The Colorado statesman., 1921-04-09
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS

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federal public roads bureau by the
| State Highway Commission, OF which
| 1924, ,978. 40 will be paid by the govern
msnt II approval is made by District
Engineer ]. s. Bright. one and three
tenths miles of concrete road between
Fort Collins and Loveland constitutes
one of the projects, to cost S5i,OO32l.
| One and one-tenths miles in Boulder
county, running south from Longmont,
will cost $47, ,3S1.07, the road also to
be of concrete; while third concrete
road project embraces four and four
tenths miles between Brighton and
Denver, in Adams county, the estimat-
ed cost of which is $151,959.72.
Richard Winnerah, a 12-year-old
schoolboy of Ouray county, Is the
champion talker of Colorado. He was
awarded first prize in the annual ora
| torical contest conducted by the Colo
RADIO Association of County Superin-
tendents and Institute Workers at
Corona school in Denver. Eighth grade
pupils from every county in the state
competed. At the same time Mildred
Akey, pretty little 13-year-old miss of
| Wray, Colo, was declared the cham
pion eighth grade word speller of the
state.
Pahaske tepee, the building which
Is to house the Buffalo Bill museum
on Lookout mountain near Colonel
! Cody's grave, is rapidly nearing COM
pletion and it is expected it will be
thrown open to tourists by June l. The
| city of Denver is erecting the building
in conjunction with Buffalo Bill's fos-
ter son, Johnny Baker, who has been
granted the concession, and will con-
duct first-class restaurant and pa
vilion in the building for the conven-
ience of tourists.
George c.. Willard, recently SEN
| fenced to serve eighteen to nineteen
months in the penitentiary, after being
convicted of bribery, will not have to
serve this sentence unless the appeal
which will be taken to the Supreme
Court reverses Judge T. ]. Black, who
ruled that Willard had been erroneous
ly convicted. The peculiar quirk of
the law has caused CONSERVATION in
Grand Junction.
Permission to continue the tri-week-
ly passenger service on the Denver &
Salt Lake railroad till May 1 has been
granted by the Colorado Utilities Serv-
ice. The order was issued on applica-
| tion of Receiver w. r. Freeman, who
declared that the passenger traffic
was insufficient to warrant the re-
sumption of daily passenger service at
this time.
The state tax of l cent a gallon on
gasoline and oils has been declared
constitutional in a decision rendered
by Judge Charles C. Butler of the Dis
| trict Court at Denver. The validity of
the tax has been in issue for several
months. A number of oil companies
have paid the tax into the state treas
ury, others have resisted payment.
William w. Prantz, former convict
at the Colorado penitentiary, is in Jail
in Littleton, charged with the robbery
of the Strasburg bank and the depot
at Byers. Both crimes were COM
mitted last month. When arrested
several railroad tickets, said to have
been stolen from the depot at Byers,
were found on PrantZ.
The work of the convict road gang
which was recently sent to Montrose
county from the state penitentiary has
proved so satisfactory that the county
commissioners have contracted to use
| approximately thirty more men when
the construction camp is moved to
Cerro Summit, where extensive road
work is being planned.
Hysterically accusing them of break
| ing up her home, Mrs. John Haner, 80
years old, wife of homesteader and
mother of seven children, residing four
miles south of Center, Colo, shot and
| instantly killed n. ii. Relaford and
Frank f. Schmid. She fired five shots
at Relaford and three at Schmid, all
taking effect.
Fred Maddocks, son of c. f. Mad
| docks, former Colorado Springs con-
| tractor, and Frank Peterson, both Sim
Ia high school students, have confessed
to rifling postoffice mail sacks of reg
istered mail and of robbing the postof-
| flee itself at Simla of sums which to-
| tai $1,000, police say at Colorado
| Springs.
All along the Grand river and the
Gunnison river farmers are busy rip
rapping the banks of the river to re-
pair places damaged by high waters
last spring when the floods from the
hills broke all records and did half
million damage in western Colorado.
Model reservoir has yielded up the
bodies of two of four Berwind youths
who were drowned while boating on
the lake March 10. Search which has
gone on unremittingly, was rewarded