The Colorado statesman., 1920-06-05
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

| land IN Muffut county, or htllc more
than g per cent of the total area. ON
Jan. |, 1919, there were lS9.7ll acres
Of unnpprOpriatcd state land in the
county. There are 1855 acres of for
est area and large acreage withheld
! from homestead entry under the Carey
act. On July I, 1919, there were L.
| rs S63 acres of government land open
| to homestead entry. Through the pat
cnting of pos claims, 5I,l37 acres of
government domain were added to the
taxable area of Moffat county in the
last year. Local land officials say
that the present year win break all
records In the number of final proofs
which will he filed, ana look for more
than 100000 acres to be patented.
| Restoration to homestead entry of
11,SO7 acres of land formerly listed
under the Cary act project in san Mi
guel and Montrose counties, has been
announced by Clay Tallman, commits
sioner OF the general land office,
Washington, ID. G. From June 10 to
and including Aug. II, officers, sol
diers and sailors and marines who
served in the war with Germany will
have preference right TO enter this
land. all of which has been designated
as subject to entry under the 32O-acre
enlarged homestead act.
The bodies of Arthur Dean, - years
old, and William Lavery, 3G, employees
of the United States fish hatchery in
Park county, were found floating in
| the huge Antero reservoir beside an
overturned rowboat by two small boys
who visited the hatchery TO deliver
mail. The two men, who had both
been connected with the federal hatch
cry for several years, had been nj til"
reservoir during the past month gath
ering spawn for Matching.
The National Guard Club, an organ
| iZatiOn of local business men to coop
crate with the National Guard unit
which is to be formed, has been organ
| lied in Montrose. This club will spon-
sor the formation of the local guard
unit, and after it is organized will as
| SiSt the guards IN the way of better
| club rooms and as an advisory board.
| to which the members of the guard will
always be free TO appeal for assist
ance.
That Ivan De Wald, public school
| teacher at EadS. Colo. who died In a
hospital at Greeley, WIS not assaulted
| by unknown persons, as at first he
| Iieved, but was victim of hemor-
rhage caused by rupture of blood YES
| sells while he was working on his auto
mobile is the theory advanced by w.
r. Jones, head of the public schools at
Eads and secretary of the Y. NJ. &. A.
at Canon City, after an autopsy had
been held.
Henry Crasant, ten years old, was
| shot and seriously wounded by Mex
lean near the Crasant home ut Johns
town, according to story told TO the
| Greeley authorities by two younger
brothers who were playing with the in
| jured lad when the shooting occurred.
Two Mexicans are in Jail at Greeley.
The Denver livestock market is now
leading all the big livestock markets
of the country, paying the highest
prices for cattle, hogs and sheep. The
high prices on the local market have
sent thousands of cattle and hogs
there that otherwise would have been
sent TO an eastern market.
John Kowalik, former soldier, con
| victed week ago of second degree
| murder in connection with the killing
of Helen Smith in Denver hote
March IA, was sentenced TO term OF
ten to twelve years in the penitentiary
mt Canon City.
Ralph Clifford Harris, 2-year-old son
| of Robert Il. Harris, farmer, living
near kersey, was drowned when he feh
from high fence into a metal water
tank.
movement is on foot 10 obtain an
| infantry company or cavalry troop
in the reorganized Colorado National
Guard for Grand county.
Citizens of Fort Morgan have con
tributed more than s., 600 for the up
keep of IL municipal and county band
| for 1920. The band will give an open
air concert Friday evening of each
week for fifteen successive weeks II
addition to this they have agreed to
render their musical charms for any
speclal occasion ashtu LOT ny eliler tl'
city or county.
Representative farmers of virtually
every community in Morgan county
met at Fort Morgan and effected the
organization of the Morgan County
Live Stock Cooperative Shipping As
socation. The purpose of the move
ment is to give the local farmer a di
rect market where he can make the
last dollar possible for every head OF
| livestock he sells.
Two persons are injured almost ev'