The Colorado statesman., 1919-05-10
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

Fifth engineers of the Seventh divi-
sion he had gone through warfare for
days and days, and that he had mar
rowly escaped death several times IA
day for weeks ut stretch, and that
he came through without n scratch,
and had hoped for the time when he
could walk into his home unscathed-
Instead he went home wearing a ban
dage on his head and big black eye
as n result of being dumped around in
u narrow gauge upset.
Eldredge Anderson of Denver is
dead and Charles j. Ross, also of Den
yer, is badly injured, the result of "a
collision of their motorcycle side car
with an automobile driven by w. g.
Iiiddock, Fountain, Colo. The collision
occurred on the Pueblo road seven
miles south of Colorado Springs at
curve. Riddock drove out to the left
to pass load of hay, and his car and
the motorcycle met head on. Riddock
said he could not see the motorcycle
approaching.
Within three weeks at the outside,
work upon the improvement of the Big
Thompson caiion road, the main gate
way to Estes Park and the Rocky
Mountain national park, will COM
mence. The plans for the work drawn
by the engineers of the state highway
commission were returned to the COM
mission by the federal roads bureau
with the approval of the governments
engineers.
The members of the Congregational
church were surprised at the annual
meeting and banquet at Montrose when
C. b. Akard, vice president of the
First National bank, announced that
he and his wife would place memo
rial for their dead daughter, Mattye
Shirley Akard, In the new Congrega-
tional church In the shape of a pipe
organ to cost between $1,000 and &c.
600.
Edward L. Seiwald, who is serving
life sentence in the Canon City pen
itentiary for the murder of James
Lloyd, Valverde saloonkeeper, who,
with Patrolman William Mcpherson,
was shot to death during an attempt
ed hold-up by Seiwald and Oscar
Cook on the night of March 10, 1912,
was denied a new trial by the SUI
preme Court in a decision handed
down at Denver.
Frank A. Carlson, n Swedish min
er, railroad and auto repair man, 80
years old and for several months en-
ployed in Denver, was found muir
dered on the outskirts of Telluride.
Robbery is believed to have been the
clew to the perpetrators, though they
are believed to have been men who
met Carlson on the train from Den
he was shot dead.
Upon opening the door of his bro
Tiers home at Pueblo, to pay him a
short visit, Louis Gonzales found his
brother, Macmillan, dead In bed with
his head crushed in by some blunt in
strument and the body in an advanced
condition of decomposition. He had
been dead several days. A coroner's
jury was summoned, but was unable
to determine the identity of the muir
derer or murderers.
The matter of holding a Western
Slope fair this year was brought up
at the annual meeting of the assoca-
ton at Montrose and thoroughly dis
cussed. 1t was decided to hold the
biggest fair in the history of the West
ern Slope, to be called the "Victory"
fair. The fair will last four days, the
exact dates to be announced a little
later. They will be the last of Sep
TENDER, however, and about a week
before the state fair.
Colorado, while not among the lead
ing petroleum producing states, has
one oil field, in Fremont county, which
has been producing steadily for more
than thirty years, record enjoyed by
comparatively few oil areas
Business transactions have been es-
pecially lively in Glenwood for the
last month. In view of the proposition
of the Colorado hotel being leased for
a hospital by the government, there
seems to be great need for houses to
There has been a real shortage of
comfortable houses all winter, due to
the discontinuance of the Midland
railroad. The people from the adjoin-
ing towns came to Glenwood to make
n home. Now that the summer season
is at hand, the need Of more houses
is vital. The Chamber of Commerce
has taken the matter up and several
indications point to an immediate
erection of houses.
In competition with 1000 contest
ants, Miss Bernice Brown of Barr