The Dolores star., 1919-07-25
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Newspaper Union New, Service

1
ers of Grand Junction, died ut his home
in Palo Alto, Calf, according TO mes
| sages received.
Michigan, Colorado and Utah show
big increases in beet sugar prospects.
| Forecasts show COlorado's crop as p
| U24, 900 tons, an increase of $4,000 :;
and Utah's 1,2OS,OO0 tons, an increase
of 205,OOO tons.
All the jefferson county men who
served in Uncle Sans military or nav
al forces during the war We're guests
OF the city of Golden and people came
from all section of the county to at
tend the "Welcome Home" day cele-
bration held there.
Greeley business men will furnish
funds to provide n life guard and safe
ty equipment for Seeleys lake, the
scene of several recent drownings, dur
ing the remainder of the bathing sea-
son. They have also inaugurated II
campaign to construct a large concrete
bathing pool in one of the city parks
which will cost at least $4,000.
Louis MnntZ, II years old, of Colo
RADIO Springs. was arrested at Mont
rose by Sheriff J. II. Gill and con
fessed to stealing the car he was driv-
ing to visit his sister, critically Ill in
Lewiston, Idaho. The youth showed a
telegram from his sister asking him to
visit her. The sheriff took the car and
the boy back to Colorado Springs.
What is believed to be the first case
of typhus fever ever recorded in Den
yer caused the death of Harley VIII
son, a decorator. Wilson, who was 81
years of age and has been employed
by the Denver Omnibus and Cab Com
pany, became i'll June %. The attend
ing physicians recognized the disease,
tut were unable to stop its progress.
That the beet acreage tributary TO
he Windsor factory of the Great West
.rn Sugar Company has been reduced
rom l4,JOO TO about 10000 acres by
the ravagcs of web worms and drOuth
5 the estimate of factory officials.
The officials expect another attack
from the worms early in August AID
have made big preparations to fight
he pest
A tent city. splendid! decorated,
will be established at City park in
Denver rs part of the Colorado day
celebration on Aug. | this year. The
nrty-ihird anniversary of the admis-
son of Colorado to the sisterhood of
tatcs viii take the form of "wel-
ome home" for the returned fighting
men of the army and navy and for the
var nurses.
Mrs. Guy u. Hardy, wife of Repre-
sentative Hardy of the Third Congress
sional district of Colorado, has accept.
ed an invitation to sponsor 9,600.tOn
steel steamer, which is to be launched
II Seattle Aug. 16. Mrs. Hardy will go
TO Seattle with her husband to attend
the convention of the National Edi.
torial Association, of which her hus-
band is president
Denver will begin the construction
If the south wing to the Colorado Mu-
scum of Natural History in City Park
shortly, as the result of gift of $780,.
)oo for that purpose to the city by a
Denver citizen whose name is being
withheld for the present by Mayor
Dewey c.. Bailey. The name of the
donor will be revealed at the formal
opening of the Civic Center Aug. l.
Colorado will produce this year 49,
S2I 900 bushels ~ wheat, compared
with production of 3,335, 900 bushels
last year, according to estimates just
completed by the Colorado Co-opera-
ti,.a f'r,p Rannrtinp car,-ion Tho ,,,,
1uction of corn, If conditions remain
favorable until harvest, will be approx
rlately 23,14S.00O bushels, compared
with 23,5S5,OOO bushels for 1918.
a team composed of seventeen men
# ColoradO's National Guard will rep.
cscnt the State mt the national rifle
matches to be held nj Caldwell, n. j.,
he week of August %.
The old car barn on Cofax avenue,
pear Aurora, which thes tate highway
commission recently purchased from
he Tramway company in Denver, is
eng repaired for the storing of some
1 the. army trucks now being. received
rom the War Department, Forty-sev-
II. trucks have been received thus far,
nd Will be sent TO the counties for
use on county roads as sooa as they can
. replaced with the dump bodies.
Mrs. Jennie Murphy, six months
ride of John j, Murphy, is in jail with
Ier husband charged with attempting
o aid him to escape from the county
all, where he is held on charge of
ofgery at Pueblo It is cInimed that
!rs. Murphy visited the Jail and gave
cr husband some bananas Inside
ach banana was hard steel saw ca
pable of cutting through the steel bars
n rapid time. Murphy hid the saws in
his cell, but the iailer in making his
'ounds and searching the prisoners dis.
Overed them.
When Mrs. Hannah II. Wnlpole, wild
''w of the late Richard c. Walpole,
me of the most prominent of Kansas
citys pioneer business men. died in
Denver as the result of burns inflicted