The Colorado statesman., 1924-05-24
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS

| Jury returned indictments against -FOUR
officials of the defunct Kersey State
Bank, charging that as officers of the
bank they received deposits to the ex-
tent of $31 ,221 after they had knowl-
edge of the banks insolvency. The
men indicted are: Il. c. ShumalSer,
president; George ii. Simpson, vice
president; w. c. Walker, cashier. and
II. +. Woolsey, assistant cashier. The
Kersey State Bank closed its doors
Dec. 20. 1923. and has since been in
charge of Grant McFerson, state bank
commissioner. Five banker members
served on the jury returning the in
3ictments, and 11S witnesses, most of
them dcpositors, testified.
Denver-The production of T40.14
pounds of butter fat and 14,733 pounds
of milk in 365 days, notable record,
has been made by Christine OF Elm
Place 39502S, n Colorado COW owned
by G.. V. Gimple of Clifton, according
to announcement by the American Jer-
sey Cattle Club. Christine's record
| shows that for eight months she pro-
duced In excess of sixty pounds of but
| ter fat for a month and for two of the
months her production ran more than
seventy pounds of butter fat. Chris
tine was sired by Elm Place ToronO
1894 that has five daughters in the
register Of merit. Four or these pro-
duced more than 600 pounds of fat on
their second test.
Denver-The toll of life in crossing
accidents during last year on lines con-
trolled by the Union Pacific Railroad
Company is set forth in n report re-
Gently compiled by the company. out
of 1876 crossing accidents during the
year, thirty-two of them occurred in
| Colorado and resulted in six persons
being killed and thirteen injured in
this state, according to the report.
| total of eighteen persons were killed
and thirty-seven injured, many of them
seriously. This is an increase of
thlrty-three accidents over the 1922 re-
| cord as well as an increase of ten per-
sons killed and nineteen injured.
Denver-Ex-service men will be
given a ninety-one day preferential
right to file on the 1900 acres of
land to be thrown open to desert and
homestead entry in Teller, Fremont,
Rio Blanco, Moffat and Gunnison
counties, according to reports from
Washington. The land in question is
said to be agricultural in nature and
chiefly valuable for grazing. The Colo
RADIO acreage is part of nearly 253,-
300 acres that will be thrown open to
entry in this state and in Nevada,
Utah, Wyoming and New Mexico at
the same time, definite date to be an
nounced later.
Boulder.-Between fifty and 100 peo-
pie narrowly escaped serious injury
when a temporary grandstand erected
on Gamble field at the University of
Colorado collapsed, dropping them to
the ground. The stand, erected hur-
riedly for the School of Mines-Univer-
sity baseball game, is believed to have
been faulty in construction. The top
tier OF seats was only ten feet from
the ground. None of the spectators fell
beneath the seats. An end section of
twenty feet collapsed.
Pueblo.-A campaign to eradicate
| plant aphis that has spread over the
alfalfa fields near the st. Charles riv-
er, east of Pueblo, will be organized
| by farmers in the vicinity working
with the State Agricultural College at
Fort Collins and the county agent. w.
| II. Sawhill, county agent of the dis
trict, has sent samples of the aphls-in-
| fected plants to the college for exam
nation. The spread of the aphis
started recently.
| Boulder.-Veyner Engstrom, 80 years
old, an electrician employed at the
| Boulder county tunnel, twenty-five
| miles west of here, was killed almost
| instantly when n gasoline tank from
which he was drawing a can of the
fluid, expladed. Engstrom had lighted
a match to see more clearly.
Colorado Springs.-A special COM
mittee was appointed by Joseph Web
er, president of the American Fedora
ton of Musicians, to investigate the
possibility of locating national home
for the tuberculosis sick of the organ
ization, either in Colorado Springs, the
| Pixies Peak region, Denver and else
where in Colorado and the nation The
committee will make extensive inves-
tigation. reporting back at the 1928
| convention.
Boulder-The IL o'clock rule of the
Womens Self Government Association
of the University of Colorado should
be repealed according to the Silver
and Gold, which was issued by the
newly organized Women's Press AS
sociation. The editor, Grace McCrim-
mon, declared that the rule was not
being kept because it was unreason-