The Colorado statesman., 1922-11-11
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

on the Navajo Indian reservation
which is now handled by another road
TO Gallup, n. NJ, and then trucked in,
the Denver & Rio Grande Western
proposes to lay a third rail on its Far
mlngton branch from Durango to Far
mington, a distance of sixty miles. Au-
thentic reports to this effect leaked
| out following a trip of inspection of the
branch line and the new oil fields by
| the railroad officials. This would elm
mate one transfer of freight in Duran
| go by permitting narrow gauge cars be-
| ing hauled clear to Pennington. AT
present the branch from Durango to
Pennington is standard gauge, and all
railroad shipments for that section
must be transferred here from narrow
to standard gauge cars. The standard
gauge engines are equipped with two
| couplers so they can be attached to
both standard and narrow gauge cars.
| The third rail would be laid between
the two standard gauge rails at the
proper distance.
Denver.-Alfred Schaffer. "a years
old; Dan Webster, 80 years old; and
Miss Bonnie Mason, % years old, were
returned to the city jail at Denver
few days ago from Winslow, Ariz., by
| Detectives Lowe and Cook. The trio
is held for investigation. The two men,
| according to Captain of Detectives
| Washington Rinker, are wanted here
for jumping bond of $1,000 in connec-
| ton with their trial for the alleged
robbery of the Williams Stores Com
pany at West Eighth avenue and Santa
| Fe drive. The men also are wanted for
the alleged theft of an automobile be-
longing to Capt. e. ]. Dillon, of the
Fitzsimons hospital. The car said to
belong to Captain Dillon was returned
with the men.
Colorado Springs.-Negotiati for
the sale of the Garden City Company,
a Colorado Springs-owned sugar beet
| concern with extensive holdings at
Garden City, Kan, to Lock Davidson,
wealthy Wichita banker, have virtu-
ally been completed, according to an
announcement OF directors of the com
pany. Mr.. Davidson left Colorado
Springs recently, planning to stop in
Garden City, where he would make ar
rangements for the formal transfer of
the property. The sale involves ap-
proxlmately $5,000,000, and includes
the transfer of the sugar plant at Gar
den City, which is one of the best
equipped in the United States, and
j 10000 acres of adjoining land, all
planted to sugar beets each year.
Fort Collins.-A municipal recrea-
ton area has just been set apart for
| tb rit1 of h,r
Service on the Upper Poudre river,
embracing an area of 40 acres While
this still remains part of the Colo
RADIO National Forest, it is reserved
and dedicated to the purposes of
recreation area for the city, upon
which will be placed Improvements
costing in the neighborhood of $4,000.
1t is the plan of Fort Collins to de-
velop this into an ideal mountain play
ground.
Denver.-Illicit whisky manufactur-
ers are turning to u cheap grade of
glucose in place of using sugar, in an
attempt to cut down the cost of manu-
facture so that profits from the sale
of white lightning" may be doubled,
L. II. McClenahan, United States pro-
hibition director for Colorado declared
few days ago.
Colorado Springs.-The largest and
most representative exhibit of high
grade seed ever shown in Colorado
! will be seen at the Colorado Pure Seed
show, to be held at Colorado Springs,
Nov. 14-1S, under the auspices of the
Colorado Springs Chamber of Com
merce and the State Farm Bureau.
Denver.-Caught in the room of L.
L. Cadwallader at the Orient hotel,
Joe Russell, 81 years old, of 2I27 ia
son street, was held at revolver point
by Clerk Amos Hughes until the riot
squad arrived. Hughes declared that
Russell was stealing Cadwallader's
watch when he discovered him.
Standardization d. Sweet, nation
ally known agricultural expert, is, per-
haps, the happiest farmer in Colorado
today. The success he had with his
potato crop this year, especially with
seed potatoes, is the cause of his hap
piness. He had on exhibition in his
| Denver office in the Equitable build
ing two bushels of potatoes that at
tracted much attention. Mr.. Sweet
this year on his ranch at Carbondale
raised more than 100000 pounds of
potatoes, of which 10000 bushels were
for the market and the rest for seed.
Boulder.-Kenneth A. Kennedy of
Denver was elected president; a. A.
Paddock, vice president, and Ralph
Crosman, secretary, of the General
Alumni Association of the University
of Colorado at the annual meeting in
Boulder in connection with homecom-
ing day. Mr.. Kennedy was the princi-
| nal orator at the alumni banquet. c.