The Dolores star., 1909-09-24
STATE NEWS NOTES

FREE city mail delivery was installed |
in Montrnse last week. The receipts
II the postofFice At that place Increased
50 percent during the fiscal year ending
July I.
The GIenwood Springs board OF trade
have taken steps tn form an organiza-
tIon which will boost Garfield county.
A call has been issued for . meeting TO
he held at Rife OH Apple Pie day, Sep
tember %, to formulate plans.
The case sgainst Charles b. Carr
and the Gibson Lumber company, In
which the defendants were charged
with cutting timber illegally, was not
tried In the United States circuit court
At Montrose last week, rs was intended,
but was compromised out Of court and
the case dismissed.
George Wilcox, . 14-year-old boy,
way killed Sunday at Telluride by
sand bank caving In Oh him. He with
. number Of other boys were excavating
in the old cynide sand pile near
Pandora, when the bank caved iii,
covering young Wilcox to depth Of
three feet. He was dead when dug out.
Mrs. Ella Hinkle of Greeley, saved
tie lives Of her three children, one day
last week 10y picking up gasoline
stove after the flames had reached the
tank, and carrying 1t into the yard,
h.. 1a
nre but Mrs. Hinkle had the blaze
under control before the fire company
arrived. She was burned about the
face and hands.
Gas filters working In the home of
Henry Baker at Pueblo, failed to con-
meet or stop half-inch gas pipe before
qitting the. job with the result that
when Baker smelled gas and walked
into the cellar with lighted match
terrible expulsion occurred, which blew
him backward and up the cellar stairs
almost through the door. He was
bruised and slightly burned.
The body OF Arthur w. Allen was
found In gulch near Telluride by two
boys, Saturday. Allen disappeared
from Telluride the 18th of last Noven,-
her, and although rewards OF several
hundred dollars were offered by the
Masonic and Elk lodges for inforrna ton
concerning his whereabouts, his re-
mains we're not found until Saturday.
He was member of the Elk and
Masonic lodges.
Frank Levin was fined $40 and cost
by Police Magistrate Starrelt at Colo
RADIO Springs last Saturday for violating
the motorcycle speed ordinance. levin
protested that he does not read the
daily papers and did not know that
the police were after speeders. The
Judge told him that a business man
who does not keep In touch with the
world througbt the newspapers should
be fined, and that he had notion to
add five dollars more to his fine.
Danford 4 Sanderson, engineers,
have been given the contract by the
Dupont Powder company for the max
Ing of typographical map Of the land
purchased by the powder company
near Aguilar. The site consists of 800
acres, OH which the company will
build gigantic plant where they will
explosives for the West
ern country. Work ON the plant will
this fall. 1t will be the
largest powder plant west Of Pennsyl-
vailia.
A complete religious census Of the
state of Colorado will be taken In few
hours, Friday October lst, by the Colo
RADIO State Sunday School association,
which has organized an army of work.
ers to cover small districts and make
returns to central office. The objec;
Of the census Is to obtain a correct idea
Of the number of people belonging to
the various religious organizations,
with view to conducting missionary
work in the future. John q. Carman
is superintendent of the work and the
officers of the association are located at
2O8-209 Empire building Denver.