The Colorado statesman., 1921-08-06
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

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Of La lara, is some 10000 acres of
land which was once very productive,
but which became seeped through the
| irrigation OF the higher surrounding
| land. The open drainage canal, about
eleven miles I'm length, was completed
| lnst year and several OF the covered
lateral drains We're put In, Then the
work was stopped until more funds
were available Now arrangements
are being completed for carrying on
! the work.
The Colorado Fuel x Iron Company
| is letting II contract to the &. ). Lam
bic Construction Company of Pueblo
| for the building of fifty houses, which
| ure to be sold at cost and on easy
payments to employees of the company
who lost their homes in the flood. The
total sum to be expended will be close
to $4,000, and the houses will be of
three. four. five and six rooms. all
thoroughly modern. They will be
built near the old C. f. & l. hospital,
work to begin at once.
Hereafter Montrose firemen will not
he in danger of being run over by auto
| lists following them to fire. The
| City Council has passed an ordinunce
forbidding any automobile TO be with
in 200 feet of fire apparatus going to
II fire. Complaint has been filed fre-
quently with the council that when
ever the companies turn out they are
followed by IA stream of autos racing
after them, and when the men spring
to make coupling they are in danger
of being run down.
Two bandits with ropes let Il third
down the side of n Pullman car on
Denver < Rio Grande train No. . be-
tween Grand Valley and Rifle, and he
cut the screens in the windows and
robbed three hammocks in the berths.
one woman reported the loss of 500
in travellers checks and $40 in cash,
and two other passengers reported
losses, but the amount was not made
public. SO far as is known only the
three hammocks We're robbed.
Despite the fact that he drove his
closed automobile off the side of
bridge between Colorado Springs and
Manitou, pinning himself in the wreck
age on his head, ii. C. Reynolds of
Oklahoma City, Okla, escaped injury.
The machine landed upside down in
creek bed. Campers in the vicinity
| witnessed the accident and rushed TO
the scene and extricated Reynolds
from the wreckage.
The body of Daniel Cook, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Cook, will be
fpT.
| burial early in August, according to
word received from the War Depart
ment. He was wounded in action in
France and died of his wounds in
hospital. The American Legion will
have charge of the funeral and give
the body military burial
Announcement has been made that
the state firemen's meeting to be held
in Loveland, September 3, 6, and s.
will be opened each day by prayer.
A Catholic priest will pronounce the
invocation on the first day and min
listers of different Protestant denom-
nations will follow on succeeding
| days.
C. S. Mills of Las Anmas, Colo,
suffered possibly fractured skull and
his son, Leo Mills, is suffering from
internal injuries rs the result of
collision between their automobile and
another machine on Il curve near
Kellog, Idaho. The Mills car left the
road and rolled down 1OO-foot en-
bankment.
An increase in attendance is re-
| ported by the university summer
school at Boulder. The total for the
second term is 1.246 as against S74
year ago. During the first term the
registration was 1881 compared with
1907 in 1920 The total for the sum
mer is 3,19T as against 2,lS1 in 1920.
Richard Hart, ~ years old, son of
| Il prominent mining man of Red Cliff,
was killed and five others narrowly
escaped death when an automobile in
which the party was returning to Red
| Cliff from Leadville. plunged down
| thirty-foot embankment four miles
west of Tennessee pass.
| According to the coroner's jury,
| faulty construction of the cable line
was responsible for the Grand Valley
accident when seven men were killed.
| The breaking of a three eighths-inch
steel cable which was lowering the car
was given in "A report to the coroner
| as the cause of the accident.
At the closing session of the annual
convention of the Colorado Bar Asso-
citation, held ut Colorado Springs, the
| following Officers were elected: Geo.
| G. Manly of Denver, president II. S.
| Cast of Pueblo. vice president Robert
G.. Bosworth of Denver, secretary and
| treasurer
More than 5000 cars will be needed