The Ordway new era., 1921-01-21
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

| rork is TO have prncticni ueihonst"
| lion at the National Western Stoch
show at Denver, January 10
teams of former soldiers from asr'eu'-
turoI colleges of the West are 10 com
nete for a special prize offered by tne
vocational board. Many men chose
agricultural training. and now Ut tne
end of two years are showing results
The teams are chosen by districts ac-
cordinr TO II. Allen Nye, head OF voca-
tional training, aud are US folio"s'
No. II, Utah, Colorado ana wyoming
No. II, California, Nevada ana All.
IONA No. Is, Washington, Oregon ana
Idaho More teams are entered inns
winter in the annual contests LOT lhe
National Western cup than ever De
fore. and for the first time a contest
is being pulled off for secondary asrl'
cultural schools. high schools and such
institutions. The cup was won last
year by Kansas and The year before
by Nebraska.
Farmers of Colorado benefited TO
he extent of ST00,052 during the last
year through efforts of the Colorado
Extension Service, according TO re-
port made to Governor Shoup by Act
ing Director 4. L. loVett. WORK or
the department was carried on IN
twenty-nine counties by boys ana
girls clubs, agricultural fairs, farm
improvements demonstrations, agron-
omy specialists, moving picture eXhibl-
tions. extension schools and other
agencies.
Five years from now the public lands
of Colorado will he practically thing
of the past, and their history may then
well be written. According to the report
of the commissioner of the general land
office published in December, 1920,
there are S.941, ,1S5 acres of vacant pub
lie lands in Colorado; five years ago
there were 1T,236,ll acres of public
lands in this state-shOwng that dur
ing the interim S,294,929 acres have
been filed upon.
C. w. johnson of NIanzanola, Colo,
has presented bill for 500 10 the
sheriff OF Utah county, Utah, for eX-
/ penses in connection With the burial
of BILLY" Johnson, whom he thought
was his son. BILLY" johnson commit
ted suicide at Payson, Utah. The body
was sent to his supposed father at
ManZanola. Mr.. johnson buried the
body, but later he heard from his son
at Denver.
Robert l.. Lackey, prominent sheep
rancher. was ordered to pay his wife,
| Matte Lackey, S16,50O alimony by
| Judge Cornforth, at Colorado Springs.
Mrs. Lackey stated on the witness
stand that her husband recently had
transferred all his property to escape
paying the alimony. Lackey announced
that he would stay in a Jail cell before
he will comply with the courts order.
For the first time since 1906 a Colo
RADIO man participated in the delibera-
tions of the national board for the pro-
motion of rifle practice, which has con-
vened in Washington in response 10 Il
call issued by the government Capt
Arthur b. Smith of Denver, small arms
instructor for the Colorado National
Guard, is the Colorado representative.
Colorado's coal production during
1920 exceeded that of the preceding
year by nearly 100000 tons and fell
only about quarter of million tons
short of the 1918 output when the
twenty-one coal-producing counties of
the state established high production
record of 12,65S,055 tons.
The first cases of death from the So
called sleeping sickness" reported in
Las Animas county occurred when
| aff ,rlf III
vile, Colo, died, having been in un-
broken sleep for eight days. Mike Sir
CHA, 20, of Ell Moro, died after an ill.,
ness of four days.
r. V. Ellington of Denver has re-
Gently been appointed as state super.
visor of trade and industrial educa-
tion. This work is carried on under
} the direction of the State Board of
, Vocational Education, cooperating
with the national board.
Sportsmen are forming an organjza-
tion which will make accessible to the
public the famous Conejos Lakes re-
gion of the Rio Grande National For.
! est, Colorado, according to information
received by the United States Denort.
ment of Agriculture.
Governor Shoup has stamped his dis.
approval upon the $1,000 600 highway
budget for 1921 prepared by the State
Highway Commission and sent it back
/ to the commissioners with recon-.
mendations concerning the spending of
, the highway fund.
According to the verdict of the cor.
oner's jury in Pueblo, Antonio Rom.
ero committed justifiable homicide
when he inflicted n beating and gun.
shot wounds upon Aululio Augon, afte,
having found his wife in the latter's
arms.