The Raymer enterprise., 1923-05-03
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS

concluded recently their sixth annual
meeting. The closing session featured
concert by the Music and Art Club
Of Hotchkiss. The last day Of the
convention started with press
breakfast conference at the Hotchkiss
hotel. Mrs. A. G. Fish, president Of
the press department Of the state or
ganization, met with the editors and
reporters OF the various clubs. At
noon u complimentary luncheon was
served by the Women's Wednesday
Club Of Hotchkiss to the delegates.
Items Of interest dealing principally
with education formed the chief top
les at the afternoon session, with the
principal address by Miss Alice Bur
nett, superintendent Of Delta county
schools. Mrs. T. A. McHarg Of Boul.
der. state president, delivered m ad-
dress at the afternoon session. Mrs.
N. II. Flynn and Mrs. ]. A. Rea pre-
sided at the afternoon session.
| Grand Junction.-The caitlemen on
Douglas creek are rejoicing, Jay Near
Ing, government trapper, Is IN exhaust
ed man and seven gray wolves have
ceased to roam the ranges and prey
upon live stock and game. The trap
per found the trail Of big wolf and
followed 1t hour after hour until he
reached point about twenty-five
miles north Of Fruita ut the head Of
Sphinx canon. where he came suddenly
upon the den and shot the mother wolf
as she retreated up the hillside. She
was seven feet, three inches long and
stood nearly four feet high. He then
closed all exits 10 the hole and went
in with some gunnysacks. emerging
after hours Of hard work with the six
pups, Weighing twenty-five pounds
each. He had enlisted the aid Of Dale
Mitchell. cattleman, In capturing the
| pups, and the two Of them brought the
animals to Grand Junction, where they
Grated them for shipment TO the state
gume warden In Denver.
Grand JunctIon.--Peach growers ut
| Palisade have organized the first CO.
operative, non-proflt sharing organlza-
ton in the state of Colorado, which
comes under the law recently adopted
by the State Legislature. Eighty per
cent Of the peach growers In the Pal
lsade district have signed up as mem
bers Of the new association, agreeing
to do all their marketing through as
sociation officials for the next five
years, and binding themselves with
notes covering large percentage Of
the value Of their land, In which they
agree to forfeit to the association up
on failure to live up to their contract.
Directors Of the association for the
next year are John Cutter, Frank Hat
ter, A. q. Tilton, W. J. Stebbins and
J. D. Reeder. The membership Of the
advisory committee Is composed Of
George W. Bowman, F. Z. Port, J. Il.
Best and II. II. Butterfield.
Denver.-Physicians In the research
department Of the National Jewish
Hospital at Denver have made a dis
covery which may not only place tuber-
culosis control within the reach Of
medical science, but may also result In
making Colorado the medical center Of
the world. These physicians say they
have discovered that carbonic gas Is
deadly poison to the germ of tubercu-
losis. This discovery. II Is said, Is the
greatest In medical science. While 1t
may not In Its present state Of develop
ment assure control Of tuberculosis,
the dlscoverers say 1t will lead to Il
subsequent discovery and thereby
bring about results which will serve
to standardize methods of cur
Ing the disease, the most deadly OF
three master diseases, the remaining
two being cancer and pneumonia, they
claim.
Boulder.-Prof. and Mrs. T. d. A.
Cockerell have applied for passports to
Siberia. where they plan to spend the
summer investigating u new fossil bed
that has been opened up there. Pro-
fessor Cockerell believes that from
samples he has received the Siberian
fossil bed Is the same Us that ut Flor
issant, Colo. where he and Mrs. Cock
erell have conducted extensive studies.
Loveland.-The city Of Loyeland Is
to have a new water system costing
$3.50, 900, according to a decision made
public by Mayor ". E. Banks and
members Of the city council. Declar
ing that an emergency exists, the coun-
ell has sanctioned the early part Of
preliminary arrangements without the
necessity Of a vote by the people for
a bond issue. A new settling basin will
be erected In the mountains, eight
miles from Loveland, on the Big
Thompson road and the water will be
piped in twenty-four-inch mains. Love-
land Is also installing twenty-seven
blocks Of paving and new sewer sys-
TEN.
Colorado Springs.-Jack and Ben
Pritchard, arrested In an auto contain-
ing portable still and q small armory
pleaded guilty to violation Of the dry
law, and each was fined 500 and sent
to jail for sixty days. When their
sentences are ended they are to face
charges Of resisting an officer. The
weapons In the car were said to be
three rifles, two pistols and 800 to 500