The Dolores star., 1919-10-03
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

claims by the United States govern
ment, including l,lS0 insurance claims
which are being paid by the bureau
NJ war risk insurance to beneficiarics
named nt 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 paying 1853 compcnSa-
tion claims to residents of this state.
This is the gist of II report which has
been sent ont from the Treasury De
partment concerning the work which
the war risk insurance bureau is do
ing in Colorado. Other statements III
cluded in the report are that in addi-
tion to the compensation claims winch
are already being paid. Col cases for
claims are under investigation by hu-
reau representatives.
President J. 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 mt 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
Icred 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 report just issued by
Stephen T. Mather. director of the ma
tional park service. According % sta
tisticS taken at the park, 10000 have
I'een visitors during the past summer,
while last year only 100000 vistor'
We're recorded. Last year 201SS motor
cars passed through the park, while
during the past season this number has
been nearly doubled with total of
i0,SI1.
Decrease in the amount of land
available for hOmestcading In Colo
RADIO has reduced the number of applt
cations this year by onc-third, as corn
rared with 1916 records. according 10
State Immigration Commissioner Ed
ward Foster, the inquiries are as many
this fall as three years ago. There is
still total of 9,5o0,oOo acres open 10
entry. records of the department show.
but this total Is 100000 acres less than
that available n year ago and 5.oO0,G90
;Cres less than on July |. 1916
Painters at Trinidad. who were pre-
pared To 20 on strike for higher wages.
are nj work on the basis of a wage
compromise reached at Il meeting of
employers and iourneymen and Arl.
Fincher, investigator for the state in
duStrial commission. The painters
formerly received % cents an hour.
They agreed to return TO work at S7ia
cents an hour until Jan. l. after which
their wages will be 80 cents.
c. +. Burke of Pueblo was elected
Secretary-treasurer of the Colorado
Duroc Jersey Hog Association at Il
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 Il
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 very serious situation
in this industry. Bigger marketing
problems are confronting the pinto
Lean producers than last year, because
there vii! be no big government orders
to be filled, such as there was during
the season of 191S-1919, the biggest
bean year in the history of the state
A total of 30I applicants have been
granted for total allowance of $780,
ol2 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 at the boards regular meeting at
the state house. Both patients are
MeNicans. 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
ell in charge by the federal public
health service. is confined in Otero
| county.
A searching investigation of health
conditions ut the state reformatory at
Buena Vista will be instituted by the
State Board of Health as an outcome
of disclosures made at n meeting OF
the board by DIR. S. x. McKelvey, for
merly member of the board, who in
dignnntly declared the bedding in use
in the cells is 80 filthy it is not fit for
n dog to sleep upon"
Two Arkansas valley Counties
Crowley and Otero. produce 80 per
cent of the cantaloupcs grown in Colo
rado, and this state ranks among the