The Colorado statesman., 1920-04-17
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS,

wound received In his right leg ana
the loss Of blood. Charles ltauber, II
well-known rnncher living in the west
prn part of Fremont county, Is In jail
ut the same place charged with the
shooting The battle is said to nave
resulted from an alteration over cat
tie belonging To Hopper, who main.
tanned that Rauber, who was being
paid by him to feed them, was no'
obeying an agreement they had made
Greeley has 12,223 residents, accord
ing to the unofficial census completed
by local publishing company, when
is preparing city directory. The un-
official census was taken with great
deal Of care and its figures tally close
ly with estimates of the city officials,
based on number of water users, ana
also with statistics showing the in
crease in housing facilities. The count
taken for the city directory in April,
1918, showed 11,297 people. The Off
cial 1920 census count on Greeley has
not been published as yet
A change of venue to Greeley In
Weld county will be asked in the case
of Rienzl Dickens. accused of muir
dering his father, William II. Dickens,
Longmont pioneer and banker ON Nov.
go 1915 RienZi Dickens attorneys al
lege popular prejudice. Rienzi Dick
ems has been ordered to ap-
pear in the District Court
on Wednesday, April II, when District
Attorney X. w. Fleming will ask for
judgment on the remittitur in the SUI
preme court, and date for new
trial of the case.
The establishment of an airplanc
field, probably in Colorado. for the
purpose of patroling the United
States national forests in Colorado
and other states in this district, is
very likely, according to Allen s.
Peck, district forester. The air serv-
ice fire patrol of the United States
forest service is meeting with great
success on the Pacific coast, accord
ing to Fred Morrell, assistant district
forester, who has just returned from
the LAW Enforcement conference at
San Francisco.
Ray Sherman, student at the Uni
versity of Colorado and son of g. r.
Sherman, banker and mining man
of Boulder, is dead; Harold Muth, a
companion. lies seriously injured at
the county hospital in Denver, while
John Evans, Harold AitlSen and Bea-
trice Williams, college "hums of the
two men, sustained minor injuries as
result of Il collision between their
automobile and machine driven by
John Musser mt East Seventeenth ave
nne and Franklin street, in Denver.
Five thousand people attended Hol-
lys fourth annual dairy celebration,
which, for magnitude and general eX-
cellence, eclipsed any of the shows
given in previous years. There were
more than 100 entries in the pure bred
Holstein cattle show and more than
sixty entries in the horse show. a fine
poultry show was added to this years
exhibition for the purpose of stimulat-
ing the poultry industry in the Holly
district of the lower Arkansas valley.
An auction sale of 1896 acres of
state school land, which was held in
the House of Representatives at the
capitol by the State Board of Land
Commissioners, netted S125, ,2296 81. The
average sale price per acre was $20.99,
and the land is located in Alamosa,
Bent, Clear Creek, jefferson, Conejos,
Elbert, FL Paso, Larimer, Lincoln, Lo-
gan, Montezuma, Rio Grande, Routt,
Washington and Yuma counties.
Announcement has been made by
President C. A. Duniway of Colorado
College that tuition at the college next
year will be S120 year, an increase
of $40 year Increases in salaries
of professors is responsible for the
boost, he said. 1t is estimated that
the increase will add $4,000 year to
the college funds.
Twenty-Five landowners of the Gree
ley -POudre irrigation district, including
members of the Greeley-Poudre board,
have taken physical possession of the
Cobb lake inlet canal. Men who were
engaged with scrapers and other i'm
plements on the embankments of the
canal have been ordered off the prop
further trespassing, according to re-
ports from Greeley.
John Rack, farmer, charged with
liquor on his ranch,
eighteen miles south of Fort Morgan,
was convicted in District Court and
sentenced to serve six months in the
county Jail and to pay the costs of the
trial Rack pleaded guilty after twen-
ty-five witnesses had been heard. The
trial of Alexander Burghard, who was
arrested with Rack, will be held soon.
The state of Colorado has not the
right to collect state inheritance tax
upon that portion of an estate which
is taken by the United States govern
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