The Elbert County tribune., 1919-10-03
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

which are DeinS paiu by the bureau
Of war risk Insurance TO beneficiaries
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 paving T63 compensn-
tion claims to residents OF this state"
This is the gist of 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
ciuded In the report are that in addi-
tIon to the compensation claims which
are already being paid, 651 cases for
claims are under investigation by bu-
rean representatives.
| President ]. f. Welborn. Of the
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company ut
Pueblo, has ordered the company
mines at Sunrise, Wyo., where the
bulk OF the raw material used at the
local plants is mined, shut down for
an indefinite period. Five coal mines,
employing approximately 800 men In
the southern field, have also been or
llered closed. These mines have sup
Piled the local plants with fuel There
Is no intention on the part of the COM
pany of closing Its commercial mines
at this time
All previous records for visitors
wer broken in the Rocky Mountain
National Park during the past season,
according to n report just Issued by
stephen II. Mather, director of the ma
tlonnl park service. According 20 sta
tistics taken at the park, 16l 900 have
heen visitors during the past summer.
while last year only 1o1 900 visitors
were recorded. Last year 20,5SS motor
cars passed through the park, whlo
during the past season this number has
been nearly doubled with to'll of
! i0S71
| Decrease In the amount OF land
available for homesieadlng In Colo
RADIO has reduced the number of appii-
cations this year by one-third, as corn
rared with 1916 records, according 10
| State Immigration Commissioner Ed
ward Foster, the Inquiries are as many
| this fall MS three years ago There Is
stil total of 9,500000 acres open 10
entry. records of the department show,
but this total is 100000 acres less than
that available n year ago and 100000
acres less than on July /, 1916.
Painters at Trinidad, who were pre-
pared to go on strike for higher wages,
are at work on the basis of wage
compromise reached Mt meeting of
| employers and iourneymen and Arl.
Fincher, investigator for the state In
dustrial commission. The painters
formerly received 10 cents an hour.
They agreed to return to work at S7ia
cents an hour until Jan. /, after which
their wages will be 90 cents.
c. f. Burke of Pueblo was elected
secretary-treasurer of the Colorado
Duroc Jersey Hog Association at a
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 a
large number of head of fancy Duroc
Jerseys, possibly thirty, to the Denver
stock show this winter
The shipping season for pinto beans
is just opening in this state, and Colo
RADIO is facing n very serious situation
in this industry. Bigger marketing
problems are confronting the pinto
lean producers than last year because
there vii, he no big government orders
to he filled, such ms there was during
the season of 191S-19l9, the biggest
bean year In the history of the state.
A total of 307 applicants have been
| granted for n total allowance of $780,
| 512 under the new state benefit of the
| blind law since the beginning of its
operation this year, the State Board
| has announced
| Two leprosy cases in Colorado have
| been reported to the State Board of
| Health within six weeks, it was report
ed ut 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.
a searching investigation of health
conditions ut the state reformntory at
Buena Vista Will be instituted by the
State Board of Health as an outcome
of disclosures made at meeting OF
the board by DR. s. Y. McKelvey, for
merly member of the board, who in
| flignuntly declared tbe beddInr i'm use
in the cells is so filthy it is not fit for
81 dog TO sleep upon"
Two Arkansas valley counties,
Crowley and Otero. produce 90 per
cent of the captaloupes grown in Colo
RADIO, and this state ranks among the
| lenders in the nroductlon of cnntn-