The Meeker herald., 1922-01-28
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

Denver.-Denver spent SS.57 per cap
ita for maintenance and operation of
Its public schools during the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1920, according
to the official report Of the United
States Bureau OF Census nj Washing
ton, ID. c. The total cost of school OPP
Grafton for that year WAS $2215,!82.
For the fiscal year ending June 30,
1917, the total cost was 81 ,073,61I, and
the per capita cost was $0.S2. Before
the war, for the fiscal year of 1914,
the total cost was $1,350,7Ol, 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, 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 a
horizontal retort 10 not Of as high
quality as that from retorts Of a YER
tical type, is confirmed.
Denver.-That Colorado farmers
have planted about the usual acreage
of winter wheat II shown In the CO.
operative federal-state crop report, just
Issued by w. w. Putnam, agricultural
reau Of Markets and Crop Estimates.
The preliminary estimate Of winter
wheat sown in the autumn OF 1921 is
placed at 100000 acres, compared
with 1,496,OOO acres sown in the fall
Of 1920. and about LOTS, 900 acres sown
In the autumn Of 1910.
Denver.-Colorad is seventh In size
Of the forty-eight states in the Union
with an area of 68,341 100 acres. 1t Is
more than twelve times the size Of
Massa chusetts, about twice as large as
Iowa, and approximately the size of
New York. Ohio. Connecticut and New
Hampshire combined. East and weat
Its extreme length Is 387 miles, and
north and south 278 miles. There are
forty-two peaks that are 1900 feet
in elevation, or more.
Eads.-Kiowa county was the scene
Of the greatest Indian battle ever
fought in what IL now the state Of
Colorado. 1t wns In territorial days,
Nov. 20, 1884, that Col. John NJ. Chiv-
ington led 1000 men against n Chey-
enne Indian village on Big Sandy
creek. The redskins were led by their
noted chief, Black Kettle, and In the
battle 200 Indians were 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, 1850. marked the
first real gold discovery that led to the
greatest rush Of people into wilder
ness ever known In these United
States. The growth as given BY the
United States census of the state fol-
lows: 1850. 34.277: 1870. 1854: 1880,
1914 ,S27; 1890, 1920; 1900. $50. 700 !;
1910. 10000; 1920. $4,000.
La Junta, Colo-Mrs. Bessie Nc
Cornell. mother of sig. who conducts
q clothes cleaning establishment In the
basement of n local furnishing com
| pany, will cease to toll. She has re-
ceIved word that through the death of
u relative In Indinnoln. Iowa, she in
herits $2OO.OOO. As soon MS she can
| Connell proposes to retire from work
and invest her fortune In La Junta.
Hot Sulphur Springs. Colo.-Bruce
| Wallace, the 6-yenr-old son of Lew
| Wallace. Grand county editor. Is dead
| after being run over by m automobile.
The child was sliding down II hill on II
sled which went directly into the path
way of the automobile driven by Ed
ward Chntfield. A fractured skull
caused death. Bruce was the only boy
Of Mr.. wullace's five children.
Denver.-Colorado's vnst ranges pro-
duced $s1 81, 900 worth OF live stock
during 1921, besides which the Denver
Union Stockyards Company handled
| $50, 1901, 100 worth OF cattle, sheep and
hogs during the year, thus giving the
live stock Industry Of the state grand
total Of sos, 1910 business for the
year.
Colorado Springs.-A large igloo
built of concrete without doors or WIN
dows Is to be built In Colorado Springs
by DIR. Fred n. Spiers Of Ochotzgacn-
gamute, Alaska, to test out his theory
pf curing tuberculosis. He plans to
have his patients live In furs without
any heat In the room whatever, fol-
lowing q plan he found successful In
Alaska, where he says he cured 100
men.
Denver.-Only 100 Of the 1900 cor
poratlons reports which must be filed
with Secretary Of State Milliken on or
before March 9 have been received,
according to information given out.
Officials of the office urge that all
corporations OF the state file their re-
ports Mt the earliest date possible, in
order to assist the department In main
timing Its efficiency.
CrooIoy Colo -('lnrnpcn Day IN