The Arvada enterprise., 1920-09-30
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

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COMING EVENTS.
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The August production of gold from
Cripple Greek mines and dumps IL
placed at 0e,991 tons, yielding $477, 004
or an average Of $12 to the ton.
One of the biggest and richest
strikes 10 the history of the old Mary
Murphy mine, near St. Elmo, Is report
Cd by men working on the property.
4 vein of ore eight feet wide and
very rich In silver had been uncov-
cred.
Merrill Holt 81 years old. son Of A.
D. Holt prominent retired rancher Of
BouldsR county, and sOn-in-law Of
Jacob Tiilius, prominent Denver at
sognay and former supervisor Of that
Aty, committed suicide In Thompson
Park BY shooting himself with a shot
gun.
inner Q. Prathss, proprietor Of the
Yuma ics plant was badly burned
about tAs arms and facs when sas
engine exploded. nearly burning down
he ios plant. NJ. Prather was In
tursd Q year ago at the Warrington
eouaty falr at Akron In the auto races
and hes not entirely recovered.
A large crowd was in attendance at
ne second tri-county potato bake,
which vas held three miles south Of
Baskerville. Tons Of hugo red and
whits potatoes were baked in special
" eoastruGtsd ovens, which were Ia
stalled In the Prank Evans pine grova
while several steers we're baHbeeued.
Potato growers from all over the state
were In attendance.
Willie Smith, 10, son Of Robert
smith, rancher living five miles north
Of Greeley, was drowned while duck
hunting at Boyd lake. Smith was alone
IN the center Of the lake in a canvas
canoe. Howard Sanders, II years old,
who was on the shore, saw him stand
W in the boat and fire at flock
Of ducks. With the shot the frail
canoe capsized and the youth disap-
psared in the water.
Willard L. Straque, q workman In
the Wellington mines sawmill at
Breckenridge was beaten to death
when his clothing caught In a large
belt going at the rate Of several hum
dred revolutions minute. He was
dead when his body was taken from
tAe machinery. He was SO years old
end had been working for the yelling
ton Company for about two year,.
Increase in the output Of coal over
the state 10 shown N the monthly ~
port filed by James Dalrympls, state
coal mine inspector. During August
1881 men were employed In the
minsA the report says. Las Animas
county headed the list for the month
with an output Of 861 1913 tons. Routt
county again showed a great decrease
In the output, mining only 1000 tons.
A lone bandit, giving his name a.
Clifford Riley, 10 years old, wearing
"A mask and armed with big nickel
plated revolver, held up and robbed
a score Of persons on westbound Santa
Fe passenger train No. 5. When ar
rested ut La Junta, where he leaped
from tie train into the arms Of Charles
Stewart, special agent for the Santa
Re, Riley said his name was John
Morgan.
0seting out OF control ON q stssp in.
cline 4 Baxter pass, near Atchee,
Colo, q new Shay locomotive Of the
Uintah railway. backed 200 feet down
the pr cent grade, plungsd from the
rails end rolled $50 feet into the gulch
aleoe ths track. Members Of the 10.
co0otive's crow. which was on the first
srtD over this route and unattached to
any cars, saved their lives by leaping
from the cab a. the engine began its
descent
The Denver 4 Rio 0rande railroad
has bsen ordered sold to satisfy judy
ment rendered In favor Of the EQui.
table Trust company Of New York
amounting to more than $36,000.O 900.
The final hearing was held In Denver
before Judge Walter n. Sanborn Of the
United States Circuit Court Of Appeals.
Who ave the decree In absence Of
DATED States District Judge Robert d.
Lewis.
TifY thousand dollars worth Of
wAltsfAes Hsrefords were shipped out
II Aontross In one day. This was the
dFst big shipment this year and In.
Guided 900 head Of cattle, Which wers
shipped to the Kansas City market a.
fsedsrs. The animals were In splsn.
Gid condition. The 400 head, which
were fed on the range between Natu-
rfta aAd Nucla, wre driven over the
hills 70 Hontrose and loaded there.
Two men whose names were not
taken when they hired taxi cab from
J. A. 9laton at Grand Junction, to take
them b Mack, twenty miles west Of
that city. stopped slston. the driver,
after twelve miles Of their journey had
been covered, thrust rsvolvers against
k0a hnAv and thao .<oln hIs autovn ot,i1>