The Keota news., 1920-08-20
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union New. Service.

Five thousand bushels Of wheat were
s'rewn over SetlgwIck as the result Of u
terrific explosion In the Farmers grain
elevator.
The Monte Vista second annual
stampede" proved one Of the best
events Of It's kind held IN Colorado In
recent years. The program featured
twenty Of the best riders who took
part In the Cheyenne Frontier day
celebrations. including Miss Wyoming.
More than 10000 persons attended the
fnir. which was held ut Monte Vista
on Aug. 4 to u A special carload Of
longhorn steers were shipped from
Texas for the occasion. ip addition to
sixty head Of running horses.
william Ziensenl,ennc. Cripple
Creeks near "E:noch Arden" has re-
turned To his wife and two children.
now grown Ia manhodl. whom he left
eighteen years ago. lie steppcd '"ut
Of the automobile that had brought
him over the mountains frOm C"lOIs.,io
Springs aud entered u home TINT hnd
had nuo.i,cr husband aud father after
the wife lie married twenty three years
ngo Ind rss,ii!mcd faithful TO him for
ten years while. supposedly dead. he
was "l,ol,oinS" around the country.
The Denver 4 Salt Lake Railroad
Company Inns filed with the State Pub.
lie Utilities Commission petition re.
q,icxting that Il bc permitted to ad.
vance freight rntcx on It's line IS per
cent over existing rites, instead Of -
I~r cent ns requested by the other
Colorado railroads located In the terri.
tory west of line drnwn north aud
south through tho Colorado common
points. which include Cheyenne. Den
yer. Colorado Springs. Pueblo aud Trtn.
i,ln,l.
Nearly complete reports received by
tho Stnie Immigration Department
from county nsscssors show that the
area In cultivation In Colorado this
ycnr Is slightly In excess of aOOo.Wn
acres, exclusive Of orchards. compared
with n total of I.1A:i. 1O2 acres reported
In cultivation by county ass@'ssors last
vcur. These figures include the area
devoted to wild hay. amounting 10
u,out .sn,OOO acres each year. the
lnrycst increases In cultivated acreage
mi. ycur nrc In the areas devoted 10
winter wheat and corn. with consider.
able increases In acreage or sorghum
crons un,i moderate increases In nIfai'
IN ncrcu.c. The reports Of county ~
SCISSORS show that something more than
:gnNn acres of r,,w land was broken
for the first time this year. compared
with n,,out $4,000 acres broken last
ycar.
Stirred to action by numerous auto'
mobile accidents on state highways
hc members Of the stnte highway CON-
mission have promulgated tnff'c
code for all stntc highways. The chict
uroyisions of the new trnffic code FOR
automobiles on state highways, are:
Specd limit for automobiles, thirty
five miles an hour on ordinary ronds
and twenty miles an hour on noun.
lain routls. Speed on al' turns limited
IN eighteen miles an hour. Speed OF
vehicles weighing between 6OOO ana
10 900 hounds limited to fifteen miles
,n,, for vehicles weighing In excess OF
10000 pounds to ten miles an hour.
width Of vehicles using prnirie roads
limited to twelve feet and mountain
rnn,ls to nine feet. Automobiles required
IN cnrry two front and one rear light.
An other vehicles, including bicycles
motorcyc,es and wagons must carry
onc white and one red lamp. Vehicles