The Dolores star., 1921-12-09
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
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A civil service examination for post
haster at Pueblo will be held on
Dec 20.
Mrs. Hilda Walters. school teacher
1t Griffith. near Durango. who was
struck by motorcycle and hurled
thirty feet, is dead from the injuries
sustained. She is survived by four
small children.
Distinguished service medals have
,een presented by the Mountain States
Telephone and Telegraph Company to
employees of the company who rem
iered valiant service during. and i'm
nediately following. the Pueblo flood.
The jury which listeaed TO testi-
mony in the trial of c. l.. Lone. Jr-.
and Wilson Avery. residents Of Texas,
who were arrested last April on q
charge Of having held up the bank at
Aguilar. Colo. and 10 have obtained
in that robbery Sl.oIO. returned a ver-
dict Of not guilty at Lamar.
Direct Information has been filed
/, against John Book in connection with
the death of 2-year-old Lorraine Segar
at Rush. Colo. 4 coroner's jury held
Book responsible for the baby's death.
Book is said 10 have beaten and
choked the baby. left in his care by It's
mother, a Nevada teacher.
! A woman about 30 years old who
came to Colorado Springs from Los
! Angeles, Calf, and registered rs So
! phia Craven, committed suicide by
| drowning herself in the lake at the
| Broadmoor hotel. A note found In the
wonan'S handbag stated that she was
/ suffering from tuberculosis and that
she decided to end her suffering by
/ drowning.
! A pledge to refuse TO assist in future
wars has been taken Jointly by Mrs.
| Julia McCudden. the British war moth
er delegate at the burial of America $
unknown soldier, and Mrs. X. Ernest
Digney OF White Plains, y. Y, official
war mother This became known at a
luncheon rendered Mrs. McCudden by
the New York state chapter OF Amer
| lean War Mothers.
The Farmers Alfalfa Milling Com
pany OF Brighton charges that care
Iessness on the part of employees of
the Union Pacific Railroad Company
| caused the destruction by fire of its
Brighton plant Oct. Il, 1921. in suit
filed in the Federal Court. The petit
tion states that sparks from a loco
motive started the blaze. The com
pany asks S1s.935.7I damages.
Notice of wage cuts effective in
thirty days have been filed with the
State Industrial Commission by the
Pueblo Master Plumbers Association
and the Roberts Mining and Machin-
cry Company at Pueblo. The Pueblo
association consists of eight concerns.
The wage cuts are to affect the wages
OF nine plumbers and steamfitters Of
Pueblo and all employees OF the Den
yer concern.
Ed Wagner, rancher near Sunny
side, twenty miles south of Durango.
was shot and killed instantly by Luke
Busser, IS years old. Measer informa-
ton obtained on the shooting reported
that the two revived an old racial
quarrel Wagner was OF German par
entage. Busser Is a native Of Alsace-
Lorraine. They had argued in times
past on the question of governmental
control of Alsace-LOrraiRe.
Frank Fortuna, held in the Huer-
fano county jail at walsenburg on a
charge Of burglary, escaped by dig
ging a hole through the ceiling over
The cell house and making his way to
the roof and dropping to the ground.
Fortuna was arrested following the
| robbery Of the store OF the Huerfano
| Trading Company at Camp Shumway.
| A shotgun, cigarettes and quantity
| of stamps were taken. The store also
, IL the camp postoffice.
The estate of Charles r. Cow, oil
| investor, who died in October, Is ap-
praised at $4,000 in an application
| for letters of administration filed in
the Denver County Court.
Marooned on sand bar with grind.
ing Ice and roaring water swirling
about them, Manager J. Crane and
John Atkins of the New Hidden Treas.
ure mine near Lake City had narrow
escape from death when the ice gorge
broke In Henson creek and came down
upon them. Crane was carried head
long through great iron pipe many
feet long, and out the other end onto
the rocks below. He was terribly
bruised and cut on the head and body.
WOrkmen rescued Atkins with ropes
from above.
Sixty thousand dollars is now avail.
able to assist State Treasurer Stong In
re-establishing the credit of the state
which has been stamping all warrants
mo funds" The State Land Board
through Register George Stephan and
the State Industrial Commission
through Commissioners Hits and Rel
ly, put $4,000 each at the disposal OF
Treasurer StODg to purchase interest
bearing salary warrants of state EN-
ployes and warrants issued TO cover
their travelling expenses.
Plans are being laid for the enter