The Colorado statesman., 1923-10-20
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS


Of labor except female employees.
Harvest of small grains completed;
threshing nearly done; most of the re-
leased agricultural workers afforded
employment in the numerous sugar
factories and sugar-beet fields in varl-
GUS sections of State. Harvesting OF
corn crop which is largest in the his
tory Of the State, has begun; no great
number of extra general farm hands
needed. Potato harvest well under
way has created slight shortage Of
pickers in San Luis Valley and In
some western slope counties. Harvest
ing of apple crop now under way pro-
vides employment for large number
of local workers and requiring some
additional outside help in the counties
of Mesa, Delta, and Montrose. Slight
shortage of farm labor in Weld coun
ty exists. Considerable activity noted
In metal mining Is resulting in addi-
tional miners needed at Ouray, Idaho
Springs, Breckenridge, Cripple Creek,
Lake City, Telluride, Sllverton, Man
cos and in the Durango district; es-
pecially are miners needed at Cripple
u
zinc mine at Gilman near Red Cliff
employing $50 miners, running steadl-
| ly. Saw mills at Red Cliff also oper-
ating to capacity. Construction of
| large power plant twenty-five miles
| north of Denver well under way; 300
workmen employed with demand for
additional men; work on connecting
| transmission line will start shortly.
Employment in most of the railway
shops increased; shops all running
full time.
Hugo.-Clarence NJ. Miles, jurist,
newspaper man and leader in amateur
sports, died of apoplexy here, the at
tack coming on as he was preparing
for a days session of the District
| Court. Judge Miles came to Hugo
from Denver, where he had been
| printer and college student, about thir-
| ty years ago. Twenty-Five years ago
| he established the Range Ledger,
which he has conducted with the as
sistance Of his son. For seven years
he had been county judge, serving al
so as clerk of the District Court.
Grand Junction.-Responslb for
the death of six men in an explosion
at the Midwest coal mines at Palisades
was fixed by coroner's jury upon X.
| T. Scott superintendent of the mine,
and one Of the six men killed. The
verdict of the jury declared that the
six men came TO their death by an ex-
plosion of gas in the mine, and that
their death was further caused by the
carelessness of Scott in permitting
mine workers to remain inside the
shafts while explosive gas was preva-
lent.
Sterling.-Details of the Coolidge plan
to give American farmers federal aid
through the organization of co-opera-
tive marketing organizations will be
| completed at Il conference in Denver
Oct. 80, when the national committee
| appointed In Chicago will meet with
the directors of the American Wheat
Growers Association, according to an
announcement issued here through the
| Colorado Wheat Growers Association.
The committee appointed includes for
mer Governor Lowden of Illinois.
Denver.-In the Federal Court the
United States filed a suit against the
Denver & Rio Grande Western for al
legged violation of the feeding-in-tran-
sit law, charging that there was no
cause for the failure TO obey the act.
The specific charge is that the railroad
transported Il carload of cattle from
Durango to Alamosa and that for more
than thirty-six hours did not unload,
feed and water the cattle.
Greeley.-Joseph Keyes and ID. ID.
Green of Denver, experts from the
camp west of Briggsvale, where prai-
rie dog determination experiments are
| being made. The two men are making
| extensive experiments with q new for
mua to be used in the determination
| of the rodents.
| Strasburg.-More than 800 farmers
attended a recent meeting in Stras-
burg that was arranged by Lee A.
Reynolds of Denver in the interest OF
better farming In the Kiowa valley.
| The speaker was II. w. Campbell OF
the agricultural department of the
| Southern Pacific, and a noted expert
on farming Mr.. Campbell declared
| that the 640-acre farm that prevails
in eastern Colorado is too large for
proper farming without irrigation, and
urged that the farms be cut down to
| 160 acres
Durango.-Mary Sloniker, II, who
escaped from the jail here Sept. 26,
after stealing the keys from the jailer,
was captured at Pennington, N. M, by
| Sheriff Howe and was returned to the
jail here: The girl also released Arch
| Stewart when she escaped and, accord
| ing to her story, rode horseback with
Stewart to New Mexico.
Denver-Lawyers who have opposed
| .I,1 lonnlitu of the nrnhihitinn amend.