The Colorado statesman., 1919-10-04
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.


S1o,313,2OO in war risk insurance
claims by the United States govern
ment, including 1,1S0 insurance claims
which are being paid by the bureau
Of war risk insurance to beneficiarles
named at the time application was
made by soldiers, sailors and marines,
now dead. Disabled soldiers, as well
rs widows and children and dependent
parents of those who have died are be-
ing made comfortable by the govern
ment, which is paying 763 compensa-
ton claims to residents of this state
This is the gist Of a report which has
been sent out from the Treasury De
partment concerning the work which
the war risk insurance bureau Is do
ing in Colorado. Other statements in
cluded in the report are that In addl-
ton to the compensation claims which
are already being paid, 6o1 cases for
claims are under investigation by bu-
reau representatives.
All previous records for visitors
wer broken in the Rocky Mountain
National Park during the past season,
according to a report just Issued by
Stephen Z. Mather, director of the ma
tional park service According 20 sta
tistics taken at the park, 161 900 have
teen visitors during the past summer
while last year only 100000 Visitors
v ere recorded. Last year 2O,5SS motor
cars passed through the park, while
during the past season this number has
been nearly doubled with total of
40,S71.
Decrease in the amount of land
available for homesteading in Colo
RADIO has reduced the number of appn-
cations this year by one-third, as corn
pared with 1916 records, according 10
State immigration Commissioner Ed
ward Foster, the inquiries are as many
this fall as three years ago. There is
still a total of 9,500,0O0 acres open 10
entry, records of the department show,
but this total is 100000 acres less than
that available year ago and 100000
ceres less than on July l, 1915.
Application from the Grover, Colo,
high school for rifles for drill purposes
and similar applications from other
schools of Colorado led Col. ID. +. Nc
Cunniff, federal inspector-instructor
with the Colorado National Guard, to
call these schools attention to the pro-
visions of the army regulations under
which any school with n uniformed ca
det corps of not less than forty mem
bers can obtain both rifles and ammu-
milton from the War Department
C. F.. Burke of Pueblo was elected
secretary-treasurer of the Colorado
Duroc Jersey Hog Association at
meeting held in Pueblo. Professor
Morton of the Colorado State Agricul-
tural College, Fort Collins, was elected
president. J. w. Brewer of Colorado
Springs was chosen vice president The
association members plan on taking
large number of head of fancy Duroc
Jerseys, possibly thirty, to the Denver
stock show this winter.
Two leprosy cases in Colorado have
been reported to the State Board of
Health within six weeks, it was report
ed at the boards regular meeting at
the state house. Both patients are
Mexicans. One is confined outside the
city limits of Pueblo and has been
turned over to the federal immigration
bureau. The other, who has been TAX
en- in charge by the federal public
health service, is confined in Otero
county.
The reported dynamiting of fish in
the Rio Grande has been amply veri-
fed. Hundreds of dead fish have been
found floating and lodged along the
river banks all the way from Deep
oil
those who have examined them de-
clared that they had been killed by
blast of dynamite or other explosive,
as the bones were broken and pulled
loose from the backbone.
Two Arkansas valley counties,
Crowley and Otero, produce 30 per
cent of the cantaloupes grown in Colo
RADIO, and this state ranks among the
leaders in the production of canta-
loupes.
The shipping season for pinto beans
is just opening in this state, and Colo
RADIO is facing very serious situation
in this industry Bigger marketing
problems are confronting the pinto
lean producers than last year, because
there will be no big government orders
to be filled, such as there was during
the season os 191S-1919, the biggest
bean year in the history of the state.
A searching investigation of health
conditions at the state reformatory at
Buena Vista will be instituted by the
State Board of Health as an outcome
of disclosures made at n meeting of
the board by DIR. S. II. McKelvey, for
merly a member of the board, who in
dignantly declared the bedding in use
in the cells is $50 filthy it is not fit for
Il dog to sleep upon"
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