The Dolores star., 1919-10-03

Miss Flora Brown, 20 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 n result.
SiNty-siN school teaches of Fort Col
Inns will receive bonus Of $50 each
on their years work. as result of ac-
| rion taken by the school board on a
| petition asking for increases Of - per
| cent
The budget for the city OF Boulder
| for next year, as submitted 10 the City
| Council by Manager Salter, calls for
| expenditures In the amount Of $40. 80.
which is the estimated total of re-
| ceipts.
Stock raising is. next to mining
| Colorado's oldest industry The cen
sus bureau found the value of all do
mestic animals sold and slaughtered
| last year close To S:2l 100000 or 4bO
| per cent better than in 1909.
:. T.. Carver. Elkton. Colo. 30 years
old. pioneer miner. was killed at the
! CresSon mine. near Cripple Creek,
| when two tons Of loose rock fell on
| him in a slope between the seventh
| and eighth levels of the mine.
| The town Of Ault. Colo. has applied
! to the State Utilities Commission for IA
certificate of convenience and neces
Slry authorizing it to proceed with the
| construction and operation of a muni-
| cipal light and power plant.
Tony Marmone of Nj. Harris mar
rowIy escaped death at Oak Creek
| when he backed out of the Newherry
garage into Oak creek. He was caught
underneath the automobile and held
there several minutes before he was re-
leased.
Clinton W. Dexter. %. a sugar fac
tory employe, is dead from injuries
suffered when he was struck by an au-
| Jomobile at Longrnont. Dexter made a
leap for 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 con-
siderable number of men who are enl-
| pIoyed there. Canister is used as a fIuX
in the making of steel and large quanti-
ties were furnished by the Quarries
! ere to the Minnequa plant
Threshng machines are busy in ev-
| cry section of Routt county and the
yield of grain is far above expectation.
| ;,l,r
known for many years. Routt county
maintains its position as Il section that
/ as never known crop failure In
| quantity the Weld is satisfactory. in
some cases phenomenal.
Governor Oliver H. Shoup has an
iuounced the names of three women
| appointees he has designated TO repre-.
sent Colorado al the Farm Woncn's
National Congress at Hagerstown,
Md, ON October IS to 81. The ap-
pointees are Mrs Harvey Van Horne
| % DotSero, Mrs. Charles A. Lory of
| Fort Collins, and Mrs Bell Harbert of
| Manzanola.
The Western Slope Pure Bred Stock
| Association is the name of new or
-aniZation of Stockmen which was or
ganiZed at Montrose. The purpose of
this organization is to encourage the
| production of pure bred stock among
he counties of the western slope and
to cooperate among the members in
he growing and exhibiting of pure
red animals in the realm of live stock.
The town Of FIagler will construct
iver two miles of cement sidewalks
his fall. Nearly IL mile of concrete
'urhing has already been ordered.
Many other civic improvements are un-
Ter consideration by the Flagler Com
uercinl Club.
| Lora Donk, l6-year-Old son of Mrs.
'halon Moon, twenty-five miles south
asst of Hugo, accidentally shot himself
while out hunting. The gun was dis.
harged while the young man was TAX
ng it out of the wagon, the bullet strik-
ing near the heart. Doak lived but II
Few minutes
The Rabbit Ear Pass highway, a
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
uouncement made mt the United States
bureau in Denver
Through an agreement between the
state Highway Commission and TIE
commissioners of Larimer county S3n.-
900 will be spent in improving tn"
loveland canon road between Love-
land and Estes Park. 1t is expected to
have the work completed before travel
TO the hills starts next year.
Ireasurers to make good the states de-
nland of a year ago for $4,000 al
legged shortage, discovered in the state
treasury after the suicide of Julius II
Clark, chief bookkeeper. will be fol-
lowed by suit against the treasurers
| and their bondsmen, If paymeut is nor