Gunnison news-champion., 1921-02-18
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
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Another movement has been started
for ths annexation Of Englewood -
Denvee.
Dsavsr pays mere for sasolins st
the back door Of one Of the bigEsst
oll-producins regions II the United
States than ths city Of Chicago.
Taxpayers Of La Junta will vote
April . on tha proposition Of the puf.
chase Of the city gas plant. At the re-
quest Of directors Of La Junta Indus
Trial Association. The bonds will
amount 10 $4,000.
The nsWs that the Durango high
school has Installed two complete wire
less outfits gives impetus to Q move
meat at Silvsrton to have large wire
lee statioa 10 communicats with De-
ranso d cass Of snowslides eutting off
all communicatioa By wire.
J. Greetwoor. ploneef grocery naA.
was shot and killed In Pueblo BY N
unideatifled man, believed to be ban
dlt The money till and safe wers
Q negro committed the crime. 40 the
store In located In the negro district.
Frank J. DAvey. who was recently
arrested In Billings. Mont. on charges
Of bigany made to Larimer county Of
fIcials By Lana Cassil Davey OF Love-
land. and who disappeared when re-
leased temporarily By the sheriff
there. has been rearrested In Lancas-
tss. Wis.
One hundred and thirty.two farm
loan associations have been organized
n Colorado. according to = report Is
sued In Washington by the Federal
Farm Loan Board. Three thousand
and five loans have been made In this
state for total OF $8O9l. 700. an nv.
erage Of $2,O27.
Nearly q score Of deputies have been
quietly sworn In to meet any emer.
gency that may arise In the labor trou.
bles N Greeley and half dozen police
officers were placed on guard over the
excavation work Of the Unity building,
following a general strike Of union and
nOnuniOn luDOrefb.
Glenn Stitt. alias Raymond Miller,
"a years old, formerly Of Denver. a
convict at the state reformatory In
Buena Vista, has confessed to Warden
N. p. Capp that he robbed and MUIR
dered man unknown to him In Ford
automobile near Henderson on the aft
ernoon Of Sept. 20 last year.
Jack I. Logic, formerly Of Denver.
head Of the GunnIson Motor Company,
was fatally injured when he was
crushed under the wheel Of tractor
at lola, twelve miles from Gunnison.
Logic had been breaking the road at
lola and was In front of the hotel there
when the accident occurred.
Montrose county's road program Is
booming Several citizens living along
the Hogback road appeared before the
county commissioners, stating that the
property owners had subscribed $500
to gravel their road. This amount is
to be used in connection with the colIn-
ty and federal aid appropriations.
Montrose will be the host to more
than 200 members of the III Jebel tenn.
pie Of Denver and other parts of the
state Saturday. June %, when the
Denver organization will hold cere-
monial session in Montrose Mt which
the Order Of the Mystic Shrine will be
conferred upon a large class.
Anna Mudra, 15-year-old ranch girl,
who shot and killed her mother In a
(. fit of anger, win be tried In the COun-
ty Court unless she or those who may
represent her insist that the hearing
take place I'm the District Court. The
deputy district attorney Mt Steamboat
Springs has filed a complaint against
the girl In the County Court, charging
her with murder.
County Judge George w. Dunn Of
I.ittieton, sitting In the criminal divi-
sion Of the Denver County Court, de-
clared the zeal Of police or other Of
ficers OF the law cannot be permitted
to override the sanctity of the home.
and gave warning to officers that they
cannot search legally any mans home
without q search warrant, properly
sworn to.
Plans and specifications have bsep
completed by the Denver Steel and
Iron Works for the construction Of the
highest bridge In the world, It will be
. suspension foot and burro bridge
and viii span the gateway to South
Boulder cafion at Eldorndo Springs,
On the Denver 4 Interurban railroad.
The bridge will be erected BY the r.
dorado Springs Resort Company.
The Supreme Court vacated an or
der Of the State Public Utilities Com
mission, which had reduced rates Of
the Mountaia States Telephone and
Telegraph Company In Fort Collins,
and held that the latter city, ~ all
other home rule" cities. has undlvid-
- rate regulating powers under the
recent ruling Of the United States Su-
preme Court upholding Colombo DE-