The Raymer enterprise., 1923-03-22
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS

Nontrose.-Forty thousand dollars
will be paid to the beet growers Of the
western slope within the next few duys
BY the Holly Sugar Company. a. an
additional payment Of 81 per ton. ac-
cordlng to announcement Seven dol.
lars Q ton has already been paid BY
the western slope company and In ad-
ditlon to the 81 more to be paid soon
q further payment Of 81 may be made
later. The local company has already
paid 81 q ton more than any other su-
gar company In Colorado, officers say.
Boulder.-WIndsor High school won
the state basketball tournament here.
at the tournament Of the Colorado
State High School Association BY beat
ing Littleton In the final game ID to
IA. This places Llttleton In second
place and Pueblo In third, after three
days of fast play. Playing before a
crowd that packed the state arinory.
Littleton made a gallant stand to stem
the tide Of defeat, but the superior
teamwork Of the northern Colorado
champions proved too much.
| Pueblo.-Bettermen of transporta-
tion facilities In central, southern and
southwestern Colorado was the aim Of
meeting OF more than thirty repre-
sentative citizens from those sections
Of the state who met In all-day ses-
| sion ut the Pueblo Commerce Club.
| Airing OF transportation grievances
and plan for the consolidation Of the
Denver 4 Rio Grande Western rail.
road with the Santa Fe lines west from
Pueblo was the theme discussed ut the
meeting.
Fort Morgan.-Oscar W. Heller was
instantly killed, and his daughter
Bessie, q years old, died twenty minutes
later, when the automobile In which
they were riding was struck by the
engine Of Burlington passenger
train ut the track crossing one mile
southwest Of this city. The touring
car was tossed In the air and the third
occupant, u 4-year-old son Of Heller,
was thrown eighty feet, alighting in
the weeds by the side Of the track.
Denyer.-The combined national
forest, state land and homestead land
areas Of the state Ut the beginning Of
1873 amounted to 24,l95,656 acres, or
| sf tho fnfnl "a nf th..
state, according to compilations made
by the state immigration department
for use in the 1923 edition Of the Coi-
RADIO Year Book. At the same time
the patented land area Of the state
amounted to 81, 2,l92,022 acres, Or 1852
per cent of the total area.
Denyer.-The state returned to u
cash basis when Hurry +. Mulnix,
state treasurer, called in approximate
ly S7OO,OOO worth Of state warrants.
When these have been redeemed, there
will still be outstanding S20O,0OO worth
| Of 1922 warrants, which will be retired
next month. All 1873 warrants are be-
ing cashed at the treasurers office,
Mulnix said. This call was the largest
ever issued for Colorado warrants.
Colorado Springs.-The city Of Colo
RADIO Springs has filed suit In the Dis
trict Court asking that the Colorado
Springs Light, Heat and Power Com.
pany be enjoined to construct three
mile pipe line on the slopes Of Pixies
Peak. Building of the pipe line was
provided for In the franchise issued to
George W. Jackson, Sept. s, 1898, un-
der which the present company is or
Grating.
Denver.-Senator Samuel d. Nichol-
son of Colorado, who has been Ill for
the past two weeks, Is now resting at
Rochester, Mimi, where he has en-
tered the Mayo hospital for examina-
ton. Puzzled us to the exact cause
Of the senator's illness, Mr.. Nicholson's
Washington physician suggested he
visit the Mayo brothers, who are ex-
perts on diagnosis.
Fort Colllns.-The debating team Of
the Colorado Agricultural College won
a 2.to-l decision over the team from
the Washington State College at Pull
man, Wash. The Washington debat-
ers having been making tour of
western and middle west colleges, and
have lost all of their contests, each by
the same decision Of to l.
Boulder-.Joe Mills resigned as as
sistant football coach at Colorado uni
versity at meeting Of the athletic
board here. Mills was head coach ut
G. U. in l9lS-19 and assistant in 1920
q. He had leave of absence during
the season Of 1923. He will return
next year to coach basketball and
track. He requested that basketball
practice started at the university in the
fall this coming season.
Canon City.-Lemme Crosse, train
bandit, and penitentiary breaker,
called the most dangerous convict ever
confined in Colorado prison. is back
again behind the walls Of the Canon
City penitentiary. Crosse, who escaped
the Colorado prison by concealing him
self In a barrel Of swilI, breathing
through straw. was brought back to
Colorado from Texas.
Greeley-Dry farmers Of northern
Weld county, aided by Greeley land
owners, win complete part Of the