The Colorado statesman., 1923-11-10
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS

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issued by the police surgeons. In June
only 405 cases were handled, but DUR
ing the three succeeding months the
monthly average was high. During the
month of October, the police ambu-
lance made POP emergency runs Six
teen persons were dead when the ann
bulance responded to calls Three OF
the deaths were due to suicide. Inc
police surgeons treated nine persons
who attempted suicide and carried 80
persons who were injured in accidents.
Five of the accident victims died from
their injuries. One hundred and forty
six persons were carried from one
point to another by the ambulance dur
ing the month, 103 of these being tax
en- to the county hospital.
Fort Collins.-Olln c. Krum, a grad
uate of Cornell University, has been
| appointed extension specialist in poul-
try at the Colorado Agricultural Col
lege to take the place left vacant by
the resignation of Harry ii. Embleton.
Mr.. Krum's work will take him to all
corners of the state during the next
few months, in addition to his duties
with the international egg-laying con-
test at Canon City. After graduating
from Cornell, in 1917, Mr.. Krum re-
mained at that institution as instructor
in poultry until he enlisted in the army
| in 1918 and served nine months over
seas. Upon his discharge he returned
to his former position, but in 1921 he
went to the Oregon Agricultural Col
lege at Corvallis as an instructor in
| httc t.-ha h.a
comes TO Colorado.
PueblO.-Alfred A. Peterson of Long
mont and Denver, was seriously in
| jured when his automobile was struck
| by a Missouri Pacific passenger train
| twenty-five miles east of Pueblo. He
is in Pueblo hospital where physi-
clans believe he will recover. His au-
| tomobile was completely wrecked and
he claims he did not see the approach
| ing train until the locomotive was
within n few feet Of him. The train
crew stopped, placed the injured man
aboard and brought him to Pueblo
His family resides in Denver but Pc
| terson has been employed in Long
mont for some time past. He had been
to Haswell to look after his property
there and was returning to Denver
and Longmont when the accident oc-
| Cured.
Fort Collins.-AIlss Maude Sheridan
state boys and girls club leader, at
the assembly of the Colorado School
of Agriculture at the Agricultural Col
lege at Fort Collins, presented checks
| to two boys, given as prizes by the
| Union Pacific railroad for those doing
| the best work in their club activities
in their respective counties Noah
Whitmore of Aroya, Colo, received a
check for $S226, and Ben Rogers of
Wellington a check for $50 Tile Union
Pacific prize is $75 for each county
through which the road runs.
Denver-Patrick Walker % years
old, Denver opticlan, with offices at
| 205 Sixteenth street, was abducted and
beaten by gang of five men and left
for dead in a lonely shack mile and
a half north of Riverside cemetery on
the Welby road. Walker, knocked un-
conscious by blows on the head with
revolvers, revived a few hours after
ward and caught Il ride into Denver
and to the East Denver police station
to report the attack.
Boulder-Eldridge Keith, age GO,
was found dead in his cabin near Pine
cliff few days ago by his neighbors,
who reported their discovery to Cor
oner Kelso of Boulder. Because of the
heavy SHOWS in the mountains the of
ficial had to use horses and sleigh to
get the body and was two days in max
ing the trip. Coroner KelsO stated
that death had been due, undoubtedly,
to heart disease.
Florence.-Appointme of Newell
r. Usher as postmaster at Florence
has been announced by the Postoffice
Department.
HaXtun.-At Il meeting of the farm
ers of the HaNtun community held in
the First National Bank it was agreed
that in good shucking corn they would
pay 6 cents per bushel to huskers and
provide room and board where the
farmer just furnishes dinner they
would pay Z cents, and where the men
boarded themselves they would pay 8
cents. Henry Hansen has 100 acres
of corn and he has picked 300 bushels
from five acres; Fred Finingsmeier
has 1G0 acres of crop making sixty
five bushels per acre, and other simi-
lar yields are reported. While few
are now husking, 1t will not start In
earnest until about Nov -, by which
time 1t is estimated 800 men can be
used.
Loveland-A bridge over the swol-
len Big Thompson river, four miles
west of Loveland, collapsed beneath
the weight of herd of cattle, and fif-
teen of the animals were plunged into
the water. Several head were rescued
after being carried some distance
downstream and others were badly in