The Dolores star., 1922-08-04
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

| here by Z. NJ. turhHEti, hSoiS'""' 'S
trict forester, from Secretary of Agr'-
culture Wallace of the approval OF the
agreement of the proposed Cameron
| Pass road, which Is to be started soon
by the bureau of public roads. by this
| agreement the United States govern
ment will appropriate ST1,OO of the
$4,000 estimated cost of stretch OF
9.3 miles of road through the mountain
territory. The remaining expense OF
$4,000 is to be borne by the state
Colorado Springs.-Daniel fretz.
proprietor of the Peoples dairy OF TINS
city, md his family are believed to De
the Colorado family killed in grade
crossing accident near Buffalo. n. Y.
The members of the family, according
to the city directory. are Daniel fretZ'
his wife Alice. and three children,
Ethel, II; Harold II. and Carl. 10. The
Fretz family left here n month ago by
motor to spend the summer In New
York state. and to make n cross-conti-
mental motor trip.
Selbert.-A twisting wind. very much
| like cyclone or tornado. swept
through Selbert recently, damaging
many buildings and seriously injurfna
the 6-year-old son of w. s. Stone,
farmer residing six miles south of
town. The boy was hit by scantling
| from the lumber yard. The wind
came from the northwest, the twisting
part coming down In the center OF
town, and cutting u path fifty feet
wide to the edge of the city when II
rose to come down again about a mile
| fuather on.
Denver.-Accordlng to a report by
the district forest department. 1.0N
acres OF the national forest reserve
have been destroyed by fire in this
state since the first Of the year. Three
thousand six hundred dollars have
been expended in suppression Of the
fires, 90 per cent of which have been
traced to carelessness. Damage In H
per cent of these has been settled by
fines or payment of damages. Fifty
per cent of last years cases were set
tied in this manner
Denver.-The apportlonnent of the
state public school income fund. col
lected through the State Board Of Land
Commissioners during the six months
period between Jan. l, 1922, and June
80, 1922, has been announced by kath.
crime L. Craig. state superintendent OF
public instruction. The amount cert.
fled to the state auditor for distribu.
tion was SAT- 1885, which is the larg.
est amount that has ever been distrib.
uted to the schools of the state in any
| previous six months period.
| Manitou.-Injuries cived in Il fail
from cliff in Crystal park, short
distance from Aanitou, late this aft
ernoon, may prove fatal to Louis ia
coby, s, son of Max Jacoby, furrier
living in Manitou. The boy is in q
Colorado Springs hospital suffering
from internal injuries and Il fractured
right arm. He was found unconscious
at the base of cliff, where he had
lain for several hours, by motor par
ty, which brought him to Manitou for
medical aid.
Golden.-The summer school of the
Colorado School of Mines has enrolled
the largest class of its history, records
show. Twenty-three states and eight
foreign countries are represented in
the student body. Indications are that
an even greater number of students
will enroll for the summer term next
year.
Greeley.-Sheriff Frank Hall and
Chief OF Police Florence said that they
| a1 In ~, b.;
CATION into the murder of Irwin o. Hit.
tie, 20 years old, whose partly decom.
posed body, with bullet wound
through the heart was found in a ditch
six miles south of here.
Palisade.-Chester Eyer, 20, of this
city, was killed and his sweetheart,
Miss Elizabeth Scott, 10, of Palisade,
was seriously injured when Eyer's au-
tomobile turned over on the road to
Mesa, twenty miles east of Palisade.
The couple were driving to IL picnic ut
Mesa.
Greeley.-The body of Irwin I. Hit
tie, 81 years old, with bullet through
the heart, was found in dry ditch,
separated from the road by q fence, on
the farm of w. T. Sylvester, four miles
southwest of Greeley. The body was
discovered by NJ. l.. Heuthorne, bee
keeper, who noticed something strange
In the ditch and climbed through the
fence to investigate. 1t was partly con.
cealed by weeds, and had evidently
been thrown over the fence
Canon City.-The establishment here
OF the Colorado state poultry expert
mental station will go far towards
making the city the center of the poul
try industry of Colorado. Funds are
being raised by the local Chamber OF
Commerce for the erection of n suita
BILE building for this purpose at the
county farm on East Main street tb.
capacity of which will be 500 hens.
Magnolia.-A forest fire started by
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