The Ordway new era., 1922-10-20
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

| rr,i,ad STATES furest service that S3,-
,ol i2, now is available for distribu-
| lion To- the road and sclio"l tuhus "'
stuIps wlicl, have nniionni tores's
within their boundaries. twenty-five
ner cent of she money collected from
timber sales and grazing permits Is re-
turned To the state treasury. An add
tionni 10 per cent goes for the con-
struction of roads and trails within the
forest boundaries. Colorado ranks
fifth among The sinfes OF the Union III
| the distribution Of these government
funds. according t0 the forest service,
and will receive $75.S $50 for schools and
roads, and x3O,34i for forest reserve
roads and trails.
Denver-Lou ID. Sweet, noted agri-
cultural expert of Colorado. has intro
duced wheat into the San Luis valley
that runs as high us sixty-five bushels
| to the acre II is grown on the Sweet
seed farm rear CarbOndale. MIR. Sweet
provided IL car of this special wheat to
the farmers of the San Luis valley for
planting last spring. and from 1OO to
800 ncres were planted with 1t. The
average production an acre is from
| fifty-four bushels to sixtyfive bushels
to the acre, whereas the average BUSH
| els in the United States is fourteen TO
| the acre "'rhls wheat is known as
Kitchener. and originated on the farm
of DIR. Sager Wheeler of Saskatche
wan, the Burbank of Canada" sal
| Mr.. Sweet.
Castle Rock.-Rudolph Abbott, bron-
clo buster, famous as slim" was seri-
| ously injured at almost the close OF
the Douglas county fur program here,
when Sundown, noted outlaw, fell
| while trying to dislodge the rider. Alb
bott is suffering from concussion of
| the brain and had not regained CON
sciousness late tonight. Attending doc
tors are uncertain regarding the out
come. The horse rolled over on Abb
bott after the fall, and he may be in
jured fatally. The attendance ut the
closing of the fair was the largest that
ever gathered in the grounds. At the
barbecue more than $500 were fed
roasted beef, rolls, coffee and other
trimmings.
Pueblo.-Postmaster General Hubert
Work, the Coloradoun in President
Harding's cabinet, las accepted the in
vitation of George $. Walker, presi-
dent of the Western Radio Corpora
ton, to broadcast II special message
TO the radio fans of America through
KFAF, the Western Radio Corpora
tion-Denver Post station, the night OF
November 8. DIR. Work, II resident OF
Pueblo, Colo, for many years, Will be
in Denver early in November to ad-
dress the meeting of third and fourth
class pOstmasters November and the
| first general postal employees state
| meeting ever held in the west
Denver.-AccOrding to figures issued
by the national parks department at
Washington, 2l9, 9,164 persons visited the
Rocky Mountain National parks OF
Colorado during the summer season
this year. That number is more than
one-fifth of all the tourists who visited
all the parks of the nation this year.
The national total of parks visitors for
1922 was 1,044,53S, nearly 10000 more
| than the total for 1921.
Denver.-Greater respect for the
American constitution is aimed at in
proclamation issued by Governor
Shoup designating Oct. 10, the anniver
sary of the battle of Yorktown, as Con
| stitutiOn day. The governor urges that
| all citizens re-read the constitution on
that day and that schools and colleae es
observe the day with special programs
which will tend to make the constitu.
tion more familiar.
Colorado Springs. - The National
Druggists Association closed its ses
sion here with banquet at which n
address on legal matters was made by
c. S. Thomas, former United Sta. .es
senator from Colorado. No business
was transacted during the last day, the
delegates devoting the time to trips
through the mountains and to towns
close to the Springs.
Colorado Springs. = The Colorado
Springs Gazette has published an an,
uouncement of the sale of the paper
June l, 1922. by Clarence Phelps
Dodge to NJ. A. Ege Mr.. Ege has been
managing editor of the Gazette for the
last six years, and for twelve years
previous was business manager. Mr..
Dodge has been publisher of the paper
since 1904. 1t was founded March 23
1872, by the late Gen. w. ]. Palmer.
Trinidad.-Guilty of manslaughter
was the verdict returned by jury in
the District Court mt the conclusion OF
the trial of John Costroft, whose auto.
mobile crashed into Il motorcycle and
sidecar on the highway near Suffield
on May %. last, resulting in the deaths
of two little girls, Mary and Angelina
Cibello. 8 and Z years old, of Stark