The Colorado statesman., 1919-05-31
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

Colorado. His championship Is DhSeu
on record of his acre, the story he
wrote about IL and his ten ear exhibit,
each counting one-third in the state
contest He made profit of $1S.S2
on his acre of Minnesota No. 13, the crop
alone considered, and in addition, his
receipts amounted to $3S from the sale
Of a half bushel crate of seed corn at
$14 and his ten ear exhibit, which sold
for S24 at the Boulder county corn
show. He had yield of 6o bushels,
the crop being grown under irrigation.
Mrs. Chris Caughey, 80 years old, n
well-known trained nurse from Min
eral Springs, near Placerville, Colo,
was found dead on a sandbar in the
San Miguel river about mile above
her home at Montrose. Coroner Ed
Remley, who took charge of the body,
believes that the woman fell into the
river when the bank caved in. deep
cash was found across her forehead
Indications are, according to the cor
oner, that she struck rock and be-
came unconscious and was washed
along.
H. II. Utley, manager Of the River
Smelling and Refining Company, up
on his return from a two weeks busi-
ness trip to New York, st. Louis and
other eastern cities brings the news
to the people of Florence that the
smelter not only will continue to op-
crate at its present capacity, but an
addition will be made to the plant
whereby the product will be handled
through different business channel,
practically insuring its stability and
permanency.
The largest amount of government
land open to homestead entry in any
land district in Colorado is 1866, 800
acres in the Glenwood SPRING. dis
trict, in Eagle. Garfield, Gunnison,
Mesa, Moffat, Pitllin, Rio Blanco and
Routt counties More than two-thirds
of this is in Moffat and Rio Blanco
counties.
Congress is expected to act favora-
bly, on the $4,000 appropriation with
which the department of petroleum
technology of the United States bureau
of mines plans to start an experiment
station for investigation of Colorado
oil shale deposits, according to Con
gressman Charles B. Timberlake.
The May fete of 1919, it is claimed
by a majority of the thousands who
attended, was the most brilliant event
of it's kind ever witnessed on the
campus of the University of Colorado.
The effect of painstaking care was
shown from the time the brilliant
pageant started until the close.
There are 165 high schools in Colo
RADIO giving each full high school
course, while sixteen schools give
three years of high school work, sew
enty-five schools give two years and
thirty-five schools give one year. The
number of high schools is increasing
steadily each year.
Owen Matteson, %, discharged sol
dier, was out driving with his brother
at Fort Collins when front tire blew
out, throwing the car into the ditch.
Matteson tried to drive back on the
road, and the machine turned over.
Matteson's chest was crushed, and he
died four hours later.
Members of the Mesa school board
at Grand Junction, in conference with
Mrs. Elizabeth Hinton, county super
intendent, relative to a $4,000 bond
issue for the erection of a new school
building. 1t also is intended to estab
lish a high school in the Mesa district
Some time during the night the
clothing store of L. r. Rogers of Ak
ron was entered and about $500 worth
of clothing was taken. This makes the
,Iot ,t,fth hA lnC fnx
weeks, the last being Hoyt's jewelry
store.
According to A. L. Bailey, city at
torney of Glenwood Springs, the heav-
lest tourist traffic in the history of
Colorado is expected to visit or, at
least, pass through the resort during
the present season.
The murder on April IL of Elton c.
Parks, Pueblo auto salesman, and
William T. Hunter, prominent resident
of Rye, Pueblo county, on the Rye
Pueblo road, was cleared up by the
confessions of George Bosko, "a, and
his brother, Thomas Bosko, II. Ac-
cording to statement made by the
police at Colorado Springs George Bos-
ko admitted he killed both Parks and
Hunter and that his brother aided him
in the crime.
All employees of Swift C Co. are to
be given an opportunity of becoming
stockholders in the concern, according
to a plan announced by President L. f.
Swift. Stock held in the company's
treasury is to be sold to the employees
at the par value of $40 a share, the
market value of the stock at present
being between STAT and $3.50.
Thomas and Earl Comps, the two
ho or.