The Colorado statesman., 1921-02-19
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

BIDS submitted to the StOle ilSn-
way Commission ON seven federal aid
road projects scattered throughout the
state revealed material decrease I'm
labor and material prices, according to
highway officials. Steel which cost as
high as II cents last year is now fig
ured on n basis of 9 to 10 cents, while
day laborers and cement workers who
We're paid 50 per day year ago are
now receiving from S3 to S4 per day.
Teams that cost the contractors SO
and Sl2 per day last summer are now
figured on 81 basis.
United States Senator Lawrence G.
Phipps has introduced in the National
Senate an amendment to the agricul-
tural appropriation bill, providing that
payment of grazing fees be deferred
until August /, next, with interest 10
be charged fixed at not more than q
per cent a year. The secretary of the
interior and the chief forester are re-
ported in favor of deferring payments,
but want interest fixed ut l per cent
month.
An express package containing ST.
500 in currency, shipped by the FIRST
National Bank of Trinidad TO the
Colorado Fuel & Iron Company pay
master at Starkville, six miles south
west of Trinidad, was stolen either at
the Trinidad express office or while
it was being conveyed to the Santa re
depot. Another package containing
$4,000 and two bags containing Sfoo
in silver, which were accessible to the
thief, were not molested.
A table given out by Miss Florence
Hutsinpillar, who represents the state
in the disposition of funds appropriated
for the care and protection of depend
ent children and mothers, shows that
the total number of children receiving
aid during the past year through com
pensation to their mothers has been
24S. The total number of mothers to
be aided under the compensation law
is seventy-eight.
The annual student conference OF
the Rocky Mountain states will be held
at the Y. NJ. c. A. camp in Estes Park,
June to IA. This is earlier than
usual. the dates being advanced in Or
der not to conflict with eastern CON
ferences. A clash in dates in the past
has divided talent. This June the stu
dents will have the advantage of all
the best talent on the Y. NJ. g. A. cir
cuff.
Eric Gustave Gronquist, an eX-sol-
dier who contracted tuberculosis while
serving overseas, and who is now CON
fined to the Swedish National Sana-
torium in Englewood, where he is III
a critical condition, was admitted to
citizenship by Judge Samuel Johnson,
who, with Naturalization Examiner NJ.
F. Lence, conducted court session at
the young mans bedside.
"The Grand Canon road, a part of
the Pixies Peak Ocean-to- Ocean high
way, declared to be one of the most
important highways in the state, will
be opened by June l, upon the com
pletion of the Glenwood Canon road,
which is now being constructed by
the State Highway Department, at a
cost of $4,000" Commissioner Z. j.
Ehrhardt declared in Denver.
A tri-county fair with jefferson,
Arapahoe and Denver counties as the
mer at Overland park, Denver, accord
ing to information received in Golden.
Three men from each county are to be
named on board of directors to car
ry out the plans. A meeting was held
in Denver to perfect the arrangements.
The Golden city council has voted to
cal! the last $4,000 of a bond issue of
$4,000 which was authorized in 1879
to build the old Golden waterworks
system. For many years no effort was
made to liquidate this Indebtedness.
Goldens bonded Indebtedness was de-
creased $4,000 last year.
Russell Downing, ii years old, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. +. l.. Downing, was
killed instantly in Boulder when he
fell from a bicycle against barb wire
fence, which was highly charged from
a high-power electric line, by fallen
telephone wire crossing the two.
The case against Charles J. O'Hara,
held in the Arapahoe county Jail in
Littleton on a charge of holding up the
cashier of the bank of $1,000, has been
continued, following motion for IA
change of venue which was heard in
the District Court before District At
torney Samuel Johnson.
At a meeting in Pueblo of forest
rangers and officials of five districts,
the matters of grazing lands and tim
Der sales were considered. Assistant
District Foresters Thompson and John
II. Hutton, District Engineer Menden
hall and p. Kiplinger, all of the Den
yer office, were present.
An unidentified negro house robber
was shot and almost instantly killed
and his negro companion is believed TO
have been injured in gun batrle in