The Colorado statesman., 1919-08-23
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

WulCnlnun INTO uIlCOnSClousiiess, pouiu
and gagged the night clerk and es-
capped with several cans of gold con
centrates said to be valued at $1,000
can from the Independence mill at
Victor John Franklin, aged 90, and
James GurlouX, aged 20, victims of the
robbery, are in the district hospital.
Franklin, the watchman, is said to be
| in serious condition. GuriouX is suf-
fering from shock. The robbery was
discovered when the day shift went
on duty. The watchman and night
| clerk were found locked in closet.
| The elder man was unconscious and
| his companion almost strangled by the
gag.
The first aero club In Colorado to
handle airplanes on a commercial
scale, to give instructions in flying and
do a general passenger, mail and ex-
press business, has been organized at
Haxtun. A company has been formed
to push the airplane business. An
English training plane has been
bought and will be kept in stock, to be
used by Hartman, who is recently
from the air service of the army. Reg
uar flights will be made, and the
charge for passengers who desire to go
up will be $50 flight. The company
| is known as the Haxtun Aero Club.
Frank Gable, director of the Du-
range roundup, to be held from Sept.
% to 26 inclusive, is arranging one of
the classiest wild west programs ever
offered. There will be bull riding,
cowgirls' races, running races, goat
| roping contests, trick roping contests,
steer bulldogging, Indian races, cow
boys relay races, bareback riding,
cowboys 5ucking contest, trick riding,
farmers wagon races, in all twenty
events a day and $4,000 to be distrib-
uted to the winning contestants during
the four-day celebration.
Marked success is being had by the
State Fish and Game Department in
the use of retaining ponds adjacent
to natural streams for the growing OF
| trout to q fingers length before plac-
ing them in the creeks and rivers, ac-
cording to Roland G. Parvin, state
fish and game commissioner. Already
ten such ponds in different parts of
the state have been established under
| ulItCllOl VI tii Nibf "io
is the first head of the department TO
carry out the idea on a statewide
| scale.
Fifteen cars vf potatoes will be
shipped daily from the Montrose,
Olathe and Delta spud district, when
the busiest part of the season will
start This is the early potato harvest
| and will continue OF this rate for sew
eral weeks. The spuds are being
moved to the markets in refrigerator
cars, which, however, will not inter
fere with the regular shipments of
fruit from the western slope, about
which the growers were alarmed re-
Gently when a car shortage seemed
apparent
William Il. Myera, who was arrested
several weeks ago charged with high
grading" gold amalgam from the Pow
der River Gold Dredging Company's
dredge, and who was released on a
$500 bond, failed to appear either on
the day set for hearing by the JUS
tice of the peace or before the Dis
trict Court, is now a fugitive from
justice and his bondsmen have had to
pay over the $500 of the forfeited bond
to Sheriff J. G. Detwiler of Summit
county.
C. l.. Waite has sold the Lost Creek
and the Lockhard ranches, situated
thirty-five miles from Greeley in the
Roggen district, together with 100
head of cattle, to C. V. Owens Of
Eaton for a consideration of $4,000.
Governor Oliver II. Shoup has ac-
cepted an invitation to speak at the
Western Slope fair meeting at Mont
rose, September II, which is special
soldiers day, with every soldier in the
western slope invited.
At an election held at Breckenridge,
taxpayers voted on S35, 1000 bonds for
the erection of new schoolhouse. The
vote was A for the amendment and
23 against
Greeley is to have one mile of paved
county highways on both the north
and the south sides of the city limits
before winter sets in. Money for
these projects has been appropriated
by the State Highway Commission and
the location of the two miles deter
mined by the county commissioners.
Two of the worst stretches of the Lin
coin Highway between Denver and
Cheyenne will be eliminated by the
improvement.
Frank F. Wood, SO years old, the
oldest man in point of service running
out of Denver in the railway mail
service, is dead Mr.. Wood was known
as the most unlucky clerk in the serv-
ice so far as wrecks were concerned
His associates say he had been in
more wrecks than any other railway
mail clerk in the country. He entered
the service in 1888, running between
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