The Dolores star., 1921-12-09
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

~ that organlxation could function
and borrow money from the War
/ Finance Corporation TO be loaned TO
live stock men and save that industry
in Colorado. The board was asked to
raise fund Of $4,000. but the board
! lid not name any sum that should be
raised. II plans TO raise all that 1t
/ -an. and named a committee that rep
resents all the various business eie-
/ ments of Denver to conduct the cam
! pajgn.
Three bandits entered the Parker
State Bank at Parker, locked the
young woman clerk in the vault and
gathered up what cash was in sight.
believed to have been between S2.Vo
I Or 5000. Miss Elizabeth Shuitz, the
/ clerk, was alone in the large business
I room of the bank just at closing time,
| 8 O'Clock In the afternoon, when the
] three men drove up in an automobile.
| They all entered the bank, and one
| confronted Miss ShultZ with the COM
mand that she keep silent, while the
others hastily drew down the curtains,
| rs though the bank was closed.
The first two Colorado road projects
under the new federal highways act,
| for which Congress recently passed
s15,o00OoO appropriation, have been
| submitted by the State Highway Com
/ mission To the Federal Roads Bureau,
| aggregnting total estimated cost Of
I s2l5.9i4. The first proposes the con-
] Structlun of eleven and three-quarters
miles of highway between Lake George
! and Hartsel, gravel surfaced. The sec
| 1nd proposes the improvement OF the
! highway between Canon City and Flo
renee, in Fremont county, also with
| gravel surface.
Two sets Of doors in the vault OF
! the HilIrose Bank Mt Hillrose. ten
miles northeast of Brush. were blown
/ off by bank robbers. The robbers We're
able to gain access 10 The vault, but
the funds OF the bank were in small
safe inside the vault and they evident
| ly We're frightened away before blow
ing this open. Il. A. Towne. cashier of
the bank. said that this small safe con-
tained about $4,000 of the banks
| funds, but that so far no money or pa
| pers had been missed.
Since W. +. Allewelt took up his
work as director of the state market
ing division. in July, up 10 Nov. Is, a to-
| tai of 1922 inspections OF vegetables
| and fruit were made, according to n re
port presented 10 the State Board of
Agriculture meeting at Fit Collins From
| oct u to Nov. 10 there were 1922 in
| spections, he reported Up until the
middle of November, Mr.. Allewelt re-
ported. he had forty-four inspectors in
| the field
+. Il. Laune of Lovcland. who was
shot by his son, Virgil, some weeks
ago during the progress of family
quarrel, and whose life was at one
time despaired of, has so far re-
covered as to be able TO be around the
streets again. The bullet that is
lodged against his spine was not re-
moved. His son is under $4,000 bonds
on charge of assault with intent to
commit murder, but the father says he
| will not prosecute.
The War Finance Corpora ton an
nounced fifty-six government loans,
amounting to s2,O73,OOO, for agricuI-
tural and live stock purposes Among
the loans were: Wyoming, $4,000;
Iowa, $4,000: Nebraska, $95, 600;
Oregon. $4,000; Colorado, $4,000;
Montana, s232 900; Kansas. $4,000.
A charred body, Identified by the au-
thoritIes as that Of James Williams. ~
years old, negro, veteran Of the Civil
| War anh rnarphnr nf
was found by firemen who responded
to an alarm at the aged mans home at
Pueblo. The cause of the fire, which
did $500 damage, is unknown.
Mrs. Celeste Hicks, SO years old,
pioneer Of upper Bear creek and wild
ow OF the late Daniel Hicks, who made
the Hicks ranch famous to sportsmen
/, and tourists, is dead at Morrison.
A cloud Of mystery surrounds the
discovery Of.the body OF Ray Thomas
on California .Eesa, near Olathe, in
the bed of stream underneath high
flume. Coroner Schermerhorn at first
stated there was no need for an in
quest, but ruIn0rs that foul play had
been committed continued so persist
emily that he and Sheriff Dorsey WIS.,
tied the neighborhood. AS result
| Sheriff Dorsey says that there are in
dications that Thomas was killed and
thrown from the flume into the stream.
The 18th infantry, Colorado Nation
al Guard, and all officers Of the reyi-
mental staff have been given full and
complete federal recognition by the
war Department, according to word
received in Denver by Maj A. l.. Hart
of the adjutant generals department.
The organization is commanded by
Col. William c. Danks Lieut.. Col.
Paul Z. Newton is next in command.
illness caused by Overwork is
thought by friends and faculty asso-
ciates to have led Miss Eva Baum To
take her life in the chemistry building
OF the University of COlorn do ar R,,I