The state herald., 1919-08-29
Pi.hy News Notes
From AH Paris of
Colorado
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Western Nswspapsr Union News Services.
COMING EVENTS.
Boulder County Fair. Longmont. Sept.
Arkansas Valley Fair. Rocky Ford,
MerE.n County Fair. Fort Morgan.
Routt County Fair. Hayden. Sept. 3-5.
Logan County Fair, Sterling, Sept. 3
Delta County Fair. Hotchkiss. Sept. .
Adams County Fair. Brighton. Sept. o.
M9iiat County Fair. MaybelI. Sept. IL
Plstesu Valley State Fair. colbran.
Bsea County Fair. Springfield. Sept.
Trlnidad-Las Animas County Fair.
Trinidad. Sept. 1913.
conejS. i9eIs County Fair Manas'a' Sept
Western slope Fair. Montrose. Sept.
Central Community Fair. Greeley. Sept.
Yuma County Fair Yuma. Sept. 1920.
Phillips County Fair. Holyoke. Sept.
s.Ersshe ...,s County Fair. sagu.ohe. Sept.
Sept. 1896.
Colorado State Fair. Pueblo. Sept. az
Grand County Fair. Kremmling. Sept.
Crowley County Fair. Sugar City. Aug.
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1nter-Mountain Live Stock and Fair.
Grand Junction, Sept so to Oct. ,.
Douglas County Fair. Castle Rock.
Oct. rs.
G. w. Badger, for four years a
scOutmaster in Denver and for one
year assistant executive of the Denver
Boy Scouts, has been elected executive
of the Boulder troops.
By 4 coincidence, the only two Col
den boys entitled to wear wound
stripes arrived home from overseas on
the same day. They are Capt Orville
Dennis and Private Delbert Parshall.
Isaac Victor, 25 years old, a patient
at the Jewish Consumptives Relief
sanitarium, shot and killed Miss Bes-
sic Marold because she refused to
marry him. The shooting took place
in the courtyard Of the sanitarium In
West Colfax avenue, Denver.
Werner 2. Reed, late Colorado phil
lanthropist, was worth $5,777,910.53
when he died several months ago. This
valuation of his estate Is fixed by an
inventory filed in the County Court by
Mary Dean Reed. his widow and ex-
ecutrix Of his estate
Waunita is certainly coming to the
front, as one Of the leading resorts
In Colorado. The popular resort Is at
tracing hundreds of visitors this year,
twice the number of last year. Fish
ing has been remarkably good and
there have been numerous big catches
made all season.
In Colorado approximately $8,00O.-
600 Is now being spent annually for
the construction of state and county
roads, or more than three times rs
much as was being spent annually five
years ago. The amount available for
road work is being Increased each
year.
The death toll of the explosion at
Oakvicw mine of Oakdale Coal com.
pany is eighteen. and all the bodies ex-
cept three of the miners whose lives
were snuffed out when the blast
caught them 1900 feet In the work.
Ings, have been recovered by rescue
crews.
Rolling down the hillside with the
velocity of n cannon ball. huge boul-
der, which weighed at least two tons,
crashed through the two walls OF n
barn nt the rear OF the residence OF
u. +. Bolcs at Telluride, and then
crashed through the walls Of the
kitchen.
The SuDnyslde min OF the Sunnyslde
Mining and Milling Company ut Eu.
reka is under operation after forced
ciosedown by the S2JO.O00 fire that de.
stroyed the bunk and boarding houses
ut the mine several months ago. This
mill is one Of the largest and best
equipped In the state.
Costly and Atkins. Leasing on the
Southern Boy mine In the La Plata
mountains, have cut three.Inch
streak OF bigh-grade ore thnt assays
$50 per pound. The ore carries AIS
ounces gold and sixty ounces silver To
the ton. md was discovered In the
shaft That Is being sunk In an open
cut where some good ore was mined
two or three years ngo. The South.
crn Boy IL located one mile above the
camp Of Maydny. and the hIgh-grade
Is Ia n monzanlie.porphyry formation.
The first state fair ever held In
Colorado under state supervision and
financed nnd supported by the state 10
to he held at Pueblo. September 22nd
la 2Ith. The stnte hns acquired title
10 the hiIr grounds through purchase
with funds granted In special nppro.
priatlon. The tnx levy In being used
In the payment OF premiums nnd other
Items OF expense OF nn educational
character. In addition the State Fair
Commission is spending $4,000 on tho