The Raymer enterprise., 1920-09-30
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts Of
Colorado
western N.wspap.r Union News ssrvics.


Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
Hugo. coio.-The Lincoln County Fair
will be held at Hugo. Sept 1890.
Oct. IL.
Alfred Law has sold his 160-acre
farm adjoining the town Of Severance,
twelve miles northwest Of Greeley, to
Walter Kari and A. ]. Smillie, both Of
Eaton, for 10000.
Denying a motion for new trial,
Judge George H. Bradfleld, In District
Court at Greeley. sentenced Alex MIL
Ter, deaf mute, convicted Of killing
Adam Shank, his wife and four chill
dren at GIlcrest, Dec 81. 1919, to life
imprisonment.
Duncan Harrison, son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. l.. b. Harrison Of Golden, was
seriously injured ut the annual School
Of Mines freshman and sophomore
rush at Golden. Harrison received
blow on the head. which knocked him
unconscious
Mrs. Antoine Trunde, "a years old,
was fatally injured at Yuma, when she
was struck by a motor car driven BY
commercial traveller. Mrs. Trunde was
crossing the street near her home At
the time Of the accident. She died four
hours later.
The biggest fish caught during the
present season was landed by DR.. G.
G. Beethoven, a physician Of Montrose,
in Island Lake at Grand mesa lakes.
The fish weighed ten and half
pounds, which Is said TO be the largest
fish caught In the lakes for several
years.
Harold Arntzen, "a, owner of a mo-
tor repair shop at La Junta, Is dead,
and Herbert Salebrener. his friend, al
so Of La Junta, was badly hurt when q
motorcycle with a side car attached, in
which they we're driving, left the road
way twenty miles south Of La Junta
md plunged into a twenty-foot arroyo,
While going at high speed.
A joint convention of the Colorado
Association OF Postmasters and the
Colorado branch of the National
League of Postmasters, was held In
Denver Subjects relating to postoffice
service throughout the state were dis
cussed, and ideas of the different post
masters on the most efficient methods
Of handling the mails were exchanged.
Principal Rutledge Of the local
schools has announced that q four-year
course In agriculture has been estab.
llshed in the Olathe high school, with
federal aid under the Smith Hughes
act. This course will be under the d..
rection Of Prof. Ralph Wilson, who has
had several years Of actual farming
experience.
Willard l.. Straque, workman In
the Wellington mines sawmill at
Breckenridge was beaten to death
when his clothing caught In a large
belt going at the rate of several hun
dred revolutions minute. He was
dead when his body was taken from
the machinery. He was 80 years old
and had been working for the yelling.
ton Company for about two years.
Elmer Benson and c. A. Piers were
held up on the main street Of Golden,
by two highwaymen, who demanded
their money or their lives. One rob-
Der shot at Benson and the bullet
grazed his left side. The bandits OBJ
tanned small amount Of cash and
watch from the two boys. This is the
first holdup that has been chronlcled
in Golden since the early days.
Increase in the output Of coal over
the state Is shown In the monthly re-
port filed by James Dalrymple. state
coal mine inspector. During August
1887 men were employed In the
mines, the report says. Las Animas
county headed the list for the month
with an output of 1861, 1893 tons. Routt
county again showed great decrease
in the output, mining only $1,000 tons.
John Ward, 60, who was accidentally
shot in the leg by Dave Roberts, while
on a hunting trip near Hooper, Colo,
Sept. IS. died in hospital at Alamosa.
He was Republican politician and an
old-time resident Of Cripple Creek.
Getting out Of control on a steep in
cline at Baxter pass, near Atchee,
Colo, a new Shay locomotive of the
Ulntah railway, backed 200 feet down
the Z per cent grade, plunged from the
rails and rolled $50 feet into the gulch
along the track. Members Of the 10.
comotive's crew, which was on the first
trip over this route and unattached to
any cars, saved their lives by leaping
from the cab as the engine began its
descent.
Fred Smith, IS, a healthseeker from
Des Moines, Iowa, who has lived In
Colorado Springs several years, died Of
heart disease following near COLL.
sion between two automobiles three
miles north Of Palmer Lake on the
Colorado Springs Denver road. The
automobile in which Smith was riding
turned into ditch to avoid hitting a
racing car which skidded into a ditch
on the opposite side Of the road and
was wrecked. The near collision IL be-
lieved to have brought on the stroke Of
heart disease which killed Smith.