The Colorado statesman., 1921-07-16
Pithy News Notes
From An Parts of
Colorado
Cwe,iern Nea,plp,r uulon News ssrlcsl

| l4tHN lllllh Afl nuns hAh'i eh' 80 ~
legged TO have kidnapped her 3-year-old
daughter from the home of the child's
father, John NEdge, in Denver, Mrs.
Madge Edge of birmingham, Ala, was
arrested at McCook, Neb.
While swimming In bayou along
the Colorado river, and i'm sight of hun
dreds of picnickers, Evelyn Carall, lS-
year-old high school girl of Grand
Junction was drowned and three com
panions narrowly escaped death when
they attempted to rescue her.
Word was received in Boulder of the
death of David Hershman, pioneer OF
northern Colorado, at Long Beach,
| Calf. Mr.. Hershman came to Colo
RADIO Immediately after the Civil war
and farmed at Loveland. Later he
moved to this city and a few years
ago to California.
The first open-air wedding of the
summer was held at Ourny, when John
f. Leatherman of Indiana and Mrs.
Jennie A. Rose, a teacher in n local
school, were married in the Chipeta
grove near Ouray, in the heart of the
mountains. The Rev. ]. Freeland
johnson of MOntrose performed the
ceremony.
The Seibert Kanred Wheat Growers
| Association has been organized ut Sci
| bert to take charge of the sale of the
| immense crop of Kanred wheat now
| being harvested. Seibert is the only
place in Colorado with large acre
age of this wheat, which was devel-
oped during "A fifteen-year period by
the Kansas experiment stations.
The Ault school directors have ac-
cepted plans and awarded the contract
| for new senior and junior high
school building which will cost $4,000
| and which will eventually house 800
| pupils. The new building is to be com
pleted and in use by early winter. The
building will front on Liberty park,
which was recently purchased and i'm
proved by the school district.
In the famous Cresson mine, Cripple
Creek district, fresh ore body meas
uring 125 to $50 feet in width and
some 200 feet in length was recently
| opened up. 1t is between the eleventh
and twelfth levels, and is 80 per cent.
ore, the value averaging from S12 to
| S15 per ton. In is conservntively esti-
mated at 81 100000 as 1t stands. The
| Cresson "vug" of 1914, located at some
| $50 feet from surface, added $1,000
600 to the Cripple Creek output in
1915.
Two accidents in two days occurred
on the race track at Granada. Irwin
Merrill, 26 of Lamar was instantly
killed when n racing machine which
he was testing skidded on muddy
stretch of the track and overturned.
Merrill was Il son of II. c. Merrill of
Canon City and well known there The
other death occurred when Forest Nc
| Gibbon, 10, son of well-tO-do farmer
| living near Holly, Colo, was run down
by heavy truck on the track. Both
| died before medical aid could be ad
minlstered.
The contract for the completion of
the new 100000 high school at Ala
mosa has been let by the board of edu-
cation, and it is expected that the
building can be completed before the
| beginning of the next school term. This
school was authorized two years ago
when the people voted a bond issue of
| $4,000, but when the bids were opened
it was found that owing to the great
| increase in costs of materials and la
| Dor the bond issue was several thous-
| and dollars short of enough to finish
the building according to the plans.
Mount Blanca, one of the highest
mountain peaks in Colorado, was
| flown over by Il. Il. Bowers and q. ..
Thalmadge, Colorado Springs aviators.
| The men were flying at an altitude of
1850 feet when they passed over the
| summit 1t is the first time an air
plane has ever accomplished this feat,
so far as is known.
Artie Mckee, charged with the muir
der of his wife in Yuma county on the
afternoon of April 5, 1921, was con-
victed of murder in the first degree Mt
Akron after the jury had been out five
hours. Mckee has been tried twice be-
| fore in Yuma county, the first trial
being hung jury and the second re-
sulting in conviction.
One man is believed to be dying with
four knife wounds in his side, another
| is in critical condition with several
slashes in his body and third man
is being held in the county Jail here
following a stabbing affray, at Pros
pect heights, one mile south of Canon
| City. The wounded men are Frank
Snyder and Louis Pierce, both Aus
trfan smelter workers. Mike Anderson
is in Jail accused of attacking the two
men.
Mrs. Katie Gertrude Bourk, 2S years
old, committed suicide by taking poi
son at the county hospital at Greeley.
Mrs. Bourk had given birth to daugh-