The Dolores star., 1921-08-19
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

Is letting n contract to the C. s. Lam
bic Construction Company Of Ppeblo
for the building of fifty houses, which
are to be sold at cost and on easy
payments to employees of the company
who lost their homes in the flood. The
total sum to be expended will be close
to S14O,O0O, and the houses will be of
three, four. five and six rooms. all
thoroughly modern. They will be
built near the old C. F. & I. hospital.
work to begin at once.
Two bandits with ropes let third
down the side of a Pullman car on
Denver & Rio Grande train No. be-
tween Grand Valley and Rifle. and he
| cut the screens in the windows and
robbed three hammocks in the berths.
One woman reported the loss of $500
in travellers checks and $40 in cash,
and two other passengers reported
losses, but the amount was not made
public. So far as is known only the
three hammOcks were robbed
One man was blinded for life and
another may never recover his sight
us tlle Teslll VI All eSplOSlOll Ill IL lillle-
stone quarry at Ingleside, near Fort
Collins. The men, Lee Chavez and
Frank FloreZ, We're lowering a keg of
black powder into a shaft when the
keg struck a rock The explosion
! blew the eyes of FlOreZ almost enSrely
from his head. All the skin was blown
from Chavez face, but physicians said
| his sight might be saved
The federal census bureau has
placed an average of $31 % on farm
lands in Colorado. This is nearly twice
the figure fixed by the county asses
sors which was S16.45 in 1920 An in
crease of 10,OOO,OOO acres of farm land
in the state is shown by the report.
| The average increase in value has been
| $5.21 an acre. Nearly 2S,000,00O acres
of farm land is reported by tie county
| asseSsors' tax rolls.
| BufOrd Ross, 40, brothcr-in-iaw TO J.
=. Harbour, Pueblo county commits
siOner, was perhaps fatally injured
when a derrick, used in loading hay
on ranch twenty miles east of Pu-
eblo, fell upon him and crushed his
hips. 1t took almost twelve hours to
bring him to Pueblo to n hospital be-
| cause of the muddy roads, in which
the ambulance was stuck twice.
The city of LOveland faces Il dam
age suit for $500 to be started by ].
| S. Bainbridge for damages because of
injuries received by slipping on an icy
sidewalk and breaking his leg last De-
| fpi nj l,n
| bill some months ago, and after ne
gotiations offered to compromise. The
finance committee of the council re-
fused the offer.
| George Sargher, 90 years old, for
twenty-four years in business in Vic
tor is dead. Although in i'll health
for number of years. it has not been
though that his death was imminent.
He had attended a picture show and
had returned to his store, when, ten
minutes after entering, he expired. He
was one of the wealthicst men in
Victor.
| Resolutions requesting Congress "to
| Immediately enact such legislation as
may be necessary to stop excessive
profiteering in the retail sale of meat
and meat products" have been adopt
ed by the North Park Stockgrowers'
Association in session ut Walden, and
have been sent to Colorados delega-
ton in Washington.
| Publication of the national potato
crop estimate of the United Stntes De-
partment of Agriculture for August
| caused much joy in the Greeley dis
| trict. The estimate showed decrease
from the July estimate of 61,OOO,OOO
bushels, drop from 377,O0O,O0O bush
els to 3l6,OOO,OOO bushels.
School expenses iv Colorado have in
creased about $3,500,0O0 in the last two
years, according to figures made pub
| lie by the State immigration Depart
ment. The statistics are compiled from
records of the state superintendent of
schools.
City Commissioner James l.. LOvern
| of Pueblo sent kilograms to leading
| engineering firms of the United
| States inviting them to send represen-
tatives to Pueblo to discuss flood pre-
| ventiOn measures which may be taken
here. A date is to he set for the con-
ference. Among the firms invited is
the J. NJ. O'ROurke Company of Chi
| cago, builders of the Galveston sea
| wall.
Howard Penn, negro, enraged be-
| cause lie had been elected from Mex
| ican restaurant in Eaton, kicked in
the window of hardware store,
helped himself to a rifle and anlmuni-
| ton, and returning to the restaurant
proceeded to lombard it. The Mexi-
cans ran through the rear door, and
Penn was arrested by the town mar
shal and placed in the Greeley Jail.
Colorado Springs may be Immediate
ly chosen as site for Il vocational
training center for disabled soldiers,