The Colorado statesman., 1924-02-16
LATE NEWS
From All OUer
COLORADO
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sumed by the Denver & Rio Grande
Western railroad.
Denver.-Two armed bandits entered
a Continental Oil Company filling sta
tion here held up II. Il. Hedlund, col
lector, and Harold Hutton, an attend
ant, and carried away more than ST.
100.
Denver.-The report of the special
federal grand jury holding CRANKY
| Hillyer, United States attorney, TO be
"in League with bootleggers and unfit
to hold his office" was ordered eX-
plunged from the records of the United
States District Court and stricken from
the court files by Judge Colin Neblett
of New Mexico.
Pueblo-Alleging that men under ar
rest charged $1.50 for each quarter
grain tablet of morphine, L. r. Watts,
federal narcotic agent, said that new
high record price for drugs had been
established. The men are DIR. y. l..
Holcomb, white; DIR. Thomas II. Lee,
colored and L. j. Harris, colored,
real estate agent.
KiOwa.-Wiliam d. Reilly, state
senator from 1914 to 1918, and delegate
to the Democratic national convention
Mt San Francisco in 1920, died at his
home here last week of heart disease,
caused by acute indigestion. Mr.. Reil-
ly was A years old. His funeral was
held in Colorado Springs, where he was
Il member of the Elks lodge.
Denver.-Postmaster for six Colo
RADIO towns were appointed last week,
according to word received by Post
master Frank L. Dodge. They are as
follows: Antonito, Charles c. Hurst;
Delagua, George Baker; Louisville,
Lillian ID. Watson; Mancos, James Nj.
Brown; Tungsten, Edward f. Green,
and Two Buttes, Mary ]. Fuller.
Denver-The average assessed value
of all agricultural land in Colorado has
increased 81 per cent in Colorado since
1914, or from $11.67 in 1914 to $14.12
in 1923. During this period there has
been an increase in the average as
sessed value per acre of every class of
land except improved fruit land, which
has shown a decrease of 33 per cent.
DEMONSTRATING guilty to having
swindled Colorado and Wyoming farm
ers and business men out of thousands
of dollars by the promotion of fake
tractor and implement company in
Denver in 1918, James L. Hand and
Mont Flynn, both of Kansas City, Mo,
were fined $1,000 and costs each in
United States District Court by Judge
Colin Neblett.
Salida.-O. Randall Meacham, 19-
year-old son of o. r. Meacham, Sr.,
publisher of Salida, has been appoint
ed to the United States Military Acad-
envy at West Point, n. Y, by Senator
Phipps, according to a recent an
nouncement from Washington, D. G..
Meacham was appointed as principal,
but in case he does not enter the acad-
emy two alternates were named.
Boulder.-Leases on nearly $500
acres of land in the Haystack mountain
region, eight miles north of Boulder,
have been filed at the county clerks
office here by the Ohio Oil Company
of Findlay, Ohio. The company is un-
der contract, according TO the leases,
to begin drilling before April 26 and to
make n thorough test of the acreage
by drilling to 5000 feet If necessary.
Denver.-Federal hunters of the
United States bureau of biological sur
vey, working in cooperation with the
state board of live stock inspection
commissioners, bagged a total of III
predatory animals in January, accord
ing to an announcement by Stanley p.
Young, junior biologist. OF the total
KILL 153 were coyotes, twelve bobcats
and six lynx.
Denver.-The first payment of 1923
taxes from any county of the state has
been received by State Treasurer Null
nix. 1t was from Huerfano county, and
amounted to $4S4S0.
Denver er.-Authorization has been
granted by the secretary of the inter-
Tor for the per capita payment of 500
to the southern Utes of the Ignacio
Jurisdiction in Colorado. The sum to
be distributed is $4,000 and about $50
Indians are affected. Last year per
capita payment of 5000, involving $685.,
600, was distributed to 343 southern
Utes, but because of the depletion of
the tribal fund the amount was reduced
this year.
Calhan.-The townslte of Calhan,
comprising 240 acres, lying along the
Rock Island road, has been leased for
oil development by Albert A. Role
stone of Denver. Property owners
within the townste, numbering about
500, will share in the development, one
eighth interest In any future oil pro-
duced being set aside to them. Cal
han Is the only town in Colorado In
which the entire town is set aside for
oil prospecting Those interested are
said to have upward of 10000 acres In
the vicinity under lease for oil devel-
opment.