The Raymer enterprise., 1922-04-20
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado
(wetaa Sesspspss Unios S<s. seris.)


counts, hns been issued.
Pueblo.-One man is dead, one Is
dying and three are seriously wounded
as the result Of series OF shooting
and stabbing affrays among Mexicans
and negroes here.
Stcrling-WIth snowfall reported
on all sides, Sterling experienced a
sand storm without precipitation. The
wind was estimated to be blowing
around fOrty-five miles an hour.
Grand Junction.-Aliss Harriet Nor
thrup was seriously injured when she
fell thirty-five feet down a precipice
while trying to rescue school girl
companion, Miss Luthera Wakefield.
LOngmont.-JohnJ J. Griffin, 81 years
old, farmer and former banker. killed
himself at the home Of his two bro
Tiers, James and William Griffin,
about ten miles northeast OF Long
mont.
Florence.-With an advance Of S2.SO
Il 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.
LOyeland.-Tourists visiting Love
land and Estes Park this season will
have a 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 as recommended by the
thrift committee Of the Colorado Par
ent-Teacher Association.
Denver.-Governo Shoup's procla,
nation. calling the State Legislature
into extra session to consider construc-
ton Of the Moffai 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.
MOntrOse. county commission
ers In special session ordered the cOun-
ty clerk to advertise Immediately for
bids for the construction of the $780,
600 court house, which was ordered
more than year ago, but which has
been delayed because Of lack Of funds.
Construction will be started within Z
few weeks, and II Is hoped to finish
the building within a year.
Greeley.-Trial OF william H. Gill,
pioneer Greeley merchant and irriga-
tion developer, on charges of fraud in
connection with sale of stock Of Tex
lahoma No. |, an oil syndicate pro-
NOTED by J. +. Iashar Of Denver, came
to an end abruptly when District Judge
Neil F. Graham dismissed the case
against Gill, on motion of District At
torney Louis B. Reed
Denver.-More than 200 delegates Of
the American Railway Development
Association are expected to gather at
the Brown Palace hotel here May 10
for their fourteenth annual convention.
The convention will be in session for
three days, and, according to Earl G.
Reed, chairman Of the committee on
hotels and arrangements. an attractive
program has already been arranged.
Akron-AkrOn was recently visited
with terrific gale and snow storm,
the wind varying from thirty to forty
miles an hour. About six inches Of
snow fell, but On account Of the rain
and snow which preceded terrible
dirt storm, the snow was mixed with
dirt, and everything is plastered with
mud, owing TO the fact that the TEN.
perature was very little below freez-
ing Live stock did not suffer much.
Loveand. - The Iarimer County
Fair Association has planned to put on
some motorcycle and automobile races
this fall in place of the harness races
that were cut out Of the program.
Trinidad.-The coroner's jury con-
Guiding an inquest in the disaster at
the Sopris No. 2 mine Of the Colorado
Fuel and Iron Company, wrecked by an
explosion on March "a last with a
death toll of seventeen, returned ver-
diet here finding that the seventeen
men came to their deaths from the ef-
fects OF gas and dust explosion and
that from the evidence this explosive
mixture was set off by spark or are
from the power service of the mine.
Greeley.-Weld, leading agricultural
county of Colorado, and found by the
federal census bureau to rank among
the first forty counties of the. United
States in agricultural wealth in 1920,
holds first rank among the counties Of
the state in talue of crops produced In
1921. according to compilations Just
finished by the State immigration De.
partment for publication in the Colo
RADIO year book. Crops grown in Weld
county were worth more than twice as
much as those grown In any other
county.
Mancos.-A posse Of citizens secured
this vicinity for the perpetrators of a
dynamite explosion which wrecked a
portion of the ranch home OF
George W. Skoog, near here, and
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