The Colorado statesman., 1922-11-18
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.


four persons and the injury of the
fifth. The dead are: Lynn Rohling,
son of one OF Fort Collins most prom
inent merchants, and a former army
chauffeur; Mrs. Lynn Rolling, his
wife; Otto Prather, Il chemist at the
sugar factory Frederick l.. Sandsness,
student mt the Colorado Agricultu-
raj College, Fort Collins. The injured:
Keith Boltz, pianist, who was thrown
clear.
Pueblo. - Representatives of the
teams of the southern Colorado high
school athletic conference met in Pu-
eblo recently for the purpose of
amending the conference constitution
and taking up the matter of basket
ball schedule. Central and Centennial
of Pueblo were represented, the other
schools being Canon City, Florence,
Trinidad, Walsenburg, Leadville, Sa-
Ida and Colorado Springs. Maisen-
burg may not play in the league be-
cause of lack of an adequate floor ON
which to practice.
Sterllng.-Guy Bray, "a years old, of
MerinO, Colo, who was charged with
the murder of Ieputy Sheriff Il. j.
Wilson at Merino on the night of May
%, slnshed his throat in the county
Jail at Sterling and died almost Instant
ly. Bray had made it practice to
shave and cut the hair of other prison
ers in the Jail and asked for Il razor
| for his customary work. He locked
two other prisoners In the cage of the
Jail and went to the bathroom to per
form his act of suicide.
Denver.-Two women were killed,
another was shot down and two police
men were wounded by whisky-craZed
negro who ended bloody battle by
blowing out his own brains. The shoot
ing occurred in the hall of DAB Ire
mont place. Walter Jones, the killer,
had held seventyfive police at bay for
half an hour. Mrs. Holmes Wilson,
colored, was shot and almost instantly
killed in the house Lulu Jones, cousin
of the slayer, died at the county hos
pital later.
Pueblo.-E. ID. Spruill, w. d. Keen
and Thomas Kelly, all well-known real
estate men of Pueblo, have been APP
pointed by District Judge James A.
Park to act as the board of appraisers
of the flood conservancy district. One
of the members will be elected treas
urer The board will appraise all land
to be needed and condemned in order
to carry the flood plans. Arthur Il.
Morgan of the Dayton Morgan engi-
neers is in the city and Will assist in
getting the work started.
Fort Collins.-The new armory at
Fort Collins, which will house company
III, 157th infantry, and the newly or
ganized regimental band, was dedi-
Gated here during Il snowstorm with
exercises appropriate TO tnat occasion.
Following a parade in which local
military and patriotic organizations
joined under the direction of Maj. g.
III. FRANKIE, commandant at the col
lege, salute was fired and the flag
hoisted over the new structure.
Fort Collins.-The defeat of Judge
Gilbert A. Walker of Steamboat
Springs, candidate for reelection to
the district bench in the Fourteenth
district, will mean that hearing in
water adjudication case in this dis
trict will have to be repeated. Judge
Walker has returned the files of the
case to the District Court here with
the statement that he can not reach
a decision in the matter before his sue
cessor takes office.
Pueblo.-John w. Lockin, 20, editor
of the Sunday Opinion here and
newspaper man of Pueblo for the last
forty years, died recently in his home.
He had been in failing health for sew
eral years. He was born in Fond du
Lac, Wis. He is survived by his
daughter, Mrs. Florence Il. Brown.
Lockin's weekly newspaper, because of
the quaint personality of the editor,
was much read throughout the south
ern end of the state.
Littleton.-Grass grew on many OF
The hills in Arapahoe county from Lit
Teton to Byers and Deer Trail this
past summer, and it grew on hills
where grass has not grown before. The
reason for this remarkable fact, ac-
cording to Allyn Ii. Tedmon, county
extension agent and pest Inspector of
Arapahoe county, was tireless cam
paign which began early in February
for the determination of prairie dogs.
1t is estimated that 81 per cent of the
dogs were destroyed. Twelve of the
townships were cleaned up in ninetr
DAYS." said Mr.. Tedmon. Five tons
of poisoned oats and 700 pounds of
carbon bisulphide gas were used"
Denver-Colorado is now the only
state in the Union in which timber is
growing faster than it is being used,
It was announced by Allen S. Peck,
district forester of the United States
forest service, on his return from a
meeting at Cooley, Ariz., of officials
of all eight forest districts. Twenty
two billion board feet of timber is
standing in Colorado at the present