The Dolores star., 1920-12-17
COLORADO
STATE NEW S


The total enrolment of the schools
Of Huerfano county is 4,293 for the
school year of 1920, with 120 teachers.
The Weld county commissioners
have voted to thoroughly modernize
and double the capacity of the Greeley
hospital at II cost of $4,000.
Odell de Noya, Usage squaw, was
granted n divorce from Wesley de
Noya, Usage brave, in the District
Court of Colorado Springs on charges
of cruelty.
Congress has been asked to appro-
pirate $4,000 for the maintenance or
a forest experiment station in Colo
RADIO. The station would be under the
direction of the Department of Asri-
culture.
An elevator owned by the Farmers
Cooperative Elevator Company at
Paoli was destroyed by fire. About
1900 bushels of wheat had been
stored in the bins. The damage is es-
timated at $4,000.
In an effort to have legislation help
full to the livestock industry enacted
by the present United States Congress,
a series of kilograms addressed to all
United States senators and represent
atives from Colorado in Washington
have been sent by the Denver Lie
stock exchange.
National parks in Colorado will need
S205. 900 of the S2,4TG,j9i being asked
for from Congress for 1922, according
to the estimates prepared by stephen
Il. Mather, director of the nineteen ma
tional parks. This allotment will
cover necessary Improvement funds
for the Rocky Mountain and Mesa
Verde National parks.
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. Tile 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.
Colorado livestock took IA good share
of the prizes at the international Live
stock show in Chicago, which is de-
clared the greatest stock show in III"
world. "Bluyney'S Domino a bull be-
longing to w. n. w. Blaney of Den
YER took second prize in the two-ycar-
old class. In the senior yearling bull
class. "Wyoming Eighth was sec
ond, while Blayney'S Hereford steer,
stripe" was sixth in n class OF
thirty-siX.
BY ruling of Judge Greeley w.
WhitfOrd in the District Court in Den
yer, the Denver Gas and Electric Light
Company must pay to the city of Den
v9r SSS, ,l3424 of its collections during
the year 1918. The ruling also means
that a similar share of its collections
in 1919, 1920 and future years must be
turned over to Denver, according to
attorneys involved in the case. and Il
big reduction in gas and electric rates
char ged to the public is predicted if
the Supreme Court upholds Judge
Whitfords decision.
More than 5000 Boy Scouts. Camp
Fire Girls, Young Mems and Women 5
Christian Association members spent
their annual outings last summer in
the national forests of Colorado,
Wyoming, South Dakota, Nebraska,
Minnesota and Michigan last year, ac-
cording to statistics compiled by .,llen
S. Peck, district forester. Scout or
GanZations in LOngmost and Greeley
have already built permanent camp
sites for outing purposes, and it is
expected that many similar organiZa-
tions over the state will apply for
sites for the purpose of constructing
recreational huts within the next year.
The veterinary division of the Colo
RADIO Agricultural College at Fort Col
lins is the fourth largest institution OF
its kind in the United States. 1t num-
bcrs its graduates among some of the
highest snlaried veterinarians. as well
as some of the most noted in the
country. The new hospital and labora-
tory for this department on the college
campus is almost completed and will
be one of the finest and most mo !crn
IN the West.
The first suit Of its kind to be filed
in Pueblo county was brought by At
torney General Victor Keyes of Colo
rudo for the collection of S5,9S4 alleged
to be due the state from the per
cent tax on gasoline and oil IN 10
Nov. l. The defendant is the Jewel
OIL Company of Pueblo and it is
alleged that the tax which is collected
by the companies selling gasoline and
all products Of gasoline and which,
under the law, should be turned over
to the state, has been withheld by the
corroany. The suit Is in line with The
announced plan Of the attorney gem
eral to sue the companies that have
fan cole 't'rg the lax on every gal
Ion of gasoline or oil and holding 1t to
their own use.
Clinton n Colas and Jobp nEl,Ira