The Dolores star., 1922-12-08
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

Deuver-The Great western sugar
Company has begun 10 put Its fac
tories IN shape 10 handle beet crop
next year that Is expected 10 exceed
in tonnage anything II has ever hae
offered By the farmers Factories al
Eaton. Greeley, Windsor. Brighton and
Lowell. Wyo. have been shut down
and men are already at work prepar.
ing them for the big business expected
in 1923. Plants at Fort Collins. Love
land. LouElnont and Billings will close
In the near future. Those at Sterling.
Brush, Fort Morgan and at four points
IN Nebraska will continue their opera
ticas until the beets are all sliced, and
then they, too. will be put In condl'
ton AL OF the Great Western fac
tories have been run on a scale OF
about two-thirds OF the production In
1921.
Denver.-Colorado Is assured import
ant rights under the seven states COM
pact, apportioning the waters Of the
Colorado rive-, which was signed In
Santa re. Y. NJ The rights guaran-
teed by the treaty Include: Participa-
ton with Wyoming, Utah ard Nevada
In use Of 10000 acre-feet Of the riy-
er waters. Protection Of all water
rights now existing in the Colorado
river and Its tributaries The right OF
removal OF the water from the basin
OF the Colorado river. Ample supply
Of water for Denver from the river or
Its tributaries. Use Of water OF the riy-
er or tributaries for domestic, agricul-
tural, municipal or Industrial purposes,
but not TO generate power.
Fort CoIlIns.-A municipal recrea-
tIon area has just been set apart for
the city OF Fort Collins by the L. 5.
forest service on the Upper Poudre
river. embracing an area of forty
acres. While this still remains a part
Of the Colorado National Forest, 1t is
reserved and dedicated to the purposes
OF recreation area for the city, upon
which will be placed improvements
costing In the nelghborhood Of $4,000.
1t Is the plan of Fort Collins to de-
velop this into an ideal mountain play
ground.
Golden.-Four dynamite blasts IN
rapid succession at daylight rocked the
town of Golden and told students OF
the Colorado School of Mines that an
attempt had been made to wreck the
huge M" high on the side of Mount
Zion. The blast was heard for miles
and few minutes afterward the
Mines campus was one of warlike ap-
pearance. Automobiles were dis
patched to every road in the belief
that students OF rival school could
be headed off. The perpetrators OF
the dynamlting have not been found.
Denver.-A decrease of 40 per cent
In the annual cutting of lumber in
Colorado Is revealed in the figures for
1921 given out by the United States
Department Of Commerce. The report
shows that 64,S6i,OOO feet of lumber
were cut in 1919; 67,S47 900 in 1920,
and IL ,0T6,OOO Ia 1921. OF the total cut
for the last year more than 22,OOO,U 900
feet were of the yellow western pine
tree, S,6S0,O00 feet of yellow spruce, e.
4lS,OOO of Lodgepole pine, and 3,343,-
900 of all other types Of trees.
Brighton. - Threats OF violence
against John Jones and Fred Murchi-
son. negroes who have confessed to the
brutal murder of George +. Miller,
white, at lonely spot on the outskirts
of Denver, were made by citizens of
Brighton following an Inquest held in
Retreat Park over Miller's body. AS
a result of the threats 1t was decided
to keep the two negroes in the Denver
Jail pending their trial, rather than
move them to Brighton, where less
protection could be afforded.
Walsenburg.-L. Mitchell, engineer,
incurred fracture of the left leg, and
Roy Mcdonald, flremu0, incurred a
broken right leg when Il Denver & Rio
Grande Western freight train was de-
rallied as 1t was entering Il siding here.
Two tank cars and seven sheep cars
were derailed, and 300 sheep were
killed. Damage to the railroad will
total $1,000 and to the owners of the
sheep, $4,000.
Fort Collins.-Wallard BalZell and
Walter Balzell, brothers, living near
Cherokee park, are under arrest
charged with having killed two does,
one buck and two beavers. Deputy
Game Warden Joe Gray made the ar
rests. He states that the brothers
have admitted killing the animals as
charged.
Fort Collins.-The largest amount
expended by any Larlmer county can
didate in the recent election campaign,
as far rs the reports have been re-
ceived, was spent by the only Repub-
lican to be defeated ut the polls. Fred
w. Harris, candidate for sheriff, re-
ports expenditures of S3319O.
Denver.-Frederick Patterson John
son, widely known stockman and pub
Usher Of the Record Stockman, left an
estate valued at $4,000, according to a
petition for letters of administration
filed in the County Court By james Il.
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