The Colorado statesman., 1924-07-05
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS

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and 10. Friday and Saturday. The city
of Boulder and the University of Colo
RADIO have undertaken to entertain and
from the tentative program arranged,
the time, day and night, will be well
filled with pleasurable events to keep
the visitors moving all the time. A big
beefsteak dinner on the mountains, a
moonlight swim in the new natatorium,
breakfast in the early dawn, are some
of the things. that will keep the men,
bers from getting too much sleep. All
Colorado publishers are asked to at
tend and those not now members of
the State Association will be given an
opportunity to hook up with live
bunch.
Rollinsvllle.-A shift OF the wind
saved this town, thirty-five miles west
of Denver, from possible destruction
by a fire that is raging in the Black
| Hihs section of the Colorado National
forest and that seemed about to sweep
over three miles of thickly wooded
land and engulf Rollinsville. The for
est fire broke out near Tolland.
Famed by twenty-five mile wind, the
| flames swept toward Rollinsville at the
rate of one mile an hour. Local forces
were unable to cope with the blaze
and it steadily gained headway until
at one time nearly one hundred acres
of timber were blazing.
Alamosa.-State prohibition agents
under the leadership of John r.
| Cn,ffh hn Co
valley in the biggest series of whisky
raids ever conducted in the region.
The raids followed up weeks of lnves-
| tigation and evidence was in hand
before the actual "clean-ups' COM
menced. At Blanca ten establish
ments were cleaned of their. liquor
supplies and four men, C. E. Lewis.
Joe Borgas, J. w. Shaw and Fred
Herrera, were Jailed. After completing
the Blanca raids the prohibition squad
moved over to Fort Garland.
Denver.-Outstandi features of
the Colorado Year Book for 1924, now
being distributed by the State Board
of immigration, are the inclusion for
the first time of a complete gazetteer
and comparative valuation tables
showing the assessed value placed
upon the different classes of land
since 1913 and the relative acreage
from year to year-the latter indicat-
ing the effect of changing assessed
valuations on the amount of acreage
reported in farms.
dams who were born in this country
will receive full citizenship rights, in
accordance with an act of Congress of
June 2, has been received in Denver
by Paul Armstrong, chief examiner for
the local board of naturalization. APP
proximately 100000 Indians all over
the country will now be entitled to
vote, hold public office, serve on
juries, etc Of this number there are
1,3S3 in, Colorado, dweilers chiefly on
the Ute reservation to the south of
Durango near the New Mexico line.
er-Postponement of authoriza-
ton of the payment Of S1,129,S95 in
terest due July l on Denver & Rio
Grande Western underlying bonds
again was made at a hearing before
Judge ]. Foster Symes. Several attor-
neys representing interested parties
were present before the federal judge
at the hearing. Further hearings will
be conducted before the court in an eff
fort to determine the means of paying
the interest.
Denver-Dan r. Grant, former may
or of Montrose and assistant cashier
of the First National Bank there, in
dicted for alleged embezzlement of
$4S,000 of the banks funds, was re-
fused trial at Montrose by United
States Judge J. Foster Symes. Judge
Symes declared that but one jury
would be drawn on the western slope
at the next term of court, and that
Grant would have to stand trial at
Grand Junction.
Loveland.-Woodtick are especial
ly numerous this year in the noun
tains and sagebrush country, and
their bites are very poisonous In
the North Fork locality ranger re-
ports that he recently found the re-
mains of five elk, all of which were
literally alive with ticks. The ticks
sap their strength and the elk are un-
able to rid themselves of them, with
the result that they lie down and die.
Durango.-S. B. Johnson, principal
of the Junior High school here, was
drowned in the swimming pool in the
basement of the high school building
where he had gone for an early even
ing plunge. 1t is believed that John
son was seized with sudden heart at
tack or struck his head on the bottom
of the pool when he dived into the wa
ter.
Boulder.-The eighth annual con-