The Colorado statesman., 1922-01-21
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado
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port made public. Most of the land
sold is In Routt county.
Pueblo.--Firemen responding to an
alarm found Mike Jones, S5 years old,
Pueblo resident and one-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 overheated stove.
Longmont, Colo.-Miss Martha Don
ovan, 33 years old, the daughter of
Postmaster IT. p. Donovan, died at the
Longmont 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.
Littleton.-Less than ten hours after
he was arrested by Sheriff Robert Nc
Namara OF Littleton and state officers
on charges of violating the prohibition
law, John Lebln, 80 years old, was SEN
fenced TO from one to two years in the
Colorado penitentiary. Lebin 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 an acre inch of water"
He doesn't understand it. 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 nicely, so the
experienced irrigation farmer knows
exactly how much water he needs for
his crops.
Greeley.-Demosthene Bland Wyatt,
II years old, one of the most we'll
known pioneers of northern Colorado,
ended his life by firing a bullet into
his brain. Ill health, accompanied by
a recent announcement by physicians
that death was not far off prompted
suicide, relatives say. Several weeks
ago Wyatt burned his toe on an cleo
trio bed warmer Gangrene developed
in the wound and amputation was be-
ing considered.
Boulder, Colo.-One student has
been expelled and nineteen others pen
allied by faculty committee of the
University of Colorado, which found
them guilty OF overindulgence in intox-
icating liquor. OF these, seven have
been suspended until the spring, and
one refused admittan--; six will not
be allowed to register until September,
1922, and one has been suspended for
a year. Four students were repri
manded and their parents notified of
the action.
Denver.-This city has been visited
by the stork at least 5,00S times dur
ing the past year, according to state
ments made by Miss Florence Leach,
registrar of the bureau of vital statis-
tics. The total birth record for the
year 1921 compares to q total of 4,76l
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 ex
pressed by officials of the health de-
partment.
La Junta, Colo.-''You've stolen my
watch |" With this accusation, Ed
ward l.. McInerny, % years old, sail
or patient on leave from the Fort Ly-
ons naval hospital, leveled n pistol at
a companion sailor, r. p. Brennan, and
pulled the trigger The shooting oc-
Cured in a 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
panion, McInerney trained the gun on
himself and blew out his brains.
Denver.-The United States census
enumerators in 1920 found 420,7o2
horses and 81, ,126 mules In Colorado,
but in the same year the county as
SCISSORS found only 337 903 horses and
2S,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.
Pueblo, Colo.-Two men are dead as
a result of two accidents on the rail
roads here. Jesus Miranda, an en-
lead, 100000 pounds of copper, and
Western railroad, was killed when he
was struck by fast passenger train
three miles west of here. A negro, said
to be known as Van Bibbs, was fatally
hurt when he fell between two cars of
a moving Santa Fe freight train in the
Pueblo yards.
Rocky Ford. - Colorado growers
shipped 5000 cars of cantaloupes in
the 1921 season. For standards they
received So hundred, and $1.75 for
flats. More than 5000 acres were
planted in cantaloupes, honeydews and
watermelons and the total receipts
amounted to S3,5O0,O00. 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
derson, United States Geological Sur