The Dolores star., 1924-09-12

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Washington County Fair, Akron.
Robert w. Vance, Sec.-Sept. II to 20;
Weld County Fair, Greeley. c. w.
Henry. Scc-Sept. to II.
Western Slope Fair. Montrost, j. J.
Tobin, sec.-sept. l6 to 10
Central Colorado Fair. Colorado
Springs. II. w. Lewis. sec.-Sept. II to
Western Slope Fair. Montrose. ]. ].
Tobin, Sec.-Sept. 16 to 10.
Yuma County Fair. Yuma, September
II to l9.
Denver-Greeley won the champion
ship in the special baseball tourna-
ment conducted at Broadway Park by
walloping the Diamond A Market, Is
to 4, in the final game.
Pueblo.-Attacked from behind and
struck over the head with II hoe in
the hands of prisoner, Byron Porter,
~ years old, n Pueblo police officer
was injured, perhaps fatally.
Berthoud.-Richard Riley, employed
by the Midwest Refining Company
here, was probably fatally burned
when backfire from crude oil that
he was feeding as fuel to a furnace
exploded.
UNITY I''l ii'ii a
silo on which he was at work, Walter
NJ. Heller, 3S years old, of this city,
scion of one of Pueblo's oldest fami-
ls,s, died Of broken neck. He was
the brother Of DR.. Frederick NJ. Heller
Pueblo.-Despite the fact that the
rail mill at the Minnequa steel plant
of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Com
panys is closed temporarily for repairs
made annually, the plant still has on
its payroll a total of approximately
1000 men.
Colorado Springs.-Harold L. (Pat)
Ingersoll of the Broadmoor Golf Club
won the fourth annual invitation
Broadmoor tournament by a defeat Of
n. c. (Tub) Morris, holder of the cap
ital city and state titles, and 5, in
a thirty-six-hole match.
Longmont-Fifteen Longmont high
school football players. with Coach
(Hap) Dotson, former Aggie star,
saved the Colorado national forest
near Camp Dick, in Peaceful Valley,
from serious damage when they fought
a forest fire for more than ten hours,
according to Forest Supervisor w. X.
Kreutzer. The Longmont team Is TAX
ing preliminary practice at n mountain
training camp.
Denver.-One million, one hundred
forty-three thousand two hundred
eighty-nlne dollars were collected by
the state in motor vehicle license fees
from owners and for trucks and motor
cycles during the period from Jan. ]
to June 30, last, according to announce
ment made here by Secretary Of State
Carl S. Milliken. His report shows
that there were registered at the close
Of that period 173,S5S owners, 1900
trucks and 1,723 motorcycles.
Pueblo.-Newest development in the
search for oil in the Pueblo field is
the bringing In of gas well at the
Jesse c. Boseker place, eleven miles
south of this city en- the Rye road
The land is under lease to the San Car
los Oil and Ecfining Company, and Is
on the northwestern slope of its struc-
ture.
Denver.-A forest fire, which ragged
in the heart of the Denver summer
colonies in Bear Creek Canon and Tor
several hours threatened Greystone
the palatial home of Mrs. Genevieve
Chandler Phipps, Denver society lead
er, was brought under control after
fifty men from Evergreen, Bendemeer
and Troutdale had fought the flames
for nine hours.
Colorado Springs.-A car in which
seven persons were riding turned over
on the Colorado Springs-Denv road.
seventeen miles north of this city, and
John Atencio, 4-year-old child, is in
serious condition at st. Francis hos
| pital from cuts and bruises which he
| received upon his head. The other oc.
cupants, although their clothing was
| much torn and they suffered minor
scratches and bruises, escaped serious
| injury.
Pueblo.-County Traffic Officer n
|. Jarrard waged n gun battle with two
| auto bandits he stopped on the Colo
| RADIO Springs highway, eight miles
north of Pueblo. The men finally
| abandoned the stolen car they drove
and disappeared in the darkness after
Jarrard had chased them over praries
mt a rate of forty-five miles an hour.
Jarrhrd stopped the men when they
passed him at speed of sixty miles
an hour. They ut first pretended to
be Texas tourists, but drove ear with
wyoming license and finally admit
ted they had gtOIpn II In r,e,,o,