The Glenwood post., 1922-01-19
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

year ending June 30, 1920, according
to the official report of the United
States Bureau of Census at Washing
ton, ID. @. The total cost of school op-
Grafton for that year was $2215,962.
For the fiscal year ending June 30,
i 1917, the total cost was 81 ,673,61T, and
the per capita cost was S6.S2 Before
the war, for the fiscal year of 1914,
the total cost was $1,859,701, and per
per capita cost $3.50.
Boulder.-At the cooperative oil
shale laboratory where oil shale in
Vestigations are being conducted by
the United States Bureau of Mines and
the state of Colorado, a 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 rs high
quality as that from retorts of yer
( ticaF type, is confirmed
Denver-That Colorado farmers
have planted about the usual acreage
Of winter wheat is shown in the CO.
/ T., j
issued by W. w. Putnam, agricultural
statistician Of the United States Bu-
roau of Markets and Crop Estimates.
The preliminary estimate of winter
wheat sown in the autumn of 1921 is
placed at 1,466OOO acres, compared
with 100000 acres sown in The fall
Of 1920 and about l,073,000 acres sown
in the autumn of 1919
Denvor-Colorudo is seventh in size
Of the forty-eight states in the Union
with an area OF GG,341, ,120 acres. It is
more than twelve times the size of
Massachusetts, about twice as large as
Iowa, and Approximately the size of
New York, Ohio, Connecticut and New
lIamDshre combined. East and west
lis c1reme length is 3S7 miles, and
north aud s1ub PIG miles. There are
for two peaks that are $4,000 feet
In elevation, or more.
Eads. -Kfowa county was the scene
of the greatest Indian battle ever
fought in what is now the state of
Colorado 1t was in territorial days,
Nov. 20, 1861, that Col. john NJ Chiv-
iugtou led 1000 men against Il Chey-
enue Indian village on Big Sandy
creek. The redskins were led by their
noted chief, Black Kettle, and in the
battle 800 Indians We're killed. 1t
caused, however, numerous other In
dian wars.
Denver.-The first actual settlement
of Colorado was in Denver in 1858, and
the following year, 1859, marked The
first reul gold discovery that led to the
greatest rush OF people into n wilder
ness ever known in these United
States. The growth as given by the
United States census of the state fol-
lows: 1860. 3f.27T; 1870, 39S61 1880,
19i327; 1890, a13,249; 1900, $50, 700:
1910 799o24; 1920, 939629
La Junta, Colo.-NIrs. Bessie Nc
CUaneIl, n mother of six, who conducts
a clothes cleaning establishment in the
basement of a local furnishing com
pany, viii cease to toll. She has re
ceived word that through the death of
relative i'm Indinnola, Iowa, she in
herits 100000 As soon as she can
dispose of her cleaning shop Mrs. Nc
Connell proposes TO retire from work
Hot Sulphur Springs, Colo.-Bruce
Wallace, the 6ycar-old son of Lew
Wallace Grand county editor. is dead
after being run over hy an automobile.
The child was sliding down a hill on
ed which went directly inlo the path
ny OF the automobile driven by El-
ard Chatfield. A fructured skull
caused death. Bruce was the only boy
OF Mr.. Wallace's five children.
Colorado's vast ranges pro
duced SS1S12.OOO worth of live stock
during 1921, besides which the Denver
Union Stockyards Company handled
S26,307, 100 worth of cattle, sheep and
hogs during the year, thus giving he
live stock industry Of the state a grand
Total Of S10s,119 100 business for the
year.
Colorado SnrinEs,-A large igloo
built Of concrete without doors or win
u3ws is TO he built in Colorado Springs
by DR.. Fred NJ. spiers of Ochotzgaca-
rInute, Alaska, to lest out his theory
0f curing tuberculosis He plans TO
have his patients live in furs without
any heat in the room whatever, fol-
loving plan he found successful in
Alaska, where he says he cured 150
men.
Denyer.-Only 100 Of The 1900 cor
p1rations reports which must be filed
With Secretary Of State hlHlillen on or [
hcfore March 2 have been received, (
according to information given ont.
Officials of the office urge uhnt all
coporations of the stote file heir re-
uorts at the earliest date possible, in .
order to assist the department in main /
mining its efficiency. 4
Greeley, Colo.-Clarence Day, 10
years old, was killed when an automo- !
bile, driven by an unknown person,
ran over a sled on which he was rid .
ing. Days sled was attached to an .
and as it passed another /
. 1t l..