The Dolores star., 1920-03-19
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

"e"n VI btuaTeuke VIII vote on
bond issue this spring for the in.
stallation of cement sidewalks through
| out the town.
Boulder has purchased 400 acres of
land along the watershed of North
Boulder creek 10 protect the city's wat
er supply.
A bond election will be held in Fort
Morgan 50 that funds may be secured
to Increase the capacity of the water
plant
Denver's population is 2G3,973, ac-
c0rding TO semi-official reports of the
census recheck now being made In
Washington.
Frank Heagler, %. was instantly
Killed at Fort Lupton, at the Indus
trial Sugar Company's plant when the
cable of huge steam shovel broke,
, allowing u two-ton bucket to strike
him on the back.
Colorado's school fund is receiving
a yearly revenue of S22.92525 from
Oil leases on state school land, accord
ing to report compiled by Horace
Havens, mineral superintendent of the
| State Board of Land Commissioners.
After having lost complete trace of
his father, George Gray, for twenty
eight years, Charles Gray Of Pueblo
suddenly recognized him on the street
| in that city. The elder Gray has been
residing in Omaha, Neb
A luncheon meeting in honor of
President L. NJ. Hopkins of Dartmouth
| College and DR.. Louis Parkhurst OF
Boston, nationally known educator,
is to be held by the Dcnver Civic and
Legislative Bureau on April lst The
two educators will visit Denver at
that time during Il tour in the interest
of educational advancement
George Barrick "A, and Earl Walker,
81, We're smothered to death by cave
in at the Golightly clay mine near
Golden. The bodies Of both men were
recovered by fellow workmen an hour
after the accident. The cave-in oc-
| Cured in new vein. which is sup
| posed to be very solid and came with
out warning whatever, according to
witnesses.
Colorado employees of the Colorado
| Fuel and Iron Company suffered II
| loss of 81. .005 in wages as Il result
| of the recent steel strike. and WyO-
ming employees of the corporation lost
| &1G1. 100, making grand total of 81
G32 .J0i. according to Il report filed
| with the State Industrial, Commission
by Fred Farrnr, general counsel for
the company.
The work of paving the Santa Fe
trail will begin when the contractors
will start the excavation work. Sev-
craI onc-milc sections will be laid this
spring, the first just east of Rocky
Ford. then mile just west of Ln
Junta and other sections in ManZan'
ola and Fowler. In II few years the
entire trail from the Kansas line to
Denver will he paved.
More thnn $1,000 was raised at
Montrose by II committee to insure the
construction of the new court house
for MontroSc county on Il new site,
insteud of building it on the present
site of the old court house which has
served the county since its incorpora-
tion. but which IS now being sur
rounded by wholesale houses, produce
markets and railroad switches.
Alexander T. Nogelsang, the first as
s stant secretary of the interior, mas
designated 423,O50 acres of land in
the Lendyille district rs chiefly valu'
able for grazing and the raising oil
forage crops and us subject to entry
under the stock raising homestead
.nw. All of these lands have been
applied for heretofore by several hun
tIred homcsteaders in the l.eadville dis
lrict.
Mrs. Charles b. Timberlake, the
wife of the representative from the
Second Congressional District of Col
orado, died at the Emergency Iospi'
,al, Washington. ID. c., from an attack
like sleeping sickness, superinduced
by Influenza
Ep,ploves of the Colorado Springs
Light. Heat and Power Company have
asked for wage increase OF 40 pei
cent Rush l.. Holland, vice president
of the utility company, said that II was
impossible to grant the workmeh Il
raise under the existing operation con
ditlons. 1t is probable that tie EN-
ployes will petition the City Connci'
for nm Increase in gas and electro
rates SO that the wage increase may
he granted.
Approximately 100000 of permanent
state school funds have been invested
in state, school and water bonds since
the first of the present month. says
state Treasurer Harry L. MulniX. vi
This amount $4,000 was used to pur-
chnse state bonds of the national de-
fense series of 1917 to provide fnndS
with which to take up certificates OF
Indebtedness issued in connection Win
the state troop mobilization OF three
months ago.
rbe Creede mines, with their con