The Dolores star., 1920-10-22
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
-e.t.rn Newspaper Union New. Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Glenwood is to have new 100000
grade school building, for which the
ground has already been broken.
There are 14,l23,52 acres of good
grazing land in Colorado today and
one sheep or range COW for every seven
acres of it.
A. ]. Bryant and Navajo Martinas,
prisoners in the San Juan county jail,
escaped by digging out motar between
the bricks in wall of the Jail, last
week at Silverton.
Last year farmers in one section of
southwestern Colorado shipped 10000
hogs to Nebraska ana other states to
be finished on corn and then sent back
- the Denver market.
william Norell of Walden accom-
panied shipment of cattle to Omaha,
and while the train stopped near
LaSalle, Colo, a couple of tramps held
up one of the men who We're with
Norell and secured between S15 and
$50.
In recent bull calf contest held by
the Dairy Farmer, Miss Marie knlberer
of Broomfield, Colo, won the prize
Holstein bull calf, son of Carnation
King Sylvia, the 100000 Holstein bull
Of the Carnation Stock Farms Com
pany.
Automobile bandits cracked safes in
the Deertrail State Bank and the First
National Bank, rifled 300 safety de.
post boxes, which contained many
thousands of dollars worth of securi.
ties. and escaped with $4,000 in cur.
rency.
The first annual San Luis Valley po-
tato show will be held at Center, Colo,
on Nov. II, IL and 13. The fourth an
nual meeting of the Saguache county
farm bureau will be held on the open
ing day. At the potato show premiums
will be offered duplicating those given
at the Western potato show in Denver
last January.
Frank Crawford, thirty-three, super
intendent of the United Gold Mines
Company's Elkton and El Paso mines
at Cripple Creek, was fatally injured
when he and horse on which he was
riding fell over II seventy-fivefoot EN-
bankment near Anaconda. Lacerations
about the head and internal injuries
resulted from the fall.
Demands for skilled and common
labor are being met more promptly in
Colorado this fall than for several
years, according to n statement made
by Labor Commissioner w. l.. Nor
rissey. Farmers and fruit growers in
many sections of the state, where hun
dreds of men and women are needed
for rush season, have been able to
secure ample help, reports coming to
this office show.
Benjamin j. Salmon. Denver Stacker
who has been on hunger strike in
St Elizabeth's Military Hospital for
the insane at Washington, ID. c.. since
July 10, was declared sane by Justice
Bailey of the District of Columbia Su.
preme Court, according TO dispatches
received. Salmon will remain in the
hospital pending the disposition OF
court proceedings against the War De.
partment for his release.
District Judge G. II. Bradfield of
Boulder has set Oct. % as the date
for the hearing of the motion for u
change of venue in the murder trial
of Rienzi Dickens, who is now at the
home of his mother in Longmont. At.
torneys for Dickens claim that preju.
dice is so strong against their client
in Northern Colorado that it would be
impossible for him to get fair trial
in Boulder, Larimer or Weld counties
Affldavits supporting this claim were
filed in the District Court two months
ago. Later District Attorney Fleming
filed counter affidarits denying that
this was true.
Riot insurance to the amount of So.
144,950 on all municipal buildings and
property in Denver will be taken out
The City Council voted unanimously to
approve the bill for the total cost OF
the premiums The total yearly pre-.
miums amount to $3,694.55.
Complete reports made by county
assessors to the State Immigration De.
partment show 3,427 farm tractors
owned and operated by the farmers OF
Colorado, an increase of /, ,1S0 over the
number reported by assessors last
year. Every county in the state but
six reports farm tractors in operation,
and every county but three, Adams
Arapahoe and Washington, reports o
larger number than was reported last
year. Some idea of the rapid increase
in this class of farm equipment may
be gathered from the reports made by
few counties this year and last year.
Logan county reported 225 farm trac.
tors last year and 800 this year. Phil
lps county, lag last year and 244 this
year, Ebert county, II last year and
131 this year; Prowers county, ~ last
year and 81 this year; Weld county,
365 last year and 504 this year. Weld
county ranks first in number of farm
tractors and Logan county second.
Alfred NJ. Pettinglll, Rio Grande