The Dolores star., 1921-11-18
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

and Grains at the international h"!
and Grain Show, to be held in cohIee
tiop with the International Live stocA
lExnosition ot the Chicago Union Stock
Yards, Nov. 20 TO Dec. 3. Prizes to'"''
ing $4,000 are offered on corn, Wheh''
oats, rye, barley, soy beans, field peas
t,fir and milo. alfalfa. clover ana hlh-
otby The Colorado State Board "t
Immigration has arranged 10 nav
John Howell of Montrose and james
Morrison, county agricultural agent i'i
Logan county. represent the board NJ
the show and look after all Colorado
e,hibits that are sent with no one ac-
companying them. This has been done
10 encourage Colorado farmers VINO ARE
unable to go to Chicago TO prepare ef-
hIbits and send them with the assur-
ance that they will be properly en-
tered and cared for until the judging
is completed and collected ana re-
turned to the owners when the snow j.
over. Colorado growers were iairi!
well represented Mt this show last year
and made an excellent showing, con-
sidcring the fact that growers from All
parts of the United States and from
Canada were among the competitors
Colorado exhibits took twenty-seven
prizes. including four firstS and five
seconds.
A total of oS3 deaths In Denver were
recorded by the city bureau OF vital
statistics for the month of October,
1921, as compared to an aggregate OF
Il ittNtr
previous year, according to monthly
report made by Miss Florence Leiich,
registrar. Thirty of the mortali-
ties were children under | year old.
The record for the same month in 1870
was twcnty-cight. Other deaths rec
orded included two from poison, taken
| with suicidal intent, one 10y hanging,
three by firearms, one 10y asphyNiation
five by accidental falls. three by rail
road. street cur and automobile acci-
dents, three by crushing and four by
murder
| Aztec, New Mexico. has become an
oil and gas center with very good pros
poets of through railroad and nsrt-
cultural development of the surround
| ing country undreamed of by the most
optimistic resident. A group of Aztec
men, believing it to be an oil region,
formed local company, financed it
and brought In two drillers and sunk
well. At less than 1000 feet the drill
struck gas and is spouting more than
forty feet, 10 wet, and experienced oil
men assert that II is a sure indication
of the presence of Il new oil field.
| +. y. Sherfick, 64 years old. a farm
er near Paonia, died from the effects
OF wounds received when lie was gOred
home. Sherfick's wife played he
roic part in the incident, beating off
the enrnged animal with club In
| vain effort to save her husbands life.
The bull attacked Sherfick, according
to his wife's story, when he went into
the corral to do some work. He at
tempted to jump over the fence, but
was knocked down.
There will be no permits issued for
the manufacture or sale of beer in
| Colorado, according TO a message re-
ceived by +. H. McClenahan, director
of prohibition enforcement In Colo
RADIO. from Roy A. Haynes, federal
commissioner. The reason is given
that no such permits will he issued
for any state where there is "bone-
dry state prohibition, and 1t will be
recalled that Colorado was dry before
the nation.
| The annual meeting Of the State
Farm Bureau will be held on the cam
pus of the Agricultural College at Fort
Collins, Dec. o and 10. Farm bureau
| delegates TO the Farmers Congress,
which will assemble Dec. G, will save
thereby considerable railroad expense
as we'll as other incidentals.
Prof. W. l.. Carlyle, for years CON
nected with the State Agricultural Col
lege at Fort Collins, has been selected
as manager of large model stock
farm and cattle ranch owned by the
Prince of-Wales, and located In Alber-
ia, Canada.
Thirty days each was the sentence
passed at Pueblo by Federal Judge
Robert f. Lewis upon James A. Nc
Donald and Alexis Byrne, who plead
ed guilty to transporting a stolen au-
tomobile from st. Cloud, Mimi. To
| Colorado. The men have been con.
fined in Jail since their arrest Santos
Juarez, 1I-year-old Mexican youth
pleaded guilty to robbery of the post
office at Crook, Colo, and was sent
enced to two years in the reformatory,
at Boone, Mo.
Fort Lyons Naval and Marine Hos.
pital at Las Animas has been aban.
doned to the Veterans Bureau bv the
United States naval hospital corps.
thirty Officers and sixteen enlisted
men OF the navy and marine corps have
been ordered to Denver and most of
them have reported to the Fitzsimons
General Hospital at Aurora for treat.
ment
| Colorado is one OF the LEADING nro.