The state herald., 1919-06-13
CENTENNIAL STATE items.


their vacation In the Estes-Rocky
Mountain National Park this year are
numbered some of her most noted lit
erary men. Chief of those who have
so fur expressed their intentions of
visiting Estes for more or less lengthy
periods are Irwin S. Cobb, humorist;
Karl Hartman, editor of the Red
Book magazine; Robert w. Serviss,
Jack Lait and Opie Read. These have
made reservations at the Big Thomp-
son hotel, operated by Clem G. Yore,
an old newspaper man. Walt Mason,
the prose-poet, and william Allen
White, newspaper man and novelist,
each have summer homes in the park
and are expected to spend their sum-
mers there with their families.
Efforts Of Charlie Gardner of San
Diego, blind newsie, to save the life
OF John d. Kennedy, rancher from
Gunnison, Colo, has been repaid by
$4,000 legacy. Hearing that Kennedy,
casual acquaintance, was dying,
Gardner went to his physician and In
SiSttu tliit nt bc ulloMtu W
to blood TRANSMISSION. Gardner lost
u quart of blood IN the operation, but
Kcnncd, died. He left his entire e.
tute, valued ut Sl5,O00, to Gardner.
All OF northern and eastern Weld
county will be represented at the
Northern fair, which Is to be held In
Grover Sept. II. Products from all
townships within fifty-mile radius of
Grover will be on exhibition, maxim
the largest non-irrigatcd farming ex-
hibition IN the state this year. Grover
people are planning to buy and i'm
prove permanent fair grounds near
town this summer.
The Supreme Court has handed
down decisions under which the tele-
phone rates of 1918 must continue to
be paid while the case is refought ;
WIN II. Murphy is given office MS en-
gineer of the State Land Board ;
Judge Ben b. Lindsey must pay II
$500 fine for contempt of court, and
A. F. Enyart, Ordway, Colo, bank
president, gets new trial on the
charge of murder.
Denver will receive six pieces of
German artillery and two machine
guns with shells for display purposes,
II bill introduced In the federal
House of Representatives by Con-
gresham William \. Vaile is passed.
The bill provides that the guns shall
be from the captures made by the
American expeditionary forces and de-
livered to the United States under the
terms OF the peace treaty.
The school bonrd of Denver is pre-
pairing TO submit to the taxpayers at
n special election to be held some time
In the coming fall the proposition of
issuing SS,OOO,OO0 for new school build
ings which has been In preparation for
several months. or the issue S6,3i5,.
900 is to go to building and the re.
mainder for furnishing three new
high. SIX new junior high and twenty.
three new elementary schoolhouscs.
The 1910 year book of the state i'm.
migration department will show that
the total assets OF all banks In Colo.
rndo at the beginning Of 1919 were
1906. 49,, ,284. 10, compared with $3.50.
SS5, ,0J9.52 at the beginning Of 1918
There were In the state at the begin
ming Of the year 126 national bnnks
and 24O state banks and trust com.
panies. or total Of 800 banks for the
state.
Charles II. Wright, y. n iinenan EN-.
ployed by the Western Union Tele
crap Company, was electrocuted and
burned almost to crisp at Colorado
Springs when his body accidentally
came In contact with high power lins
while at work. II was necessary 10
shut off the entire electric system OF
the city and summon the fire depart
ment before the body could he re
moved from the pole
The average yield Of hay per mere
In Colorado is 2.23 tons. compared
with an average for the entire United
States OF 1.45 tons and u minimum NV
erage Of Lib for New Hampshire and
Missouri.
The crops In the Montrosc section
and most OF the great Uncompshgre
valley are two to three weeks nhead OF
the five-yenr average. The nlfalfn
crop is over 100 per cent average and
In ready for the first cutting now.
Some potato patches are showing re-
marknble development and the farm.
ers are declaring II Is one OF the most
advanced springs In the history Of
Montrosc county.
Denver ut It's tractor show June 8
to ~ In going TO he given II practical
demonstration OF the meaning OF
treat EN- rough T. The boys who did
II and the things they did It with will
be there. They came from the govern.
ment arsenal nt Rock islnnd, H.. and
the Aberdeen proving grounds In Mary.
land. md every pnrt that the tank and
the tractor played In the war In France
win he demonstrated In Denver.