The Dolores star., 1919-05-16
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Newspaper Union News Service.

Colorado Springs and wealthy real
estate man, committed suicide by IN
haling poison fumes. His body was
found by neighbor.
Miss May Henderson, "A clerk in the
office of the State Board of Charities
and Corrections, was appointed secre-
tary of the State Board of Pardons by
Governor Shoup.
A bond issue of 100000 was voted
by the Brighton school district mt the
election for the purpose of erecting an
eight-room addition to the present
grade school building.
Price OF food took "A sudden leap up
ward at Loveland and reached a high
water mark. AT a Farmers Union pie
social. pie made by the belle of the
evening finally sold for S2l.
Neil Bogie, 80, of Goldfield, was
killed and Harry Jones, fellow work
man. was badly injured by prema-
ture explosion in the 1,So0-foot level
of the Nindicator mine ut Victor.
y. X. McCreery. manager of the
LongmOnt plant Of the Great Western
Sugar Company, announces that the
company will build a $4,000 dormitory
for the use of the employees of the com
pany during the coming summer.
&. G. Lamb, acting president of the
Western Slope Livestock and Fair As
suciation, has called meeting of the
board Of directors of that organization
to meet in Grand Junction May 23rd.
The fair will be held September 23rd
to 26th.
The Holly Sugar Company of Grand
Junction, according to the annual re
port of its president, A. +. Carlton,
registered profit of JO.94S.JO during
the year ending March 31st. The to-
tai volume of business for the year
was given at slightly less than $500,
OOO
Five men were injured. three of
them seriously, in the collapse of II
new concrete bridge over irrigation
ditch No. >. nine miles northeast of
Greeley. Tn" men were removing the
SCaftolding when the structure crum-
hI"d and they were caught and buried
in the ruins.
Were other crops not to be consider
ed, the sugar beet crop alone would
spell prosperity for the LongmOnt sec
tion this year. The acreage is the
largest by far in the history of the
LungmOnt factory, being more than
10000 acres, and all indications are
the crop will be II hummer
clifford s Davis, the only Fremont
county man rs far as known who has
been awarded the French CroiX de
Guerre for extraordinary valor in ac-
ton, has arrived at his Canon City
home after twenty-threc months of ac-
tive service attached to both the
French and American armies.
one of the oldest buildings in Lead
Vile. the llyman Isancs clothing, dry
goods and household furnishings store,
has collapsed The building was erect
ed in 1879 and was at first of logs,
being one of the first two-story log
business buildings in Leadville. 1t was
remodeled about 1882 and a portion
was bricked.
Mich ObroderiCh and George Guicich,
miners who went from Silverton to
Nontr0se, We're arrested there and
their grips searched. They were sus-
pected of knowing something about
the murder of Frank 4. Carlson, of
Denver, in Telluride The men were
arrested by Sheriff Gill and they stat
ed they had come direct from Silver
ton and were going to Bingham Canon.
Titan, to work. Obroderich had
bloody handkerchief and Il revolver in
his grip and Guicich had pair OF
brass knucklcS.
Sixty years ago this spring. John II
Gregory discovered the elusive and
much-rumored gold of Colorado in n
gul"h between Central City and Black
Hawk. Sixty years ago the news was
spreading around the Clear Creek dis
trict percOlating into the villages on
the site of Denver and beginning the
great Colorado gold rush.
The union miners in the Silverton
'''''i " VI lIlt sNuH JUull DHSlI unani-
mously voted to reject the proposed
reduction Of % cents day in wages
ana an Increase of % cents q day for
board, amounting to 20 cents day
less money, when they met to consider
and vote on such request from the
mine owners. The prevailing wage ia
S4.5O for an eight-hOur day.
Miss Helen Dove has accepted Do
sition AS lookout for the forestry sery-
ice and Will spend the summer on Dev-
lis Head mountain, forty miles south
west of Denver 1t will be her duty to
report forest fires in the surrounding
area of 1000 square miles, which in
cludes Pixies peak. Miss Dove Is the
first woman lookout to be chosen for
this important work in the Colorado
wyoming district
The women of Breckenridge yanked
summit county over the top in the
Liberty Loan right on time with the