The Colorado statesman., 1922-04-22
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado
twes,.rn Newspaper Union Ns-, Service. ,

of Sheriff Harry Schraeder of Lake
county, charging malfeasance on seven
counts, has been issued.
Loveland.-Road work in this yicin-
ity is well under way, and from the
present outlook the visiting tourist will
have the use of some model roads.
Sterling.-Unless Congress amends
the appropriation bill to provide funds
for their support, the land offices at
Del Norte, Sterling and Hugo, Colo,
will be closed June 30.
Sterling.-With snowfall reported
on all sides, Sterling experienced q
sand storm without precipitation. The
wind was estimated to be blowing
around forty-five miles an hour.
Longmont.-John J. Griffin, 81 years
old, farmer and former banker, killed
himself at the home of his two bro
theirs, James and William Griffin,
about ten miles northeast of Long
mont.
Mnnoos-James Nash, stockman,
was shot and killed while driving cat
tie on Montezumn creek, over the line
in Utah. His stepson, Irving Dunham,
is accused of the killing. as there has
been a long-standing grudge between
the two men.
Greeley.-After search lasting
more than six months, o. ID. Jordan of
Greeley, formerly of Cedar Rapids,
Iowa, has been found. He was located
at Windsor, Colo, working in n shoe
shop, and authorities say he is suffer
ing a peculiar form of dementia.
Colorado Springs.-Rescued by the
Colorado Springs fire department from
a precarious foothold on crevice $50
feet above the base of a cliff in the
Garden of the Gods, Donald Donald
son, 10 years old, is none the worse
for forty-foot fall from the tip of
the kissing Camels' rocks.
Denver.-Governor Shoup's procla-
nation, calling the State Legislature
into extra session to consider construc-
tion of the Moffat tunnel and the or
ganiZation of conservancy districts for
the prevention of floods, was sent to
every member of the General Assem-
April IS at noon.
Pueblo.-Approxima $1,000 will
be spent during the coming summer in
building new trails in the Sangre de
Cristo mountains Part of the fund
will be provided by the United States
Forest Service and the remainder by
the communities in the territory from
which the trails will lead through the
mountains.
Denver.-Thirty-se hundred acres
of state lands were sold by the State
Board of Land Commissioners at
public sale conducted here for approx
imately sos, 500, according to figures
given out by George Stephan, regis
trar The land ranged in price from
$3.50 to $75 an acre and Is located in
Alamosa, Cheyenne, Custer, Kit Car
son, Larimer, Las Animas, Logan,
Montezuma, Otero, Rio Grande and
Washington counties.
Denver.-While Weld is Colorado's
leading agricultural county in point of
total output and perhaps in variety of
crops produced for market, 1t does not
hold first place in percentage of area
under cultivation, in value of area un-
der cultivation, in value of crops per
acre of area, according to report of
the State immigration Bureau. Rio
Grande county held first rank in value
Of crops grown per acre of area in
1919, according to bureau findings.
with an average of about So, and
shared first place with Delta county in
value of crops per acre under cultiva-
ton, with an average of about $40.
ways and means of presenting the
proposition of reapportionment of SEN
atorial and representative districts for
The Colorado Legislature to the people
of the state held with the Akron
Chamber of Commerce was attended
by 100 representatives from eastern
Colorado counties.
Denver.-More than 200 delegates of
the American Railway Development
Association are expected to gather at
the Brown Palace hotel here May 10
for their fourteenth annual convention.
The convention will be in session for
three days, and, according to Earl G..
Reed, chairman of the committee on
hotels and arrangements, an attractive
program has already been arranged.
Akron.--Akron was recently visited
with terrific gale and snow storm,
the wind varying from thirty to forty
miles an hour. About six inches of
snow fell, but on account of the rain
and snow which preceded terrible
dirt storm, the snow was mixed with
dirt, and everything Is plnstered with
mud, owing to the fact that the tenn
perature was very little below freez-
ing. Live stock did not suffer much.