The Colorado statesman., 1921-01-15
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

Show at Denver, January 10. Three
teams of former soldiers from ngricul-
tural colleges of the West are to COM
pete for a special prize offered by the
vocational board Many men chose
agricultural training, and now ut the
end of two years are showing results.
The teams are chosen by districts, nc
cording to II. Allen Nye, head of voca-
tionnl training, and are as follows;
No. II, Utah, Colorado and wyoming;
No. -, California Nevada and Ari-
IONA No. 49, Washington, Oregon and
Idaho. More teams are entered this
winter in the annual contests for the
National Western cup than ever be-
fore, and for the first time contest
is being pulled off for secondary agri-
cultural schools, high schools and such
institutions. The cup was won last
wear by Kansas and the year before
by Nebraska.
Farmers of Colorado benefited to
the extent of S7O0052 during the last
year through efforts of the Colorado
Extension Service, according to a re-
port made to Governor Shoup by Act
ing Director a. Il. Lovett. Work or
the department was carried on in
twenty-nine counties by boys and
girls clubs, agricultural fairs, farm
improvements demonstrations, agron-
omy specialists, moving picture exhibit
lions, extension schools and other
agencies.
With the collection of $4,000 during
the month of December, the state IN
heritance tax department got away TO
n flying start in the biennial PERIOD,
which began on Nov. 80 last, according
to announcement made by Attorney
General VictorNE. Reyes. Collections
were made from twenty estates during
the last fifteen days, amounting to 3d.
6TS. The largest amount collected was
from the estate of F. Il. Frost of Lo-
gan county, totaling S136,943.
Five years from now the public lands
of Colorado will be 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 1875 acres of vacant pub
lie lands in Colorado; five years ago
there were 17,236,114 acres of public
lands in this state-showing that dur
ing the interim S,294,929 acres have
been filed upon.
For the first time since 1906 a Colo
RADIO man participated in the delibera-
lions of the national board for the pro-
motion of rifle practice, which has con-
vened in Washington in response to a
call issued by the government. Capt.
Arthur Il. 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
wear by nearly 100000 tons and fell
only about a quarter of Il 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
Ietiza Maglia, % years old, of Stark
vile, Colo, died, having been in I'M
broken sleep for eight days. Mike Sir
CHA, &c, of Ell Moro, died after an ill
ness of four days.
Governor Shoup has stamped his dis
approval upon the S7,000,000 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.
The bank clearings over the figures
for 1919 increased $12,0O000O, accord
ing to a report from Colorado Springs
Clearing House Association.
Pears and apples grown on the west
ern slope this past season brought
grower S1,125,000, it is conservatively
estimated.
Litigation which has covered many
years was closed when the board of
directors of the Uncompahgre Valley
Water Users Association accepted a
settlement of claims against bondsmen
who were sureties for the Taylor
Moore Construction Company, which
became insolvent when they made the
first attempt to construct the Gunni-
son tunnel for the Water Users Asso-
citation.
Robert L. Lackey, prominent sheep
rancher, was ordered to pay his wife,
Matte Lackey, $16,500 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.
Two buildings were burned to the
ground and several others were badly
damaged in a fire estimated between