The Colorado statesman., 1923-10-27
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS

seat of official business, in Steamboat
Springs. Prior to Dec. -, 1912, when
the county seat was moved TO the pres
ent location, the records of ioutt coun-
ty We're kept in Il two-story frame
structure at Hahns peak. Before that
and since 1877, Routt county official
headquarters consisted of n log cabin
at Hayden. Five times, county records
have been moved from one log build
ing to another, and when the present
new home is occupied, sometime next
spring, the county will own its first
permanent official home.
Pueblo.-One person was killed and
four injured when a Missouri Pacific
light engine crashed into an automo-
bile about four miles east of this city
a few days ago. The automobile con-
tained teachers coming to this city
from La Junta for the annual conven-
ton of the southern division of the
Colorado Education Association. The
dead: Miss Margaret May Chambers,
of Las Animas, teacher in the La
Junta schools. The injured Claire
Pringle, La Junta; Mrs. Grace niece,
teacher in La Junta schools; Miss
Madeline niece, La Junta; Miss Floy
Christy, teacher in La Junta schools.
Denver.-Colorado corn practically
reaching the high point of 32,OOO,OOO;
potatoes sharply going off nearly 2,OOO,-
600 and falling under 15,OOOOOO bush
els, less than half of corn, with spring
wheat, beans and other crops holding
steady compared with n month ago,
are the outstanding features of the reg
ular crop report for Oct. l, just issued
by the U. S. Department of Agriculture
division of Crop and Livestock Esti-
mates) in cooperation with the State
Board of immigration.
Longmont.-Two hundred acres Of
land, including the Cliffs and Heights,
have been added to the Y. NJ. @. A.
ground holdings in Estes park, through
efforts of the Rev. Timothy Stone of
Chicago, who has a cottage in the sec
ton. 1t is understood that the con-
sideration was $4,000. OF this
amount, the Y. NJ. C. A. conference,
committee is to raise 100000, and the
Rev. Mr.. Stone the remainder through
wealthy friends in the East
Fort Collins.-P. ID. Nelson, Berthoud
attorney and former member of the
State Legislature, is fighting a legal
battle for the possession of buck he
shot which was taken from him on his
way home by Deputy Game Warden
Joe Gray. Nelson was bringing the
deer down the Poudre Canon road,
which is on the boundary of the Colo
RADIO game refuge and Gray accused
him of shooting the deer in the refuge
and took charge of the carcass.
Denver.-Although the late U. S.
Senator Samuel d. Nicholson left for
tune of 81 $50, ,722.17 his estate paid an
inheritance tax of but S21 ,974.5O, a
comparatively small amount, because
the bulk of the legacies are to revert
to charity after the death of the bene-
ficiaries, according to Winton NJ. Ault,
state inheritance tax collector. The
sum of 55,57S.4S was collected by this
department during the semi-monthly
period which ended Oct. 10.
Fort Collins.-Two Wyoming cou-
pies exchanged partners here for their
second matrimonial dance when Bert
| Allen Hubbs. 80 married Mrs. Gladys
Kirkbride, IS, and Larry Kirkbride, 2S,
married Mrs. Verda Hubbs, IS. The
exchange, it is said, was effected in a
friendly way and with considerable ro-
mantle atmosphere when the two cou-
pies, rearranged, were united in a dou-
BILE ceremony by Justice of the Peace
j. C. Sarchet.
Limon.-A trip to Pennsylvania by
| .hree Englewood, Colo, youths, whose
| Of .
piece" ended with their arrest here
and the seizure of a car which they
Borrowed" from one of the youths
fathers. The boys gave their names
MS John H Smith, John Whitley, and
Charles Holden. The car in which they
we're journeying belong to the father
of young Smith.
Colorado Springs.-Nrs. E. J. Shoe
maker has appealed to the police in
an effort tc locate her husband, miss
ing since Sept. 10, and who, she fears,
NAV have been the victim of AleXan'
| der A. Kels, wealthy Lodi, Calf
butcher, confessed slayer of an timer
ant workman employed by him. Shoe
maker was in the neighborhood of the
Kels ranch, near Stockton, Calf.
about the time of the murder, his wife
says.
Greeley-That leprosy was the
cause of the death of Mrs. Cora Emma
| Neill 50 years old, who died at her
home in Eaton, was the statement OF
DIR. w. II. Wood, Weld county coroner
following an investigation of the case
in which two other physicians cooper
ated. Mrs Neill had been an invalid
for the last two years and it was at
first believed that her death was the
result of rheumatism.
L.imon.-The three alleged automo-
bile bandits who escaped from the
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