The Colorado statesman., 1923-05-19
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS

cast Tor the lJ23 season promises
possible crop of 1874 900 bushels, ac-
cordlng to the May 1 federal-state CO.
operative crop report just issued. This
estimate is based upon the May con-
dition of 65 per sent, which represents
an equivalent of about thirteen BUSH
els per acre upon 1,057,000 acres, the
estimated area left for harvest. Most
ly due to long drought period, in
some sections dating back more than
year, winter wheat suffered the un-
usually heavy abandonment of 33 per
cent of the acreage sown last autumn.
The abandonment last year was 20
per cent and the average for the past
five years has been 9.6 per cent.
Boulder.-Four records smashed
and one tied established the Colorado
Interscholastic high school meet at
Boulder as the greatest yet held in
this region. Nearly 400 of the picked
athletes of the state, representing
every section, struggled throughout
the day to put the colors of the re-
spective schools to the fore and the
final summing up found Fort Collins
High School far in the lead with 371A
points. Her nearest competitor was
Grand Junction, with 81 points. The
Denver schools participated for the
first time in many years.
Denver.-Crops in an area twenty
miles by nine miles in Rio Blanca and
MOffat counties are threatened with
total extinction this year by plague
of Mormon crickets, according to urg-
ent appeals for aid pouring into the Of
fices of Governor Sweet. Organiza-
tions of farmers and city dwellers have
been unable to raise the $500 re-
quired to combat the plague, according
to a message from c. l.. Corkins, dep
uty state entomologist and appeal is
made to Denver to raise funds.
Durango.-The search for William
Lantz, who murdered Glisson Keith
and wounded Harry Gordon, still con-
tinues In the mountain businesses.
The fugitive, who is heavily armed,
has been trailed into the mountains
northeast of Durango. He abandoned
his automobile and took to the hills.
Henry and Joe Lantz, two sons of the
fugitive, are being held by the author
tiles on a technical charge, so that
they cannot aid their father to escape.
Fort Collins.-Jake Becker is dead
and Mrs. Becker and their 3-year-old
daughter, Lorene, are in dangerous
condition as the result of n stroke of
lightning. They were standing in the
doorway of barn on the farm Of
Ed F. Munroe, northeast of Waverly,
which they rented. Lightning struck
the top of the barn and ripped down
a wall, striking Becker in the back Of
the head. He was killed instantly.
Greeley.-A grain elevator and gro
Gerry store at Gill, Colo, was complete
ly destroyed by fire recently with
loss approximately $4,000. The
Greeley fire department was called but
was only able to prevent further
spread of the flames. A bucket brigade
fought the fire before the Greeley de-
parement arrived. The loss is said to
be well covered by insurance.
Pueblo.-By a vote of more than
ten to one, residents of school district
No. 20 voted to issue bonds of $780,
600 to raise funds for the purchase of
additional school grounds, construct
ing new school buildings on the south
side of the city and to fund the float
ing Indebtedness. The latter involves
100000 of the total.
Fort Collins.-The Colorado Agri-
cultural College captured the triangu-
lar track meet over the University of
Wyoming and the Colorado School of
Mines here with 81 points. Wyoming
came second with SO points while the
Dynamiters trailed with IL tallies.
Golden.-Six inmates of the State
Industrial School for Boys at Golden
are dead, nearly thirty others are in
the hospital and all of the $50 boys in
the school have been given antitoXin
as the result of a diphtheria epidemic
at the institution.
Pueblo.-Rudolfo Caberello, Mexican
employee of the Minnequa Steel
Works, died after having been shot
by L. w. Nye at the rooming house
operated by Nye's mother. Nye
claims the Mexican was trying to get
into his mothers room, and fled when
Nye tried to stop him. Nye, who is
railway postal clerk, is being held
until coroner's jury returned a YER
dict.
Littleton.-Attorneys w. II. Dick
son of Denver and II. A. Griffith,
formerly of Caldwell, Idaho, were
fined 500 each by District Judge F.
w. johnson for contempt of court in
connection with the trial of George
Griffith for the alleged Staying at
Deertrail last Christmas eve, of How
ard Hamilton, and the serious wound
Ing of Miss Pearl Occur, as the pair
were leaving the dance hall.
Aguilar-Ten men lost their lives in