The Colorado statesman., 1922-09-16
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

work are attracting vide attention at
county fairs through the state, accord
ing to Mrs. ii. II. Shaw of the Colorado
Sunday School Association, These eX-
hiblts include literature on methods
and results, and illustrative posters
and scrap books, note books, models
maps, clay figures and other hand
work used by teachers in presenting
Bible stories, or made by children to
express the ideas of the lessons In
tangible form. Mrs Shaw said that
she has received letters from those in
charge of such displays saying that
many teachers and mothers are making
notes on the suggestions offered In
these exhibits.
Denver.-Although there is now COM
paratively little good farm land re-
naming open to enter in Colorado, the
| area that has been homesteaded in the
| last six years is close to 7,OOO,OOO
acres, the State immigration Depart
ment announce here. OF this amount
perhaps 3,5UO,00O acres has not yet
been proved up and is therefore not
yet on the tax rolls. Reports of coun-
| ty ussea5ora to the State immigration
Depnrtme-. show that there are now
approximately 1900 homesteaders in
the state, living more or less perma-
nently on farms that they have not
yet proved up.
Colorado Springs to the
transportation situation, the annual
convention of the telegraph and teie-
phone section OF the American kaIi-
/ fnY q firSf
in october in Colorado Springs, has
been Indefinitely postponed, according
| 10 telegram received here from Sec
retury W. A. turDanks in New York.
This convention would have been the
| largest in the Pixies Peak region IN
| l922 Between 3UU and 0OO members
of the association We're eApected and
virtually All arrangements mad been
completed.
| Denver.-FeeS amounting to Sto,-
SGU.Ou were turned over by t.-o United
States government to the state OF Colo
RADIO us its share OF grazing and tim
Der fees in the seventeen national tor-
ests within the boundaries of the state.
The money represented earnings for
the fiscal year ending June 30. Reg
lutions state the money IS to be dis
tributed in the counties in which the
forests are located, to be used for
school and road purposes in the ratio
of % per cent 70. roads and . per cent
for the schools, or vice versa.
Fort Collins.-Jack Bell, manager of
Campton's resort in Cherokee park,
and widely known rancher is in crit
ical condition ut his residence in La
Porte, northwest of Fort Collins, from
a head wound sustained in AN altercu-
lion with two men and woman at the
resort recently. Frank Miller, Fort
Collins garage owner, his wife, and
Frank Chicarello, are under bonds of
81, 800 each, charged with assault, as
Il result of the encounter, in which it
is alleged Bell was felied with stone.
Colorado Springs. au-
thorization to return to work if the
old wage scale was restored, approx
mately $50 striking miners of the Colo
RADIO Springs coal fields called off the
strike in a joint meeting of the two To-
calls in Papetown. The strike had been
on since April. Operators here stated
| tllI tney WOulu lllIe men Will
out discrimination as the vacancies oc-
Cured in the ranks of their employees.
Arvada.-Two-yea Anthony Ira
.nulato, son of Jerry Tramulato Of
j Arvada, died in st. Anthony's hospital
in Denver as the result of pistol shot
fired by his 4-year-old brother. The
corroded bullet lodged in the boys hip
| md conSa6 hlnD1 nDiSOninp
Golden.-Judge Samuel w. Johnson
in the District Court of Jefferson
| county upheld the legality of the Mof
fat tunnel act when he decided in fav
| or of the tunnel commission in suit
brought to restrain the issuance of
| bonds for the project.
Akron.-"There was something do
| ing every minute" ut the Washington
\ county fair here.
Durango. - Miraculously escaping
| DEATH five Durango residents suffered
| serious cuts, bruises and broken ribs
when their automobile plunged over
4 the Moccasin grade in Mesa Verde Ma
| tional park, turning over four times in
| its wild plunge down Il seventy-f0ot
wreck. Mrs. Effie Carol was the most
seriously injured. Ben Rice, George
Farley and Mrs. Ellen Rolf and daugh-
ter We're badly bruised.
| Pueblo.-All school children in the
state attending either public or pri-
yate school will be afforded an oppor-
tunity to attend the state fair at Pue-
bio OF Friday, Sept. 20, as guests of
the state fair commission, according
to plans announced recently. School
superintendents in every county in the
state have been supplied with tickets
| g., ,l;e+ribution to chil6ran axpactipor