The Colorado statesman., 1921-02-26
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

an explosion of firedamp ut Oak
Creek, was recovered by n searching
party which hns been working contin-
uously since the accident. The body
was found in the X and l. entry of the
mine. The body when found was not
burned, ns the searchers had antici-
pated, but was PROSTATE on the floor
of the tunnel with coat around the
head. II is believed by the rescue par
ty that Testas, scenting the toxic gas,
covered his head with his coat in an
effort to escape the fumes.
Three young electricians, Walter Bal
Ilnger Roy Frazer and Frank Schuler
had narrow escapes from death near
Blue Lake In the Bridal Veil mining
section, about six miles from Telluride,
when they were caught in snowslide.
The men, with other members of the
power gang" of the Smuggler-Union
Mining Company We're making their
way to the Blue Lake pumping station
of the Smuggler-Union Mining Com
pany to make repairs on transformers
and pumps, when slide broke and
caught the three and swept them down
the hillside for more than three hun
dred feet.
The farmers of Morgan county have
unbounded faith in their business, ana
in order to make their business more
secure and steady are cooperating
whole-heartedly in the membership
campaign. Every farmer in the county
will be asked to become member OF
the Farm bureau. Many farmers have
declared that falling prices make it i'm.
possible for them to pay membership
in cash at this season of the year, and
to overcome this obstacle, the commit
tee has arranged to accept 200 pounds
of wheat or ten bushels of shelled corn
in lieu of the 50 cash membership fee.
The regular weekly sermon of the
Rev. Atkinson of the Baptist church of
Loveland was heard by telephone by
a score of his congregation who were
confined to their homes by illness. A
telephone with large megaphone
mouthpiece has been installed in the
church for the convenience of Bap-
lists too i'll to attend church The tel
ephone company has made special ar
rangements which enable part!.'s 10
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Copies of the income tax primers,
recently issued by the Bureau of In
ternal Revenue, which contains ques-
tions and answers relative TO the fill
ing of income tax returns, are now
available at the office of the collector
of internal revenue, Custom House,
Sixteenth and Arapahoe streets, Den
yer, Colo. Copies may be obtained
only through collectors offices, and
are not being mailed from Washing
ton.
The Supreme Court of this state has
been appealed to for a decision as to
whether person is justified in taking
a vacation on borrowed money, as the
result of a decision, in the local Dis
trict Court in the case of Carl Wastes
sen against the Bank of Olathe in
which Mr.. Westessen is suing the bank
for $500 for injured feelings follow
ing the refusal of the bank to honor
his checks while on vacation.
Announcement has been made by the
officials of the Great Western Sugar
Company at Loveland, effective March
l, there would be a slight reduction in
the wages paid employees. Most of the
reduction will be to the men who work
by the hour, and will amount to about |
10 per cent. Some of the men working
by the month will also be reduced, the
average for this class of laborers being |
50 a month less than has been paid.
Preliminary reports made by the
census bureau on all counties in Colo
RADIO, received and compiled by the |
State Immigration Department, show |
substantial increase in every class
of livestock for the state in 1920 over
1910. The largest percentage of in
crease is for swine, being more than |
100 per cent, while the lowest percent
age of increase is for sheep.
Jolted off u disc plow drawn by a
team of mules on his dry farm near
Plum Valley, Robert l.. Crowder, 40, |
a homesteader, died instantly with
broken neck His death was witnessed |
by his 20-year-old son. The plow |
struck ridge of frozen ground which |
jolted Crowder from the seat, causing |
him to fall.
The business section of Pagosa |
Springs has been destroyed by fire |
with an estimated loss of between |
100000 and 100000. Among the |
buildings destroyed was that of the |
Citizens State Bank, which probably |
is the heaviest loser. In all, fourteen
business structures and their contents |
were burned.
Advance reports from the federal
census bureau, complied by the State
Board of immigration, show the pro-
duction of wheat in all the important
wheat growing counties of Colorado in