
to SIS a month, was defeated by more
than 500 votes; an ordinance passed
last April raising the pay of the po-
lice department was repealed. the ma
jority being less than 100, and anoth-
er ordinance passed last April provid-
ing that special election must be
held before any public improvements
could be voted, also was repealed, by
nearly 800 majority.
Colorado Springs.-A fifty-gallon
keg of fine wine and 35G bottles of
choice liquor, part of the estate of the
late Charles b. Ferrin. are no more.
Under the terms of his will, the resi-
due of his estate, after numerous be-
quests had been paid, went to the Y.
NJ. C. A, Y. w. c. A. and the Saliva
ton Army. The liquor was part of the
residue and had been kept in the
vaults of the Exchange National Bank,
executor of the estate, for many
months
Boulder.-John Williams, 50 years
old and pioneer of Boulder, commit
ted suicide recently by shooting him
self in the head with an old model .3S-
caliber revolver in the home of Mr..
and Mrs. A. b. Search, where he has
been living for several years.
Windsor.-The Farmers State Bank
at Windsor closed its doors for busi
ness by a resolution drawn by the
board of directors, on account of low
reserves, according to report to
Grant McFerson, state bank commits
Sioner.
Denver.-How agriculture is sup
planting mining in Colorado is shown
by one comparative statement In 1900
'OIoiduo uDOul
gold and $7,SOO,OOO in wheat, and in
1920 the gold output was S1O,25O,OOO
and the wheat production $30, 0,SOO,OOO.
In these twenty years the acreage of
wheat increased from $4,000 to ,24O,-
900 and the number of bushels from
7,29O,OOO to 90 2,2S1 900.
Pueblo.-Frank Billy, 81 years old,
found guilty of the murder of his bride
Of three weeks, Charlotte Biby, Aug.
8, 1921, has been sentenced to twenty
five to thirty years Imprisonment by
Judge ]. Strimble of the District
Court here. Even with time allowed
for good behavior the sentence means
that Biby will have to spend nineteen
or twenty years in prison. He thanked
the court for a fair trial.
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