The Raymer enterprise., 1920-08-19
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Dead 9; wounded %.
Financial Losses.
Expense Of bringing In COZ strike
breakers, $4,000; two street carr
burned, six others wrecked. damage
to company barns and tracks, $4,000
loss TO company in fares owing to In.
operation Of cars, $4,000: loss ia
union men In wages, $40,25o; total n.
nancial losh $4,000.
Men Under Arma
Regular soldiers from Camp Fun.
ston, 52S: regular soldiers from Fort
Logan, go; regular police, 24O: Ameri.
can legion men, LOCO; volunteer civil.
ian police, LOCO; total men under
arms. SOFA
Colorado El1s will meet In Canon
City In state convention for three
days, Sept. 8, 8 and 10.
Frank Norman Of Crested Butte died
from injuries received In an accident
which occurred when he was helping
tear down the old anthracite breaker
at the Ruby anthracite coal mines near
FlOresta.
Donald Early, II, formerly Of Akron.
Colo, slipped and fell from ledge
thirty-five feet at the south end Of
Castle rock and sustained injuries
from which he died ut Castle Rock
three hours later, The youths skull
was crushed and he was otherwise In.
jured.
The opening Of the Fall River road
from Estes Park to Grand Lake to
travel is expected by the state high.
way commission by Sept. Is as a re-
suit Of the progress made by rond con.
tractors this season. The work still
to be done is aIl above timber line,
along the top Of the continental divide.
and offers no great difficulties In en-.
cheering.
The completion Of the road thru the
Hardscrabble cannon In the San Isabel
national forest opens up roadway
that Is d distinct and valuable add.
tIon to Colorado's system Of scenic
highways. The opening Of this road
completes circle trip Of almost 100
miles from Canon City thru Florence,
Silver Cliff, Westcllffe and the canon
nf tho Arlansaa rfyar
A new valuation on Logan county
land was established when Henry
Therkhorn, owner Of five-acre tract
short distance south of Sterling,
along the LINCOLN highway refused an
offer Of s7,0O0 for his place. This Is
equa. to $l,40O an acre, but includes
all improvements, and II the cost Of
the latter were deducted the price
would represent at least $500 an acre,
as the improvements could be replaced
for $1,000.
Probably the largest number Of con-
tests ever filed In the Montrose land
office In one week were entered when
seven contestants asked the land office
officials to decree that claimants to
lomesteatls had not fulfilled the re-
quirements of the law. 1t Is now
necessary to 60 to isolated sections to
find good government grazing land,
and as the homesteads become scarcer
the vigilance OF landseekers becomes
greater.
CoIorado's alfalfa crop this year will
be the largest on record and at cur.
rent prices will be worth above $685..
cO0.O0O, compared with about $31 600.
100 last year. Nearly complete
ports from county assessors show 1885,.
on acres Of alfnlfa In the state, com
pared with total Of go, 1855 acres re.
ported last year. Complete reports
this year will show above 840,00J
acres, an increase Of 10000 acres over
the amount reported last year.
An examination for the position Of
postmaster at Fort Logon, carrying a
salary Of $500 year. viii be held in
Denver. August IS, II was announced
by civil authorities.
THE Monte Vista second annual
stampede" proved one of the hest
events of Its kind held In Colorado In
recent years. The program featured
twenty of the hest riders who tool;
part In the Cheyenne Frontier day
celebrations, including Miss Wyoming
More than 10000 persons attended the
fair, which was held at Monte Vista
on Aug. 4 to 6 A special carload Of
longhorn steers were shipped from
Texas for the occasion, IN addition to
sixty bend Of running horses.
william Ziensenhenne, Cripple
Creeks near "En0ch Arden" has re
turned to his wife and two children
now grown to manhood, whom he left
eighteen years ago. He stepped out
Of tine automobile that had broup
him over the mountains from Colorado
Springs aud entered home that had
had another husband and father after
the wife he married twenty-three years
ago had remained faithful to him fol
ten years while, supposedly dead, he
was ''hoboing" around the country.
The twenty-third annual meeting Of
the Colorado Bar Association was held
in the court house at Colorado
Springs. AT the same time and place
| the annual meeting OF the State