The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1921-10-14
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

est drive was completed when Z. Is.
Mccoy, William Henry and 0. G. Mu-
GRACE of Grand county arrived in Den
YER with 1872 head of cattle from Radi-
um, Colo, distance of 135 miles. Ihe
cattle were quartered at the Union
stockyards and were pronounced by
local traders to be in the finest condi-
ton after their long trip on the road,
which consumed ten days.
A contract for 1000 yards of car
pets has been let by the State Board
Of Capitol Managers to the Daniels 4
Fisher Stores Company. About $500
Yards of the carpet will be laid in the
new state office building. The carpet
is of special design and bears the seal
of Colorado woven into the nap. 1t is
brown in color which was adopted by
the members of the board for all the
offices of the state capitol building.
Future requirements of carpet in the
state buildings will be made under the
contract made with the local store. The
total cost of the carpets is about $751;
900.
A coroners jury decided that the
death of James Glasgow, prospector,
whose body was found in the Sangre
de Cristo forest reserve, was due to
an accident. Glasgow disappeared
September 80, and his body was found
by bloodhounds after several parties
of searchers had failed. Glasgow was
shot lust above the heart, the bullet
being from his own rifle, which was
evidently discharged when the pros
pector fell over a log. The blood
hounds were brought from Colorado
Springs by Otto Quillan, sheriff, and
easily picked up trail nine days old.
"The longevity of man has been no.
ticeably increased during the past few
years In all countries" declared DIR.
w. w. Grant of Denver, a recognized
authority on cancer, in an address be-
fore nearly 1000 Pueblo people at the
municipal auditorium. "This longevity
is increasing more noticeably amcug
women than men," he added, and stat
ed further that the mortality rate had
been reduced considerably in every
disease with the exception of cancer,
Of which statistics show three times as
many women die as men.
Sheriff Erne A. Morse of Morgan
county received a postal card from
Woody Rogers, Georgia convict, who
| en- from Fort Morgan to Georgia. Rog-
ers was arrested at Fort Morgan sew
eral weeks ago on charges of forgery.
| 1t was then learned that he had es-
capped from the Georgia penitentiary,
where he had been serving life SEN
tence for murder. Rogers sent greet
ings, to Sheriff Morse.
| His desire to see his wife and four
months-old baby, which was born
while he was in prison, led Charles
w. Dunbar to escape from the road
camp at Cedar Creek, Colo, June IL,
he told officers who arrested him at
his wife's home at Lincoln, Neb., two
hours after he had Joined his family.
Dunbar said he roamed around the
| country four months in an effort to
1 throw officials off his trail. He was
serving five years for forgery.
| With the completion of repairs on
the large fire truck which has been
out of commission for some time
|
| trucks and one of them is the most
modern machine known-a pumpeI
with capacity for $50 gallons per min
ute and costing S12,95O The city
| plans to sell the smaller truck to
| Fruita.
John Williams, 81 years old, pioneer
| miner and prospector, was found dead
in his cabin on the outskirts of Silver
ton. He came to the Triangle country
in 1880 and was known as Johnny Be
| hind the Rock" He had been in poor
health for several months, and few
days ago suffered a severe fall on the
streets.
Gladys Warren, A years old, was fa-
tally burned at her home in Colorado
Springs when her clothing caught fire
| from some unknown cause. Mamie. an
elder sister, seized Gladys, who ran in.
| to the yard, carried her back into the
house and plunged her into tub OF
water. Gladys, however, had inhaled
| the flame and died later.
The shale men of Mesa county have
received an urgent invitation to atten6
the American mining congress TO be
held in Chicago, Oct. II to D. There
will be shale oil conference at the
congress and there will probably be
! quite few attending from Grand
county.
The Atlas mine and mill, ten miles
west of Ouray, are running at about
capacity now with ninety men at work
The recent addition to a twenty-tor
filter press has made the mill more eff
ficient. The Atlas has the biggest pa.
roll of any mine in Ouray county
James Barrett, day city editor o.
the New York World, addressed the
class in journalism at the University
of Colorado at Boulder. Mr.. Barrett
was formerly member of the staff
of the Rocky Mountain News and the
Denver Times.
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