The Dolores star., 1922-05-19
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
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ball game here. FLOYD Agarprlsh', 40
years old, was struck on the head ana
incurred fractured skull. Agarbright
was playing left field for the Central
High School team.
Colorado Springs.-A deed for twen'
ty-one acres of land at Colorado
Springs has been given to the board oil
hospitals and homes of the Methodist
Episcopal church by citizens here as a
site for a national hospital for tubsr-
culosis.
Loveland-While blasting the river
bank on the state highway half mile
south of Loveland, preparatory to
erecting cement abutments for new
bridge over the Big Thompson river
Contractor Floyd Malcom unearthed
what physicians declare TO be petri-
fled human foot.
Denver.-Members of the Colorado
Public Utilities Commission recently
authorized the maintenance of and au-
tomobile bus line over the Rainbow
route between Grand Junction and
Montrose, Colo, on application of the
Motor Transportation Company of
Grand Junction.
Lafayette.-Onem man, resident of
Lafayette. is under arrest on suspicion
of having had part In the robbery Of
the First National Bank, when four
bandits blew open the safe and vaults
and took loot valued at between S16,-
900 and $4,000. Frank Lamont, q
painter, was taken into custody.
Durango.-T. ]. Chandler, g. years
old, with crippled foot, has estab-
Iished a long distance walking record
that few younger sound men would
care to attempt. With companion,
c. ]. Munger, %, Chandler recently
reached Durango after 4S0-mile
Jaunt from Silver City, New Mexico.
Durango.-Rod S. Day, Durango
publisher who recently shot and killed
William l.. Wood, rival editor, has been
liberated from the La Plata county jail
Wood in a street fight which began
over articles published in the two pa.
pers concerning the eighteenth amend
ment.
DurGnso.-Twenty years effort to
obtain better transportation facilities
for Durango and southwestern Colo.
RADIO have been rewarded. A western
syndicate has notified the railway
committee OF the San Juan basin that
it had succeeded in financing q $4,000
fp 10 fI sr1r
90 to Gallup, n. NJ, n distance of 100
miles.
Glenwood Sprngs.-The State Bank
crs' convention will be held at Glen
wood Springs June 90 and %. Presi-
,lent Mccarthy of the First National
Bank is in charge of the entertainment
Of the bankers, who will be treated roy.
ally from arrival 10 departure. The
big Colorado hotel will be owned by
the delegates at this time, and every
thing from banquets to swims and mo-
tor trips is being planned.
Denver.-Reports received by the
State Immigration Department through
county assessors from approximately
eratiOns are not far from normal in
Colorado this year and that the total
acreage under cultivation will be fully
rs great as for last year, though earlier
reports had indicated that acreage
would be reduced materially. Appar-
emily the farms being operated will
have about the same average acreage
under cultivation as last year and
there will be enough new farms put in
to the operating class to offset the
abandonment, which has apparently
been rather heavy in few small
areas.
Brush.-The Brush Commercial Club
Band will take part in the program in
Denver during Music Week. The band
is one of the best small bands in the
state and compares favorably with any
eighteen-piece band anywhere.
Pueblo.-Through deal consum-
mated recently, the Vail Hotel Operat.
ing Company passed into the hands of
Charles Adams of Denver. Although
the price involved was not made pub.
lie, it is understood to have been s75.-
900.
Eckley, Colo.-A force of men and
teams have started the construction of
a 13,OOO-volt electric pole line trans-
mission system from Eckley to Yuma.
The new line will insure electric cur
rent from the municipal light plant at
Yuma for the lighting of Eckley and
the operation Of its water works. The
new system will cost $4,000.
Fort LOgan.-Colorado' delegation
in Washington will he appealed to by
every merchant and manufacturer in
the state to exert every influence DOS
sible for the enlargement of Fort Lo-
gan as military center, according to
an announcement by the Colorado
Manufacturers and Merchants Associa-
tion in Denver
Denver.-June / has been set MS the
time limit for the receipt of applica-
tionS for admission to the citizens mil
ltary training camp to be established
at Fort Logan this summer. accord,no