The Glenwood post., 1922-01-19
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado
Western Newspaper Union New, ssuics.

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acres of state lands, according to a re-
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.-Mss Martha Don
ovan, 33 years old, the daughter of
Postmaster T. p. Donovan, died at the
| Longmont hospital after an operation
for appendicitis. For one year she
was nm instructress at the Canal Zone
government school, giving up the
teaching on account of ill health.
/ Litteton.-Less than ten hours after
he was arrested by Sheriff Robert Nc
Namara of Litteton 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 penitentlary. 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
I of water is an acre of water one inch
/ deep and it weights little more than
I 100 pounds Experts have figured the
I use of water down to a nicely, so the
experienced irrigation farmer knows
1 exactly how much water he needs for
his crops.
| Greeley.-Demosthe Bland Wyatt,
I II years old, one OF the most we'll
known pioneers of northern Colorado,
| ended his life by firing 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
( tric bed warmer. Gangrene developed
I in the wound and amputation was be-
\ ing considered.
| Boulder, Colo.-One student has
been expelled and nineteen others pen
/ 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 admttan-e; six will not
be allowed to register until September,
! 1922, and one has been suspended for
a year. -Four students we're repri-
maudcd and their parents notified of
the action.
Denver.-This city has been visited
by the storll at least zoos 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 a total of 4,7Gl
births during the preceding year. That
still greater increase in the number
of births will he 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.-"Youve 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 pistol at
Il companion sailor, II. 2. Brennan, and
pulled the trigger. The shooting oc-
Cured in 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.
Denyer.-The United States census
enumerators in 1920 found 42O TOP
horses and 31,126 mules In Colorado,
but in the same year the county as
SCISSORS found only 33T903 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 MS
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,moying Santa re freight train In the
Pueblo yards.
Rocky Ford. - Colorado growers
shipped 5000 cars of cantaloupes in .
the 1921 season. For standards they .
received 50 hundred, and S1.7J for .
flats. More than 5000 acres were
planted in cantaloupes, honeydews and .
watermelons and the total receipts
amounted to $3,500,000. These canta-
loupes We're 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 @. w. Hen
derson, United States Geological Sur
vey, Department of the Interior, pro-
duced S6,790,000 in gold, 100000