Cheyenne record., 1920-11-25
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

Western Newspaper Union Rows Service.
Colorado Agricultural College is send
ing stOck-judging team to the Inter
national Livestock Show in Chicago
this year for the first time.
A rich discovery of gold ore has
been made in large mass at Bo-
panza, an old mining camp In the low
,ands of the San Luis valley.
A liberal appropriation for the Rocky
Mountain National park is meeting
strong opposition at Washington, ac-
cording to dispatch from the capital.
Farm values in Ouray county in
creased from 81, 1884 ,455 in 1910 to ST.
p25,OS5 in 1920, according to census re-
ports announced in Washington, d. G.
This is gain Of 44.3 per cent.
The twelfth annual meeting Of the
Colorado Farmers Congress will be
held at the State Agricultural College,
Fort Collins, Colorado, November 10Th
to December Bird, inclusive.
Charles Binder of the SIilliken dis
trict has received check for $13,60S
for sugar beets. This is the largest
paid from the Loveland branch of the
Great Western Sugar Company.
Washington State University athletic
heads advise that there is NO practica-
BILE way by which contest this year
may be contested with the football
eleven Of the Colorado Agricultural
College.
Breaking through glass door, in
the rear of the Vic Davis Sporting
Goods Company, at Loveland, robbers
made away with shotguns, shells and
other sporting paraphernalia valued
ut more than $1,2OO.
Under a decision Of the Colorado Tax
Commission teachers salaries in Den
yer schools will be increased more than
100000. AS result of the approval
of the Denver school boards applica-
ton, therate of levy for school taxes
in Denver county will be increased 2
mills on every dollar collected.
The fur value of 100 beavers trapped
in the Cochetopa National Forest last
month by State Trapper John Platz,
following extensive damage to farm
lands in that section, yielded the state
game and fish department $1,000. This
indicates that beaver may become a
valuable crop, fedora! and state Of
ficials say.
Almost 100000 acres of govern
ment land, unappropriated aund unre-
served, are waiting for the settler and
homesteader In the Montrose district,
which will last at least twenty-fOur
years, according to figures given out.
The acreage now is 2,693,711 acres, as
against 2,S04,6l0 acres this time last
year.
From the state penitentiary at Canon
City comes the news that there is a
deficit Of $4,000, and from the Sol
diers' and Sailors Home at Monte
Vista, deficit of $4,000. Harry e.
Mulnix, state treasurer, arranged for
the sale of certificates covering this
indebtedness and bearing per cent
interest. This will provide funds for
the maintenance Of the institutions
for the rest of the year.
Two gifts, totaling $1,150.OOO, from
the general educational board Of New
York to Colorado educational institu-
tiOns, have been announced. The sum
of $85O,OO from the Rockefeller Foun-
datiOn for the advancement of medical
science is awarded the University of
Colorado at Boulder for a new medi-
cal school and state hospital, on con-
ditiOn that the university ami state
raise $SOO,OOO for that purpose. Colo
S1 Cnll TNln rrfp iu
given 100000 for it's endowment fund,
on condition that it raise $780, 900.
The Carnegie Corporation of New
York recently added $4,000 to Colo
RADIO Colleges endowment, making the
total $1,6O4,OOO.
Gov. Oliver H. Shoup spent $50 for
meals and lodging and contributed $50
-to the Colorado Welfare Association,
among other things, according to his
campaign expense account. The ac-
count shows Mr.. Shoup spent a total
Of St, ,123, of which $4,000 went to the
state central committee, Republican; ;
$500 to the Republicans in Ell Paso !;
$25 to the Harding-C Coolidge, 800
travelling expenses, $14S printed cards,
and $3.50 miscellaneous.
The trial of Mrs. Louise Peete,
charged with the murder of Jacob g.
Denton, was continued from Nov. %
to Jan. 10. The continuance was
granted at a special session of Judge
Craig's division Of the superior court
at Los Angeles, only the attorneys In
the case and court attaches being
present. This was at the request of
the accused woman, who wanted to
avoid the stares of a large crowd of
curious women. Mrs. Peete is being
represented by Public Defender Wood.
He was unable to secure all the evil
dence he desired by the time originally