The Colorado statesman., 1919-06-07
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS,

shape and the affair is growing III liir'
portance. The sports committee mas
been especially active, and ALREADY
many of the best riders OF northwest
ern Colorado are lined up Tor attehu
ance. 1t is planned to make the rough
riding feature of greater interest than
ever before. Some of the recent con
tests have been rather tame, Dul
George Long, on n trip TO the lower
country interested some of the bes'
riders in the contest. They are ahA
ious TO try conclusions with the crack
riders of the Art-O-Graf Film Com
pany, who will be there.
Fifty students, all of them newly ar
rived soldiers from France, have been
enrolled by the Denver branch OF the
federal board for vocational training
to attend the classes at the Opportun'
ity school. These are the advance
guard of about go students who will
be enrolled at the Opportunity by the
federal board this summer. Many sub
jects will be taught to these men
among them automobile repairing IL
all its phases, sheet metal work, Eng
lish show card writing, commercial
branches, craftsmanship, drafting, al
zebra and other branches of mathe
matics.
The final statistics on May trave!
to Colorado will equal that of Junes In
the past, said Frank A. Wadleigh, pas
senger traffic manager of the Denver
& Rio Grande. 1.-The May travel has
kept pace with the June travel and J
sholl not be surprised If the final re
turns show that May was ahead of the
usual June" said Mr.. Wadleigh. "As
rule, May travel is light to Colorado
the summer tourist rates becoming eff
fective June 1, and June being the
month when people start for theiI
summer vacations"
Colorado crop planting, which is
completed, indicates the acreage under
cultivation this year will be the larg
est in the history of the state, accord
ing to reports compiled for the Coop
erative Crop Reporting service by
county assessors. In addition to the
large increases for wheat and sugar
beets previously reported, there is saic
to be large increase in the acreage
devoted to corn Completed reports
indicate that the acreage of pinto
beans this year will not exceed thai
planted in 1918 by more than % pei
cent.
After lying unconscious for fouI
days with several ribs fractured, his
lungs pierced by broken bones, his
chest crushed to pulp, and his body
badly bruised and battered, n. j. Nc
Kenan, q farmer of Keota, died as the
result of an accident He was assist
ing in loading a large steel tank into
wagon, using pair of wooden skids
for tie work, whenone of the skids
broke and let the tank, which weighed
more than ton, fall, catching him un
derneath it.
Efforts of Charlie Gardner of San
Diego, blind newsie, to save the life
OF John ID. Kennedy, rancher, from
Gunnison, Colo, has been repaid by a
$4,000 legacy. Hearing that Kennedy,
casual acquaintance, was dying,
Gardner went to his physician and in
sisted that he be allowed to submit
to a blood TRANSMISSION. Gardner lost
quart of blood in the operation, but
Kennedy died. He left his entire es-
tate, valued at $4,000, to Gardner.
Marjorie Henry, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Russell Henry, who live nea.
Campion, narrowly escaped drowning
when she fell into an irrigating ditch
near the house and floated down the
stream for a distance that would COW
er about two blocks before she was
discovered and rescued by her grand
father, c. w. Henry.
Farmers in the Gilcrest section are
being caused considerable loss by the
ravages of potato bugs, which are eat
ing off the new plants. Gilcrest has
large acreage of early potatoes, and
entire fields have been, eaten off by
these bugs which infest the fields in
swarms of thousands and eat every bit
of green foliage.
The gold ore production in the Grip
pie Creek district in May amounted
to 55,376 tons, carrying gross bul-
lion value of S691, ,S61 40, which is an
increase over April of $4,000. The
general average of all ore produced
was $105S. Nine hundred and ninety
tons We're shipped to the smelters,
which returned $50 per ton. The divi-
dends paid during the month by the
Cresson and the Golden Cycle Com
panies amounted to $4,000.
Some weeks ago the property own
ers of two of Brighton's business
streets signed petitions for paving
thirty-siX feet wide. Later they de-
cided that they were making the paw
ing too narrow and the matter was
held up while new petitions were cir
culated. Now the matter has been
completed and the streets will be
paved their full width.