The Arvada enterprise. (Arvada, Colo.) 1908-1970, 1920-03-18
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Citizens Of Cetlnredge will vote on
a bond issue this spring for the In
stallation of cement sidewalks through
out the town.
Boulder has purchased 400 acres of
land along the watershed of North
Boulder creek to protect the clty's wat
er supply.
A bond election will be held In Fort
Morgan SO that funds may be secured
to increase the capacity of the water
plant.
Denver's population is 28S,07S, &C.
cOrdlng to semi-official reports Of the
census recheck now being made In
Washington.
Frank Heagler, 20, WAS instantly
killed at Fort Lupton, at the Indus
trial Sugar COmpany's plant when the
allowing two-ton bucket to strike
him OH the back.
COlorado's school fund Is receiving
a yearly revenue Of $22,025.25 from
oil leases on state school land, accord
Ing to report compiled by Horace
Havens, mineral superintendent Of the
State Board Of Land Commissioners.
After having lost complete trace Of
his father, George Gray, for twenty
eight years, Charles Gray Of Pueblo
suddenly recognized him on the street
In that city. The elder Gray has been
residing in Omaha, Neb.
- A luncheon meeting In honor Of
President e. NJ. Hopkins of Dartmouth
College and DR.. Louis Parkhurst of
Boston, q nationally known educator,
is to be held by the Denver Civic and
Legislative Bureau on April LIST. The
two educators will visit Denver at
that time during tour in the interest
Of educational advancement.
George Barrick, A, and Earl Walker,
81, were smOthered to death by a cave
in at the Golightly clay mine near
Golden. The bodies Of both men were
recovered by fellow wOrkmen m hour
after the accident. The cave-in Oc-
CURED in n new vein. which is sup
posed to be very solid and came with
out warning whatever according to
witnesses.
Colorado employees of the Colorado
Fuel and Iron Company suffered u
loss Of $2,471 COS In wages as result
Of the recent steel strike, and WyO-
ming employees Of the corporation lost
S16l, 400, making a grand total Of ST.
GS2, JOi. according to II report filed
with the State Industrial Commission
by Fred Farrar, general counsel for
the company.
The work Of paving the Santa ID
trail will begin when the contractors
will start the excavation work. Sew
eral One-mile sections will be laid this
spring, the first just east Of Rocky
Ford, then a mile just west Of L.
Junta and other sections In Manzan-
oln and Fowler. In few years the
entire trail from the Kansas line to
Denver will he paved.
More than $1,000 was raised at
MOntrOse by 4 committee to insure the
construction Of the new court house
for MontrOse county on new site.
instead Of building II on the present
site of the old court house which has
served the county since Its incOrpOra-
ton, but which 10 now being sur
rounded by Wholesale houses, produce
markets and railroad switches.
Alexander T. vogelsans. the first as
sistant secretary Of the interior. has
designated 428.O6O acres Of land In
the Lsadvills district rs chiefly valu.
able for srasing and the raising Of
forage crops and ~ subject to entry
under the stock raising homestead
law. All Of these lands have bsen
applied for heretofore by several hun
dred homesteatiers In the I.eadville dis
| trict
Mrs. Charles h. Timbsrlake, the
wife Of the representative from the
Second Congressional District Of Col.
Orado, died at the Emergency Hospi.
tal, Washington, d. c.. from an attack
like slseping sickness, superinduced
BY influenza.
Employees of the Colorado Springs
Light, Heat and Power Company have
.asked for q wage increase Of 10 per
cont. Rush L. Holland, vice president
Of the utility company, said that It was
impossible to grant the workmsa q
raise under the existing operation con.
ditions. 1t 10 probable that the EN-.
ploySs will petition the City Council
for an Increase II gas aud electric
rates No that the wage increase may
I've granted.
Approximately $500. 000 Of permanent
STATE school funds have bssn Invested
In state, school and water bonds since
the first Of the present month, says
State Treasurer Harry E. Mulnix. OF
this amount $4,000 was used to pur.
chase state bonds Of the national dc.
Tense series Of 1917 TO provide funds
with which to take up certificates Of
indebtedness issued In connection with
ths state troop mobilization Of three
months ego.
The Creole mines, with their con
tinuous output Of various grades Of