The Dolores star., 1921-07-22

Vista, Aug. 3. 4. 5.
Morgan County Fair. Fort Morgan.
Aug. 2i-26; W. J. OFT. secretary.
All Police Court records We're shat
tered at Pueblo when fines amounting
to $3.50 were assessed in one day.
The fines included $50 each assessed
against forty-five vagrants rounded up.
Less than ten hours after she is al
legged to have kidnapped her 3year-old
daughter from the home of the child's
father, John Edge, in Denver, Mrs.
Madge Edge of Birmingham. Ala, was
arrested at McCook, Neb.
While swimming in bayou along
the Colorado river, and in sight of hun
dreds of picnickers, Evelyn Carall, 49,
year-old high school girl of Grand
| Junction was drowned and three COM
panions narrowly escaped death when
they attempted to rescue her.
More than 1000 acres of land near
Golden have already been damaged by
grasshoppers, and it is feared the
hordes of insects may ruin alfalfa and
garden crops in jefferson county, ac-
cording to reports received by the
county agricultural agent and farm bu-
| reau.
Word was received in Boulder of the
death of David IIershman, pioneer of
northern Colorado, at Long Beach.
| Calf Mr. Hershman came to Colo
RADIO Immediately after the Civil war
and farmed at Loveland. Later he
moved to this city and few years
| ago to California.
Z. V. Smith, "a years old, was run
down and killed at Sterling by train
| in the Burlington yards. Smith Is said
to have been subject to fits of melan-
choly, and 1t is not known whether the
case is accidental or suicide. Smith
was formerly employed as a linotype
| operator at Wray.
The first open-ar wedding of the
summer was held at Ourny, when John
f. Leatherman of Indiana and Mrs.
Jennie A. Rose, II teacher in a local
school, were married in the Chipeta
grove near Ouray, in the heart of the
mountains. The Rev. J. Freeland
Johnson Of Montrose performed the
ceremony.
Ascending Sneffels peak, fourteen
miles west Of Ouray, Colo, during the
progress of Sne of the worst summer
blizzards ever seen in that section of
Colorado, six Grand Junction men
came near losing their lives. They
became marooned on the peak in ter
ribe gale which drove dense clouds
Of fine snow at low temperatures up
on them, making it impossible to find
shelter or get away from the singing
blast.
In the famous CressOn mine, Cripple
| Creek district, a fresh ore body meas
uring 125 to $50 feet in width and
some 200 feet in length was recently
| opened up. 1t is between the eleventh
and twelfth levels, and is 80 per cent.
ore, the value averaging from So to
S15 per ton. u is conservatively esti-
mated at 100000 as it stands. The
Cresson "vug" of 1914, located at some
l.25O feet from surface, added S3.0O0,-
600 to the Cripple Creek output in
1915.
Thomas Phoenix. superintendent of
the Watrous Cafe in Curtis street,
Denver, his wife and his daughter,
Miss Margaret Phoenix, 20 years old,
were injured when an automobile in
which they We're driving to Colorado
Springs for Il days outing Skidded and
tumbled over 2OOfoot cmbankment
between Monument and Hustled. The
top of the car, sedan, prevented seri-
Gus injuries to them when 1t caught
the weight of the wheels and body as
the machine turned over.
Mount Blanca, one of the highest
mountain peaks in Colorado, was
flown over by Il. +. Bowers and C. o.
1halmadge, Colorado Springs ayiators.
The men We're flying at an altitude of
14,50O feet when they passed over the
summit. 1t is the first time an air.
plane has ever accomplished this feat,
so far as is known
The Ault school directors have ac-
cepted plans and awarded the contract
for n new senior and junior high
school building which will cost $S5, 900
and which will eventually house 800
pupils. The new building is to be com
pleted and in use by early winter. The
building will front on Liberty park,
which was recently purchased and i'm
proved by the school district.
Hikes in charge of the Pixies Peak
branch of the Colorado Mountain Club
are to furnish new and free enter
tainment to visitors in the Pixies Peak
region. Noted scenic points will be
series of such hikes has been held, and
sixty-one visitors participated. Botany
and geology of the region will be
studied on these trips as an educa-
tiOnal feature.
Mrs. Katie Gertrude Bourk, % years
old, committed suicide by taking poi
son at the county hospital at Greeley.
Mrs. BOurk had given birth to n dauyb