The Dolores star., 1922-01-20
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

the estate of II. U. Nudge, who died
a resident of Denver, leaving per
sonal estate OF Sl10.5li with S3l,62o
In securities taxable in New York. His
sons, Burton w. Nudge and Charles
NJ Nudge of Chicago, George T. Nudge
OF Kansas City and Hugh NJ. Nudge OF
Denver receive 81 each. The will gives
no reason for the dollar legacy. His
wife, Arwllda Morris Nudge of Den
yer receives the residue of the real and
personal estate.
Dcnver.-Denver spent SS.oI per cap
ita for maintenance and operation or
its public schools during the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1920, according
TO the official report of the United
States Bureau of Census at Washing
ton, d. c. The total cost of school op-
GRAFTON for that year was S2,2lo,962.
For the fiscal year ending June 30.
1917, the total cost was S1,6I36lI, and
the per capita cost was S6.S2. Before
the war, for the fiscal year Of 1914,
the total cost was sl,359.70l, and per
per capita cost 1886.
Boulder.-At the cooperative oil
shale laboratory where oil shale In
vestigatlons are being conducted by
the United States Bureau of Mines and
the state OF Colorado, n number OF
runs have been made with the large
horizontal retOrt under different con-
trolled conditions. All products are
being examined. and as the work goes
on, the belief that the oil yielded by
horizontal retort is not of as high
quality as that from retorts of YER
teal type, is confirmed.
Denyer.-Thc streams in the nation
al forests of Colorado and Wyoming
will be stocked with 2.J9O,O0O fish fry
next summer, if the request made of
the government by Allen $. Peck, dis
trict forester, is complied with. Mr..
Peck addressed letter to the gov
crnmcnt fish hatchcrieS department,
asking that the fry be turned over to
the forestry and state game and fish
department officials for distribution
In the hundreds of streams in the na-
tional forests.
Dcnver-That Colorado farmers
have planted about the usual acreage
of winter wheat is shown in the CO.
operative fedcral-state crop report, just
issued by w. w. Putnam, agricultural
statistician of the United States Bu-
reau of Markets and Crop Estimates.
The preliminary estimate OF winter
wheat sown in the autumn of 1921 is
placed at l,46G.0OO acres, compared
with 100000 acres sown in the fail
Of 1920, and about 1.O73,OOO acres sown
in the autumn OF 1919.
Hot Sulphur Springs, Colo.-Bruce
Wallace, the G-ycar-old son of Lew
Wallace, Grand county editor. is dead
after being run over by an automobile.
The child was sliding down hill on a
sled which went directly into the path
way of the automobile driven by Ed
ward Chatfied. A fractured skull
caused death. Bruce was the only boy
of Mr.. Wallace's five children.
Pueblo.-PuebIo, one of the cities in
the United States most vitally con-
cerned with the administration and
development of the national forests, is
rising in indignation against the pro-
posed transfer of the United States
forest service from the Department of
Agriculture TO the Department of the
Interior, members of the Pueblo Com
merce Club declare.
Greeley, Colo.-Clarence Day, 10
years old, was killed when an automo-
bile, driven by an unknown person,
ran over sled on which he was rid
ing. Days sled was attached to an
automobile and as it passed another
car the other machine dropped back
behind, running over the sled. The
driver, becoming aware of what had
happened, sped away.
Boulder-The annual meeting of the
Colorado State Board of Realtors will
be held In Boulder Jan. -. Speakers
include Gov. Herbert S. Hadley, A. A.
Reed, president Of the U. S. National
Bank, and George w. Loomis and Zeph
Charles Felt of Denver.
Durango.-The Durango plant of the
American Smelling and Refining Com
pany during eleven months of 1921,
treated daily on an average us dry
tons Of San Juan basin ore for n total
of 39,04S dry tons, according to a re-
port recently made public by Manager
r. P. Reynolds This ore returned S3,-
O10,6S9.57. 1t is estimated that these
figures represent 65 per cent or less of
the total production Of basin mines.
Colorado Springs.-A large igloo
built Of concrete without doors or win
dows is to be built in Colorado Springs
by Dr. Fred NJ. Spiers of Ochotzgaca-
gamute, Alaska, to test out his theory
Of curing tuberculosis. He plans to
have his patients live in furs without
any heat in the room whatever, fol-
lowing plan he found successful In
Alaska, where he says he cured $50
men.
Evergreen.-TaXpayers of this school
district will decide Jan. % at the polls
whether bond issue for $4,000 shall