The Dolores star., 1919-12-05
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
The Red Cross Christmas Seal sale Will
take place all over the United States
from Deccmhnr to 10. 1919.

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fed in the Mesita-San Acasia territory.
The proposed auditorium ut Mcsita
seems n certainty. over $1,000 has
been raised already.
George l.. Murray, son of Mrs. Ella
| A. Murray. returned to his mother ut
Colorado Springs after being reported
missing" in the United States army
since April
Proposals for $500, 900 bond issue
to erect an auditorium, gymnasium
and additional classrooms nj the local
| high school We're overwhelmingly de-
feated ut Colorado Springs.
William Edwards of Trinidad, Il
| brakeman on the Santa fe coal run
between Trinidad aud Starkville, was
| joltcd from the top of II car and was
! ground to death under the wheels of
the next car.
| Increases of from II to - per cent
in all city salaries are provided in an
ordinance adopted hy the city council
| at Colorado Springs. l'atrolmen, fire
men and city clerks Jared best with
| increases of from so 10 So monthly.
Officials of the local district office
| of the United States forest service
| have begun cooperative work with the
| san Isabel Public Recreation Associa-
| ton for the development of Il new
| Colorado national playground on the
san Isabel forest.
Expert yeggmen opened the safe at
the Portland (ColoD postoffice and cs-
capped with $1,000 in stamps, thrift
the drug store in which the postoffice
| is located of another $1,000 worth Of
| jewelry and stock.
There We're twice rs many babies
| born in Pueblo in October than there
| We're deaths, according to statistics
| given out by the city board of health.
| OF the babies born, the majority of
them We're boys. The health report
| shows that there We're eighty-SiN
| babies born in October and fifty-three
We're boys.
The body Of the unidentified man,
| murdered several months ago, which
| was found by three women strOlling
across the prairies near Pueblo, is be-
| lieved to be that of Tony Lapresto, 81
| years old, II former Saloonkceper of
| Aguilar, Colo. who disappeared last
| January after threats Of blackmail had
| been made to him.
| A contract has been awarded by the
| State Highway Commission to George
| Toupaine Of Grand Junction for the
| construction of the first quarter of Il
| mile of the proposed concrete road
from this city to Palisade. Appropria-
lions have already been made for an
| additional three miles on this road, en-
tending the concrete roadway to Fruit
| dale.
Ten miles of the new roadway up
| Big Thompson canon leading TO Estes
Park. have been completed and auto
lists declare the road one of the best
and safest mountain highways in the
state The road bed is from twenty to
| thirty feet wide ut all points. thus elm
mating much of the danger to passing
vehicles that has always heretofore eX-
| listed
| Discovery of an artcsan water basin
| in the Larsen dry farming district
northwest of Grover has caused great
! rejoicing among cattlemen and farm
| ert ranch, which is fifteen miles north
| west of Grover. There is a volume
sufficient to keep n two-nch pipe
| filled, and the water is free from sui
phur and other distaSteful contents.
| An engineer who Investigated the well
| believes that the artesian basin lies
| under large acreage of land
George Golden. negro, serving II
| life sentence, made Il sensational dash
for freedom at the state penitentiary at
| Canon City, but was captured after lie
had scaled the twenty-five-fOOt wall,
| swan the Arkansas river and reached
| the foothills in South cafion.
Stickers, human and otherwise, come
in all varieties The gayest of 1920
stickers is the Christmas seal which
| has been issued by the Colorado Pub
| lie Health Association. It's redOlent
| of Christmas cheer as a fir tree all
trimmed with candles or brisk snow
storm or bright red holly wreath
hung in the window. It's done in soft
blue, and green and red and has a
Santa Claus climbing down chimney,
his back bent under the CHEEKY mes
sage he carries of "a Merry Christ
mas, Health and n Happy New Year"
That's new message for Old Man to
carry. It's the message of the Colo
| RADIO Public Health Association to
every man, woman and child of Colo
RADIO. It's going on letters and bills
and Christmas packages and mail of
every description through the medium
of health Christmas seals which are
a national institution.
Salaries of FL Paso county officials
and the maintenance of the courts and
institutions Of the county will cost
approximately S25O,OOO during 1920,
according to two separate budget estl-
mates which were presented to the