Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1920-12-17
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado


The total enrolment of the schools
of Huerfano county is 1928 for the
school year of 1920. with 100 teachers.
The Ignacio school district has been
given permission by the government to,
use several buildings which were for,
merly used by the Ute Indians.
The Girls Glee Club of the Colo
RADIO Agricultural College will make a
trip to the Pacific coast in the spring,
1t has been announced at the college.
Students OF the State Preparatory
school at Boulder are hard at work
rehearsing two plays that they will
give in the high school auditorium be-
fore the Christmas holidays.
Congress has been asked to appro-
pirate $4,000 for the maintenance of
a forest experiment station In Colo
rado. The station would be under the
direction of the Department of Agri-
culture.
Two vessels have been launched at
Delaware River shIpyards at Phila-
delphia. One of them was the 1900
ton passenger and cargo steamship
Centennial State, named for Colorado
and built for the shipping board.
Four arrests have been made Of
Colorado sheepmen In the dispute re-
garding the bringing Of Colorado sheep
into Utah against the quarantine reg
ulations, according to word received at
Salt Lake.
All previous records of the Denver
navy recruiting station were broken
last week when 40 men enlisted. The
Denver station bested st. Louis,
Kansas City, Omaha. Des Moines and
several other cities in the west central
recruiting district in this week.
In a general vice cleanup at Wal
senburg, eight different places were
raided by officers under Sheriff f. L.
Neeley and twenty-six men were
arrested on charges of gambling. One
man was shot and slightly wounded in
the leg while trying to escape.
There Is strong movement under
way In Grand Junction and other
towns to secure the changing of the
name of the Grand river to the Colo
RADIO river. The Grand river, which
flows through Grand Junction, is the
largest river in the state and is the
largest branch of the Colorado river.
Its junction with the Green river near
Moab, Utah, forms the Colorado river.
The popular festivals which the cat
tlemen of the western slope held each
year until during the war, when they
were discontinued. will be resumed,
and on Feb. 4 the Uncompahgre Valley
Cattle and Horse Growers Association
will hold the biggest meeting that has
ever been planned by this organization.
Governor Oliver II. Shoup has already
been invited to be the chief speaker of
the day.
Establishment of an Americaniza-
ton school at Leadville, Colo, which
has been delayed several months for
lack of local funds, has now been as
sured by the naturalization service ac-
cording to Examiner f. C. Emmerich,
who has arranged for n formal opening
of the school on Jan. ]. Approximately
forty aliens seeking American citizen
ship have signified their intentions to
enroll in the school.
A total of III miles of road, costing
$753, 500, was constructed this year In
and near the national forests of the
Rocky Mountain district by the forest
service and by the Bureau of Public
roads. with forest service approprla-
tions. In Colorado. sixty-seven miles
Of road, distributed over eleven pro-
jects, were built at n cost of $500, 900.
Some of these roads form connecting
links between existing roads and open
up long desired circle trips.
Another chapter in the affairs of
Mrs. Zoe Marksheffel added to the
maze of legal documents in the Dis
trict Court at Colorado Springs, when
she filed suit for separate MAIN
tenance, asking $1,000 month from
A. w. Marksheffel, prominent local
motor car dealer A year ago she filed
suit, asking receivership for her hus-
bands business, claiming she had In
vested much money in it, and asked
that she be appointed receiver This
case still is pending.
Nearly 102,950 acres of land in the
Pueblo land district have been classi-
fled as being valuable for grazing and
raising forage crops, and have been
designated by the Department of the
Interior under the provisions of the
stock raising homestead law. This
will become effective Dec. TO- and
only entries of those persons who al
ready have made application for these
lands under the stock raising home
stead laws will be allowed, he said.
These lands are only subject to entry
by citizens who have previously made
application for them. Secretary of the
Interior John Barton Payne approved
the classification of this huge tract of