The Colorado statesman., 1921-09-24
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS,

SG.sO7 persons and representing vir'
tunlly every state, had been registered
early I'm September. The 1920 totals
were 1906 cars ana 2e024 persons.
Rocky Mountnln National Park Off
clns reported registration of 36,35O
cars and 1877. .S93 persons on Sept. !.
| If the cars registered so far this sea
son at Overland park were placed end
to end, allowing fifteen feet for the
spnce occupied by each car they would
make an unhrnken string thirty miles
In length. Cars that were registered
mt the Estes entrance to Rocky Noun
tain park, II similarly placed, would
form II line OF more than 100 miles.
A grievance of long standing is said
TO have been the cause Of the shooting
at Trinidad of Roy Stowe, eNolted
ruler OF the Trinidad lodge of Elks, hy
| Walter Hall OF Pueblo, who is i'm jail.
! Stowe was shot through the abdomen
during quarrel following pnrty at
roadhouse at which Stowe, Hall ana
three women were present. The shoot
| ing took place ON the highway east OF
| the city when Hail. II Is said, renewed
l ul ulltl'tAl'l WIN P''"Nf
driving the car and shot him.
| The Rev. Sumner r. Morgan. SO
years old, until last April pastor Of the
| Loveland Christian church, was
drowned in Mnngum. Okla. Word was
received by his son, Wendell Morgan.
who Immediately departed for Man
! gum Miss Lois Morgan, daughter
resides at Loveland. The Rev. Mr..
Morgan was prominent in church and
welfare circles while pastor at Love
land and well known throughout the
state.
Irrigation season is closing around
Loveland, with more wuter stored In
the reservoirs and lakes than ever
known In this section. Practically all
the irrigation systems nnve ceased
running water for the senson, and
many are preparing TO make improve
mentS in their bitches and reservoirs.
| Another late run for fruit trees Will
| he made some time I'm October.
More than 10000 attended the fair
at Hotchkiss. many OF the nenrby
towns declaring holidays to give busi-
ness men and others the opportunity
TO view the exhibits and see the races.
The fair Just closed has been the most
| successful ever held. A special fea-
ture has been the community exhibits
from seven little neighborhoods on the
higher mesas.
United States Senator Lawrence G.
Phipps Will be absent from Congress
during the first three weeks of the
coming session, 1t has been announced
Senator Phipps acted on The advice of
his physicians In notifying Senator
Curtis, Republican senatorial whip.
that due to his recent operation for
appendicitis he viii he unable to at
tend the session opening.
Dick Wrather, 5-year-old son OF Nj
and Mrs. j. II. Wrather OF Dallas,
| Texas, was struck by an automobile
,dst after the family had arrived at
| Colorado Springs on the return from
Yellowstone park. The child ran out
from the Wrather car into the street
and was run down. receiving injuries
from which he died without regGining
| consciousness.
All evidence of II walkout in the
Colorado Fuel & Iron Company mines
of southern Colorado disappeared
when workmen who have been laying
off or joining In n so called protest strike
against the reduction of wages. effec-
tive Sept. l, returned 10 work under
the ruling of the State Industrial Com
mission, which restored The wnge scale
In effect prior to Sept. /.
A verdict, giving damages of $3.50 to
Charles Jones for the injury to his
eyeslght as the result of the explosion
of battery while he was working on
1t I'm the shop OF |. Rae Cowden, was
returned in the District Court at Fort
Collins after the jury had considered
The case for twenty-five hours. Jones
asked damages from Cowden of $1,000.
Optimism was the dominant note in
the nineteenth annual convention In
Denver of the Colorado Bankers Asso-
citation 1t was the basis of the varl-
GUS addresses, and IL was the tone of
the 80 individuals attending the con.
vention. Out of the recent gloom OF
the street corner conversations came
this optimism, and so far as the bank
er is concerned, times not only are
showing better, but the outlook is real
ly bright.
A fine for pedestrians who permit
themselves to be struck by automobiles
is II solution of the traffic problem in
Colorado Springs. Two-thirds of the
auto accidents that occur on the streets
are the fault of the pedestrians them
selves who wilfully disregard the traf.
fjc rIiIaS I'm iny-wHlkInp cutting acrOae
the corners and not observing the sig
nails of the traffic policeman, the en-
gineers say.
During the month of August 1b,50S
automobiles entered the Rocky Noun