The Dolores star., 1918-07-19

Convention at Gsorsstown.
Sept. ls-Beaver Park fair At Penross
Pueblo.
Sept. zs-.s-LIncoln County Fair At
> The Sailor Boy mine at silverton u
being worked under lease.
The north Golden road is now being
resurfaced with crushed rock.
Two barns and a private garage
we're destroyed by fire in Lonsmont
Charles Harvey Setchel died June
"a from pneumonia somewhere IN
France.
The monthly payroll at the steel
works in Pueblo is approximately
100000.
People of Denver paid honor to
France in Bastile day celebration Al
Auditorium.
Parade at Lamar gave . send-o1t 10
departing recruits - % from baca
county and 80 from Prowers.
During an electrical storm at Lamar
lightning struck the steeple OF
church, causing some damage.
Norman d. Hutchinson. marine OF
Eaton, succumbed to wounds. accord
ing to the casualty list given out In
Washington.
Miss Helen Spencer. % years old.
and q graduate nurse OF Trinidad. died
at St. Luke's hospital in Denver from
septic poisoning.
Coal is being taken from the Colon
mine at Axial basin and shipped In
automobile trucks to Meeker and
Craig.
The opening Of the railway between
Silverton and the Joker Tunnel means
much to San Juan county in the way
Of ore production.
Trinidad, q veteran of the Civil war.
was killed in an automobile accident
near Grand Junction.
A number Of people at Durango are
signing and circulating petitions. ask
ing for a change to the commission
form Of government ;or that city.
After extensive repairs and the in
stallation of q flotation process the
Old Lewis mine in the San Juan dis
trict is producing at its former stand
ard.
Discovery Of a large deposit Of pot.
ash is announced at Salida. The loca-
ton Is near Mears station. on the line
between Chaffes and Saguache coun.
ties.
Work Of blasting out the new road
between Durango and Silverton, sew
% I'D
pensive highway. is now In progress.
being done by Navajo Indians.
William Comfort was found lying
dead In a mine ut Gilman. Leadville
district, with not Q mark on his body
or other sign Of any cause. but 1t II
supposed death was caused by bad air.
Harry Pendleton. Is. son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. w. R. Pendleton. formerly Of
Denver, but now Of Omaha, who ran
away and got into the army. Is report,
ed among the Americans killed in &C.
ton.
Hutchinson Of Eaton, was killed in
France while fighting with the ma
rines. according to word received by a
sister who lives in Denver. He enlist
ed May 9, 1917.
In an alteration over a COW. G. c.
Cope, q homesteader Of Washington
county, was shot and killed and three
posses from Sterling searched for A
J. Burdick. another homesteader
charged with the killing.
Littleton Is to have an alfalfa prod
ucts mill.
Resumption OF operation of the con
centrating plants in Boulder county is
announced at jamestown, where
James Wood has secured the Bueno
mill and is preparing to handle the
fluorspar ores OF the district.
The body of man apparently about
60 years old, and believed to be that
of Gabriel Jacobson, was found on the
Platte rivsr bank in Denver at West
Jewell avenue by e. g. McCarty, who
was on fishing trip. A miners card
reading "Ouray Miners Union No. Is
was found in q pocket.
Crop conditions throughout Colo
RADIO are in a generally satisfying con
dition but not quite up to an average
year, according to the July crop esti
mate compiled by the Department oil
Agriculture. There 10 an increase In
wheat, corn and other cereals but q
decrease in potatoes. Corn. with SGT,
900 acres planted. with an estimated
yield Of 1878 900 bushels, 10 In the
best condition Of any of the crops
while winter and spring wheat show
an estimated yield Of 1923. 900 bu
shells as against the estimate at the
same time last year Of 13.53e.OO0 bu
shells. "- .-
Clyde C. Dawson Of Denver wal
elected president Of the Colorado Bar
Association at the closing secession OF
the annual convention at Colorado