The Colorado statesman., 1923-09-08
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS

| for example, show great discrepancies
\ and there is possibility that Boulder
| civic interests will demand that Weld
countys valuation be increased or that
Boulder county make a corresponding
| decrease. The two counties border
each other. In Weld county automo-
biles are appraised on an average of
| S1S6.67, Il decrease of nearly 500 over
last year. In Boulder county the valu-
alton on autos averages S26656. Irri-
| gated land in Weld county Is assessed
| S101.17; in Boulder, $112.32; dry farm
Ing, S1132 in Weld, $34.02 in Boulder;
horses, S45.23 in Weld, S54.75 In Boul-
der; mules, S46.64 compared to $13.67
in Boulder; range cattle, $23.47 in
| Weld, $25.31 in Boulder; mllch cows,
$41.7S In Weld; S43.2S in Boulder.
Denver.-The Ames Foresters Of
Iowa State College arrived in Denver
few days ago on their return from
| their summer course of twelve weeks
study in the Arapahoe national forest
on the Fraser river, near Fraser, Colo.
| The students have been taking an in
| tensive course, studying various prob
| lens connected with forestry, such as
| silviculture, surveying, timber cruis-
ing and subjects connected with graz
| ing and geology, under the instruction
| of Prof. d. S. Jeffers and Prof. Per
| kins p. Coville. The students went to
Littleton to study plains flora, partic-
ularly grazing plants, since grazing
has become an important item in ma
| tional forestry.
Colorado Springs.-Friction between
| Sheriff Berkley on the one side and
the police department and District At
torney Willis L. Strachan on the other,
was the outstanding development of
the fifth day of the Elsie Jorgenson
Suttle murder mystery. AS result
of their differences, the sheriff is un-
derstood to have withdrawn in large
measure from the case, and left the
| task of hunting down the perpetrator
of the crime to Chief Hugh D. Harper
and the district attorneys office. Sher-
| iff Berkley let 1t be known that his
| theory was that the crime was an 'in-
side job"
Observation-Disclosures crews of the
State Highway Department will begin
| the erection of 1,500 new road signs in
the near future, according to an an
nouncement made by officials of the
department. The signs, giving direc-
ton and distances of the nearest
towns, have been delivered by the
Rocky Mountain Motorists, an organ
ization formed to encourage highway
travel in the state. The signs have
been paid for by this organization and
Ta,~ 4.
fray the cost of erection.
Denver-A new angle of investiga-
ton in connection with the looting of
the Hibernia Bank and Trust Company
developed recently when the author
ties started checking up an alleged
statement of Maurice Mandell, boy
broker, accused of a hand in the
wrecking of the bank, to the effect
that part of the $465,000 in loot was
removed from the bank vaults three
days before the crash, and, in his opin-
ion, was hidden by Leo 2. Floyd, for
mer secretary of the bank, and John
Harrington, former teller.
Boulder.-At the annual commence
ment exercises Sept. at the Univer-
sity of Colorado twenty-four persons
received master of arts degrees. OF
the twenty-four, ten are holders of
bachelor of arts degrees from the
State University, while the others are
graduates of Denver, Tennessee, Chi
cago, Iowa, Brown, Bethel, Pittsburgh,
Friends and Indiana universities and
West Texas Normal, Bradley Polytech
mic, Rice Institute, St Xavier, Texas
-iot, DrIrry cnllaDaC
Denver.-The application of the Den
yer & Rio Grande railroad to discon-
tinue it's suburban train between Den
yer and Fort Logan and Littleton was
denied in a decision handed down by
the State Public Utilities Commission.
Colorado Springs. - Following the
resignation of Sheriff Sam Berkley
from the Elsie Suttle murder investi-
CATION, and his charge of n lack of CO.
operation on the part of police and the
district attorneys office, District At
torney Willis Stracham declared that
1t was and is the duty of the sheriff to
continue to aid the district attorneys
office in the probe of the murder
which occurred recently and that he
knew of no lack of cooperation.
Denver.-James Allen Matlack of
Longmont, and Hugh Vance Posey of
Hugo, were commissioned in the of
ficers' reserve corps of the United
States army recently. Matlack was
appointed captain in the medical corps
and Posey captain in the Infantry.
Durango. - Attempting to kill
skunk which had been bothering his
family for the past few night, Lafay-
ette Current, 60, one of the best-known
lawyers of Aztec, met instantaneous
death when his shotgun was accident
ally discharged.