Cheyenne record., 1919-10-02

western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
Inter-Mountain Live Stock and Fair.
Grand Junction. Sept. 80 to Oct 3.
Oct. TO.
Miss Flora Brown, so years old, who
weighed 525 pounds, is 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.
500 men are out Of work as result.
Sixty-six school teachers of Fort Col
Inns will receive bonus of $50 each
on their years work, as result Of ac-
tion taken by the school board on
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, go,
which is the estimated total of re-
ceipts.
Stock raising IL, next TO mining,
Colorado's oldest industry The CEN
sus bureau found the value of all do
nestle animals sold and slaughtered
last year close to S125,OOO,OOO or 40
per cent better than in 1909.
s. Z. Carver, Elkton, Colo, SO years
| old, pioneer miner, was killed at the
| Cresson mine, near Cripple Greek.
when two tons Of loose rock fell on
him in slope between the seventh
and eighth levels of the mine.
The town of Ault, Colo, has applied
to the State Utilities Commission for
certificate of convenience and neces-
sity authorizing it to proceed with the
construction and operation of muni-
cipal light and power plant.
Tony Marmone of Mt Harris mar
rOwly escaped death at Oak Creek
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, 23, sugar fac
tory employe, is dead from injuries
suffered when he was struck by an au-
tomObile ut Longmont Dexter made a
leap for Il passing truck in order to get
| Il ride home, when he missed the vehi-
Gle and stepped in front of an autOmO-
bile 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 a con-
siderable number of men who are em-
plOyed there Canister Is used as flux
in the making of steel and large quanti-
| F,,, i,ho NV a,ria
tere to the Minnequa plant. V..
Threshing machines are busy in ev-
cry section of ROutt county and the
Weld of grain Is far above expectation
notwithstanding the dryest season
known for many years, Routt county
maintains its position as a section that
Las never known Il crop failure. In
| quantity the yield is satisfactory. in
some cases phenomenal.
| Governor Oliver H. Shoup has an
nOunced the names Of three women
appontees he has designated to repre-
sent Colorado at the Farm WOmen's
National Congress at Hagerstown,
Md, on October 2S to 81. The ap-
pointees are Mrs. Harvey Van Horne
ot Dotsero, Mrs. Charles A. LOry of
Fort Collins, and Mrs. Bell Harbert of
ManZunola.
The Western Slope Pure Bred Stock
Association is the name of new or
| ranizution of stOckmen which was or
ganized ct MOntrose. The purpose Of
| this 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
bred animals in the realm of live stock.
The town of Flugler will construct
| over two miles of cement sidewalks
| this fall. Nearly IL mile of concrete
| curbing has already been ordered.
Many other civic improvements are un-
| der consideration by the Flager COM
| mercial Club.
Lora Doak, 18-year-old son of Mrs.
| ChnlOn Moon, twenty-five miles south
east of Hugo. accidentally shot himself
while out hunting. The gun was dis
charged while the young man was TAX
| ing 1t out of the wagon, the bullet strik-
| ing near the heart. Doak lived but
| few minutes.
The Rabbit Ear Pass highway,
| twenty-five mile strip sixteen feet wide
extending from Steamboat Springs to
connection with the highway to Den
yer, has been completed after five
years of work, according to an an
| nouncement made at the United States
| bureau In Denver.
Through an agreement between the
State Highway Commission and the
commissioners of Larimer county S3G.-
| 600 Will be spent In improving the
Loveland canon road between Love-
land and Estes Park. 1t is expected to
have the work completed before travel