The Arvada enterprise., 1923-01-25
CENTENNIAL sTAr1 ITEMS

18th with two carloads of steers
weighing LAO pounds each, which
sold for $40 = hundredweight. These
steers were mountain-bred Herefords,
the first out Of some four hundred
head Mr.. Baker Is feeding on corn and
alfalfa hay on his Colorado ranch.
One never needs be surprised to learn
that good, fat Hereford cattle have
reached the market from the most un-
expected places. Only few yeara
ago eastern Colorado was the home OF
the prairie dog and the owl. and no
feeding of live stock was attempted.
This past year Kit Carson county
raised big grain and hay crops, and
| ut the present time there IL corn.
wheat and alfalfa piled up along the
railroads at shipping points waiting
cars to haul 1t to market. Several
large punches Of good Herefords are
on full feed In the county. Eastern
Colorado is rapidly taking on the as
pect of a prosperous farming and live
stock section, and the successful farm
ers and stockmen there are feeding
Herefords.
Denver.-Advice Is at hand at the
Denver office of the Burlington route
that the opening and closing dates Of
the tourist season in national parks
will be us follows: Rocky Mountain
National park, open June Is. close
Oct. 1. Yellowstone National park.
open June ~. close Sept. 70. Glacier
National park. open June Is. close
Sept. Is. Mount Rainier National
park. open June Is. close Sept. Is.
Crater Lake National park, open July
/. close Sept. 30. Mesa Verde Nation
al park. open May Is, close Nov. /.
Sequoia National park, open May "A.
close Oct. TO- General Grant National
park, open May "a, close Oct. 10. Wind
Cave National park. open June /, close
Sept. 80. Zion National park. open
May IS. close Oct. 10. Lassen VOL
canic National park, open June 1, close
Sept. Is. Yosemite, Grand Canon, Hot
Springs, Plat. Lafayette and Hawaii
National parks are open the year
round.
AVOo<AAA0o VA -
worth of first-class mall, parcel post
packages and express matter were de-
stroyed In an explosion aboard an
American Railway express cur ut Bea-
yer creek, near here. The car was at
tached to a Denver 4 Rio Grande
Western train. Among other merchan-
disc the car was carrying cargo Of
scetylene tanks from Denver. Some Of
these tanks exploded in some mysteri-
GUS manner, according to train Off
cials, and blew out the side Of the
modern all-steel express coach.
Denver.-The daring bandit who
stood up on the running board Of an
automobile % the men who robbed u
Federal Reserve Bank truck Of $780,
OOO In front Of the Denver mint on
Dec. 18 last. sped away amid 4 rain Of
bullets from guards, paid with his life.
Deserted by his pals the body Of the
dead robber-bslieved to be the leader
Of the band-was found In q private
garage near Seventeenth and Gilpin
streets, in the fashionable Capitol Hill
residence district, where It had been
nearly q month.
Boulder.-A new electrical power
plant. the lsrt Ut ever constructed on
an artificial lake. will be erected at
once at q cost Of - 1000. 600 at Boulder
lake, four miles from this city. by the
Western Light and Power Company.
In addition. t8.000.000 more will be
1900 k~,, Hhn .s~n romnanv Por hivh
power voltage lines into Denver, Boul-
der, Greeley and Cheyenne and for
other Improvements.
Denver.-A highway project for the
concrete paving Of ~ miles Of road.
between Atwood and MerinO. Colo.
completing a stretch Of nearly thirteen
miles between MerinO and Sterling.
was submitted Monday by the State
Highway Department to- the federal
roads bureau. The cost will be $685.
O89.90, Of which the government will
pay 50 per cent and the state the bal
ance.
Erie.-Charles Nowlln. mine work
er, was shot and killed while strug-
Cling with one Of three masked ban
dts who held up Nowlln and five com.
panIons in IA bOxcar mine shack ut the
camp OF the Boulder Valley Coal Com.
pany. neur here. The bandits, sud to
be Mexicans, escaped with approx
mutely $500.
Boulder.-Sixty members Of faculties
Of other institutions have been select.
ed to ussist the professors of the Uni.
vsrsity OF Colorado ut the summer SEES.
sion Of 1923. This IL IN increase Of
eighteen over the nonresident list Ut
Lust year and was made necessary by
the greut Increase that II expected In
students.
Denver.-At the january meeting Of
directors of the Denver Young Mems
Christian Association. Gov. William +.
Sweet WAS reelected president for the
twenty fourth consecutive year; Frnnk