The Colorado statesman., 1921-02-12
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.


ia, according to an announcement
made by city officials. The monument
win be an imposing structure of ce-
ment, cobblestone and light granite
from a local quarry and will be seven
and one-half feet high. On one side OF
the monument Will be the roster of the
American Legion post and on the OPP
posite side will be the names OF the
boys who died.
Twenty men and three women had
a narrow escape from being burned to
death when the boarding house, recre-
alton room and bunkhouse connecting
the buildings belonging to the yelling
ton Mine Company at breckenridge
caught fire and were burned TO the
ground All the occupants OF the
houses were compelled to jump out OF
the second story windows and into two
feet of snow, which saved them from
injury. The loss is estimated at from
$4,000 to $4,000.
Objection to the action of the secre-
tary of the interior and the federal
government in seeking to exercise ex-
elusive control over roads running in
and out of the Rocky Mountain Ma
tional park, is made on behalf of the
state of Colorado in brief which has
just been filed in the United States
Circuit Court of Appeals at st. Louis
by Attorney General Victor +. Keyes
and Assistant Attorney General For
rest C. Horthcutt.
Roland G. Parvin, state game and
fish commissioner, has announced that
500 quaiIs of the Bob White variety
had been obtained from Brownville,
Tex. The birds will be held at City
park, Denver, until they can be dis
tributed through the state. According
to Mr.. Parvin these quail are almost
extinct in the state and the 800 are be-
ing brought in for propagation pur-
poses.
Postoffice inspectors in Denver are
investigating the mysterious robbery OF
the Wheatridge, Colo, postoffice,
which is combined with general
merchandise store. The job was that
of youthful burglars, 1t is believed, as
a large amount of candy was missing.
This is the second robbery of that
postoffice within the past month.
In an effort to solve the problem of
obtaining reliable and efficient farm
help in the San Luis valley, former
Governor Carlson of Colorado Will be
sent to New York by the San Luis Val
ley Realty Board, with the view of in
ducing a colony of Swedes or other
Scandinavian emigrants to locate in
this section.
There was but one fire in the nation
al forests in Colorado during 1920. 1t
burned an area of more than ten acres,
according to the statement of John Nc
Lean, who is in charge of forest pro-
lection in Colorado. "Fifteen years
ago the mountains were ablaze night
Iy," said Mclean. "Now a fire is a
rare sight.
A total of 461 persons were commit
ted to the state reformatory during the
past two years according to report
made to the governor by Warden NJ. z.
Capp. 1t shows that the average popu-
lation of the Buena Vista institution
during 1919 was 141 and 165 during |
1920, as compared with 130 during the
preceding period.
Pioneering in the placing of its |
working men in the steel mills on an
actual eight-hour basis, the Colorado |
Fuel and Iron Company found the wis
dom of its course justified in record |
production at the big plant in Pueblo |
last month, it was announced at the |
general offices of the company at
Pueblo.
New records for the collection of |
license taxes was estab-
lished during the month of January,
according to n statement made by Carl
Menser, automobile supervisor in the
secretary of states office. Fees from
this source totaled $3.50, 0,595.51 the first
of 1921, as against $104,S7S.39
for the same period last year.
Federal aid to the extent of $154,-
S34. 81 has been granted to the Colorado
State Highway Commission by Dis
trict Engineer ]. S. Bright of the
United States bureau of public roads
for the CONSTRUCTION and improvement
of fifteen and six-tenths miles of high
way and earth-graded road and the
of bridge in ConejOs
county over Alamosa creek, at a total
cost of $31S, S,203.95.
Charles O'Hara, who is charged with
the $1,000 holdup of the Littleton State
Bank, was given preliminary hearing
at Littleton and bound over to the
February term of the District Court
O'Hara stoutly denies that he had any
thing to do with the holdup. Willard
Teller, cashier of the bank, who was
the only witness at the hearing, says
he is positive O'Hara "stuck him up"
Reading snow scales during the win
ter months for the purpose Of deter
mining the amount of water available
for irri ga tiOn purp0seS during tha fol-