Cheyenne Wells record., 1921-08-04

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Aug. 2A-26: W. J. OFT. secretary.
Lawrence McNulty, 20, was drowned
in a reservoir six miles southeast or
Colorado Springs while swimming with
two companions. 1t was fOrty-fiVe
minutes before the body was located.
Houses are scnrcer in NOntrOse now
than at any period for several years.
despite the fact that SO many resi-
dences were recently made vacant
when many sheep and cattle rnisers
took their families to the mountains
during the summer.
After lying twenty-four days In an
unconscious condition, Leonard Cross,
age 0, died at Loveland of injuries re-
ceived when he was struck by an auto
mobile. The little fellow jumped from
load of hay and ran around behind
the wagon just rs an automobile LOAD
of men came up behind the hay, un-
able to see him in time to stop.
Six men were killed and six injured
ut the Schuyler-DOyle Oil Shale Com
puny's plant, six miles north OF Grand
| Valley, when the cable of tram line
down the mountainside slipped from
its swivel and let the car crash down.
ward 1900 feet. The car literally was
smashed to pieces when it jumped the
track and hurtled over hOnlders.
| Building In Denver for the month
of July totaled S74O,S5O. bringing up
the average of months to point
where, for the first time In 1921, an
Increase over Il similar period of 1920
Is shown For the first seven month
Of 1921 tho building totals $J,GSJ.52.',
while that for the 1920 period totals
S5,GlS,51O, an increase for 1921 of
$71,Ol5.
CoIorado's wheat crop for 1921 will
exceed by 100000 bushels any prev
ious years production, according to
estimates by the State Immigration
Department from reports by county as
SCISSORS. With this increase, ii is eX-
pected that Colorado will step from
twelfth position of last year to sixth or
seventh place among the leading wheat
producing states of the country.
Guy McAlurray, II years old, with his
right arm severed nt the elbow and q
deep cut in his right leg and with blood
pouring from the wounds, eXtricated
himself from a moving machine sickle
and crawled and walked 100 yards to
his home where his mother gave him
first MD and summoned n doctor. He
was removed 10 a Greeley hospital.
Despite the injuries, physicians say he
!, will live.
Presbyterians of Colorado are to
build fine manse near the campus
Of the University Of Colorado TO serve
as a htAne for the student pastor and
as a common meeting place for stu.
dents of that denomination. The
church of Boulder has purchased lot,
and the Rev. NJ. S. Bush, student pas
tor. now is cOnvassing the state for a
$500 building fund. The national
, board of the church has appropriated
$4,000 on condition that n like amount
be raised In Colorado.
According to plans of the directors
of the San Luis valley drainage dis
trict No. ! work of laying tile in the
covered drains will soon be resumed.
In this district, which lies just south
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 In length, was completed
, last year and several of the covered
lateral drains were put in. Then the
work was stopped until more funds
. were available. Now arrangements
are being completed for carrying on
. the work.
Judge Robert II. Bradfield has set
the month of September for the trial
Of RienZi Dickens, LOngmOnt man,
who is charged with the murder of
his father, W. II. Dickens. in Novem-
Der, 1915. The trial will he held in
Weld county, having been taken there
. on a change of venue. RienZi Dickens
Is now in California. He is out on
bond. At his first trial, lie was found
guilty of second degree murder. The
case was appealed to the Supreme
: Court, which rcinan,lcd it back for re-
trial.
The annual fall exposition will be
held in Colorado Springs beginning
Nov. IA, according to present plans
completed by the Chamber Of Com
inerce. The following committees
have been appointed to take charge of
the work: Luther Hunt, chairman; J.
c. Hale, county agricultural agent;
Jack Carruthers, representing the
Pixies Peak Poultry Association; ]. J.
Gauld, representing the Ell Paso cOun-
! ~ farm bureau and the El Paso Coun-
ty Purebred Livestock Breeders. Asso.
citation; Mrs lnez Johnson Lewis,
county superintendent of schools, and
l.. s. H. Griffin, representing the Rab-
bit and Pet Stock Association.
Six persons in car which was
crowded off the road by lumber pro-
jecting from a wagon which they were