The Dolores star., 1921-03-04
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

fslut Like III lllt bEiuul N'll
section. about six miles from Telluride,
when they We're caught in snowslide.
The men, with other members of the
power gang" of the Smugpler-Cnion
Mining Company, were making theii
way to the Blue Lake pumping station
of the Smuggler-Union Mining Com
pany to make repairs on transformers
and pumps, when a slide broke nno
caught the three and swept them down
the hillside for more than three hun
dred feet
The farmers of Morgan county have
unbounded faith in their business, anc
in order to make their business more
secure and steady are cooperating
intellectually in the membership
campaign. Every farmer in the county
will be asked to become n member OF
the Farm bureau. Many farmers have
declared that falling prices make il i'm
possible for them to pay a membership
in cash at this season of the year, and
to overcome this obstacle, the commit
tee has arranged TO accept 200 pounds
of wheat or ten bushels of shelled corr
In lieu Of the 50 cash membership fee
Attorney General Keyes was elected
president Of the Colorado Society, Sons
of the American Revolution. at Il joint
annual banquet and meeting of the or
ganiZation with the Colorado Patriotic
League in Denver. Former President
Malcolm Lindsey was elected vice
president DIR. James +. willard, secre.
tary; w. u. Wyncoop. treasurer, and
]. ?. Martin, chaplain, for the ensuing
year. Following the election of of
ficcrs, eleven gold medals were pre-
sented by Attorney General Keyes to
active patriotic workers during the
World war.
Fort Morgan's new lighting system
was put into service when tights were
turned on by Mayor Lockwood and
City Electrician w. H. Harold. The
great difference between the old light
ing system and the new was very
striking. What had, a few years ago
been looked upon aS one of the most
modern and up-to-datc systems for
lighting the town, appeared obsolete
and Insignificant when the new GOO
candle power lights We're flashed on in
place of the eighty-cand!e power sin
gle lights.
The county commissioners of Min
eral county have received notice from
the State Highway Commission of an
appropriation of $4,000 for the Crcede
and Lake City highway The money
wi hn IuIl 10 I,l,-
money will be sufficient it is thought
TO provide n good auto highway from
Creede to Lake City, and with proper
extension to the southwest this road
would be one of the main highways of
travel from that section of the state
TO Pueblo and Denver.
Copies of the income tax primers,
recently issued by the Bureau Of In.
ternal Revenue, which contains Iues.
tlons and answers relative TO the fiji.
ing of income tax returns. are now
available at the office of the collector
of internal revenue, Custom House,
Sixteenth and Arapahoe streets, Den.
yer. Colo. Copies may be obtained
only through collectors offices, and
are not being mailed from Washing.
ton.
The Walsenburg Building Company
has received from George w. Roe. Pu-
cblo architect, the plans for n $4,000
apartment house to be erected at
Walsenburg. The building will he of
pressed brick and stone, and will con.
tain forty apartments.
Mistaking coated pills for candy, "A
twelve-months' old baby of Mr.. and
Mrs. Willard Peterson of Flagler ate "A
dozen cathartic tablets, and is in n Sc
rious condition. Quick use of stomach
pump saved the infants life.
For the second time in eleven years
the Trans-Mississippi Golf Associa.
tons annual championship tourna-
ment is to be held in Denver. The
dates have been set for August 8 to l3.
Announcement has been made by the
officials of the Great Western Sugar
Company at Loveland. effective March
], there would be slight reduction in
the wages paid employees Most of the
reduction will be 10 ,he men who work
by the hour, and will amount to about
10 per cent. Some of the men working
by the month will also be reduced, the
average for this class of laborers being
So month less than has been paid.
Preliminary reports made by the
census bureau on all counties in Colo
RADIO. received and compiled by the
State immigration Department, show
substantial increase in every class
of livestock for the state in 1920 over
1910. The largest percentage of in
crease is for swine, being more than
100 per cent, while the lowest percent
age of increase Is for sheep.
After statewide search lasting four
months, Russell A. Gordon, former
Walsenburg railroad man, was ar
rested by Sheriff Harry j. Capps of
Huerfano county on charges of riflimg