The Dolores star., 1920-07-23
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

| Ine tnlDlalh Id'hihS ''lhf"''
| plant at Delta is nearly done ana the
plant is casting about for 800 girls 10
| be employed there as soon as business
| opens up.
Grand functions three banks, in
| their statements just issued. show To-
| tai resources of more than S3,6oo,ooo.
| This is the largest total ever known at
this time of til. year in that valley.
| News has reached Nucla of the
death in Laurel, Mont, Of Thomas An
derson. G-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs.
G. ]. Anderson. formerly of NuCla. The
| little boy was struck by string of
| freight cars, run over and killed.
| w. l.. May of the experiment station
at Paonia, is distributing parasites in
| the areas where alfalfa is infested with
alfalfa weevil. The parasites lay eggs
| in the larvae Of the weevil and kill
| them. He believes the fight against
weeviI is being waged most success
fully.
| Two young men, caught following
the robbery of 81. 800 from the Bank
of Waterloo. at Waterloo, Neb.. plead
ed guilty in the County Court at Oma
ha and were held under $4,000 bond
for action in District Court. After
their arrest they gave the names of
Oscar Yoos of Granada, Colo, and J.
W. Grau of Council Bluffs, Iowa
A number of new professors and in
structors have just been appointed to
positions in the Colorado Agricultural
College at Fort Collins. Among the de-
partments which have found it neces-
sary to increase the size of their
| teaching SiaffS are the farm manage
ment, mathematics, horticulture, libr:t-
| ry, animal husbandry, agronomy and
chemistry.
While fishing in Thompson Canon
west of Loveland, Ray c. Wolfe. Gree
ley newspaper man. found suitcase
| in the bed of an irrigation canal which
contained necklace and diamond
rings valued nj 5000. besides cloth
ing The suitcase was one of three
which was lost from a truck of the
Rocky Mountain Parks Transportation
Company recently.
Two men were instantly killed and
one badly injured in an explosion at
the Sunnyside mine. Slverton. The
dead are l.. Edmunio Martinez and J.
W. Virgil. l. Valdez was injured Six
shots had been put into a drift and the
men, thinking all of the blasts had ex-
ploded, went into the mine They were
caught by the last explosion and liter
ally blown to pieces.
That all the lakes on Grand Mesa
| are full to Overflowing is the report of
| G. Jacques, superintendent, who has
| Just visited all O.. the important lakes.
| He makes one exception only in re-
| porting that Deep Ward lake only has
| 14.1 feet of water. The snow has not
| all melted yet in the lake section and
| the supply of water for irrigation pur
poses is very large.
Lieut.. Rex SEith of Denver. aviator,
| in his flight from Denver to Telluride,
| Is declared to have broken all speed
| records for any sort of vehicle which
| has ever crossed the mountains. He
| made the trip from Denver to Telluride
| in just a little more than four hours
| flying time. He went from Denver to
Glenwood Springs in two hours and
| ten minutes, new record.
Ethel Brown, 1G-ycar-old daughter
Of Ed Brown, rancher living near
| WaVerey, was dragged for a quarter
of mile from the stirrup of her sad
die when her horse became frightened,
4 f.l
horse regained his feet and started
running Miss Browns foot remained
caught in the stirrup. She received
emergency treatment in the Fort Col
lins hospital.
The State Land Board held a sale in
the House of Representatives chamber
in the Capitol at Denver at which G,3S7
acres of state land were disposed OF
at an average price of $22G0 an acre
The highest price paid was S412 for
land in Jefferson county, and the total
proceeds of the sale amounted to
$144,3sO The land sold at the sale
last month was 5,S4O acres The gain
this month was 547 acres.
| NolOSH ID dboul " lulllule III e1ltIl-
sive paving program. 1t is the inten.
ton of the Golden city officials to is
sue bonds for the construction of as
phalt or concrete paving from the end
Of the DenverGolden paved road,
through the city, and to the foot of
| Lookout mountain. Other thorough
fares In the town are to be paved also.
The cost Of the proposed improve.
rnents is estimated at 100000.
Only few hours after they had es.
capped from convict road camp near
G1enwood Springs, Jack Gustafson and
Ray Dunham, convicts from the state
penitentiary at Canon City, were re.
captured fifty miles to the west on the
| road to Grand Junction.
Allan Nash of Ridgway, an Un-
compahgre valley rancher has brought
| a DriZp ram To that yuIl.v ,rl,. ft,..