Cheyenne Wells record., 1922-03-30
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
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Boulder.-A 20 per cent reduction In
street car fares has been voluntarily
ordered by the Boulder street railway
company.
Pueblo Colorado National Guard
units stationed In Pueblo will enter
summer eneampment during the week
Of Aug. 18.
Denyer.-A reward of 500 for first
information leading to finding Of Alva
A. Swain Is Offered by the directors
Of the Klwanis Club of Denver.
Idaho Springs.--The Gem Mining
Company, which has been doing de-
velopment work for the past two years.
plans to start shipping ore very soon.
Rocky Ford.-The American Beet
Sugar Company will distribute $26,OOO
among the beet growers Of this section.
the checks to be ready about the mid
die Of next month.
Oak Creek.-Dan Borich, miner,
killed his wife by cutting her throat
and seriously wounded Jo. Keever,
another miner. at the VIctOr-American
coal mine, near here, recently.
Trinidad.-The last of the remain
ing bodies of seventeen victims who
were caught in the explosion In Sopris
mine No. 2 Of the Colorado Fuel and
Iron Company, near here, have been
removed.
Denver.-COngressIna william N.
vaile, in a letter to c. ]. Hyland who
asked his opinion on proposed
amendment to the Volstead act, as
serts that he cannot support any such
amendment.
Golden-A fully equipped brewery,
which, according to Jefferson county
authorities, was turning out product
Of 2.62 per cent alcoholic content, was
raided on the Denver-Golden road by
Sheriff &. c. K,Nr.
Canon City.-John D. Lloyd, Jr,
proprietor of the Canon cigar store.
sustained a broken back and probably
will die, and Herbert Meyers and Miss
Anna Kimlck were injured painfully
In an automobile accident on Lincoln
Park near Dead Mans corner" on
Elm street.
Pueblo.-The Pueblo South Side
Welfare Association has taken action
opposing the proposed flood conserv-
ancy act, and has requested that a
committee be appointed to confer with
Governor Shoup. The resolution de-
clared the proposed act is complex and
wrong In principle.
Brighton.-Col. P. ]. Hamrock, ad.
jutant general Of Colorado, and Act.
ing Gov Earl Cooley are guests of
honor at the formal opening of the
new national guard armOry here. The
Brighton armory IL the first Of sew
eral being built in different parts of
the state to be completed.
Cripple Creek.-The Rittenhouse
mine, property OF the Moonlight Min
ing and Milling Company, has re-
opened after shutdown of thirty
days. Extensive development work is
planned on various levels of the prop
crty md there will be considerable
territory open for leasers.
Fort CollIns.-S. Prce Bills, 65
years old, a teamster, IL dead, and Bob
Nichols, so, another teamster, is under
arrest, following a quarrel In a gravel
pit on the Sam Clammer farm near
Fort Collins. The two men are broth
ers-in-law, and were in the gravel pit
alone when a quarrel started.
Pueblo.-John Latham, q. years old,
was instantly killed and Miss Edna
Clark and her mother, Mrs. b. b.
Clark, were painfully injured when
IN automobile in which they were rid
ing struck soft sand on the Santa Fe
trail twenty miles east of here and
turned over. Latham was pitched out
Of the car, his head striking rock,
and was killed instantly.
Colorado Springs-Ralph L. de
Masters, convicted burglar brought
here from the state penitentiary at
Cafion City to testify ut the trial of
Lew Cargill, accused Of being his ac-
complice, escaped from the FL Paso
county jail.
Monte Vista.-A regular army
Chow line" free coffee and u kanga-
roo court session were among the
main features at the big show and en-
tertainment under the auspices Of the
Monte Vista Club and troop A., Colo
RADIO National Guard ut the opening of
the new armory at Monte Vista.
Fort an.-Approximately $1,000
acres Of land In two districts near
Fort Morgan and Sterling, Colo, and
worth less than $275,OOO fifteen years
ago, have jumped In price to SS,OOO,-
OOO since federal reclamation Accord
Ing to a report filed with NJ. D. Nc
Entry. chief Of the field division Of the
United States general land office at
Denver. The area embraced Is known
as the North Sterling district, near
Sterling, Colo. and the Riverside dis
tr1ct, north Of Fort Morgan. This land
was reclaimed and Irrigated by gov
ernment and private enterprise during
the last fifteen years.