Cheyenne record. (Cheyenne Wells, Cheyenne County, Colo.) 1913-19??, 1920-09-02
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.

COlIING EVENTS.
Hugo, Colo.-The Lincoln County Fair
will be held at Hugo. Sept. 1890.
Oct. 1-2.
A falling tree crushed out the life
of Wilbert A. Gardner, an emplOye of
the Rocky Mountain Lumber Company,
at Diamond Park.
Thirty persons narrowly escaped in
Jury at the Colorado State Firemen' 8
convention at Littleton when the sup
ports of crowded grandstand col
lapsed, allowing the stand to fall five
feet to the pavement.
The condition of alfalfa in Colorado
on July 1st was the same as on June
1st and there is no change in the es-
timated output. The condition of all
hay in the state is also the same as on
June 1st, and the estimate of total pro-
duction is unchanged
Obtaining a revolver from the truck
of he: brother-in-law, Miss Helen
Brewer. pretty and Is years of age, of
GlenwOod Springs, attempted suicide
by shooting herself The bullet enter
ed the abdomen. She was removed to
a hospital where physicians say her
condition is serious.
The body of the 1S-mOntks-Old son
of Mrs. G. Schegel, widow of Eagle,
was recovered from the Eagle river
following a twO-day search. The boy
disappeared while his mother was
| washing clothes. County authorities
dragged more than 300 yards of the
river before the body was found.
Miss Anna Laura Force, president OF
the statee Ieachers' Assocat!on Of
! Colorado and principal of the Lincoln
school in Denver has been appointe6
chairman of the executive committee
of the National Council of Education
Miss Force is doing graduate work al
the State Teachers College this sum
mer at Greeley.
The big firemen's convention held al
Englewood and Littleton was well-at
tended and large delegations represent
ed from nearly all departments from
various cities and towns over the state
All entries We're filled and several new
records set up. Both EnglewoOd anC
LittletOn extended themselves in enter
tainng their guests.
As the night jailer at the county jaii
at Leadville entered the cell house tC
replenish the fire in the stove. there
three prisoners who were in the corri'
dor made a rush for the open door anG
escaped. At Il late hour tonight they
had not been captured. The three mer
were awaiting trial in the District
Court ON minor charges.
The Ceasus Bureau has announced
the popuiation Of Incorporated places
in Conejes county, Colorado, as fol
lows: An,onito, 937 in 1920, as againsl
8s1 in 1910. Lajara, 521 in 1920. "a
against 44S in 1910. Manassa, 9O6 ir
1920, as against 7SS in 1910. Sanford
555 in 1920, as against 564 in 1910. San
Rafael, 293 in 1920, as against 261 in
1910
A rich strike at the / .SOO-fOot Ieve
of the NindicatOr gold mine at Victor
reported II few days ago, gives promise
of producing ore to run between $7s
and $50 IL ton. The strike was made
at point about 800 feet south of the
main shaft, and seems to be continu
alton OF the well-known Little vein. II
Is in virgin territory, which was pre-
viously believed to be practically
worthless.
Twenty-eght cans of brook trOu,
were received by the SpOrtsmen's AS.
sociation at Steamboat Springs from
the federal hatchery at Leadville, tc
be placed in the fishing streams arOunt
that city. This is the first of three
shipments expected in addition to the
shipments expected to come from Den
yer through recommendation of Fisl
and Game Commissioner II. G. Parvin
who has been negotiating for it.
Arrangements for the annual BOul.
der county fair are virtually completed
and indications point to the greatest
and best fair ever held at LongmOnt
The fair will last four days, Sept I, s
8 and 10.
Remarkable Yields of both wheat anf
barley are reported from fields oi
grain just threshed in Larimer county
Fred Schmer has just harvested twelv.
acres Of wheat and six acres of barley
on the w. \. Drake farm two and q |
half miles south of Fort Collins. which |
while they have broken no records are
unusually fine crops. The wheat !
threshed I4.lG bushels to the acre. and
the barley 50 bushels to the acre.
Partial reports of county assessors
Indicate that about $4,000 acres of po.
,atoes We're planted in Colorado this |
year, compared with 800 acres last
year. The condition of the crop on
July 1st was % per cent of normal, an
exceptionally high condition for this
season of the year. The estimated pro
ductiOn, based upon this condition and |
the acreage given above. is 13,O12OOC |