The Dolores star., 1922-04-21
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
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Denyer.-Five thousand uollars "efe
raised in abe first afternoon OF the
Salvation Army drive for funds here
Pueblo.-One man is dead, one Is
dying and three are seriously wounded
ms the result of Il series OF shooting
and stabbing nffrays among Mexicans
and negroes here.
Sterling.-with snowfall reported
IN all sides, Sterling experienced u
sand storm without precipitation. The
wind wus estimated to be blowing
around forty-five miles an hour.
Grand Junction.-Miss Harriet Nor
thrup was seriously injured when she
fell thirty-five feet down precipice
while trying to rescue . school girl
companion, Miss Luthera Wakefield.
Denver.-The special session OF the
State Legislature for the purpose OF
considering the Moffat tunnel bill and
Pueblo flood relief measures has been
postponed until April II as the proba-
BILE date.
Florence-With an advance of $50
100 pounds in the price OF zinc the
River Smelling and Refining Company
will reopen its Florence plant at once,
much to the benefit of the zinc-produc-
ing miners.
Boulder-High school girls from all
parts of Colorado We're guests of the
Women's Athletic Association of the
University of Colorado at the second
annual conference for the promotion of
sane athletics.
Observation-Disclosures visiting Love
land and Estes Park this season will
have modern free camp ground near
the Half Way place in Loveland canon,
in addition to the camp grounds in the
city park here.
Rocky Ford - Three elementary
schools and the Junior and Senior high
schools of Rocky Ford have established
the thrift plan ns recommended by the
thrift committee OF the Colorado Par
cnt Teacher Association.
Red Clff.-Wagc reductions varying
from % to 80 cents daily have been
proposed by the Empire Zinc Company
for more than III employees at Gilman,
Colo, according 10 thirty-day notice
served on the State Industrial Commits
sion mt Denver.
AIancos-A posse of citizens secured
this vicinity for the perpetrators of II
dynamite explosion which wrecked a
portion of the ranch home Of
George w. Skoog, near here, and
caused injuries to two members of the
Skoog family. The explosion occurred
while the family slept.
Denver.-Governor Shoup's procla
nation, calling the State Legislature
nto extra session to consider construc-
ton OF the Moffat tunnel and the or
ganizatIon of conservancy districts for
the prevention of floods, was sent to
every member of the General Assem-
bly,. This extra session will convene
April is at noon.
Denver.-More than 200 delegates OF
the American Railway Development
Association are expected to gather at
the Brown Palace hotel here May 1O
for their fourteenth annual convention
The convention will be in session fol
three days, and, according to Earl G
Reed, chairman of the committee OIL
hotels and arrangements, an attractive
program has already been arranged.
Akron.-Akron was recently visited
with q terrific gale and snow storm
the wind varying from thirty to fort.
miles an hour. About six inches o
snow fell, but on account Of the rail-
and snow which preceded terrible
dirt storm, the snow was mixed will
dirt, and everything is plastered witt
mud, owing to the fact that the TEN
perature was very little below freez
ing. Live stock did not suffer much.
Greeley.-The Greeley high schoo
: basket ball team was defeated by Wat
seka, ILL.,, team, score 80 to %, In tn
first game of the series for natiOna
high school honors at Chicago
Trinidad.-The coroners jury con
Guiding an inquest in the disaster II
the Soprls No. 2 mine of the ColOrad,
Fuel and Iron Company, wrecked by al
explosion on March "a last with
death toll of seventeen, returned yer
dict here finding that the seventeen
men came to their deaths from the eff
fects Of gas and dust explosion ant
that from the evidence this explosive
mixture was set off by spark or ar,
from the power service Of the mine.
Greeley.-Weld, leading agricultural
county of Colorado, and found by tn.
; federal census bureau to rank amOna
he first forty counties Of the United
States in agricultural wealth in 1920
holds first rank among the counties OF
the state in value of crops produced ir
: 1921, according to compilations jus
finished by the State Immigration De
: partment for publication in the Colo
RADIO year book. Crops grown in Welt
county were worth more than twice a.
much as those grown in any othel
county.
Dcnver-Beet growers of Colorado
Wyoming Nebraska and Montana hav,