The Dolores star., 1920-10-22
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

According to these reports "A per cent
of the farms reported this year are
operated by tenants, compared with
I1So per cent reported TO the census
bureau in 1910. About 10 per cent OF
the farms reported this year ana not
show the character of the tenure OF the
farm operative, while the remaining
farms were operated by owners or by
homesteaders who have not yet proved
ND. Homesteaders of this class were
treated us owners by the census bu-
reau in 1910. OF the farm acreage re-
ported by assessors this year approx
mntely 20 per cent is being farmeu py
renters and ~ per cent by owners ana
homesteaders, while about per cent
Is operated by owners who rent some
land in addition to their own farms.
William s. Roe, for seven years
principal of the Greeley High School,
will be the new principal of the Colo
RADIO Springs High School, according
to an announcement made at Colo
RADIO Springs. Mr.. Roe is we'll
known educator of the state and was
given consideration as principal OF the
East Denver High School. He takes
charge of his duties at once, relieving
Stillwell Moore, who has been acting
principal since the promotion of Mr..
Bair from principal to superintendent.
Pueblo will be invaded Nov. for
three-day visit by educators from
all over Colorado, who will gathe- 10
attend the sessions Of the State Edu-
cational Association. At last years
session more than 1,200 people at
tended the meeting and more are ex-
pected this year. Notable among the
speakers will be Ida NJ. Tarbell, Mrs.
Mary C. c. Bradford, state superin-
Frank w. Gunsaulus, president of Ar
mour Institute, Chicago.
Delta friends of Ross Barker, who
is now serving his sixth year in the
navy, have received letter which
states that he has been recognized as
the prize shark catcher in the navy.
With an apparatus consisting of fish
hook thirty inches, long which weighs
two pounds, he has made record
catches in the West Indies, India, Sa-
moa and at Manila. At the last place
he caught his largest one, which meas
ured more than eighteen feet in length
One man was injured and five others
had narrow escape when nm outbound
Berkeley tramway car ran wild in Den
YER at West Thirty-eighth avenue and
'TpnnvSnn aftnr m lnr
box exploded, throwing the motorman
out of the car while It was travelling at
high speed. The car was saved from a
crash by the quick action of n pnSsen-
ger, who ran to the rear OF the car and
jerked the trolley from the wire.
With quotation of II cents n pound
on refined sugar at wholesale in New
York hopes of sugar beet growers for
large bonus on their beets this year
seem to have gone glimmering. Unless
the sugar market rallies. which there
is no sign of it doing soon, beet grow
ers will receive only the flat price of
81 a ton specified in their contracts
Tor beets, which was signed early last
spring.
The new Fort Lupton beet sugar
factory of the Industrial Sugar com
pany has begun active operations The
machinery has been tested and found
to work perfectly, and large force
Oh employees has been assembled. The
factory will handle 10000 tons this
fall and winter.
What Is believed to be a record
buck killed during the open season
was brought down by r. c. Seals of
MontrOse. This was killed the first
day of the season and tipped the scales
at 400 pounds.
Chris Christensen, one of the early
residents of Evergreen is dead. after
short illness. as result of n stroke
of paralysis. He wa 73 years old and
had lived in jefferson county for forty
seven years.
The purchase of the Cushman ditch
and stock was completed at the Octo.
Der meeIinS of the UncOmpahcre Val.
ley Water-Csers' association at Mont.
rose. The price paid by the govern
ment for this irrigation ditch was ST.
loo. one thousand one hundred and
fifty OF this will be subscribed by the
farmers who will use the water from
the ditch and the government will nov
the remaining $4,000.
The expansion Of the soldiers train.
ing school and the establishment of
shops and laboratory to be used in
conjunction with classroom work is
now under consideration by repre.
sentatives of the federal board for va.
cational education.
Mrs. Carl White, wife OF n formor
who lives thirty miles east of Huco
was instantly killed and their 2-veor.
old son seriously injured when n shot
gun was accidentally discharged while
going to town with a truck load or
wheat.
For offering for sale meat that had
not been inspected by the Pueblo