The Colorado statesman., 1920-12-04
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS,

yer land districts as being chiefly
valuable for grazing and raising OF
forage crops has been approved by
Secretary of the Interior John Barton
Payne, according to word reaching the
office of NJ. ID. McEniry, chief of the
field division, United States general
land office. These lands have been
designated as coming under the pro
visions of the stock raising homestead
law. Entries OF those citizens VINO
have heretofore made application uh-
der the proper stipulation VIII DC
granted after Nov. 30. Only persons
who have already made application
for these lands will be granted entries.
Declaring that the economic loss 10
the state of Colorado from the raw
ages of tuberculosis approNimates
Sl6.OOO,OO0 annually, and about 2,o3o
persons died of this disease In the
state last year, Acting Governor
George Stephan has issued a procia-
nation, naming Sunday, Dec. D, as
Tuberculosis Sunday. The proclama-
ton calls upon the people of the state
TO support the Colorado tuberculosis
Association in fighting the white
plague by purchasing Christmas seals
and aiding the association in every
way possible during the campaign for
funds, Dec. / to 10.
William Coss, son of ]. f. Coss,
newspaper publisher of Walsenburg,
will recover, following an attack on
the Walsenburg-Pueb road by five
highwaymen, who beat him into in
sensibility and stole his new touring
car which he had just purchased in
Pueblo. Four men have been arrested
and charged with the assault. They
are said to have confessed to the sher-
if. They are Raymond Chase, Gary,
Ind; Wesley Wentworth, Denver;
Ralph OLeary, Boston, and George
Cooksley of England.
Field representatives of the Holly
Sugar Company at Montrose report
that beet harvesting in that section is
completed and that practically all OF
the beets are now on top of the ground
although thousands of tons are yet to
be hauled to the dumps. Because OF
the lack of sufficient cars, both the
Montrose and Olathe beet dumps have
had to dump thousands of tons on the
ground near the dumps, which Will
later be loaded in cars and shipped TO
the mill.
The average of yields per acre this
year of all crops combined, duly
weighed, compared with their yields
for recent years in Colorado, is 1871
per cent, and in the United States is
1869 per cent. The production index
for the United States is about 80 per
cent more than last years aggregate
production and 6.S per cent more than
the average of the preceding five
years, 1914-1S.
The voters of Mesa county have bal
loted in favor of the S150,OOO bond is
sue which will give Mesa county
S25O,OOO courthouse. The sinking
fund which the county has been laying
by for years will make up the balance
of the amount needed to erect one of
the finest courthouses in the state.
The new structure will probably be
ready for occupancy in two years.
President Newton C. Dougherty of
the Colorado Farmers Congress has
announced that the sessions of this
years Congress have been postponed
until later in the year and that the
new date will be announced us soon as
it is definitely known.
Frank NJ. Draper, former principal
of the public school at Wray, Colo,
has been eXonerated of charge of
misconduct in a hearing before the
State Board of Education. 1t had been
alleged the principal had put his arm
around the waist of pupil.
Following the passenger train derail-
ment near Grand Valley, freight de-
railment near Shoshone, above Glen
wood, and another at Miners, near
Palisade, have caused the Rio Grande
Railroad much trouble and extensive
delay in traffic.
A dividend of 100000, half of the
original investment of the stockhold-
ers of the Midland Terminal Railway
Company, has been awarded and paid,
according to announcement by A. Il.
Carlton, president and receiver of the
company. Notices of the dividend and
checks in payment were mailed.
The Vanadium Corporation of Amer
lea, operating vanadium and tungsten
mines in Colorado, has announced the
complete shutdown of all its works at
Vanadium, Fall Creek and Placefville,
between ten and eighteen miles west
of Telluride.
A campaign to raise 100000 to be
used in uncovering prehistoric cliff
dwellings in the southwestern section
of the state has been launched by the
State Historical and Natural History
Society.
Prof. Lloyd Shaw, principal of the