The state herald., 1921-03-25
CENTENNIAL STATE lrInSas II

Five passengers or the Pueblo
sleeper of westbound train No. 116 on
the Denver & Rio Grande railroad
were burned to death near Cucha,r..
ten miles northeast Of walsenburg. Ac.
c0rtling to reports. the blaze was
caused by the explosion of tank used
to supply gas to the Pintsch lighting
system, which is still In use on cars
operating over the Denver-Alamosa
route. The explosion tore q hole
through the middle Of the car and
filled 1t with gus, rendering most of
the victims unconscious before they
could make n move to escape.
b. A. McMurry and Conrad Floth,
sheep dealers, have filed suit In the
District Court at Fort Collins against
the Denver 4 Rio Grande railrond
and she Colorado & Southern for 81.
s59.2S for damages alleged to have
been sustained in the failure Of the
two roads to deliver to them 1,1oO
lambs which they were having shipped
to them ut Black Hollow Station.
Colo, from Fountain Green, Utah.
Following two days hearing, the
coroner's jury inQuiring into the dis
aster In which five persons lost their
lives by the burning Of Pullman ear
COrOna. attached to the Denver 4 Rio
Grande passenger train No. 1855 at
Roof. returned a verdict containing no
finding revealing the cause Of the fire.
| expressing the opinion that the ucci.
dent WAS an nvOldable one In the lack
of rules requiring the Pullman porter
to he on duty.
After divulging the information on
which the defendant was arrested in
California and brought back to Logan
county for trial, John Calvert. n pris-
oner in the county JUL in Sterling.
failed on the witness stand and us II
result Elmer +. Week, well-to-do farm
er, charged with burning four stacks
of wheat In the east part of the cOun-
ty last September. was acquitted by II
jury In the District Court.
Northern Colorado fair dates will
not conflict this year, as they fire.
quently have In the past. Six fair
dates announced are Morgan county
at Fort Morgan. August 1926: Wash.
ingion county NJ Akron, Aug. 3l-Sept
.: Phillips county at Holyoke, Sept.
40: Logan county Mt Sterling. Sept
1916: Yuma county NJ Yuma, Sept
20-23; Weld county at Greeley. Sept.
1I.1G.
The Colorado Fuel X Iron Company
at Pueblo has announced that owing
to improved conditions IN the steel in-
dustry, 1000 additional men will he
employed. -Four idle mills will reopen.
running Iyo eighi-hour shifts. Orders
for finished steel products have shown
n very large and gratifying increase
during The past month, officials of the
company stated.
Anna Mudra, l5-ycnr-old daughter of
Frank Mu,ira, Czecho-Sinv coal miner
at oak Creek, who shot and killed her
mother at the Mudra ranch iE the
twenty-lnile district last January after
series of llnrrcls, has bcen SEN
fenced In the State Industrial School
for Girls nj Morrison by District
Judge Morning. sitting MS n Juvenile
Court In Steamboat Springs.
\ new sewer district Ia drain the
entire east side of the city of Lave
land aud io cosl about 23,WO. will
bc built this season. the council hav.
Ing passed the ordinance providing for
same and instructed the city clerk 10
advertise for bids 10 he opened March
~, In order 10 get as early n start MS
possible ON | - construction.
senator rhipps has requested The
secretary of The interior aud the com
missioner Of the General Land office To
open Colorado lands immediately To
settlers under The Carey act and II rc.
cent departmental order. which opened
the lands, hut did NOT specify II date.
The taxpayers of Fort Collins have
voted unanimously In favor Of II Si96.
900 bond issue for The improvements
ot the schools. Additions will he built
Ia several "f the schools. new equip
In"nl added aud sites for new build.
ings will he purchased.
The Nucln Chamber OF Commerce
~ II recent meeting elected Officers
and considered plans for civic Inn
pr"yomrnt-. The officers elected
were: \. l.. Bolcn, president. aud W
A. Hopkins. secretary and treasurer
SiNtA thousand persons. firms and
corporations of Colorado pnld SG.DiG.
1I3li into Uncle Sans Golfers ns fed.
crul income taN In the first three
months of lp2l.
The Colorado Brush Manufacturing
Company Of Englcwood. whose factory
Is being rushed Ia completion. hns
been Incorporated with s25.0a author.
lied cipi'nl stock.
Most of The fed lambs In corn.bcil
territory are believed To hay. been
marketed. II this is true. Colorado
viii hc the maIn source Of suppl, dur,
Ing tl. u,NI forty In slNt, ,uNs