The Raymer enterprise., 1920-07-01
CENTENNIAL STATE I1'EMa

BesSed VHluatloil, uccoTuius to Tepoft
BY the Colorado State Tax Commission.
The decrease Is due largely 10 the fact
that the assessments Of several rail-
roads have been greatly reduced dur
Ing the last year and through railroads
having a combined valuation Of $780,
g10 having been dismantled within the
last year The value Of the Mountain
States Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany was fixed at sl2,545,s70. IN In
crease of s225.900 over the 1919 valua-
tion, while the entire assessed valua-
ton Of all OF the telephone companies
operating in the state was fixed at
sl2. .9s2, $50. or an increase Of $3.50, $50
over last year.
With the death Of one member Of the
city fire department and property
damage estimated Mt more than $780,
900, Telluride Witnessed the worst fire
In its history. The fire. which started
in the new flotation mill OF the Snug
gler-tnion mine, one and one-half
miles east Of Telluride. consumed the
entire building, In addition TO destroy
Ing the residence Of Bulkeley Wells,
president and general manager Of the
mine, the mine office building. the
company store, an oil warehouse, three
cottages, seven freight cars and an
enormous amount of lumber and coal
stored near.
II takes courageous man TO save
his burning house with buckets Of milk
worth 10 cents a quart wholesale, but
David Easterly and Martin Van Voor-
his, ranchmen on the Cornwall ranch,
on Ohio creek. possessed the necessary
courage when their ranch home caught
fire. Twenty gallons Of lacteal fluid
sufficed to douse the flames, which
had started on the roof.
Pueblo post No. 2, American Legion.
has established Its headquarters In the
canteen used throughout the war by
the local chapter Of the Red Cross to
serve hot lunches to soldiers passing
through the city. The building has
been moved from near the Union sta
ton to Court and Fifth streets, and has
been comfortably and costly fitted up
as clubhouse for the Legion.
Owing TO the failure OF materials to
arrive, the ceremony Of laying the cor
nerstone of the new 100000 Sterling
hospital will not take place for few
weeks. In the meantime, efforts to
raise the remainder OF the money to
meet the cost OF thes tructure will be
redoubled, In the hope Of having the
fund complete when the cornerstone is
laid.
KremmlIng Ia the only town In
Grand county that shows inereascN
population In the census figures just
received by c. c. Eastln, clerk and re
corder Of that town. Kremmling Is
credited with 254 in 1920 as against
14I in 1910, a gain Of 10 ~ per cent
Grand county increased 42s yer cdnt
from 1852 ten years ago, TO 1853 In
1920
Miss Mable Gillings, age "a, OF 3l11
West Thirty-slxth avenue. was proba-
bly, fatally injured, and five other Den
yer girls were hurt when an automo-
bile In which they were riding was
overturned on the Denver and Colo
rado Springs road. Miss Gillings suf-
fered n fractured skull and q broken
shoulder.
Harry Falkner, 30. town marshal of
Brighton, and former deputy sheriff,
was shot twice by bank robbers. Falk-
ner was rushed 10 Mercy hospital, Den
yer Falkner Is believed TO have been
shot by the lookout" for the bank
robbers, who were on the point Of
breaking into the American bank on
Bridge street, at Brighton.
Struck In the face with flying
piece OF jagged steel, the broken part
OF an automobile fan. George Schaefer,
q mechanic employed In garage at
Trinidad, sustained fracture OF the
skull, the loss Of his left eye and a
deep laceration extending from his left
temple down to his upper lip.
According to an act Of Congress
passed just before adjournment the
German war trophies now stored In a
government warehouse are to be dis
tributed among the several states on
the basis OF the number Of men fur
nished the army. These goods are to
be shipped TO a central point In the
several states and from there be dis
tributed by each congressman In his
district In the Colorado allotment
there are twenty-one field guns, how
itzers and trench mortars; thIrty-eight
vehicles, ninety-four machine guns and
quite n number OF small guns and
thousands of small articles. Manager
j. l.. Beaman of the State Fair has
written each congressman from Colo
RADIO, urging that these goods be
shipped TO Pueblo at thet line Of the
State Fair, Sept. 1925. where they
may be placed on exhibition and then
distributed from there. BY this ar
rangement the visitors attending the
State Fair will have an opportunity of
seeing the entire collection.
Miss Iva Goddard, 40 years old, who