The Arvada enterprise., 1919-10-02
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
Inter Mountain Live Stock and Fair
peasias Sosnsy sFs .r s s to Oct
Oct. TO.
Miss Flora Brown, so years old, who
weighed 525 pounds, 10 dead in Denver
Of heart trouble.
Half of the Colorado Fuel and Iron
Company's coal mines In Trinidad dis
trict are closed and total of over l.
200 men are out of work as a result.
Sixty-six school teaches Of Fort Col
Inns will receive bonus Of $50 each
on their years work, as a result of ac-
tiOn taken by the school board on q
petition asking for increases of 25 per
cent.
The budget for the city of Boulder
for next year. as submitted to the City
Council by Manager Salter, calls for
expenditures In the amount Of $40, $50.
which is the estimated total Of re-
ceipts.
Stock raising ID, next to mining,
ColOratlO's oldest industry. The cen
sus bureau found the value of all do
nestle animals sold and slaughtered
last year close to $125,OOO,OOO or 40
per cent better than In 1909.
s. f.. Carver, ElktOn, Colo, 50 years
old, pioneer miner, was killed at the
Cresson mine, near Cripple Greek,
when two tons Of loose rock fell on
him In Il slope between the seventh
and eighth levels OF the mine.
The town Of Ault, Colo, has applied
to the State Utilities Commission for q
certificate OF convenience and neces-
sity authorizing 1t to proceed with the
construction and operation of NUM-
ripal light and power plant.
Tony MarmOne Of Mt. Harris mar
rOwIy escaped death at Oak Greek
when he backed out Of the Newberry
garage into Oak creek. He was caught
underneath the automobile and held
there several minutes before he was re-
leased.
Clinton w. Dexter, q, II sugar fac
tory employee, il dead from injuries
suffered when lie was struck by an au.
,OmOtJfie at l>OngmOnt. Dexter made
leap for a passing truck In order to get
IL ride home, when he missed the vehi-
Gle and stepped In front Of an automO-
lille coming In an opposite direction.
The strike Of the steel workers at
Pueblo has resulted In the closing of
the canister QuarrIes at Canon City
and the throwing out of work Of con-
siderable number OF men who are EN-.
l.lOyeti there. Canister In used as flux
In the making Of steel and large quanti-
ties were furnished by the Quarries
lere to the MinneQua plant.
Thre~hing machines are busy In ev-
cry section Of ROutt county and the
Yield Of grain II far above expectation.
notwithstanding the dryest season
known for many years, ROutt county
maintains its position as u section that
las never known II crop failure. In
quantity the yield IL satisfactory in
some cases phenomenal.
Governor Oliver II. Shoup has an
nOunced the names Of three women
nppOlntees he has eslgnatetl to repre-
Mnt Colorado NJ the Farm WO,nen's
National Congress ut HagerstOwn,
Md, on October % to 81. The mp
pointees are Mrs. Harvey Van Horne
az Ih,serO. Mrs. Charles A. I.ory Of
Fort Collins, and Mrs. He'll Hmrbert Of
AlMi,znnOin.
The Western Slope Pure Bred Stock
dissertation IL the name Of . new or
f;,nizatiOn Of stOckmen which WIS ar
ganixrtl at MOnirose. The purpose Of
ibis organization is to encourage the
production Of pure bred stock among
The counties Of the western slope and
To cooperate among the members In
the growing and exhibiting OF pure
fred animals In the realm OF live stock.
The town Of Flngler will construct
over Two miles Of cement sidewalks
this full. Nearly u mile Of concrete
cirhlng has already been ordered
Many other civic improvements are UNI
Her consideration by the Flagler Com.
,,ercIal Club.
Inrn Honk, 16-yenr.Old sOn ~ Mrs.
CimlOn Moon. twenty-five miles south
.nst "f Hugo. accidentally shot himself
while out hunting The gun was dis
charged while the Young man WIS Tux
Ing II out ~ the wagon. the bullet strik-
Ing near the heart. DOnk lived hut II
t'.w minutes.
The Rabbit Far Pass highway. u
twenty-five mile strip sixteen feet wide
extending from Steamboat Springs to
connection with the highway Ia DEN.
Yer. has hsen completed after five
years ~ work. according tn mn an.
ho,inrr,nemt made ~ the United States
,,ircMu In Denver
Through MI agreement between the
state Highway Commission and the
commissioners ~ lArimer county EN'.-
nm will he spent IN improving III"
! 0v~lmnd s~Aon road between Love.
land and Hsi~s Park. II is expected I"
have tho work completed i"f"r" travel
IN the hills starts next year.
Failure III the part Of former state
irensurerx IL make good til" states lie.
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