The Colorado statesman., 1919-03-15
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado

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Western Newspaper Union News Service,
Former Governor Elias NJ Ammons
has been selected as president to head
| Denver's next Stock Show, ut the an
nual meeting of the directors held In
| Denver.
With new secretary and revived
interest by all members, the Sterling
| Chamber of Commerce has taken on a
new lease of life, with promise of con
siderable activity this season.
Philip Blanda and Fred Marone,
Italians, were found guilty Of murder
in the second degree by jury in the
District Court at Pueblo. They were
accused of numbering Andrew ORA
gasch for the purpose of robbery.
7 Potash deposits believed to be of I'M
usual extent and exceptional purity
have been discovered in the vicinity
of Stoneham and a syndicate of Ster-
ling, Grover and Stoneham capitalists
has been organized to develop the
same
In Leadville's second fatal mine ac-
cident, William Germon, %, a eager
employed at the Mikado shaft, was in
stantly killed when he fell 1,200 feet
from the cage to the bottom of the
stump. Every bone in his body was
broken.
After celebrating less than two
hours, jury in the District Court re-
turned verdict finding Cruz Romego
and Lee Martinez, Mexicans, guilty of
murder in the first degree for clubbing
to death John Breuss, Silt district
ranchman, last November.
Denver & Rio Grande passenger
train No. 315 struck a snowslide near
Sapinero, in the Black canon recently.
The engine was derailed and plunged
onto the ice in the Gunnison river. No
one was injured. The snowslide was
not n large one and was soon cleared
away.
Western slope beet growers, at a
meeting at Grand Junction, served no
tice on the Western Sugar Company
that the SO flat beet scale must be
granted at once If the company eX-
poets any beets on the slope this sea-
son. The growers declared otherwise
A posse from counties adjoining
Denver are securing the roads and
hills in search of two bandits who,
after pillagng the village of Mount
Morrison, eighteen miles southwest of
| Denver, blew up the postofflce, rifled
the contents of the safe and set fire
to several buildings, the blaze threat
ening to destroy the entire town.
A 100000 corporation is in process
of formation by the farmers of Eaton
to be known as the Eaton Potato
Flour Factory" 1t is planned to use
all Gull potatoes in the manufacture of
flour, and the mill to be erected will
have a capacity of 10000 pounds of
| flour every twenty-four hours and will
employ nearly 100 men and women.
A fire in the coal mine at Somerset
has been burning since Feb. %, and
has not yet been placed under control
| The United States mine rescue car
for Colorado is on the scene, and n
| special group of eight Colorado Fuel
& Iron Company employees, trained in
mine rescue work, has been sent from
the southern coal fields of that COM
pany.
The snowslide season is on in the
San Juan country, but so far there has
not been much loss of property and
only one death has resulted. Seven
large tramway towers of the Sunny
side mine were swept away. One
tramway tower at the Iowa Tiger mine
was also wrecked. One miner was
caught in the slide near the Iowa
Tiger mine. The Sunnyside towers
will be replaced as quickly as pos
sible, and it is expected the mill will
be running within a week.
Oil excitement caused by the spud-
| ding in OF three wells in the Round
Butte field, west of Carr, has caused
nn unusual number of visitors and
workmen to go to that locality.
Arbitration is not a substitute for
preparedness, but only an adjunct to
It," Gen. Leonard Wood declared in an
address at Colorado Springs. THE ma
ton which is organized and strong
can arbltrate more successfully than
one which is unarmed Belgium trust
| ed to n treaty but the Swiss trusted
to organized national defense, and the
boche did not even by to go that way.
The next time France and Belgium
will be ready. win we?"
Posing as a colonel in the United
States army, a man giving the name
of Lloyd Garrison of Boston won the
heart and almost succeeded in marry
ing Mrs. Louise Mcpherson of Colo
RADIO Springs after n brief courtship.
A marriage license obtained at the
county clerks office spoiled the plans
of Garrison. The police did not like
the cut of his uniform and hailed him
| to headquarters where he confessed