The Raymer enterprise., 1920-09-16
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts Of
Colorado

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
Hugo. Colo.-The Lincoln County Fair
will be held At Hugo. Sept 1880.
Oct. L..
Seventy-two and three-eighths bush
els Of wheat to the acre from eight
acres on the ranch Of Gus McColloch
Is the record yield reported in Mont
rose county this summer.
Nels Melvin Peterson, 12-year-old son
OF Mr. and Mrs. Frank Peterson, living
near Wild Horse, thirty miles south
east Of Hugo. was instantly killed
when he was dragged to death by a
horse.
The body Of Michael Mellick Of
Chandler, who was washed from his
automobile and drowned In cloud
burst In Chandler. was found in the
Arkansas river three miles below
Florence by Joseph Orr, a nine-year-
old boy, who dragged the body to
shore unaided.
Bert Hughes, driving a motorcycle
In the last racing event Of the fair
at Sterling. was thrown fifty feet
through the air and sustained possible
fatal injuries when his machine broke
on the quarter stretch. In the side
car was Bruce Morgan. age 20. who
was only slightly injured.
Denver was selected for next years
meeting place by the Columbian fed
Grafton. an Italian-American society,
at its fourteenth annual national con-
vention at Springfield. Ill. 1t was
voted to raise a fund Of $4,000 to
establish a home near Pueblo, Colo.
John Giacomino Of Globe, ArIz., was
elected president.
Seventy.eIght men have re-enlisted
In the navy for duty aboard the Simp-
son, all of which reside in Colorado
and Wyoming, only twenty-four more
ex-navy men are needed to man her
and she will be the crack destroyer Of
the navy. She will be commissioned at
Philadelphia. Her home port will be
San Diego, Calf.
William Kicks, Grand Junction gro
Ger, has been forced by County As
SCISSOR Ocee o. Fellows to admit that
he did not report large amount Of
sugar he had In storage at his place Of
business when the tax assessor called
at the Kicks store and his assessment
was raised from a little over $1,000 to
$4,000 by the assessor.
Where the poison comes from that
makes the famed Poison springs Of
the Crawford district SO deadly Is the
problem to be tackled by high school
students Of western Colorado this year.
The water will be analysed and the
rock strata examined microscopically.
The geology Of the land will be gone
into thoroughly also. There Is a posi-
bility that the source Of the poison
may be found and the springs re-
claimed for use.
Ted Irwin, II, son Of Mrs. NJ. Irwin
Of Colorado Springs, a bellboy at the
Broadmoor hotel, was instantly killed
near the Hickey sheep ranch, Lincoln
county, thirty miles north Of Ordway,
when his revolver was exploded acct
dentally in a fall. The bullet pierced
his heart. The boy had been to Rocky
Ford for the Watermelon Day festiv-
tiles and was returning here on his
motorcycle. His body was not found
for an hour, us the road Is little used.
Mrs. W. L. White and her son, HON.
er, s years old. who were on their way
to school at Montrose, were both
knocked unconscious by live wire
carrying $500 volts They were res
cued by a passing farmer. Young
White was walking along with his
mother. when he reached to the ground
and grabbed a wire which had been
thrown across live wire. The child
was knocked unconscious. His mother
attempted to pull him away and she
also was knocked to the ground.
After wandering for two days in the
mountains without food and sleeping
In the open, Allen Robbins. Is, and
Gilbert Russell, 10, both Of Loveland.
were found on the Fall river road
north Of Estes Park.
Sheriff Trabing Of Laramie. Wyo,
positively Identified the body found
near the Ames monument, at Sher.
man, as that of w. Fl. Pfleiderer, the
Longmont optician. who perished In a
storm last April II. The body was
taken to Laramie. A sheepherder dis
covered the decomposed form lying In
ravine.
With a numerical increase Of 14O,325
In the last ten years, the state. Of Colo
RADIO showed growth since 1910 Of
only little more than half Of that
made In the previous ten years. Dem
yer shows population Of 258,491, an
increase Of 43,110. or 2O.2 per cent.
Denver's population was previously an
nounced at 258,808. Boulder Is an
nounced as 10,9S9, showing an increase
Of 1,45O, or 1872 per cent. The census
bureaus announcement gave the state
total Of 839.378 inhabitants. Colo
radios rate Of growth in the last dec
ade was 17.6 per cent. COMPARED with