The Dolores star., 1920-04-30
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

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The Mountain Top mine has Jns'
shipped single car of high-sraae or
from Ouruy that nettcd Sl"'SSI' Inc
car contained forty-fivc tons taken
from the 112.foot level.
Fred l.iuck, veteran of III" Iiiitoh
section. and who recently sold all HIS
property ut that place, was t"und ueau
in his bed at Rifle few days age"
Heart disease was apparently the
cause Of his demise.
Reports ARE current of the prohhhl'
opeuing of the Colorado Midland ran
road June l. The first WORK tram
which has been clearing away r"'h
slides. etc, and opening the r"nh l"r
other work trains, has passed Lead
willie and is now ON its way mp iiagcr-
man pass through the snow,
\ fircproof apartment house. con
tainiug thirty-siN apartments ana COST
ing approximately $l5o,0oo, is to be
built In Greeley this summer. Ihe
house is TO be constructed adjacent to
the State Teachers College. II VIII he
OF brick construction, three stories,
with ground plan 100 by III feet.
Work has been started on the ma
,iouaI forest road from Somerset to
Crested Butte, distance of twenty
five miles, according To q. ).
Bright. district engineer Of the United
States Bureau of Public Roads, who
said that rond crews had left Denver
with equipment and machinery. III"
road, II is estimated, will cost 100000,
George Fogg. 81 years old, is dead
at his home in Delta, death having
been due to heart disease induced by
Old age. The death Of this remark
able citizen broke the happy welded
life of couple who had lived tos"th-
er for ~ years. -Four sons, besides
the widow, survive the pioneer. The
Foggs had lived on Tongue creek, near
Delta, since 1882.
l.obun Il. Crawford, special agent in
charge of the United States biological
survey office in the customs house, an
nomCed that Agent John W. Crook of
Denver had killed four large mountain
lions and lynx on Bear creek. near
Monte Vista, Colo. This is IL record
for one man in day in many years,
according to the federal agents. The
specimens probably will be sent to
Denver to be mounted.
John GincoInOzzi was sentenced to
life imprisonment following the return
Of Il verdict of murder in the first dc.
gree by II jury in the District Court ut
Telluride He was charged with com
pliCity in connection with the killing
Of four men ut the Tomhcri mine last
September Giucomoz2i is the second
man to be convicted by circumStantial
evidence in this case. John kichcvcr,
another defendant. remains to be tried.
G. II. Thompson, n student at the
conservatory Of music of the State Az
ricultural College. who was arrested at
Fort Collins, confessed TO District At
torncy Russell W. Fleming and Prof.
Alexander Emslie, head of the conserv-
atory of music, that he had attempted
TO cXtort by means Of black hand" let.
tcrS $4,000 from Charles H. Evans
wealthy banker and livestock man OF
that city, according To the two men To
whom the confession is said to have
been presented.
4 convention of the Rocky Noun.
tain districts of the three engineering
raternities-American Institute of
Electrict Engineers American Society
of Civil Engineers and the American
Institute of Mechanical Engineers
will be held in Boulder next month.
The date will not be set until the ac.
crptances of the men who have been
invited to speak is received. 1t will be
about May II, however, and will bring
to Boulder 200 Of the leading engineers
Of the Rocky Mountain district.
Charles Rauber, a rancher of west
crn Fremont county, charged with as
sault with intent to kill w. H. Hop
per, n prominent cattleman. on Easter
Sunday, was found guilty of assault Il
do bodily injury in the District Cour
at Canon City.
Unless the county treasurers O
seven Colorado counties take immedi
ate steps toward payment Of $1,000,
which the state of Colorado claims n.
due from them in interest on delIn
qucnt state taxes, State Treasurer Uar
ry Il. Mulnix will institute crimina
proceeding against them.
"Old Big Foot" known also as the
"Peavine wolf and the Outlaw" anG
which during the last ten years had
inflicted fully $4,000 loss on the
stockmen of San Juan county, Utah
and in the western Paradox valley In
Colorado, has been captured. Tn.
pelt has been delivered to the com.
missiOners of San Juan county, Utah
for bounty fees. The outlaw had
probably made II worse record than
any other predatory animal of recent
times. 1t is known to have been 1a
years old. The pelt measures eight
feet from tip to tip and the animal
weighed about 215 pounds.
By unanimous vote the City Council
OF Colorado Springs. mt it's repulnr