The Dolores star., 1920-07-30
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

free motor tour ST cHhll'hI Sl"''."H'
So far this season, according I" re-
port received by Walter u. L""rN'
manager Of improvements ana parhs.
For the same Tcri0d last Ncnr' Nh'h
the camping place for motor visitors
was at Rocky Mountain lake, hut ~
automobiles had reg stored. As 20
machine averages four persons, 40
persons have cainyed the privileges "'
Dcuver's free tourist caupn" grounds
so far this year
William :. Tnmpkin. one Of the old.
est members of the local lodg" "i l.lks
Of Denver and a resident "f that cstN
for the last thirty wears, died AT ~.
Anthony's hospital, after several
weeks illness. 1ampkm was a. wears
| old He was known 10 III" iod=" mem
hers us "Old Bill" For the last few
wears he has been employed lay III"
| ElkS club. Tampl,in was born ANA
reared in the west. No close relatives
survive him.
Crop conditions in the Poudrc Val
lev are reported by farmers 10 be
| the best in many years, considering
| the crops 81; II whole. Although there
| has been a shortage of moisture the
| irrigation diTChcS are in use and the
crops are making good progress with
| this aid The first cutting Of alfalfa
| is all In the stack and the second
| growth in the valley is coming rapidly.
| The first cutting was one of the best
crops in years.
Positive Identification cf Il. NJ Bal
| lard. sclf-styIed Ohio farmer, aS III,
man who huncocd him and his father
out of S2J.OOu in a fake oil stock mar
kct in Denver in June. 1919, was said
to have been completed in the county
1 Jail at Colorado Springs by DR.. Il. W.
| Nitsche of Dallas, Tex. DR. Nitsche,
son of +. Nitschc, the Dallas florist,
whose money was lost, came here from
Dallas and declared that Ballard is the
man
Colorado gains the first important
| railroad construction since the return
of the rail lines to private ownership,
| according to word received that the
| project for the construction of line
from Garden City. Kan, to Trinidad,
| Y ol'., lHl'hSl ibh' anu 's'- -h'i''''''s
counties, will be undertaken by the
Atchison, Topeka x Santa Fe railroad
| this year, and that the 200 miles of
new trackage will be completed in time
for the spring movement next year.
Because OF the omission of six pres.
idential electors from the list of can.
didatcs to be chosen by the Demo
| l.. tat la call
the assembly recently issued has been
declared invalid, according To infor-
nation received AT the state capitol
this morning. A new call for an as
sembly will be issued in the near fu.
ture.
Vacations for girls should he con
sdered with relation to home making,
said Prof J. Adams Puffer, field sec
| retary of the National Welfare Leasue,
in an address under the auspices Of
the summer school of the Colorado
Agricultural College at Fort Collins.
A federal cattle inspector named
Woods was killed near Fort Morgan
when an automobile in which he was
riding struck II telephone pole and
l
gan man, who was driving the ear, was
unnjured
. Fort Collins citizens must keep the
weeds in their yards, gardens and al
leys cut or they will be compelled to
pay the bill of having them cut. The
| city administration is planning to keep
Fort Collins weedless city as fnr as
possible.
Louis Young, age 80, Union Pacific
switchman, is dead of injuries suffered
when he was run over by Burlington
switch engine at the Thirty-first street
railroad crossing In Denver Both OF
Young's legs We're severed close to his
body.
| Edith Davis, 15-mOnths-old daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. James f. Davis, who
live on a ranch six miles east of Pu-
eblO wandered from her home, fell into
an irrigation ditch and was drowned
| The Colorado State Industrial Com
mission disclaimed all responsi-
| bility for the failure of the Denver
Tramway Company and its employees
to reach a wage settlement and re-
fused TO hold further hearings or as
sumo further jurisdiction in the mat
ter as long as. the conditions of the
controversy remained virtually un-
changed. The commission practically
charges that the Denver city council
and city officials are responsible for
the present situation on account of
their refusal to follow the commits
slon's recommendation in its award Of
May 10, 1920, that proper fare be
granted the tramway company so that
1t could meet the wage award of the
arbitration board handed down last
March.
Registration has opened at the
Young WOmen's Christian Association,
In Denver for the second annual indus
trial conference to be held at Estes
Park. August 6 to 16, under the au.