The Raymer enterprise., 1920-05-20
CENTENNIAL STATE Items.


exposure were 45 head per 1000. which
Is the heaviest loss reported In the past
eight years. The loss of sheep from
exposure was 43 head per 1000. which
was the heaviest in the past eight
years with the exception Of 1919. when
the loss was 80 head per 1000. Losses
Of lambs from both disease and expos
ure were IS head per 1000, compared
with an average loss Of 40 head for the
past eight years. Losses from disease
were as follows: Horses, q head !;
cattle. 20 head; sheep, p head: swine,
33 head.
Reports received by the Colorado
Cooperative Crop Reporting Service
from the Crop Reporting Board Of the
United States Bureau Of Crop Esti-
mates show that there will be a slight
shortage In the acreage devoted to 20.
tatoes In the principal late potato pro-
ducing states this year and a very ma
terial reduction In the acreage devoted
to dry beans for market, provided the
farmers do not revise their plans for
planting these crops.
Western Colorado and eastern Utah
people are warned that they should
take immediate steps to dispose Of the
thousands Of dead animals that are ly-
Ing on the open waste places, terrible
reminders Of the hardest winter the
region has known IN decades, and to
prevent summer Of disease and pesti-
lence. The many dead animals will be
burned, buried or destroyed by chem
icals, stockmen say.
Miss Thelma Conley Of Denver, %,
and pretty, until short time ago an
artist In local department stores, went
to tool shed on tennis court, and
ended her life by firing revolver bull
let into her brain. Friends said she
was suffering from mental derange-
ment caused by overwork and to rem
edy which she had recently taken q va
cation trip to California.
Gunnison came into permanent pos
session Of the Western slope oratorical
conference cup when for the third sue
cessive year 1t defeated the other
schools entered In the conference. In
the series Of orations and declamations
Gunnison scored 48 points. Montrose
came second with 33 points, Paonia
third with q points, and Delta fourth
with 23 points.
Samuel Phillips. 25 years old. was
instantly killed by lightning while
working In a field near his home at
Ash Mesa, West 0lathe. The same bolt
knocked down several other men, but
none Of them was seriously injured.
Two Of three horses were felled to the
ground.
Grieving over an unsuccessful love
venture, 1t is said, Danny Mullen, 30,
mining man at Grand Junction, shot
himself below the heart. He Is said to
have asked prominent young woman
to marry him; and when she refused
he went to room In the Bell hotel In
Grand Junction and attempted suicide.
DR.. George X. Olmstead OF Denver
was appointed as a member Of the
State Board Of Health by Acting Gov
ernor George Stephan. DR.. Olmstead
will fill the place made vacant by the
death Of the late DR.. Frank K. Coff-
man, but win not succeed him as vice
president Of the board.
Caught between two freight cars On
the Denver 8 Salt Lake railroad at
Utah Junction, John 0ruber, S5, a
brakeman. was crushed 20 badly that
he died few hours later at the St.
Luke's hospital In Denver, where he
had been removed following the scci-
dent.
Miss Esther Watson, daughter OF
Sheriff jeff Watson Of Mesa county.
has assumed duties as deputy sheriff
under her father. So far as known
she is the only woman county deputy
sheriff In Colorado. g
George peery, who, with his two bro
theirs, recently purchased the flour
mills of the Golden Milling Company,
perhaps the Oldest -four mills In the
state, Is making arrangements to oper-
ate them after an idleness Of about ten
years. The Peerys have invested heav-
lily In Golden real estate and will make
that city their home.
Albert Phillips, %, a farm hand on
the Fred Armitage ranch at Eaton, Is
dead from the effects Of following the
drinking of bottle Of pop" Heart
disease, aggravated by the gas In the
bottled soda, Is believed by physicians
to have caused his death,
Three thousand dollars already has
been raised at Durango for July
Fourth baseball tournament open to
any baseball team In the state Seven
thousand dollars In purses will be
hung up and the celebration will ex-
tend over three days.
With the selection Of La Junta as
the place for holding the next annual
convention and with the election Of
Officers for the ensuing year, the Col
orado state convention Of the Knights
of Columbus closed their meeting at
Trinidad.