The Raymer enterprise., 1923-01-04

Denyer.-C0lorado's seven leading
Industries, exclusive Of agriculture and
mining, paid total Of $108, 430, ,4S5 to
GO,575 wage-earners, l4,54l OF whom
were women, during 1922, according to
the biennial rep t Of the State Bureau
Of Labor Statistics, made public here.
The report was compiled by Carl S.
MillIken, secretary Of state and ex-of-
ficio labor commissioner, and Carl DE
Lochte, deputy state labor commits.
sioner. The report shows that an av-
erage annual wage of Sl,759 Is paid in
Colorado in the following industries:
Automobile, films, department stores,
hotels and restaurants, manufacturing,
public utilities. and railroads.
Greeley.-Somewher In the sand
hills of northern Colorado or western
Nebraska, four men believed to be the
bandits who robbed Federal Reserve
Bank truck of $4,000 In Denver and
killed Charles T. Linton, bank guard
are hiding, while Denver police and
Weld and Morgan county sheriff's off,
cials are searching for them. Jumped"
from DIR. ]. W. Fuequa's untenanted
farm house, eight miles northeast Of
Greeley, where II Is believed they were
hiding, the suspects, driving two large
automobiles, divided and sped away
before posses, hastily organized, could
get on their trail.
Pueblo.-The rail mills of the Colo
RADIO Fuel and Iron Company at Pueblo
will resume operation after shutdown
of several months, members Of the
company have announced. Because of
the increased work in all producing de-
partments, the opening of the mill will
give employment to more than l,OoU
men.
Fort Collins.-For the third year in
succession the water rentals for the
year have been collected 100 per cent
for the close Of the years books in the
city clerks office. Clerk A. J. Rose
now reported % the city council that
every water fee In the city for the year
had been paid.
Estes Park.-Paintlng vivid word
pictures of the peaks and ranges, flow.
ers and birds and beasts Of the Rocky
mountains, Charles Edwin Hewes, Es'
tes Park poet, has just completed a
book Of verse, Songs Of the Rockies
Marked by simplicity Of style that
reflects keenly the beauty Of mountain
nature, many of the verses show d
depth of feeling unusually beautiful.
Fort Collins.-Mrs. George W. Thin
mig of Wellington and her 1f-year-olt
daughter, Erma, are in the Fort Col
lins hospital suffering from injuries re
ceived when the car in which they witt
Mr.. Thinning and two sons were rid
ing was crowded over an embankmenl
on the road north OF Fort Collins al
night by another car which failed tt
dim Its bright lights.
Colorado Springs.-With his heat
crushed, Robert Burg, a brakeman EN-
ployed by the Denver & Rio Grandt
Western railroad, was found dead OF
top of a freight car when the train ar
rived in Colorado Springs from the
south. It is believed he was STRUCK
when the train passed under low
bridge at Fountain.
Denver.-The welfare Of the state
Of Colorado is in danger until the rec
lamation department has officially ant
unreservedly committed itself to thu
development of western Colorado irri
CATION projects, and Colorado shoulC
hold up ratification Of the Colorado
river pact until such commission il
made, Congressman Taylor said, ac
cording to a dispatch from Washing
ton. The Colorado congressman is try
ing to get the reclamation service Il
pledge itself to development of th'
Bear, White and San Juan river irri
CATION projects