The Dolores star., 1919-03-14
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

'''ttst -tilNTtNS, 90, ltsiueht va
Boulder since 1868, is dead from pneu-
monia. He was one of the largest In
dividual property owners in the city.
Former Governor Elias NJ Ammons
has been selected us president TO head
Dcnvcr's next Stock Show. AT the an
nual meeting OF the directors held in
Denver.
oil excitement caused by the spud-
ding in of three wells in the Round
Butte field. west OF Carr, has caused
an unusual number of visitors and
workmen TO 70 to that locality.
Tn. annual value OF Colorado's farm
output has increased more than 12a
per cent since 1910. yet less than
one-fourth OF the arabic land in the
state is now in cultivation.
A party OF members OF Congress,
many accompanied by their wives.
have left New York for II visit TO the
Panama canal. Among them will be
Representatives Reavis, Nebraska, and
Taylor, Colorado.
Eleven hundred jobs for returned
soldiers and sailors have been OBJ
tanned through the Rocky Mountain
Auto Trades Association. This state
mcnt was made by Harrison Gold
smith. secretary Of the association at
Pueblo
Thomas Wilson, n lcaser on the
Portland mine nj Victor, was serious
ly and possibly fatally injured when
he fell forty feet down a stope ut the
SO0-foot level, fracturing his skull. He
was taken to the district hospital. VIII
sons wife and five children live in II
suburb of Hollywood.
The $4,000 Carnegie public library
dedication was attended by 800 people
from Florence and adjacent communi-
ties. The building site, consisting of
three lots on the corner of Pixies Peak
and Second streets. is the gift of Mrs.
A. r. Gumaer, and the 5000 books are
the gift of the Florence public library.
Western slope beet growers. at !:
meeting at Grand Junction. served no
tiCc on the Western Sugar Company
that the SO flat beet scale must be
granted at once If the company cX.
poets any beets Oh the slope this sea
son. The growers declared otherwise
they would put the acreage into wheat
A posse from counties adjoining
Denver are securing the roads and
hills in search of TWO bandits who
after pillaging the village of Mount
Morrison, eighteen miles southwest OF
Denver. blew up the postoffice, rifled
the contents of the safe and set fire
TO several buildings, the blaze threat,
ening to destroy The entire town.
Teachers salaries, vocational edu
| cation, aftcr-war school finances, re
| construction in education and the new
school legislation will be among tn.
subjects to be discussed at the super
| intendents' and principals spring con
ference of the Colorado Education AS
| sociution in Denver ut the East Den
Yer High school, April is and 10, &C
| C0rding to an announcement from
Supt. G. f. Brown of the Greeley
schools, chairman of the conference
board of directors.
Posing as n colonel in the United
States army, n man giving the nam.
of Lloyd Garrison of Boston won tn,
heart and almost succeeded in marry
ing Mrs. Louise Mcpherson of Colo
RADIO Springs after Il brief courtship
\ marriage license obtained ut The
county clerks office spoiled the plan!
of Garrison. The police did not lik,
the cut of his uniform and hailed hin
TO headquarters where he confessed
that Garrison is not his right nam,
and that he is not a colonel He i!
being held for further investigation.
A 100000 corporation is in process.
Of formation by the farmers of EatoI
to be known as the Eaton Potat,
Flour Factory" 1t is planned to us,
all Gull potatoes in the manufacture o
flour, and the mill to be erected will
have capacity of 10000 pounds o
flour every twenty-four hours and will
employ nearly 100 men and women.
a fire in the coal mine at Somerse
has been burning since Feb. %, ant
has not yet been placed under control
for Colorado liz on the scene, and
special group of eight Colorado Fue
x Iron Company employees, trained il
mine rescue work, has been sent from
the southern coal fields of that com
pany.
"ArbitrntiOn is not u substitute 70
preparedness, but only an adjunct t,
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