The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-08-27
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
COMING EVEN

Western Newspaper Union News Service
COMING EVENTS.
Hugo Colo-The Lincoln County Fair
VII be held at Hugo. Sept Ss-so'
Four thousand eight hundred dollars
is the outlay the State Fair Commits
sioners have made for vaudeville and
circus features for the state fair This
is beside the horse, auto and airplane
features
Arrangements for the annual Boul-
der county fair are virtually completed
and indications point to the greatest
and best fair ever held at Longm0nt.
The fair will last four days, Sept. Z, 8,
o and 10.
A great, big modern circus will have
nothing on the 1920 Colorado State
Fair for major attractions in front OF
the grandstand and bleachers and on
the infield, for close to 5000 has been
expended for entertaining features.
Rapid progress is being made on the
new Liberal Arts building that is being
erected on the University of Colorado
campus at Boulder under the personal
direction and supervision Of members
Of the engineering faculty.
n. D. Sager, 90 years old, of Boulder,
Colo, was instantly killed when the
automobile in which he was riding
skidded on bad stretch Of highway
and rolled down a ten-foot embank-
ment one mile west of Steamboat
| Springs.
Charles Myers, recent addition to
the Pueblo police force and 20 years
old, is the new possessOr the dis
tinguished service cross for bravery in
the World War. Myers was decorated
for having pulled several unconscious
comrades from a gas-filled dugout.
| Obtaining a revolver from the truck
Of her brother-in-law, Miss Helen
Brewer, pretty and Is years Of age, Of
0lenwood Springs, attempted suicide
by shooting herself. The bullet enter
ed the abdomen She was removed to
a hospital wherf physicians say her
condition is SET lous.
Approximately six miles of road be.
tween Brush ald Akron, Colo, on the
Burlington highway, have been recon-
mended to thk federal government foI
a sand clay surface at a cost Of $48,0O0
according to an announcement by J. s.
Bright, district engineer of the bureau
of public roads at Denver.
In running revolver and shotgun
fight with d dburglar at Merino, Everett
Dean, 20 ylars old, shot and instantly
killed Benjamin Fuller, 80, farmer
living north Of Merino. The duel, it 4
alleged, followed. Fuller's attempt to
rob the lumber yard and store OF the
Merino Lumber Company.
The boty of the 1s-months-old son
of Mrs. G. Schegel, widow of Eagle,
was recovered from the Eagle river
following two-day search. The boy
disappeared while his mother was
washing clothes. County authorities
dragged more than 800 yards of the
river before the body was found.
Hearing upon the application of the
American Railway Express Company
for permission IN increase it's rates Oh
state traffic in Colorado will be held
by the Public Utilities Commission OF
the State of Colorado at the office u
the commission in Denver, Colorado, on
Monday, August Both, at 10 o'clock a.
| m, Denver time.
The Miners Union of Silverton, has
made extensive preparations for La
Dor day celebration, to be held Sep
tember 9TH and 9th. More than $1,000
has been raised for prizes for the win
ners in baseball, horse racing, tugs OF
war, drilling and other events The
leading events will be the baseball
games. The first game will be be-
tween Ouray and Silverton, and the
winner of this game will play the Du-
range ball team on September 9th.
Three dead rattlesnakes, one of them
| four feet long with fifteen rattles and
| a button, tell of the bravery of little
| 13-year-old Lottie Talkington, who
| went to dig potatoes on the ranch OF
| the Williams Fork Land and Cattle
Company near Craig. She was armed
with grubbing hoe with which she
killed the three snakes.
Warrants amounting to 81 1,499, Oil. SO
were issued during July by the state
auditor, according to report filed
with the auditing board. The amount
is represented in 1852 warrants, the
largest number ever issued in month
The average number issued each month
is about 5000, according to Auditor
Arthur M. Stong.
A rich strike at the 1,800-foot level
of the Vindicator gold mine at Victor,
reported a few days ago. gives promise
of producing ore to run between $75
| and $3.50 ton. The strike was made
at a point about 900 feet south of the
main shaft, and seems to be a continu-
alton of the well-known Little vein. 1t
is in virgin territory, which was pre-
viously believed to be practically
worthless.
A Boulder, Colo, contractor has
signed an agreement to build teach
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