The Dolores star., 1919-12-19
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

ing the closing of the Annal Farmers
Congress Mt Fort Collins A number of
these short courses have been conduct
ed in other states with marked success.
The plan originated with the move
mcnt for National Federation Of Co
operative Livestock Shippers, an organ
ization of national Importance which
hase recently been completed at
meeting in Chicago called in the inter
ests of cooperative livestock shippers.
The purpose of these courses is to pro
vide managers, Officers and members
of cooperative Livestock Shipping As
Sociations, County Agents and others
interested with the opportunity Of be
tnmug thoroughly familiar with all the
important phases of cooperative live.
stock shipping. rs well as livestock
marketing in general Such topics as
Proper Methods of Loading and Mark
ing Cooperative shipments and the
Grading of Cattle, sheep and Hogs on
the Market. will form the basis for
practical discussion. while the tech
nical phases Of cooperative livestock
tions and lectures on the uSc Of \C.
counting System Forms for Livestock
Shipping Associations and by an CN-
planation Of the Methods Used hy Live
stock Commission Firms in Handling
the Accounts of Cooperative ship
mentS \ number Of Culoradu'S Live
stock Shipping Associations Will have
E. ,r IL 4,
market for that day.
American boys who fought in the
great European war are keenly inter
ested in the national campaign which
has been undertaken 10 eradicate tu-
bcrculosiS. Official support of the
Christmas seal campaign by which
funds are being raised by the National
tuberculosis Association and its state
branches for the fight against the
white plague is announced by the
American Legion which adopted reso-
lutionS to that effect AT the national
convention held in Minneapolis. Army
men realize the need of this work from
the fact that draft statistics show that
enough men 10 comprise nearly three
divisions were rejected as unfit for
military duty. The local work is he
ing carried on by the Colorado Public
Health Association.
More than a million people spent
their vacation in Colorado's National
forests during the season May | To oct.
81. 1919. according to figures recently
made public by the Denver hcadquar-
ters of the United States Forest Scrv-
ice. This is an increase in travel Of &C
per cent over 1916. and - per cent
over the season of 1917. Visitors to
other national forests of the Rocky
Mountain district tOtalcd 100000 for
Wyoming, $1,000 for the Black Hills,
South Dakota G0,5O0 for Minnesota.
and 6,5OO for the small forest areas in
Michigan and Nebraska, a grand total
If l.2JO,OOO recreation seekers TO the
twenty-eight national forests of the dis
trict, an increase of "A per cent over
1917, the last year in which IL tally Of
recreation visitors was made by the
forest service.
a verdict of acquittal was rendered
ll ! Hthlp III 'uSt VI NllS. lsIlLilItllI
Haskell, charged with the murder of
Charles Goldstrap, 17-scar-old suitor
of her daughter, on Dec. IS. 1918. The
Jury was out twenty-three hours and
fifty minutes. The defense claimed
that young GoldStrap was shot while
he was pounding upon a back door
of the HaSkett home late at night, Mrs.
II1 Sl.ntt firin.r IN - iyb i,,,
DR.. Frank Wilbur Chace has been
appointed head of the chair of music
i'll the University of Colorado to sue
ceed Prof. George NJ. Chadwick, who
recently resigned his position in the
school. Professor Chadwick has been
connected with the university for the
last ten years. and is recognized a>
one of the foremost pipe orgnnists in
the country.
Both the first and second prizes Of
fercd by II Denver taxidermiSt for TTI
biggest and best set of nntlers sc-
cured during the last hunting season
We're won by Routt county huntSm.n.
First prize went to Harry Il. Bird of
iampa for spread of horns mcasur-
ing forty-tllree inches, with six perfect
beams on each side. A. L. Pierce Of
Hayden took second prize for antlers
with spread of thirty-thrce inches
and seventeen points
The value of all livestock on the
farms in Colorado in 1919, as estimat-
ed by the Bureau of Crop Estimates
of the United States Department of
Agriculture, was S172,7J1 900 Asses
sors' reports show Increases this ycar
in practically all classes of livestock,
so that indications are that the State
Cooperative Crop Reporting Service
VIII find the value of livestock on
farms January !, 1920, to be close 10
S200,O0O,0OO.
Denver.-With returns received from
only few of the counties, total of
S35,OOO has been raised up to date in