The Dolores star., 1920-09-17
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

RADIO showed n growth since 1910 or
only n little more than half of that
made in the previous ten years. Den
yer shows population of 2o0'a'l, an
increase of 43,ll0. or 20,2 per cent.
Denyer's population was previously an
nounccd at 256,369. Boulder Is AN
nounced as lO,0s9, showing an incrense
of $50, or 15,2 per cent. The census
bureaus announcement gave the state
total of 0303IG inhabitants. Colo
radios rate of growth in the last dec
ade was lT.G per cent. compared with
AS per cent In the previous ten years.
| The Rockland hotel was completely
DESTROYED AT Palmer Lake by fire
which followed terrific explosion
/ heard two miles away. gas leak III
/ The basement which was touched Off
when Oliver and Mildred Hill, children
/ of Mrs. W. L. Hill, proprietrcss, at
| tempted TO light the water heater, Is
| said to have caused the explosion. De
/ spite the fact that the force of the eH-
plosion wrecked pnrts of the building,
! the children were not seriously hurt,
and escaped with only slight burns.
The loss is estimated at $4,000, part
of which is covered by insurance.
Mrs. w. l.. White and her son, Hom-
er, years old who We're on their way
to school at Montrose, We're both
knocked unconscious by n live wire
carving 200 volts. They We're res
cued by passing farmer. Young
White was walking along with his
mother. when he reached to the ground
and grabbed wire which hnd been
thrown across a live wire. The child
was knocked unconscious. His mother
attempted to pull him away and she
also was knocked to the ground.
Douglas Daugherty, 12-ycar-old
son of Mr. and Mrs. Il. c. Daughsrty
of Grand Junction, was drowned in
the Grand river The body was rccov-
cred by members of the fire depart
ment und police with graphing hooks
| Douglas Older brother. Edwin, made
desperate attempt to save him.
About dozen boys We're swimming
after pears which were floating down
the river. Douglas went further than
the rest and was caught in an eddy
and sucked under.
Ted Irwin, II, son of Mrs, ". Irwin
of Colorado Springs, bellboy at the
Broadmoor hotel. was instantly killed
near the IIackcy sheep ranch, Lincoln
county. thirty miles north of OrdwaT,
when his revolver was exploded acci-
dentally in 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, as the road is little used.
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 tliS year
The water will be analyzed and the
rock strata examined microscOpically
The geology of the land will be gone
into thoroughly also. There is Il posi-
bility that the source of the poison
claimed for use.
Entries for the Better Babies CON
test at the Colorado State Fair are
coming in rapidly, bur all these and
all other entries must he in not later
than Saturday afternoon, Sept Is, rs
the fair will open full blast, with
everything in place and with great
track and other events, on Sunday,
the nineteenth.
Sheriff Trabing of Laramie, Wyo..
positively identified the body found
near the AmeS monument at Sher-
man, as that of w. III. Pfleiderer, the
Longmont optician. who perished in Il
storm last April II. The body was
taken to Laramie. A sheepherder dis.
covered the decomposed form lying in
a ravine
Twelve horses were incinerated
when large livery stable burned al
Grand Junction. Several automobile
shops were threatened for n time. The
loss was estimated at $4,000.
Two armed men held up and robbed
the crews of ColfaX avenue car and
trailer of more than 500 as the train
backed into the switch preparatory to
turning around mt COlfnX avenue and
Birch street in Denver. The robbers
who are said to have been mere
youths, then ran to Fourteenth avenue
and Birch street, where they entered
n large touring car and started toward
the city at high rate of speed.
The 1920 crop of wild raspbcrrics
proved to be a bumper one and the
service berries and choke cherries have
added great deal to the larderS of
Ouray folk. The high price of sugar
is not so kcenly felt when the berries
are free for the picking, and many
have put up great deal of preserves
jams and jells this summer, drawing
upon natures supply of wild berries
almost exclusively.
) Denver was selected for next years
meeting place by the Columbian fed.