The Dolores star., 1921-03-25
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.


were burned to death near Cucliara.
ten miles northeast of Walsenburg Ac-
cording to reports, the blaze was
caused by the explosion of n 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 ii hole
through the middle of the car and
filled it with gas, rendering most of
the victims unconscious before thcy
could make move to escape.
Il. a. McAIurry and Conrad Floth.
sheep dealers, have filed suit in the
District Court at Fort Collins against;
the Denver & Rio Grande railroad
and the Colorado x Southern for 81.
SOB for damages alleged to have
been sustained in the failure of fhe
TWO roads to deliver to them 1.120
lambs which they We're having shipped
to them at Black Hollow Station.
Calo., from Fountain Green. Utah
Following n two days hearing the
coroner's jury inquiring into the dis
aster in which five persons lost their
'''-c ~ Wv 'b'ii'S VI Val
Corona, attached to the Denver 4 Rio
Grande passenger train No. 155 ut
Roof, returned verdict containing no
| finding revealing the cause of the fire,
expressing the opinion that the acci-
| dent was an avOidable one in the lack
of rules requiring the Pullman porter
to be on duty.
After divulging the information on
which the defendant was arrested in
| California and brought back to Logan
| county for trial, John Calvert, pris-
oner in the county Jail in Sterling,
| failed on the witness stand and as II
result Elmer f. Week. well-to-do farm
cr, charged with burning four stacks
of wheat in the east part of the coun-
| ty last September, was acquitted by Il
jury in the District Court.
Northern Colorado fair dates will
not conflict this year, as they fire.
qucntly have in the past. Six fair
dates announced are Morgan county
at Fort Morgan, August 1926; WASH
ington county at Akron, Aug. 31-Sept.
=; Phillips county at Holyoke, Sept.
10; Logan county at Sterling, Sept.
1916; Yuma county at Yuma, Sept.
2023; Weld county at Greeley, Sept.
1916
The Colorado Fuel & Iron Company
Mt Pueblo las announced that owing
to improved conditions in the steel in
dustry, 1000 additional men will be
employed. -Four idle mills will reopen,
running two eight-hour shifts. Orders
for finished steel products have shown
a very large and gratifying increase
during the past month, officials of the
company stated.
Anna Mudra, 15-year-od daughter of
Frank Mudra, CZechO-Sav coal miner
at Oak Creek, who shot and killed her
mother at the Mudra ranch in the
twenty-mile district last January after
"A series of quarrels, has been SEN
fenced to the State Industrial School
for Girls at Morrison by District
Judge Morning, sitting as Juvenile
Court in Steamboat Springs.
A new sewer district to drain the
entire east side of the city of Love
land and to cost about S23,00O will
be built this season, the council hav-
ing passed the ordinance providing for
same and instructed the city clerk to
advertise for bids to be opened March
20, in order to get as early start as
possible on its construction.
Senator Phipps has requested the
secretary of the interior and the COM
missioner of the General Land Office to
open Colorado lands Immediately to
settlers under the Carey act and re-
cent departmental order, which opened
the lands, but did not specify date.
The taxpayers of Fort Collins have
voted unanimously in favor of $780,
900 bond issue for the improvements
of the schools. Additions will be built
to several of the schools, new equip
ment added and sites for new build
ings will be purchased.
The Nucla Chamber of Commerce
at recent meeting elected officers
and considered plans for civic i'm
provements. The officers elected
were: A. l.. Bolen, president, and w.
| A. Hopkins, secretary and treasurer.
Sixty thousand persons, firms and
corporations of Colorado paid $6,946,-
273.14 into Uncle Sans Golfers as fed
eral income tax in the first three
months of 1921.
The Colorado Brush Manufacturing
Company of Englewood, whose factory
| is being rushed to completion, has
been Incorporated with $4,000 author
| lied capital stock.
Most of the fed lambs in corn-belt
territory are believed to have been
marketed. If this is true, Colorado
| will be the main source of supply dur
ing the next forty to sixty days.
Colorado Springs may issue at once
its $6OO,OOO paving bonds, voted at a
special election on Sept. 8, 1920, by
virtue of n decision handed down by
the Colorado Supreme Court.
The Baptist church at Boulder is