The Colorado statesman., 1923-01-27
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS

| 18th with two carloads of steers
weighing lao pounds each, which
sold for S9.40 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 I'M
| expected places. Only n few years
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
at the present time there is 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.
Rocky Ford.-The annual meeting of
the Otero County Poultry Association
was held recently in Rocky Ford, when
the following officers were elected:
President, c. NJ. Herren of La Junta;
vice presidents, James Clevenger of
Rocky Ford and Oscar Houston of La
Junta; secretary, Mrs. u. Il. Phillips
of Rocky Ford; treasures Mrs. III. Z.
Beatty of Rocky Ford. Plans are being
laid for an even greater show ut the
Arkansas Valley Fair than was given
last year, and James Clevenger was
appointed superintendent. 1t is
planned to conduct an educational
campaign this winter with meetings
the first of each month, TO which all
interested in the breeding of better
poultry will be welcomed and at which
some of the best experts in the coun-
try will be heard. 1t is planned to use
three judges ut the coming show in
connection with the fair, one of whom
will judge the American classes, one
the Mediterranean and the third the
others.
Denver.-Advice is at hand at the
Denver office of the Burlington route
lllul lue Opthllb anu NicSti6 NosNo DN
the tourist season in national parks
will be as follows: Rocky Mountain
National park, open June 10, close
Oct. 1. Yellowstone National park,
open June 20, close Sept. 20. Glacier
National park, open June Is, close
Sept. 15. Mount Rainier National
park, open June 15, close Sept. 10.
Crater Lake National park, open July
l, close Sept 80 Mesa Verde Nation
al park, open May Is, close Nov. ].
Sequoia National park, open May "a,
close Oct. 10. General Grant National
park, open May "a, close Oct. 10. Wind
Cave National park, open June l, close
Sept. 80. Zion National park, open
asay IS, close Oct. Is. Lassen Vol
canic National park, open June 1, close
Sept. Is. Yosemite, Grand Canon, Hot
Springs, Platt, Lafayette and Hawaii
National parks are open the year
round
Denver.-The daring bandit who
stood up on the running board of an
automobile as the men who robbed u
Federal Reserve Bank truck of $780,
900 in front of the Denver mint on
Dec. 1S last, sped away amid rain of
bullets from guards, paid with his life.
Deserted by his pals the body of the
dead robber-believed to be the leader
of. the band-was found in private
garage near Seventeenth and Gilpin
streets, in the fashionable Capitol Hill
residence district
Denver-A highway project for the
concrete paving of AZ miles of road,
between Atwood and Merino, Colo,
completing 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 $163,-
O3999, of which the government will
pay SO per cent and the state the bal
ance.
Pueblo.-Thousands of dollars
packages and express matter were de-
stroyed in an explosion aboard an
American Railway express car at Bea-
yer creek, near here: The car was at
tached to Denver & Rio Grande
Western train. Among other mercnan-
disc the car was carrying cargo of
acetylene 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.
ErIe.-Charles Nowlin, a mine work
er, was shot and killed while strug-
Cling with one of three masked ban
dts who held up Nowlin and five com
nonions in a boxcar mine shack at the
camp of the Boulder Valley Coal Com
nany. near here The bandits, said to