The Raymer enterprise., 1921-03-24
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

were burned to death near Ouchara,
ten miles northeast Of WaIsenburg. Ac-
cording to reports. the blaze was
caused by the explosion Of q tank used
to supply gas to the Pintsch lighting
system, which Is still In use on cars
operating over the Denver. .Alamosa
route. The explosion tore hole
through the middle OF the car and
filled 1t with gas, rendering most Of
the victims unconscious before they
could make move to escape.
B. A. McMurry and Conrad Floth,
sheep dealers, have filed suit In the
District Court at Fort Collins against
the Denver 4 Rio Grands railroad
and the Colorado 4 Southern for ST..
S59,23 for damages alleged to have
been sustained In the failure of>the
two roads to deliver to them 1,130
lambs which they were having shipped
to them at Black Hollow Station,
Colo, from Fountain Green, Utah.
Following two days hearing the
coroner's jury inqnlring into the dis
aster in which five persons lost their
lives by the burning Of Pullman car
Corona, attached to the Denver L Rio
Grande passenger train No. 16 at
Roof. returned verdict containing no
finding revealing the cause Of the fire.
expressing the opinion that the acct
| dent was an avOidable one In the lack
OF rules requiring the Pullman porter
to be on duty.
After divulging the information on
which the defendant was arrested in
California and brought back to Logan
county for trial, John Calvert. a pris-
oner In the county jail in Sterling,
failed on the witness stand and as a
result Elmer r. Week, well-to-do farm
er, charged with burning four stacks
Of wheat In the east part Of the coun-
ty last September, was acquitted by q
jury In the District Court.
Northern Colorado fair dates win
not conflict this year, as they fre
qucntly have In the past. Six fair
dates announced are Morgan county
at Fort Morgan, August 1925; Wash.
Ington county at Akron. Aug. 31-sept
2; Phillips county at Holyoke, Sept.
7-l0; Logan county at Sterling, Sept
1916; Yuma county at Yuma, Sept
1923; Weld county at Greeley, Sept.
14.l8.
The Colorado Fuel & Iron Company
at Pueblo has announced that owing
to improved conditions In the steel. In.
dustry, 1000 additional men will be
employed. Four Idle mills will reopen.
running two eight-hour shifts. Orders
for finished steel products have shown
very large and gratifying increase
during the past month, officials Of the
company stated.
Anna Mudra, 15-year-old daughter Of
Frank Mudra, Czecho-Slav coal miner
at Oak Creek, who shot and killed her
mother at the Mudra ranch In the
twenty-mile district last January after
series Of quarrels, has been SEN
fenced to the State Industrial School
for Girls at Morrison by District
Judge Morning, sitting as Juvenile
Court in Steamboat Springs.
A new sewer district to drain the
entire east side Of the city Of Love-
land and to cost about $4,000, will
be built this season, the council hav-
ing passed the ordinance providing for
same and instructed the city clerk to
advertise for bids to be opened March
20, In order to get as early start as
possible on Its construction.
Senator Phipps has requested the
secretary of the interior and the COM
missioner Of the General Land Office to
open Colorado lands Immediately to
settlers under the Carey act and a re-
cent departmental order, which opened
the lands, but did not specify date.
The taxpayers Of Fort Collins have
voted unanimously In favor Of a $780,
600 bond issue for the improvements
Of the schools. Additions will be built
to several of the schools, new equip.
ment added and sites for new build
ings will be purchased.
The Nucla Chamber Of Commerce
at a recent meeting elected officers
and considered plans for civic I'm
provements The officers elected
were: A. L. Bolen, president, and w.
A. Hopkins, secretary and treasurer. &
Sixty thousand persons, firms and
corporations Of Colorado paid $8,946,-
27S.l4 into Uncle Sans Golfers as fed.
eral income tax In the first three
months Of 1921.
The Colorado Brush Manufacturing
Company of Englewood, whose factory
Is being rushed to completion, has
been incorporated with $4,000 author
lied capital stock. 4
Most Of the fed lambs in corn-belt
territory are believed to have been
marketed. II this Is true, Colorado
will be the main source Of supply dur
Ing the next forty to sixty days.
Colorado Springs may issue at once
Its 100000 paving bonds, voted at
special election on Sept. 8. 1920, by
virtue of decision handed down by
the Colorado Supreme Court.