The Dolores star., 1921-05-27
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Nr.sp.per Union News scrios.l

In the nature of n two-hcaded cali.
The calf was born dead.
AIamosa established city mail de-
livery ON May II, The requirements
of the postoffice department in the
matter of numbering houses and put
ting up mail reccptacleS have been
complied with.
CITY Engineer Bice announced that
the cost of the new paving In Long
mont will be SIO009i.1l. The unpayed
section of Main street and several
blocks in the residence section are IN
cluded in the district.
The state convention of the Colo
RADIO Christian churches will be held
in Colorado Springs May 24tl, 25th
and 26,h Arrangements are being
made to take care of several hundred
delegates and visitors.
David Bradley, son of Pueblo po-
liceman, was shot thru the right arm
and Joe Peadon incurred Il laceratcd
right eye in a fight mt the Jockey club,
roadhouse near Pueblo operated by
Ben Francisco. alias The Frog" Fran
cisco, it is said, attempted to stop the
fight between Bradley and Pcadon and
shot Bradley thru the arm.
]. /. Coclkrill and wife of Eureka,
New. drove over 1000 miles in their
car TO reach Grand Junction in order
that shoemaker, who Specializes in
making shoes for people who cannot
wear normal shoes, might make pair
for Mrs. Cockrill. A week in the val
ley and the trip and shoes together
cost approximately $3.50.
Mrs. f. w. Egan, policewoman, has
been removed by Mayor Harris of
Colorado Springs following two other
ten-day suspensions by the chief Of
police The only reason assigned is
"for the good of the force" and it is
stated that the reasons will not he
made public unless she compels the
mayor TO do So
Prospects for one of the heaviest
yields of sugar beets ever known in
the Berthoud district are brighter now
than any season for many years, ac
cording to reports of the field men of
the Great Western Sugar Company,
who say most of the beets are up with
the best stand in years. and blocking
and thinning has begun in earnest
Mining shows steady gain in the
Cripple Creek district, with number
of leaSers engaging in new work. Sur
face water. the result of recent storms,
is causing some trouble. This, how
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number of former residents are re-
turning to the district to engage in
mining or in business ventures.
Russell and Reason Stout, boys who
cue of the aged insane man known us
civilian The Prophet" during the
great storm here in April, were pre-
sented with watches by the Colorado
Springs Rotary Club The Stout boys
live on the Cheyenne Valley ranch,
where William was taken after being
found in the marooned automobile
Accused of forging the name of II.
A. johnson, vice president of the Buck
ingham State bank, to checks totalling
$4,000, Rudolph A. Nordell, cashier
of that institution. which closed its
doors December 20, 1920, has been ar
rested at Greeley and lodged in the
county Jail there. The alleged forger-
les are said TO have been started by
NOrdell June 3, 1913, when check
for $4,000 is said 20 have gone through.
District Attorney Louis B. Reed de-
clared that more than thirty of the
alleged forgeries are in the hands Of
authorities.
A $4,000 addition will be made to
the Seibert school building four rural
schools included in District No. 81. will
be consolidated, the old school build
ings Will be sold to raise money to buy
motor busses and the school placed in
the accredited class, following the de-
cision of mass meeting held in Sci
bert. A bond election will be called
soon.
The United Gold Mines Company Is
prospecting with diamond drill in
the Trail claim at Victor, some 100
feet below where the Anderson BeT,-
kleman lease ceased operations. About
ninety feet has been explored at an
angle Of As degrees, the drill core test
ing from S12 to SlS per ton In gold.
The indications are excellent for a
large body of high-grade ore
Plans have been completed by VII.
liam w. Stickney, architect for the hos
pital to be built by the state for the
use of the inmates of the reformatory
at Buena Vista. The inmates them.
selves will construct the building and
will make the cement blocks to be used
: in 1t. 1t will be one story and base
ment, with ward to contain twenty
five beds, two private wards and one
isolation ward
Marking the site of old Fort Pueblo.
! the scene Of the Ute massacre of
| Christmas eve in 1854, at which time
! the entire white population of that dis.
trict lost their lives, large granite