The Dolores star., 1920-08-06
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

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for three-year term. Mr., Newton AT
present holds the position OF city super
intcndent of schools at Lincoln ahN
vas chosen, according to Lucius +. HAT
lett. president of the board of "duca-
tion, from among twelve Of I'll" rank
ing educators of America as the man
mrst fitted for the position as head OF
the Denver school system.
II takes whole year TO make
state fair. In fact it takes number
of whole years To make II state far.
Before the gates closed on the 1919
state fair, the Officers of the Colorado
State Fair Commission were planning
| and working for the fair which VIII
open on September 10, 1920. Every daS
since that time they have been work
Ing and planning TO make this year :
| fair so much better than last ycnrS
hiG success, that there will be no COM
parson.
An abandoned Illicit still, one OF the
largest in the state, was seized ny
sheriff Burt Jones in log cabin built
| especially for the purpose in i seclud-
ed spot on GpncSce mountain, within
II few yards from the Lookout noun
| tain road A large quantity of mash,
nearly dcCayed, was also Seized. Shor-
| iff Jones declared that the still was
abandoned several months ago and
| that the last tenants have left the
| county.
Residents are up in arms over the
| brutal murder of Mrs. A. Torez, the
| wife of beet field worker and the
mother of seven children, who was
| killed at Swink. Felicio NuficZ, II
Mexican laborer, who is known as
| Smokey" is believed to have commit
ted the deed, and after a search of
| hours by Deputy Sheriff G. l.. Miller
| and a posse of citizens was captured
and is now in the jail at La .lunta.
George Moss, well-known miner,
was severely injured in the mine OF
the Victor American Fuel Company al
| Pyrolit, near Canon City. Moss was Il
| shot firer, position he has held for
| twelve years without accident, and
was badly hurt by delayed shot. He
will lose an eye, besides being other
wise disfigured by the accident. He
has been taken to the coinpany's hos.
pital at Trinidad for treatment.
After sensational chase through
| the business section of EnglewoOd. fol
lowed by n pursuit over wheat fields
and irrigation bitches, Sheriff L. f.
| Burden of Arapahoe county, shot and
| perhaps fatally wounded Hugh Il
Dobbs, %, an escaped convict. He was
shot in the left leg. DObbs was given
first aid in n farmhouse near Rnglc.
wood, and later removed to the hOspi
tai at Littleton.
The body of Joe butcher, who was
| drowned during the high water When
| he tried to cross the Dolores river, was
found this week near the intake of tn,
Dolores water system, where it hat
lodged for several days. The old-tim'
rrncher was drowned when the strean
was a torrent. The body was searched
for to no avail. 1t had drifted ab0u
four miles.
government became the owner of til,
section of school land upon which til,
| Golden rifle range is located. The stat,
military board paid to the state boar,
of land commissioners Sl1 sos for til,
$40 acres, the board having beer
awarded the section for that sum at tn,
regular monthly land sale of schoo
lands.
Daniel ID. ThurstOn, an employe o
tho state hospital for insane, was ar
rested by Special Investigator james
w. Melrose of the United States de
partment of justice and City Detective
Brady and Mcdonald, and is bein;
held in Jail at Pueblo, charged will
violating the Mann act. Thurston'
wife is also being held.
Fully 700 carloads of apples are ex
pected to be shipped from tie Olalh,
and MOntroSe districts this year, til,
crop at this time showing bumper ten
dencies. Help in marketing the crol
will be obtained. from outside towns
and pickers will be imported from
many neighboring high schools, as ha,
been the custom in years past.
The Colorado State Fair is in n,
sense an experiment. 1t is solid
substantial, permanent state institu
tion. The grounds the buildings ant
all belong to all the people of tn,
state. Every taxpayer, eveu ctizer
Is n part owner in the state fair: ant
each person who says or does some
thing for the good of the fair, does il
Tor himself-his own individual inter
est. Last years was the first fair tina,
was really under complete state con
troll and ownership, and the increased
interest in it was manifest to a won
derfnl degree. The people in ever,
section OF the commonwealth demon
strated their appreciation of It as II
state institution, and so pleased were
all with the great show, that many
persons from the remotest parts n,