The Colorado statesman., 1922-07-29
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

trlct forester, from Secretary of Agrl
culture Wallace of the approval of the
agreement of the proposed Cameron
Pass road, which Is to be started soon
by the bureau of public roads. By this
agreement the United States govern
ment will appropriate $1,000 of the
$4,000 estimated cost of stretch of
9.3 miles of road through the mountain
territory. The remaining expense of
$4,000 Is to be borne by the state.
Colorado Springs.-Daniel Fretz,
proprietor of the Peoples dairy of this
city, and his family are believed to be
the Colorado family killed in grade
crossing accident near Buffalo, n. Y.
The members of the family, according
to the city directory, are Daniel Fretz,
his wife Alice. and three children,
Ethel, II Harold, 10, and Carl, 10. The
Fretz family left here a month ago by
motor to spend the summer in New
York state, and to make a cross-conti-
mental motor trip.
Seibert-A twisting wind, very much
like a cyclone or tornado, swept
through Seibert recently, damaging,
many buildings and seriously injuring
the 6-year-old son of w. S. Stone,
farmer residing six miles south of
town. The boy was hit by a scantling
from the lumber yard. The wind
came from the northwest, the twisting
part coming down in the center of
town, and cutting path fifty feet
wide to the edge of the city when IT
rose to come down again about mile
fuather on.
Silverton.-The Silverton CONNER
cial Club has caused notices to be
posted through a greater part of the
state announcing that the Silverton-
Ouray highway, the scenic route to
Mesa Verde, is open for travel. The
road is reported in good condition and
will be open until Aug 10, and per-
haps even later. If the road is closed
because of new construction the club
promises that notices will be published
in Denver and other Colorado news
papers.
Denver.-According to a report by
the district forest department, 1000
acres of the national forest reserve
have been destroyed by fire in this
state since the first of the year. Three
| thousand six hundred dollars have
been expended in suppression of the
fires, 62 per cent of which have been
traced to carelessness. Damage in 40
per cent of these has been settled by
fines or payment of damages. Fifty
per cent of last years cases were set
tied in this manner
ba of thp
state public school income fund, col
lected through the State Board of Land
Commissioners during the six months
period between Jan. l, 1922, and June
80, 1929, has been announced by kath-
crime l.. Craig state superintendent of
public instruction. The amount certi-
fled to the state auditor for distribu-
ton was SAT- 93S.S7, which is the larg-
est amount that has ever been distrib-
uted to the schools Of the state in any
previous six months period.
Manitou.-Injuries eived in n fall
from Il cliff in Crystal park, short
distance from Manitou, late this aft
ernoon, may prove fatal to Louis ia
coby, s, son of Max JacoDy, a furrier
living in Manitou. The boy is in
Colorado Springs hospital suffering
from internal injuries and a fractured
right arm. He was found unconscious
at the base of a cliff, where he had
lain for several hours, by motor par
ty, which brought him to Manitou for
medical aid.
Greeley-The body of Irwin I. Hit
tie, 81 years old, with,a bullet through
IN, ,l,,,- ;t.l,
separated from the road by fence, on
the farm of w. T. Sylvester, four miles
southwest of Greeley. Tho body was
discovered by NJ. L. Heuthorne, bee
keeper, who noticed something strange
in the ditch and climbed through the
fence to investigate. 1t was partly con-
cealed by weeds, and had evidently
been thrown over the fence.
Golden.-The summer school of the
Colorado School of Mines has enrolled
the largest class of its history, records
show. Twenty-three states and eight
foreign countries are represented in
the student body. Indications are that
an even greater number of students
will enroll for the summer term next
year.
Greeley-Sheriff Frank Hall and
Chief of Police Florence said that they
are completely baffled in their investi-
cation into the murder of Irwin o. Hit
tie, 20 years old, whose partly decom-
posed body, with n bullet wound
through the heart was found in a ditch
six miles south of here.
Palisade.-Chester Eyer, 20, of this
city, was killed and his sweetheart,
Miss Elizabeth Scott, 10, of Palisade,
was seriously injured when Eyer's au-
tomobile turned over on the road to
AIns.., tNI.nItI- miles nnSt of pnlisndn