The Raymer enterprise., 1921-07-21

morgan County FAR, Fort Morgan.
Aug. 24-2G: W. J. OF. secretary.
All Police Court records were shnt-
tered at Pueblo when fines amounting
to $3.50 were assessed in one day.
The fines included $50 each assessed
against forty-ftve vayrants rounded up.
After having driven herd Of cattle
overland from Steamboat Springs,
Colo, TO Denver, Il distance Of more
than 200 miles, A. h. Sager, an Elk
river stockman, arrived at the Denver
stockyards.
Playing Indian cost Dick FOiles.
aged 4, at LOyelana broken shoulder
blade, when some OF his companions
roped him with lasso and jerked him
to the ground with sufficient force to
break his shoulder.
f. V. Smith, "a years old, was run
down and killed at Sterling by q train
In the Burlington yards. Smith u saaid
to have been subject to fits OF melan.
chOiy, and II Is not known whether ths
case Is accidental or suicide. Smith
was formerly employed rs a linotype
operator at Wray.
Hikes In charge Of the Pixies Peak
branch Of the Colorado Mountain Club
are to furnish new and free enter
tninment to visitors in the Pixies Peak
region. Noted scenic points will be
visited on foot. The first Of a long
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,
Ascending Sneffels peak. fourteen
miles west OF Ouray. Colo. during the
progress Of one Of the worst summer
billiards ever seen In that section OF
Colorado, six Grand Junction men
came near losing their lives. They
became maro0ned on the peak in q ter.
rible gale which drove dense clouds
Of fine snow at low temperatures up,
on them, making II impossible to find
shelter or get away from the stingins
blast.
In the famous Cresson mine, Cripple
Creek district, fresh ore body meas
urlng 125 to 80 feet in width and
some 200 feet In length was recently
opened up. 1t Is between the eleventh
and twelfth levels, and Is 90 per cent
ore. the value averaging from $l2 to
Sl5 per ton. In Is conseryatiyely esti.
mated at $1.J00,000 us 1t stands. The
Cresson "vug' OF 1914. located at some
l,2JO feet from surface, added 5000.
600 to the Cripple Creek output In
1918.
Thomas Phoenix. superintendent OF
the WatrOus Cafe In Curtis street,
Denver. his wife and his daughter,
Miss Margaret Phoenix, 30 years old,
were injured when an automobile In
which they were driving to Colorado
Springs for days outing skidded aud
tumbled over 20O-foot embankment
between Monument and Hustled The
top Of the car. sedan, prevented seri.
Gus injuries to them when il caught
the weight of the wheels and body as
the machine turned over.
Suffering from serious concussion
of the brain by reason Tf striking his
head on an iron bar across gate,
Warren Steele of Estes Park Is in Il
critical condition. He WAS driving a
truck loaded with hay TO the workers
al Fall River road camp. and when he
reached the entrance 10 Horseshoe
Park, which Is guarded by n high steel
gate, the load was too high to get un.
der the gate. He is said to have been
driving fast, and the iron lar above
the gate struck him on the head,
knocking him unconscious for several
hours and causing serious conclusion
and possible fracture of the skull
Mount Blanca. one of the highest
mountain peaks IN Colorado. was
flown over by +. f. Bowers and G. O.
Thalmadge, Colorado Springs avIatOrs
The men were flying mt an altitude of
1850 feet when they passed over the
summit. II 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 new senior and Junior high
school building which will cost $4,000
and which will eventually house 500
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.
Alexander BaudinO and Octaviops
Serrlno, miners employed at one Of the
Triangle Coal Company mines. four
miles south OF Durango, were painfully
burned when, after placing and firing
round Of shots, they entered their
coal room with lighted lamps, when
an explosion Of gas occurred The
former was burned around the head
and the latter on the body. Their
burns are not fatal.
More than 1000 acres of land nea1
Golden have already been damaged by
grasshoppers, and 1t is feared the
hordes Of insects may ruin alfalfa and
garden crops In Jefferson county, ac'
cording to reports received by the