The Dolores star., 1921-08-12
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
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COMING EVENTS.


Annual Monte Vista Stampede at Monte
Vista. Aug. !. =. 5.
Morgan County Fair. Fort Morgan.
Aug. 2A-2S: w. J. OFT, secretary.
Fram,on Russell was cranking his
machine at Loveland when 1t Kicked
and he was hurled ten feet and
through the window of barber shop.
His right arm was broken.
C. H. s. whipple. Colorado secre-
tary of state in lse7-D9 prominent for
many years In Colorado political cir
cles and widely known resident Of
I.eadvllle, is dead in Los Angeles.
Houses are scarcer in Montrose now
than at any period for several years
despite the fact that so many resi-
dsnces were recently made vacant
when many sheep and cattle raisers
took their families to the mountains
during the summer.
More than 5000 cars will be needed
to handle the potato crop of the west
srn slope. according TO estimates
made by railroad freight officials, who
have decided to give $50 ears for the
spuds at Montrose. $50 for Olathe, $50
for Delta and 1000 for other points
During terrific thunder storm, the
din OF which drowned out the sound
of their activities, an unknown num-
Der Of bandits entered the Garfield
County State bank at Grand Valley.
blew the safe and vault doors To de-
bris with dynamite, and escaped with
approximately 10000 worth of secur-
tiles and cash.
Six men were killed and six injured
ut the Schuyler-Doyle OIL Shnle Com
pany's plant, six miles north Of Grand
Valley when the cable of a 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 1t jumped the
track and hurtled over boulders.
Colorado's wheat crop fof 1921 will
exceed by 100000 bushels any prev
ious years production, cording to
estimates by the State Immigration
Department from reports by county as.
SCISSORS. With this Increase, 1t 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 McMurray, II years old, with his
right arm severed at the elbow and 4
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 mid and summoned Il doctor. He
was removed TO 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 home for the student pastor and
as a common meeting place for stu
dents of that denomination. The
church Of Boulder has purchased a lot
and the Rev. NJ s. Bush, student pas
tor, now is convassing the state for Il
$500 building fund The national
board of the church has appropriated
be raised in Colorado.
Bronco busting, horse racing and
baseball games will be the daily fea-
lures of the annual fair of the Deer
Trail Fair Association Aug. 1S. 10 and
20. The ball games will be between
the Deer Trail team and those of
Strasburg, Byers and Hugo: and II
bucking mule, mule race and n buck
Ing steer will be specialties during
the fair. The general exhibit of agri-
cultural products, cattle, hogs, sheep
and horses promises to be the best
ever shown at the fair.
Judge Robert H. 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. Fl. Dickens, in Novem-
Der, 1915. The trial will be 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. he was found
guilty of second degree murder. The
case was appealed to the Supreme
Court, which remanded 1t back for re-
trial.
The annual fall exposition will be
held in Colorado Springs beginning
Nov. ID, according to present plans
completed by the Chamber of Com.
merce. The following committees
have been appointed to take charge of
the work: Luther Hunt, chairman: ],
c.. Hale, county agricultural agent !:
Jack Carruthers, representing the
Pixies Peak Poultry Association; J. ].
Gauld, representing the Ell Paso couu.
ty farm bureau and the El Paso Coun.
ty Purebred Livestock Breeders Asso-
ciation; Mrs. Inez Johnson Lewis
county superintendent of schools, and
l.. s. II. Griffin, representing the Rab
bit and Pet Stock Association.
Ned Hayden of Fraser was killed
and his wife severely burned when
lightning struck n hnrn iuct ,s .h.