The Colorado statesman., 1921-10-08
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado
,wsaeru Newspaper Union N,u. ssrlcsl

the annual convention. Colorado
Springs was selected for next years
convention.
Each day the United States Veterans
Bureau, new name for the war risk,
sends compensation and insurance
checks aggregatlng S17,21010 to Colo
RADIO disabled soldiers of the recent
war and their dependents.
W. ]. Carnine, "a years old, veteran
of the Civil war, jumped from the
bridge into the Colorado river at
Grand Junction. A reward of 500 was
offered for the recovery of the body.
Carnine has resided at Grand Junction
and at Paonia for the last eighteen
years.
Enrolment of students In the high
and grade schools of Grand Junction
has reached 1897, and 1t is expected
that this number will be increased.
The large school attendance is taken
as an indication of the growth of the
city. All of the schools are crowded
to capacity.
Twenty-one nursing certificates were
presented at the annual graduation
exercises of the Boulder Santarium
Training School for Nurses. 1t was
the largest class in the history of the
institution, which has sent out more
than 200 men and women into the
nursing field.
An automobile driven by George
Bennefiel, Walsenburg undertaken,
was caught and overturned by whlrl-
wind Benefiel with his wife and son,
Warren, was on the way to Pueblo to
attend the state fair. Warren Benne-
ficl was critically hurt and his father
suffered serious injuries.
The will of ene late William Balla-
troll, an Italian of Ouray, provided that
band play at his funeral and that
each of his pallbearers be provided
with n jug of liquor. The provisions
of the will We're carried out to the let
ter when the funeral was held, accord
ing to reports.
Claude Sharrar, carpenter, SO
years old, shot and killed his wife and
then committed suicide in the base
ment of a partly completed house on
which he was, working at Hereford,
sixty miles northeast OF Greeley. Two
small children of the Sharrars, one
baby only year and half old, were
thes ole witness to the double shoot
ing.
The states collection of leaf gold
. from breckenridge, said to be unsur-
passed in the world and valued at not
less than $1,000, was stolen from the
show cnses in the state mining depart
ment on the second floor of the State
Museum building, Fourteenth avenue
and Sherman street, in Denver. The
collection, experts say, cannot be re-
placed.
From Moab, Utah, comes word that
probably the richest shipment of car
notite ore ever mined was recently
sold to buyers at Montrose, Colo, by
Andrew Nyland of Grand Junction.
The shipment consisted of forty tons
and brought $4,000. The ore was
mined in the Gateway district and was
the last of the output of Mr.. Nylund's
mine there.
S. w. Stedman, Denver & Rio
Grande brakeman of Walsenburg, is
alive and well in spite of the fact that
three freight cars passed over his
PROSTATE body Stedman fell from the
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directly between two cars. His SEEM
ingly miraculous escape was due to
the fact that his body struck the
ground in such a position as to per-
nit the cars to pass over without
harming him.
Plans for siX-day extension drive
by the Denver Boy Scouts were laid ut
a meeting of the scout committee
chairmen held in the court house in
Denver. The dates for the drive were
set at Oct. 16 to %. The purpose of
the campaign, it was decided, will be
to triple the present membership or
25OOO 1t also is planned to broaden
the efficiency and the benefits to both
new and old members.
C. II. Lawrence, formerly dish
washer in the restaurant of Uriah
Long, the Fowler, Colo man who was
murdered on the road east of Pueblo
the night of Aug. 20, is in the Pueblo
city Jail awaiting investigation. Law
renee was arrested at the Union sta
ton in Pueblo after he had been rec
ogniZed by Fowler resident. He was
known to have left Fowler with Long
Aug. 20, and that night, the night of
the murder it is charged, he returned
to Fowler and occupied Longs room.
At 4 o'clock the next morning he dis
appeared in an automobile which
called for him. He claims to have no
knowledge of the murder and to have
Just been released from Minnequa hos
pital in Pueblo, but hospital authori-
ties deny that such is the case.
The La Junta Lions Club has been
launched following an extensive visit
of G. Bird Gould, field director of the
.Il..l L.. -ad of