The Dolores star., 1921-07-08
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

| for dependent children IN Denver s"'.
himself up TO Sheriff Frank smlth Oh
Fort Collins, declaring he was ready ~
begin serving a years sentence IN the
stnte penitentiary. which was imposed
on him in the County Court at Fort
| Collins n month ago II he refused 10
contribute $50 month TO the support
of his wife and six children in Love
land. After he was sentenced he was
given thirty days in which to cohs'uer
the matter, but he came back the daS
his time for consideration expired ana
said that he would go TO the peniten-
tiary for life, officers stated rather
than contribute n cent to the support
of his wife.
In spite of damage caused by floods
the past month reports from county
assessors to the State Immigration De
partment Indicate that the acreage de-
voted to wheat this year Is the largest
In the history of Colorado. These re-
ports are about S5 per cent Completed
and indications are that wheat produc-
tion will break all Colorado records.
Nearly 100000 more acres have been
planted to winter wheat this year thah
ever before. However, there has been
falling off In the acreage devoted 10
spring wheat. To date this year, 3D.
900 acres of spring wheat has been re-
ported This compares with 33o'Voo
acres in 1920.
The federal government has refused
to grant an emergency appropriation
of S3,5OO,OOO for road reconstruction
work in Colorado and the State High
way Commission is left with only the
funds already granted for federal aid
projects with which TO carry on the
enormous amount of repair work made
necessary by the recent floods. This
was the statement made in Colorado
Springs by Chas. B. Lansing Of the
highway advisory board, after series
OF conferences with Maj. l.. d. Blau-
welt, state highway engineer
The threatened invasion of FL Paso
county by n grasshopper army moving
northwest from the southeastern cor
ner has been ayerted, according to J.
c. Hale, county agent. The grasshop-
pers descended on the county recently
and 1t was only through the hardest
sort of work that the pest was stopped
according to Hale, who declared that
farmers in the community worked day
and night In their efforts to head off
the grasshoppers. Poison bran and ar
senic were used in the battle against
the insects.
1t cost the state of Colorado $4,000
to pay the salaries of National Guards
men on duty in the Pueblo flood dis
trict, according to pay roll figures
compiled in the office of Adjt. Gen.
Patrick Hamrock. "Noucners for the
pay of guardsmen to the extent of S27,-
800 have already been drawn" said
Colonel Hamrock in discussing the ex-
pense of guarding the flooded city,
land when the pay rolls for the last
contingent of troops are completed, the
total will run slightly over $2S,00O."
An official statement from the Amer
lean Red Cross of the flood sufferers
in Pueblo has been given out. The to-
tai number of families registered in
Pueblo district was given mt 1,T02, be-
sides 3S3 homeless men, it states, and
600 houses were listed as totally de-
strOyed. The total number of persons
affected by the flood. according TO the
statement, is 5,695. The Red Cross re-
port for La Junta shows, according to
the statement, 1856 families registered.
representing 7G0 persons.
Colorado College receives 100000
by the terms of the will left by the
late Henry Roger Wocott, one of
Colorado's pioneer mining men, whose
estate totals more than 100000, ac-
cording to n petition filed in the Coun-
ty Court in Denver.
John 7. Keith, a D. & r. G. freight
conductor, was killed when his touring
car plunged over the embankment on
Eighth street, Pueblo, where the flood
of June B carried away the long bridge
spanning the stream.
AS the Platte river has dropped
gradually from the highest flood stage
i''oi''u Sill't loJD 10 II IbFlllll How.
estimates of the damage done by the
raging stream and its numerous tribu-
taries in Weld county have steadily
| Increased, rather than decreased.
That the total loss from the
flood water in Weld alone is near
the S2,OO0O00 mark is the consensus
of opinion of engineers, farmers, coun-
ty officials and railroad men who have
surveyed the situation from their own
points of view. Weld countys loss on
roads and bridges is somewhere be-
tween $l5O,O0O and 100000.
Airplane patrol for the detection of
forest fires in the Pixies Peak region
around Colorado Springs, Colo, has
been permanently established, accord
Ing to an agreement entered into by
the government and the Western Air.
craft Company Of Colorado Springs.
Sixty-five thousand dollars of fed.