The Dolores star., 1921-10-14
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union Ss.. seric.1

valued at 5000 was stolen from the
store of the Cable Bros. Mercantile
Company at Windsor.
+. C. Groovcr of Jacksonville, Fla,
was chosen president of the National
Association of Wholesale Druggists by
the annual convention. Colorado
Springs was selected for next years
convention.
Warren C. Dockum, one of three
Coloradoans to receive the congress
sional medal of honor for bravery in
the Civil War, died at Montrose, Colo,
at the age of rs years. Mr.. Dockum
was taken to Montrose for an opera
ton.
Work is well under way on the new
railroad being built by the Kansas &
Oklahoma Railroad Company, known
as the .'Byers Road" extending from
Forgan, Okla, to a proposed terminus
in Trinidad, Colo, according to re-
ports.
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.
Twenty-one nursing certificates were
presented at the annual graduation
exercises of the Boulder Sanitarium
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.
Profits derived from gold mining
will be exempt from federal taxation
il an amendment to the tax hill intro
duced by Senator Sam d. Nicholson
of Colorado receives favorable consid-
GRAFTON. Senator Nicholson declares
such legislation is needed TO stimulate
the production of gold.
While a score of his friends and ac-
quaintances We're swimming within u
few yards of him, Jack Rupert. 20, an
Austrian, drowned unnoticed in the
Canon City natatorium. His body was
discovered in the bottom OF the pool
when his companions missed him on
preparing to leave the building.
Hiram Croft. so years old, of La
Sale, employed by ]. l.. Biers, mo-
tor truck freighter, was killed at Gree
ley while at work when his neck was
broken. Croft either fell from a motor
truck or was hit by plank which
broke in two while he and BierS were
transferring a safe from one truck to
another.
Senator and Mrs. Phipps have sailed
for New York on sea voyage that
will take them to Cuba, Panama and
Costa Rica. They expect to return to
Washington about Oct "a Senator
Phipps, who recently underwent an
operation, is making the trip to recu-
perate from his illness. He is making
a satisfactory recovery.
The states collection of leaf gold
from breckenridge. said to be unsur-
passed in the world and valued at no,
less than 1000, was stolen from the
show cases 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.
Four persons We're injured, one of
fireworks, which had been confiscnted
by the police, exploded in the Bath
Beach section of Brooklyn, n. Y. An
aerial bomb suddenly went off caus-
ing the explosion. Inspector James
Butler of the fire department, inspec-
tor of combustibles, had his left arm
torn off and suffered other injuries.
S. w. Stcdman, Denver 4 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
top of car to the track below and
directly between two cars. His seem
inglv miraculous escape was due to
the fact that his body struck the
ground in such position as to per-
NIT the cars to pass over without
harming him.
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 a Fowler resident He was
known to have left Fowler with Long
Aug. 30, and that night, the night of
the murder, it is charged, he returned
to Fowler and occupied Longs room.
At 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 Mnnequa 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 c. Bird Gould, field director of the