The Colorado statesman., 1922-08-19
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

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Denver & Rio Grande Western rail-
road, it has been announced by Re
ceiver Joseph H. Young of the rail-
road. The improvements have been
sanctioned by the United States Court
on $50 miles of track heavier rails
will be laid. Fifty miles of ninety
and eighty-five- pound rails will be
laid on Tennessee pass and Soldier
mountain. Seventy-pound steel will
replace the old light rails on the mar
row gauge lines between Alamosa and
Durango and Salida and Montrose.
Yard tracks at Pueblo, Grand juno
ton, Soldier Summit, La Veta and AL
amosa will be extended. Hundreds of
men will be given employment on the
tracks. The fruit crop can be moved
successfully by the road, 1t is stated,
IL refrigerator cars can be procured
from connecting lines.
| Lamar.-Five persons were drowned
in Brandon lake, forty-five miles north
of Lamar in Kiowa county, last Sun
day morning when a flat scow from
which they were fishing turned over.
None of the occupants escaped. The
dead are Mr.. and Mrs Charles Will
liams, their 2-year-old baby, Mrs. G. X.
Donaldson and ]. A. Donaldson, all of
Bristol. They had gone out on fish
ing party, according to a story of the
tragedy related by C. r. Donaldson,
Santa Fe agent at Bristol Soon after
the accident u telephone call was re-
| a.. I g.
polmotor. A record run of one hour
over rough roads was made without
avail. The accompanying physician
found all of the victims beyond resus-
citation.
Colorado Springs. - Norfolk Star,
Fort d. A. Russell horse ridden by
Capt. II. Z. Watkins, won the Broad
moor remount endurance cup and first
prize money, was announced after the
3o0-mile, five-day test of speed and
stamina. The 7-year-0ld thorobred
chestnut gelding's time for the dis
lance, was Al :37 100, and the judges
awarded him SO 2-3 points out of a
possible 60 on condition. His point
grading was 90 SIS out of possible
| 40 points. The horse started weighing
800 pounds and lost forty pounds dur
| ing the grind. He stood second in
time, Jerry, the Fort Sill, Okla, thoro-
bred standard cross, being the fastest
over the field. Jerry finished fourth
in the final standing.
Denver.-P0lice are seeking an erst
| while tramway motorman who has
vanished with $3.50 he Is alleged to
have obtained from a green car pilot
in one of the neatest confidence games
on local police records. The missing
motorman drifted to Denver from
Kansas City in the tramway strike
two years ago. Recently he was in
structed to teach green youth from
Kansas the art of handling street
| car. A few days ago the youth re-
| ported that his tutor had gone on a
vacation after selling him the tram
way car for $3.50. telling him he could
hire u conductor on shares and make
pile of money"
| Greeley. - Inherent reasonableness
has made the Monroe doctrine and the
open door" policy of the United
States the only two foreign policies on
which it can be said that the United
States has maintained clear and con-
sistent opinion, said Dr. Edward T..
| Devine, associate editor of the Survey,
who as member of the special
summer school faculty of Colora
do State Teachers College, in ar
| address to the student body.
Pueblo-William jackson, SO years
No,
| & Rio Grande Western railroad, was
killed recently near Sedalia, accordin.
to information received at Pueblo. He
was on a freight train which left Pue-
bio for Denver. Near Sedalia is an
| overhanging bridge, and it Is believed
he had his head out of the cab window
| and was struck by the girders of the
| bridge and killed instantly.
Akron-A terrific hail and wind
| storm compelled Burlington train No
| Ia to stop five miles west of Pinneo,
few days ago. until 1t had passed.
The wind was blowing at a rate OF
| fifty miles an hour and tore the cop
| per wire screens from the ventilators.
Hail smashed every window on the
north side of the cars, and, going thru
the veutilators, broke windows on the
opposite side. The cars look as tho
| they had been thru a battle.
Grand Junction.-The j. w. Watson
farm implement house, near the own
ers ranch, one and three-quarter miles
south of Grand Junction, sustained
loss estimated at $4,000 to $4,000 in
a fire of unknown origin. Because OF
the isolated position of the building,
there is little fire protection there, and
once started, the fire had almost full
swing The building and equipment