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CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS. Glenwood Springs.-The state encampment of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the Department of ColoradoWyoming will, in all probability. be held in Glenwood Springs June 15-18, 1922 Merle Broughton post, No. 859, of Glenwood Springs and Clarence Bruce post, No. 836, of Carbondale are co-operating to make this first annual encampment the livellest convention ever held in Glenwood. The Glenwood Lions Club and other civic bodies are behind the movement, and as the veterans' encampment will be held during the annual strawberry day fete, a large attendance of veterans is expected. The Colorado hotel will be formaly opened by the veterans at that time. Banquets, dances, free swims and many other features of entertainment are being provided Grand Junction.--Gus J. Johnson, president of the Colorado State Asso ciation of County Commissioners, has issued a letter to the county commissioners of Colorado, calling their attention to the fact that the year's work will soon be opened and urging them to give preference to veterans of the world war. Mr. Johnson calls attention to an Associated Press dispatch that the American Legion is back of a movement to give work to 700,000 Idle veterans, and he says that It "is up to Colorado, particularly her public service departments, to do her share in finding employment" for these veterans within the state. Denver.-The Thirteenth Cavalry Polo and Hunt Club is planning a seven-team tournament at Fort Rus sel, Wyo., the first week of August and will invite the Denver Country Club, Colorado Springs and the Colorado National Guard, as well as Wyoming teams, to enter. In preparation for the season an indoor tournament, in which six three-men teams of the Thirteenth cavalry will compete was held in the Fort Russell riding hall last Saturday and Sunday. La Junta.-C. J. Matthews, said to be the missing cashier of the Osawatomie State Bank of Osawatomie, Kan., was arrested recently by Chief of Police Rose at La Junta and taken from a Santa F6 train on which he was riding from California to Kansas City. He is held in the Otero county jall at La Junta awaiting action by the Kansas authorities, who have been notified. The man was traveling without baggage and had only ST on him when ar rested. Brighton.-Arthur Sales, P. J. Berg man and Frank Olson, held in connection with the burgiary of the Wiggins Mercantile Company of Wiggins, Colo., which resulted in the death of D. J. Ashmore, a fourth member of the alleged bandit gang. were turned over to Morgan county officials after they had been taken to the spot where Ash more's body was found and had given additional information to the author ties. Denver.-Notices of the dissolution and discontinuance of business of two state banks have been filed with Sec. retary of State Milliken. They are the Illff State Bank at Illff, Colo., and the Wellington State Bank at Wellington, Colo. According to the papers filed with the state, business operations of the two banks were suxpended by agreement of the stockholders. Loveland.-The Loveland railway station was broken Into recently and three trunks, one of them containing jewelry and clothing valued at $1,500, were stolen. The rifled trunks were found later in Lake Loveland. The trunk containing the $1,500 worth of valuables belonged to Mrs. Burt Davis Denver.-The bi-annual convention of District No. 15. United Mine Work ers of America, which is being held In M. A. hall, voted overwhelmingly in favor of a strike April 1, Acting President Mike Livoda announced. Colorado Spring*.-H L. Shepherd, pioneer Cripple Creek land owner and holder of a big Interest in the Cresson mine, died at his Colorado Springs home of pneumonia. Cafion City.-The death of J. Henry Harrison. aged 78, at his home in Cafion City after a short Illness of pneumonia, removes one of the ploneers of the Arkansax valley and one of the oldest residents and best known citizens of Cafion City. Harrison was one of the few survivors of the fain, ous "Resurrectionists." a party of twenty pioneers who left Omaha in June, 1864, and arrived In Cafion City on Sept. 16 of the name year, having come by the old-time ox-team prairie schooner route. The events of their perilous three months' Journey over the plains have furnished fireside topics for many years. Denver.-Mrs. May Greadel, who has had charge of the cigar stand at the Brown Palace hotel for four years, was crushed to death near Cheyenne, Wyo., when the automobile in which she was riding with Manuel Wilson and Mrs. G. Betts. both of Denver, overturned and pinned her underneath.
