The Colorado statesman., 1921-08-27
CENTENNIAL sTAYE ITEMS.

bureau reported 1921 acres, or 691
per cent of the total crop or oats
grown under irrigation In 1909, while
| in 1919 the reports showed that but
! 97,6lS acres, or 80 per cent of the to-
| tai crop, wns grown under irrigation.
| There was slight decrease In the
acreage OF potatoes grown under irri-
cation in the state In 1919, as com
pared with 1909, the figures being o.
221 acres for 1909 and 50G31 acres tor
1919. The acreage OF potatoes grown
under irrigation In the state this year
! IL considerably larger than that for
| 1919 and perhaps the largest in the
! history Of the state. County assessors
reports show that about 20 per cent of
the acreage devoted to potatoes In the
state now Is irrigated.
A gymnasium to cost between $780,
600 and 100000 was authorized by
the board of regents Of the University
| of Colorado at special session de-
| voted almost entirely to II discussion
| Of the building program. Ground Is to
heb roken early in September In an eff
fort to have the gymnasium ready for
use with the opening of school in the
| corresponding llloIAH VI i'-~s - '''~
on the extreme eastern end OF the
| campus, across the Colorado 4 South
| ern railroad tracks, has been selected.
1t adjoins the proposed athletic field
TO be constructed in Il ravine that ira
verses this portion of the university
holdings.
w. III. Logan. former head of the
| federal vocational board at Pueblo, has
been arrested by City Detective Art
| Grady on charge of forgery. The
arrest was made at the request of X.
X. Goddard of the United States Sc
| cret service. Log"n is alleged TO have
| indorsed and cashed ut least sixteen
compensation checks amounting to
more than $1,000.
| Lee Hutchinson, who lives north OF
Wayerly, was sentenced to six months
| in Jail and fined $500; Wallie John
son was sentenced to sixty days in
| iail, and Roy Brossman was sentenced
| 20 six months in Jail and fined sou
by Judge Jay IL. Bouton in the Coun-
ty court ut Fort Collins when they
pleaded guilty to the charge of trans
porting liquor
/
mesa, about six miles west of Olathe,
was instantly killed by a flash of light
| ming, while the horse he was riding
escaped injury. This is the third sud
den death in the family within few
years, one brother being killed during
the war, and second suffering Il
broken neck when thrown from
horse.
The filling station of the Continen-
tai Oil Company ut Lake and North
ern avenues in Pueblo was robbed by
man and a lad not over u years
I Of age Raleigh Tracy, in charge of
the station, was forced by the man,
who had pistol, to stand with his
hands up and face the wall while the
boy rifled the cash register of $50.
Jake Cleveland, Boulder fireman,
has a badly broken right leg as re
| suit of jump Of six feet from lad
| der in the rear of the fire station ut
| Boulder. He was practicing fire fight
| ing with other members of the depart
ment when the ladder on which he was
| standing started to slip. TO save him
self from fall he jumped
William Mahar and J. =. Henthorne
of Pueblo escaped death on the Sky
Line drive at Canon City by jumping
| from their automobile just before it
| backed off the road and plunged 400
feet below Mahar attempted to shift
| from high gear to low while ascending
! the drive but the clutch and brakes re-
| fused to work.
Arrangements are being made by
| m
start their factory at Rocky Ford Sept
10. Beet harvest will begin about
| Sept 8. The crop in this section APP
pears to be the best In years and the
| campaign promises to be one of the
longest in the history of the factory.
james Chamberlain, farmer near
| Virgins, claims to have discovered
unique way of increasing the flow of
| milk from his COWS. The Chamberlain
| farm has been the scene of many
| dances, and Mr. Chamberlain AYERS
| that he finds on the morning after the
dances, particularly when the music
lasted until the early morning hours.
that his cows are more generous with
| the milk.
Weld county is being deluged with
hoboes as the result of the action of
the Union Pacific railroad in employ
ing special agents to rid its trains of
the non-paying travellers. Special
Agent Tom Cole, with posse of as
sistants, CLEANED" two extra freight
trains at Pierce, station twenty
miles north of Greeley, of sixty hoboes,
many of whom We're negroes.
Before crowd of 1900 persons, one
Of the largest gatherings ever in at
tendance mt the Deertrail annual fair,