The Colorado statesman., 1921-04-30
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado
Cwe,i,rn Newspaper Union Nss. ssrlcs.j

tween Denver and Colorado Springs
met in Llmon recently to form an East
ern Colorado Commercial Club.
A. c. Parks, 2s years old, owner of n
ranch a half mile north of the Denver
city limits near Sacred Heart College,
was beaten into insensibllity by two
men as he was leaving his ranch for
Denver recently.
Two automobile bandits secured S23o
from the cafe of the Niles drug store
In the suburbs of Pueblo after they
had bound and gagged J. f. Conant,
clerk. The car in which they escaped
was piloted by woman.
Potato pickers will be paid cents
a sack with board, or cents sack
without board In the section around
Montrose next fall, according to de-
cision reached by members of the farm
bureau of the Coal Creek section at
recent meeting.
The public schools of Colorado
Springs will hold big May festival at
Monument Valley park, May 20. 1t will
be an all-day affair, including music
and dances in the morning, basket
picnic at noon and an athletic field day
! in the afternoon. 1t will be the largest
affair of the kind ever attempted in
the city.
Farmers of eastern Weld county
plan to market their own livestock and
have organized the Briggsdale Farm
ers' Union Shipping Association. Of
ficers elected for the association are:
r. w. Bidwel, president; II. p. Kettle
| A NnnlanCupk
secretary and treasurer, and J. f. Pit
ney, manager.
The Denver Livestock Exchange has
voted to aid livestock growers by re-
ducing commission rates at the stock
yards This was decided at long ses-
sion at which members urged that the
exchange should take the lead in help
ing the farmer in his drive for lower
railroad rates and that reduction on
| commission charges would show good
faith.
James T. Keeney, AZ years old,
wealthy land owner Of Antonito, shot
and killed his 2O-year-old wife Pearl,
then committed suicide in the home of
his wif,Ss mother in Denver. Failure
to effect reconciliation between him
self and his wife was given as the
cause by Mrs. NJ. b. Wefs, mother of
the young woman, who witnessed the
tragedy.
More than 200 wheat growers, repre-
senting all sections of Colorado unani-
mously adopted the Sapiro marketing
plan, providing for 100 per cent pool
of grain, at a meeting held in Akron.
Resolutions were adopted pledging the
support of the Colorado Wheat Grow
ers' Association in continuing the pro-
gram adopted by the national body,
and the work of signing contracts for
the pool.
julius Josephson, Denver youth con-
victed of embezzling $4,000 from the
American Bank and Trust Company,
has been paroled from the state re-
formatory on order of Governor Shoup.
| Josephson was sentenced to an inde-
terminate term. He served exactly
fifty days. Following his arrest,
Josephson declared that he lost the
money gambling in "Dago Mike" Mon
cones club.
Critically i'll and almost penniless,
with four minor children and room
ing house on her hands, Mrs. Charles
H. Sanchez, recently of Walsenburg,
Colo, is in Denver seeking for n trace
of her husbands whereabouts since he
disappeared on April with the ex-
PLANTATION that he was going to Trini-
dad for few days on business. He
has not been heard from since he
dropped from sight.
Attorney General Keyes has rem
dered an opinion that the new motor
vehicle law enacted by the Twenty
| third General Assembly is constitu-
tional. AS result of this ruling Sec
retary of State Milliken announced
that he will appoint eight Republican
supervisors" to replace n like num-
Der of Democratic inspectors" who
were employed under the provisions of
the old law.
Joseph Burghardt of Denver, appren-
tice seaman, U. S. N, has been named
In the honor roll of the United States
naval training station, San Francisco,
as being one of the eleven men who
have made the most progress in in
struction, personal appearance and at
tentfon to duties The honor roll states
that Burghardt is considered one of
the most efficient men now at the
tpaining station.
Announcement has been made by f.
A. Wadleigh, passenger traffic man.
ager of the Denver & Rio Grande, that
the open top car service would be es-
tsblished for the summer season May
/, through the Royal Gorge. The cars
will run between Canon City to Tex
as Creek, on the two through daylight
passenger trains.