Plan to return Ute land
An article appeared in the Monday issue of the Denver Post which stated that a plan is afoot in the Indian bureau to secure for the Ute Indians all the unappropriated public lands in this section of Colorado. State and federal officials were informed by a plan on the part of the Indian bureau in Washington to give back to the Ute nation all of the unappropriated public lands in most of the western third of Colorado. The evidence consists of a land withdrawal order which, unknown to many officials, mining association heads, stockmen and oil operators, has been gathering dust in the post office building here more than a year. Under the order all the public land west of the 107 meridian in Colorado and south of the fortieth parallel is withdrawn not only from homestead entry but also from mining and oil explorations. The order says, in effect, that if the Utes want to take the land involved in the withdrawal order back “to tribal ownership,” they will be allowed to do so under an act passed by congress June 18, 1934.
Flanders is Treasurer
C.L. Flanders was named treasurer of the town of Dolores at the last meeting of the town board, succeeding Mrs. Vura H. Sommers who has resigned. Mr. Flanders has had considerable experience in town affairs and should be able to fill the position most admirably.
Potato growers
Potato growers in the San Luis Valley and other parts of Colorado can control rhizoctonia – a black scurf on some potatoes – by not growing potatoes on the same ground oftener than once in five years, says Carl Mtezgar, associate horticulturist for Colorado State College experiment station.
Electricity votes
Votes taken in the Riksdag, the parliament of Sweden, are counted by electricity. On the desk of each deputy are three buttons. When a vote is taken the deputy p presses the button which records his opinion, and within a minute the total results appear in luminous figures behind the seat of the president.
