The Colorado statesman., 1921-10-01


Oct 4-6; James Il. Tressler secretary.
Kit Carson County Fair. Burlington.
Oct. SIS: J. NJ. Hefner secretary:
d. Il. Nance. secretary.
The closing day of the fair at Mont
rose was marked by number Of acci-
dents.
Two accidents marred the program
at the Wild West show and fair in
Greeley.
An unusually large exhibit of farm
products and live stock was shown at
the Yuma County Fair.
The Adams County Fair was the
most elaborate event of the kind ever
held in that section of the state. The
program of entertainment left few idle
moments.
A verdict of not guilty was returned
in the case of Harvey Gibson, accused
Of the murder of his nephew, Valentine
Simon, by a jury in the West Side
Court In Denver.
Jimmie Lipcombe, o years old, died
at local hospital at Colorado Springs
following injuries sustained when he
was run down by an autoist. 1t is the
third death to local children this sum
mer, officials say.
The campaign of the American Beet
Sugar Company's factory started at
Rocky Ford with a full force of men
at Work. A heavy beet crop is avail
able and it is expected that the drive
will last at least 100 days.
The district convention of the Rotar-
ians of Colorado, Wyoming and New
Mexico will be held in Greeley March
22-23, it was decided in the ending of
the two-day conference of officers OF
the Rotary clubs of the district in Den
yer.
Women students, arriving for the
opening of the fall quarter at Colorado
State Teachers College, Oct. 3, will
find awaiting them three attractive
buildings equipped with all the con-
venlences and artistic features OF mod
ern women's dormitorles.
DIR. ]. e. Dale, 81 years old, who has
practiced in Fort Collins for the last
twenty years, died at Fort Collins fol-
lowing a long illness with pernicious
anemia. DIR. Dale was forced to give
up his practice last April and he spent
some time in Denver hospital under
the care of specialists, but did not
overcome the disorder.
The Red Cross disaster relief unit
has placed more than $27 900 in the To-
cal banks at Pueblo as maintenance
and pension funds for 156 flood suf-
ferers. Each beneficiary will be able
l. oft 1u
til the entire fund placed to his credit
is exhausted. Similar deposits have
been placed in banks at La Junta and
smaller towns.
Ben Wolf and William Harbaugh,
crew on Pueblo city street car, while
on their way to work, found wallet
containing $4,000 in checks and cash.
The wallet was the property of Capt.
G. Steele of the United States army,
who went through Pueblo with the
Ninth infantry troops en- route south
from Fort Logan. and who had lost 1t
while on his way to where hfs men
were encamped over night.
The Nushaft coal mine on Coal
creek, near Florence, caught fire, fol
lowing the firing of shot in the work
lngs Monday night by an employe. 1t
is believed that the shot was fired
close to an old oil well property, To-
Gated near the mine. Two hundred
miners and workmen in the mine were
forced to leave on account of the dense
clouds of smoke which completely
filled the shafts and tunnels Mo lives
were lost.
The Arapahoe County Medical Soci-
ETY. was organized at Littleton on Sept.
81. DIR. Walter G. Crysler of Littleton
was elected president, DIR. John Simon
Of Englewood, vice president, and DIR.
o. II. Granthum of Littleton, secretary.
The membership includes all the ply
sicians In active practice in Arapahoe
county.
Approval of Denver as staff head
quarters of the 103rd Reserve division
United States army, has been received
by the commission of army officers
for the purpose of selecting officers
for the units that will compose the dl-
vision. Announcement of Denver as
headquarters was made by Col. Harry
II. Lee, head of the commission and
the man who has been selected as chief
1f staff of the division.
William Terry, a farmer living one
mile south of the La Junta, was killed
almost instantly by the accidental dis
charge of shotgun. Terry was now
ing a patch of cane and discovered n
skunk In the field and was carrying
the gun with him on the moving ma
chine, when it slipped down into the
moving parts of the machine and was
discharged. Terry was hit in the
stomach and died almost Immediately.
The body of a man believed to be
Sam G. Samarzich of Seattle, Wash,