The Dolores star., 1924-08-15
COLORADO NEWS NOTES

Canon City.-Caught In the rapidIy-
moving machinery Of stone crusier'
NJ. $. Rutledge of Portland, ore, an
Inspector in the employ of the war
rem Bros Company here. received iatal
injuries from which he died tew
minutes later after being rushed to
the hospital. Rutledge came 10 canon
city about two weeks ago with ms
wife. to take charge of concrete in
spectiun work for Warren Bros. Com
pany. which has contracted for CON
siderable paving work in Canon tltN'
| The accident occurred on South First
street when Rutledgc climbed To the
top Of the stone crusher. His cloth
Ing caught in the machinery ana he
was whirled round and round. HIS
head and body We're crushed. \ work
man stopped the machine immediately,
| but Rutledge lived but few minutes
after reaching the hospital.
Denver-Eight persons-thrce mem
bers of the train crew and five pas
sengers-were Injured. none of them
seriously. when Denver x Rio Grande
| Western passenger train No. S-the
panoramic special-bound from Ogden
to Denver, was derailed on the main
| line, between West Jewell and West
| Asbury avenues. The engine, tender
and baggage car left the track, the
engine and tender turning over as they
rolled into n ditch along the right-ot-
way. The accident was due to an
open switch. Reports by Denver
Rio Grande employees who made an
investigation Immediately after the
train had been wrecked, Indicated
that the switch had been tampered
with.
| LOyeland. - Conservative estimates
place the value of wheat to be mar
keted this fall in the Loveiand grain
elevators mt more than S1,oO0,OoO
| Wheat in the vicinity of Loyeland is
averaging fifty bushels to the acre on
non-irriEated sections and will yield
which have not yet been har-
vested. Five hundred acres Of
wheat on the c. A. LETTERS
farm, three miles from Loveland, NV
eruged more than sixty bushels to the
acre. Alfalfa, sugar beets, fruit and
various other crops are reported in eX-
cellent condition and are expected to
| yield heavily.
Loveland-With the largest acreage
of sugar bcets in the history of this
| territory, and promise of an abund-
ant yield, the Loveland Civic Associa-
| tion in conjunction with J. ID. Pan
cake, secretary of the Mountain States
Beet Growers Association, turned
their attention to the proposed reduc-
tion of tariff on sugar and sent long
telegram to President Coolidge, which
declared that the beet growers Of this
section would be ruined by reduction
in the tariff at this time. according to
a story in the Loveland Reporter Her
aid.
Estes Park.-NIiss Mary Harmon. a
school teacher of Chicago, was killed
and eight other persons were injured
one of them probably fatally, when q
sightseeing car in which they were
riding, owned and driven by James
Robertson of Estes Park, plunged over
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five miles southwest of Fort Collins
The accident occurred when the
brakes of the car failed to hold on q
down grade.
Fort Morgan.-Clarence Tidball. S
years old, was seriously injured when
he. was struck by an automobile driven
| by Mrs. c. w. Frischie of Al West Ala.
media avenue, Denver, IN Il Fort Nor.
gan street. The boy, according to wit.
nesses, ran into the street and into the
path of the machine Mrs. Frschie Is
said to have attempted to dodge the
boy, but succeeded only in turning hei
car so that it did not run over him.
Greeley.-E. A. Thompson, 4S years
old, manager of the Fort Lupton Light
and Power Company, was eIectrocuteC
while working on an electric trans
former near Milliken, seventeen miles
southwest of Greeley. The accident
occurred when a heavy wind blew (:
bare wire against Thompsons neck.
Paonia.-Suicide due to temporary
arrangement, was given in a coroner's
verdict as the cause of the death OF
Miss Elizabeth Foote, 20 years old
prominent Paonia society girl, who's,
body was found in Fire Mountain irri
CATION canal near Hotchkiss, Colo. He,
body, clad in an undergarment. wa,
found in the canal in three feet o,
water. George FOOte, the girls father
Is prominent ranch owner near PA
onia.
Leadville.-Charged with being re
sponsible for the theft of larg,
amount of scrap brass, copper and ca
Bile from the A. V. Smelter where h,
was employed, Mike Sabol Is in tn,
county jail on the charge of grand lar
ceny. He is believed to have been tn,
cause of long series of robberie,
which have mystefied the officials q
the A. V. smelter.
Fort Morgan.-Traveling in two bus
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