The Raymer enterprise., 1920-10-21
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

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ton Of the mountains. While he was
walking In STOPPING position the
hammer Of the shotgun he was carry.
ing struck a projecting rock. The
weapon was discharged, the heavy
charge Of shot entering his chest and
inflIcting frightful wound from
the effects Of which he died almost
Instantly.
Stepping on one Of his shoestringi
and falling head-foremost down
flight Of stairs while making his get
away with valuable silverware and cut
glass, proved lucky incident for the
masked bandit who attempted to rot
the home OF George l.. L. Gam Of Pu
eblo. Two shots fired by Mr.. Cams
chauffeur, who was aroused by noise
made by the offender. would have
struck the latter In the upper part Of
the body had 1t not been for his fall.
A project statement providing for
the improvement. of q seyen-mile road
stretch between Lamar and Granada,
Colo, has been approved by the United
States Bureau Of Public Roads. The
proposal submitted by the state high.
way commission provides for proper
drainage and gravel surface, twenty
feet wide, at a total cost Of $82,047.84
Federal aid to the extent Of 80 per
cent has been requested by the state.
One man was injured and five others
had narrow escape when an outbound
Berkeley tramway car ran wild In Den
yer at West Thirty.eighth avenue and
Tennyson street, after the controller
box exploded, throwing the motorman
out Of the car while 1t was travelling at
high speed. The car was saved from a
crash by the quick action Of passen-
ger, who ran to the rear of the car and
jerked the trolley from the wire.
His mind unsettled by the loss of his
winter wheat crop. Blatz Wrobel, ST.
lesinn farmer, who lives three miles
east Of Fort Lupton, was found by
neighbors wadlng In the Platte river.
He was removed to Greeley where the
physician pronounced him insane.
Wrobel contracted pneumonia as the
result Of his exposure.
More than one-half Of the sugar beet
crop Of the Loveland district has al.
ready been harvested, according to
statements made by the office Of the
Great Western Sugar Company. Farm.
ers have taken full advantage Of the
fine weather this last month, and are
pushing the harvest ahead as rapidly
US possible.
With much blowing Of whistles and
with full, crew OF men, the Grand
Junction sugar factory, the Oldest fac
tory In Colorado, built In 1904 and
now belonging to the Holly Sugar cor
poration, began its 192O-21 sugar max
Ing campaign, with everything In ship
shape for new records.
The Bandora mine, located near
Gladstone has started operations again
and Is shipping much silver.lead ore.
Manager Z. d. Lycoff Is constructing
two new bunkhouses and remodeling
the boarding house so that work may
be continued all winter.
George Hendel, 2l, died at st.
Mary's hospital as the result of in.
juries sustained when he fell ninety
feet from wooden railing upon a con-
crete floor at the Pueblo flour mill,
where he was employed. His neck was
broken.
Chris Christensen, one Of the early
residents Of Evergreen, is dead, after
short illness, as result Of a stroke
Of paralysis. He wa 70 years old and
had lived In jefferson county for forty.
seven years.
Last year farmers In one section Of
southwestern Colorado shipped 10000
hogs to Nebraska and other states to
be finished on corn and then sent back
to the Denver market.
The purchase of the Cushman ditch
and stock was completed at the Octo-
Der meeting Of the Uncompahgre Val.
ley Water Users association at Mont
rose. The price paid by the govern
ment for this irrigation ditch was S5,-
$50. One thousand one hundred and
fifty Of this will be subscribed by the
farmers who will use the water from
the ditch and the government will pay
the remaining $1,000.
Formal notice that a controversy
now exists between the employees and
the Arkansas Valley Railway, Light
and Power Company Of Canon City,
has been filed with the State Indus
trial Commission. The employees are
demanding fiat increase of 81 day
above the present scale, which is $135
a month for engineers, s12O for fire.
men, yard and boiler men, and 500
for oilers and repair men.
Thieves broke into the Roggen Mo-
tor Company at Roggen, Colo, re-
moved the office safe to the middle of
the street, melted the door off with an
acetylene torch, and made away with
$3.50 in cash and papers valued at
$3.50. The money and papers belonged
to Henry J. House, proprietor. No
trace of the robbers has been found.