The Colorado statesman., 1921-07-23

MuIE1n county iAlIt IoIA NAbi - ahf
Aug. 24-26. w. J. OFT, secretary
Another important recognition TO
Colorado came from the Harding ad-
ministration with the nomination by
the President of Rush l.. Holland Of
Colorado Springs TO be an assistant at
torney general The appointment had
the personal Endorsement of Attorney
General Daugherty and of the Colorn'
do senators.
Joseph p. Flanagan, an ex-sailor'
was arrested at South Platte by Sher-
iff c. c. Kerr, following two attempts
to commit suicide. He is in the JEFF
ferson county jail His sanity is to
be tested, authorities say. Flanagan
is said to have been gassed in France
and was recently patient at the Fitz-
simons hospital
The third annual stampede, an event
that now brings people from all over
the intermountain region, Will be held
this year on August 3, 4 and at Monte
Vista. The committee in charge report
that in the matter of attractions and
general features the stampede this year
will be the best so far held, and there
is every reason to believe that rec
ord-breaklng crowd will attend.
Capt. Arthur Talbot of Battery A,
Colorado National Guard Artillery, has
been notified that sixty-four horses are
now en- route to Pueblo for the use OF
the battery. There are also en- route
eight 75-mm. guns. With the horses
now coming, the military organizations
in Pueblo, Troop of the cavalry and
Battery A, will have ninetysix horses,
all to be stabbed at the state fair
grounds.
The count at the Colorado state
penitentiary shows prison population
of 7S2, which is the highest for several
years, and which is nearing the high
water mark of ante-prohibition days.
Following the adoption of statewide
prohibition, the prison population grad
uaIly decreased from more than 800 to
something like $50, the count on No
vember 80, 1918, being SCI, or POI less
than that of to-day.
Alexander Baudlno and Octavious
Serrino, miners employed at one of the
Triangle Coal Company mines, four
miles south of Durango, were painfully
burned when, after placing and firing
a round of shots, they entered their
coal room with lighted lamps, when
an explosion of gas occurred. The
former was burned around the head
and the latter on the body. Their
burns are not fatal.
Thomas Phoenix superintendent of
the Watrous Cafe in Curtis street,
Denver, his wife and his daughter,
Miss Margaret Phoenix, 20 years old,
were injured when an automobile in
which they were driving to Colorado
Springs for days outing shidded and
tumbled over a 200-foot embankment
between Monument and Hustled The
top of the car, n sedan. prevented seri-
Gus injuries to them when 1t caught
the weight of the wheels and body as
the machine turned over.
Suffering from a serious conclusion
of the brain by reason of striking his
head on an iron bar across gate,
Warren Steele of Estes Park is In
critical condition. He was driving
truck loaded with hay to the workers
at Fall River road camp, and when he
reached the entrance to Horseshoe
Park, which is guarded by high steel
gate, the load was too high to get un-
der the gate He Is said to have been
driving fast and the iron bar above
the gate struck him on the head,
knocking him unconscious for several
hours and causing serious concussion
and possible fracture of the skull.
There are twenty-four county agents
at work in Colorado, devoting their
entire time to the advancement OF the
farmers interests. Ask your agent
to help you. If he cannot he will get
into communication with someone who
can. - r~'- -
The rapid increase in agricultural
activity in non-irrigated sections OF
Colorado is especially emphasized by
the statistics on irrigation for the
state, just made public by the federal
census bureau and partially interp-
reted by the State immigration De-
partment by comparison with statis-
tics furnished that department by
county assessors. The report of the
census bureau shows that 1,923,950
acres of crops, exclusive of orchards
were harvested from irrigated land in
the state in 1919, compared with l.
5S1, ,3o4 acres in 1909, or an increase Of
81 per cent. The total area harvested
in 1919, exclusive of orchards, was s.
O52,955 acres, compared with 2,613,917
| acres. the increase being 93 per cent.
This leaves the area of non-irrigated
crons harvested in 1919 Mt g. 100 005
acres. compared with 1882, ,523 acres
in 1909, the increase being about 2O3
per cent.
The Ault school directors have ac-
cepted plans and awarded the contract