Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1921-08-05

/ Lawrence McNulty, 20, was drowned
in reservoir six miles southeast OF
Colorado Springs while swimming with
| two companions. II was forty-five
minutes before the body was located.
| Houses are scareer in Montrose now
than at any period for several years,
despite the fact that so many resi-
| dences We're recently made vacant
when many sheep and cattle raisers
took their families to the mountains
during the summer
After lying twenty-four days in an
unconscious condition, Leonard Cross,
age o. died at Loveland of injuries re-
ceived when he was struck by an auto
mobile The little fellow jumped from
load of hay and ran around behind
the wagon Just as an automobile load
of men came up behind the hay, un-
able to see him in time to stop.
Six men were killed and six injured
at the Schuyler-Doyle Oil Shale Com
pnny'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 1000 feet. The car literally was
smashed to pieces when it jumped the
track and hurtled over boulders.
Building in Denver for the month
of July totaled ST40.S50. bringing up
the average of months to "A point
where, for the first time in 1921, an
increase over Il similar period of 1920
is shown. For the first seven month
of 1921 the building totals $3.50. $50,
While that for the 1920 period totals
S5,6ls,510, an increase for 1921 of
| S71.O15.
Colorado's wheat crop for 1921 will
exceed by 100000 bushels any prev
ious years production, according TO
estimates by the State Immigration
Department from reports by county as
SCISSORS. With this increase. it 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 McNfurray, IL years old, with his
right arm severed at the elbow and
deep cut in his right leg and with blood
pouring from the wounds, extricated
himself from moving machine sickle
and crawled and walked 100 yards TO
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| first aid 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 n fine manse near the campus
| of the University of Colorado to serve
as "A home for the student pastor and
rs 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 n
$500 building fund. The national
board of the church has appropriated
| $1,000 on condition that like amount
he raised in Colorado.
| According to plans of the directors
| of the san Luis valley drainage dis
trict No. l work of laying tile in the
covered drains will soon be resumed.
In this district, which lies Just south
of La lara, is some 10000 acres of
land which WAS once very productive,
but which became seeped through the
| irrigation of the higher surrounding
| land. The open drainage canal, about
eleven miles in length, was completed
\ last year and several of the covered
lateral drains were put in. Then the
work was stopped until more funds
were available. Now arrangements
are being completed for carrying on
the work.
Judge Robert II. 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. II. Dickens, in Novem-
| ber, 1919. The trial will be held In
! Weld county, having been taken there
on 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 it back for re-
trial.
The annual fall exposition will be
held in Colorado Springs beginning
Nov. IA. 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; J.
G. Hnle, county agricultural agent;
Jack Carruthers,. representing the
Pixies Peak Poultry Association; ]. ].
Gauld, representing the FL Paso coun-
ty farm bureau and the FL Paso Coun-
| ty Purebred Livestock Breeders Asso-
| clation Mrs Inez Johnson Lewis,
county superintendent of schools. and
| L. s. Fl. Griffin, representing the Rab-
bit and Pet Stock Association.
Ned Hayden of Fraser was killed
and his wife severely burned when
lightning struck barn just as they