The Raymer enterprise., 1923-04-26
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS

Denver. The Colorado winter
wheat condition Is reported By CORE.
spondents a. IS per cent Of normal.
This Ia the lowest condition in recent
years, and Is % points below the ten.
year average, according to the April
report Of the division Of crop and live
stock estimates In cooperation with
the Colorado State Board Of Immigra-
ton. Rye Is rated at 81 per cent, Is
points below the ten-year average.
The number Of brood sows Is reported
as 10 per cent above the number at
this time last year.
Denver.-Telegrams to the COVER
nors Of Wyoming. Utah and New Mex.
leo, urging them to have represents.
tives at the hearing OF the federal
power commission In the office Of the
secretary Of war. April Is, on the ap-
pllcauon Of James Is. Grand for q
power license on the Colorado river at
Diamond Creek. Anz., were sent by
Gov. William Z. Sweet The governor
Is opposing Glrands application, as
well as others. In view Of the fact that
the Colorado river pact has not been
ratified by Arizona.
Fort Collins-The stock judging
team Of the Fort Collins high school
will represent the scholastic institu-
tons OF Colorado ut the international
meet In Chicago In November and the
Interstate meet In Denver next Janu-
ary, as q result Of the state contest
held here. Fort Collins won the state
championship with a total Of 2,507 out
Of q possible $3.50 points. Rocky Ford,
1922 champion. was second with 2,53S
points.
Canon City.-A band Of daylight
robbers was broken up here when the
police arrested Albert Ortez, Frank
Deporta and Alberto Montoya and
found In their possession several hun
dred dollars worth Of stolen goods,
most Of 1t the property Of local mer-
chants. The plan followed by the men
was for all three Of them to enter q
store and while two Of them engaged
the attention Of employees the third
man would lift the goods.
Cripple Creek.-The shaft on the
Cresson mine Is to be sunk 800 feet
farther In the hope Of developing rich
veins, the existence Of which has been
proved by explorations with a diamond
drill. The seventeenth level is the
lowest in the mine at present, at u
depth Of 1900 feet. When the shaft
gets down twenty-five feet farther 1t
will encounter the water level. Pumps
have been put In to raise this water
and permit Of further sinking.
Durango.-Steve Elkins, 53, noted
hunter of big game, fell from hay
NOW at Willow Park, twenty-five
miles northwest Of Durango. during
the night and his body was found with
the neck broken, at daylight a few
days ago. Elkins was plotting a party
Of Fasteners on game hunt and
went to sleep In the haymow. During
the night he turned over, evidently,
and rolled to an opening In the floor.
Denver.-The storm which for sew
eral weeks has been brooding over the
federal prohibition office here, the
near approach Of which was signaled
by the resignation Of Director McClen.
ahan, has burst. AS result, Ben Eng
lander. suspended some weeks ago, was
removed. Four agents, Daniel J. Gaf-
fy, Charles J. Mattel, Fred Z. Klein
and Dale Hunt. have been suspended
while charges are investigated.
Boulder.-Prof. and Mrs. T. D. A.
Cockerell have applied for passports to
Siberia, where they plan to spend the
summer investigating 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 as that at Flor
issant, Colo, where he and Mrs. Cock
erell have conducted extensive studies.
Boulder.-Two hundred thousand
dollars are sought by Il. F. Jones Of
Eldorado Springs in suit that Is to
begin trial here April 80 against the
Order Of Railway Conductors and the
Brotherhood Of Railroad Tralnmen
whom he charges with conspiracy to
prevent him from securing regular en-
ployment with the Colorado & South
ern and the Denver Interurban.
Pueblo. p. Vey, farmer, living
at Undercllffe, Colo, twenty-one miles
southeast Of Pueblo, narrowly escaped
death, and the new touring car he was
driving was destroyed while he was on
his way home. The car slipped from
the highway. skidding in soft dirt,
overturned into q ditch by the road
side and caught fire. Vey succeeded
In crawling from under the machine
and escaped injury.
Fort Collins.-A more extensive and
more intensive religious work program
was launched at the Fort Collins Y.
NJ. c. A. In a conference Of local Off
cials Of the association and represen.
tatives Of the state association and
other Y. N. c. A. workers.
Pueblo.-Fighting like champion,
bud Hamilton, Denver bantamweight
knocked out Joe Mandell Of Chicago In
the second round Of a scheduled
twelve-round bout here In the Ameri-