The Arvada enterprise. (Arvada, Colo.) 1908-1970, 1920-08-12

breakers, Si0,OU; two street cars
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 to
union men in wages, $4O,25O; total fl
nancial loss, $4,000.
Men Under Arms.
Regular soldiers from Camp Fun
ston, 52S: regular soldiers from Fort
Logan. $50; regular police, 24O; Ameri-
can legion men. 1000; volunteer civil
ian police. 1000; total men under
arms, 3,O18.
Colorado Elks will meet in Canon
City in state convention for three
days, Sept. 8, . and 10.
Lincoln County Fair will be held at
Hugo. Sept. %. 30, Oct. l, 2, and prom
ises to be pe Of the most successful
ever held.
A ''get-tOgether meeting" and picnic
of the farmers Of Larimer county was
held at the State Agricultural college
at Fort Collins.
The destroyer Simpson, whose crew
10 being recruited throughout Colorado
and Wyoming. Is nearly manned and
Is expected to leave for her homo port
at San Diego. Calf, soon.
His lungs pierced by the points Of
pitchfork in the hands Of william
vandiver, age 90. formerly Of Denver.
Timothy Tsrpin. age 45, Of Portland,
Oregon. lies at the point Of death in
the hospital at Haxtun.
Approximately $4,000 will b.
paid out to beet raisers in the Fort
Collins district this year by the Great
Western Sugar Company, which has .
factory in Fort Collins. The Loveland
factory will dlsburse about 81. $50, 900.
J. George Leyner, 50, founder Of the
Leyner engineering works. now known
as the Ingersoll-Rand Engineering
Works. near Littleton, was seriously
Injured when his automobile over.
turned on the Colorado Springs road
near Littleton.
"Colorado's gold industry, once big
ger than that Of any other state, has
dwindled to almost nothing" said Vice
President Edward CROUCH Of the In
tcrnational Mine. Mil and Shelter
Workers. Union, addressing the union
convention at Denver.
A reduction in fire insurance pre-
miums Of $s25.0oo or approximately .
per cent Of all the income of this class
received by insurance companies op-
Grating in Colorado has been ordered
by State Insurance Commissioner
Claude w. Fairchild.
As the result Of hunting activities on
the part of the government biological
survey, the state and two county and
three wool growers associations, 4 to.
tai Of 1871 predatory animals were
killed in Colorado during the fiscal
year of 1920. besides hundreds more
killed and poisoned by private indi-
viduals, according to an annual report
just complied by L. C. Crawford. pred.
at0ry animal inspector.
Dunell. Colo, the site Of the Fits-
simons United States General Hos.
pital, and five other Colorado post.
offices have been raised from fourth
class to presidential class, according
to announcement by the Postoffice De-
partment In Washington. The post
offices affected and the salaries Of the
pOstmasters are: Boone, 1900 !;
Buneil, $l,7OO; Ebert, 1900; Hudson.
81. 800; Aierino, $500. and Wsldona,
$1,000.
An examination for the position of
postmaster ut Fort Logan. carrying
salary Of 1900 a year. will be held In
Denver. August IS. 1t was announced
BY civil authorities.
The already spacious grounds Of the
Colorado State Fair were so com.
pletely filled with exhibits last yenr.
that an additional forty acres has been
purchased by the fair commissioners.
on the west. Fair officials decided to
use this largely for added buildings and
ponderous exhibits, and decided upon
an elaborate system OF wire fencing for
the new acreage. To I'LL the require.
mants of the specifications. the War.
ner Wire Fence company Of Pueblo.
was obliged to have special machines
built and installed, and the product is
simply superb. A considerable portion
Of this added tract will he set aside
for the use Of campers. Families and
parties coming by automobile or other
private conveyance to attend the fnlr.
will have the privilege Of camping In.
side the new enclosure. where they will
have fire and police protection, water
and NIL the comforts. This will enable
those who so desire. To spend the week
most comfortably nj the fair.
Benjamin Salmon, draft cvndcr and
Denver Socialist, who was sentenced
to twenty-five years Imprisonment In
the Federal penitcntiary nj Fort
Lc0vcnworth. Kan, and who has been
imprisoned lntcly mt Fort Douglas,
ArIz., has been removed TO st. Ellen.