Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1920-06-04
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

but 191 $50 acres of privately owned
land in Moffat county. or little more
than per cent of the total area. On
Jan. !. 1919. there were 1911 acres
of unnppropriated state land in the
county. There are 81 ,535 acres of for
est area and n large acreage withheld
from homestead entry under the Carey
act. On July /. 1919, there were l.
IDS SOB acres of government land open
to homestead entry Through the pat
enting of pos claims, 5i.13T acres of
government domain were added tn the
taxable area of Moffat c6anty in the
last year. Local land officials say
that the present year viii break all
records in the number of final proofs
which VIII he filed, and look for more
than 100000 acres to be patented.
Restoration to homestead entry of
11.S07 acres of land formerly listed
under the Cary act project in San MI
guei and Montrose counties, has been
announced by Clay TalIman, commits
sioner of the general land office,
Washington, d. c. From June 10 10
and including Aug IL, officers, sol
served in the war with Germany will
have preference right to enter this
land. all of which has been designated
as subject to entry under the 320-acre
enlarged homestead act.
The bodies of Arthur Dean, - years
old. and William Lavery, &C. employees
of the United States fish hatchery in
Park county. We're found floating III
the huge Antero reservoir beside an
overturned rowboat by two small boys
who visited the hatchery to deliver
mail. The two men, WHO had both
been connected with the federal hatch
cry for several years, had been at the
reservoir during the past month gath
ering spawn for Matching.
The National Guard Club, an organ
ization of local business men to coop
crate with the National Guard unit
which is TO he formed, has been organ
ized in Montrose. This club will spon-
sor the formation of the local guard
unit, and after il is organized will as
sist the guards in the Way of better
club rooms and as an advisory board.
to which the members of the guard will
always be free to appeal for assist
| ance.
That Ivan De Wald, public school
| teacher at Eads, Colo, who died in a
hospital Mt Greeley, was not assaulted
by unknown persons, as at first be-
lieved, but was Il victim Of Il hemor-
rhage caused by rupture of blood YES
sels>while lie was working on hi; auto
mobile is the theory advanced by w.
II. Jones, head of the public schools al
Eads and secretary Of the Y. NJ. c. a.
nt Canon City, after an autopsy had
been held.
Henry Crasant, ten years old, was
shot and seriously wounded by Mex
lean near the Crasant home at Johns
town, according to story told to the
Greeley authorities by two younger
brothers who were playing with the in
jured lad when the shooting occurred.
Two Mexicans are in Jail at Greeley.
The Denver livestock market is now
leading all the big livestock markets
of the country, paying the highest
prices for cattle, hogs and sheep. The
high prices ON the local market have
sent thousands of cattle and hogs
there that otherwise would have been
sent to an eastern market
John Kowalik, a former soldier, con
victed week ago of second degree
murder in connection with the killing
of Helen Smith in Denver hote.
March II, was sentenced to term OF
ten TO twelve years in the penitentiary
at Canon City.
Ralph Clifford Harris, 2-year-old son
of Robert 7. Harris, farmer, living
near kersey, was drowned when he fell
from high fence into a metal water
tank.
A movement is on foot to obtain an
infantry company or a cavalry troor
in the reorganized Colorado National
Guard for Grand county
Citizens of Fort Morgan have con
tributed more than $1,000 for the up
keep of n municipal and county band
for 1920. The band will give an open
air concert Friday evening of each
week for fifteen successive weeks. IL
addition to this they have agreed to
render their musical charms for any
special occasion asked for by either the
city or county.
Representative farmers of virtually
every community in Morgan county
met at Fort Morgan and effected the
organization Of the Morgan County
Live Stock Cooperative Shipping As.
sociation. The purpose of the move
ment is to give the local farmer n di-
rect market where he can make the
last dollar possible for every head OF
livestock he sells.