The Colorado statesman., 1921-02-19
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado
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| Denver.
Denver pays more for gasoline Mt
| the back door of one of the biggest
oil.producing regions in the United
| States than the city Of Chicago.
Taxpayers of La Junta will vote
April . on the proposition of the pur-
chase of the city gas plant, ut the re-
quest of directors of La Junta Indus
trial Association. The bonds will
amount to $4,000.
The news that the Durango high
school has installed two complete wire
less outfits gives impetus 10 move
ment at SilvertOn TO have a large wire
less station TO communicate with Du-
range in case of snowslides cutting off
all communication by wire.
]. Greetwoor, pioneer grocery man,
was shot and killed in Pueblo by an
unidentified man, believed to be a ban
dit. The money till and safe were
completely ransacked. Police believe
a negro committed the crime, as the
store is located in the negro district.
Frank J. Davey, who was recently
arrested in Billings, Mont, on charges
of bigamy made to Larimer county Of
flcials by Lena Cassl Davey of Love
land and who disappeared when re-
leased temporarily by the sheriff
there, has been rearrested in Lancas-
ter, Wis.
One hundred and thirty-two farm
loan associations have been organized
in Colorado, according to n report is
sued in Washington by the Federal
Farm Loan Board Three thousand
and five loans have been made in this
state for a total of S6,091, 700, an av-
erage of $2,027.
Nearly score OF deputies have been
quietly sworn in TO meet any emer-
gency that may arise in the labor trOu-
bles in 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 laborers.
Glenn Stitt, alias Raymond Miller,
"a years old, formerly of Denver, a
convict mt the state reformatory in
Buena Vista, has confessed to Warden
NJ p. Capp that he robbed and muir
dered a man unknown to him in Ford
automobile near Henderson on the aft
ernoon of Sept. 20 last year.
Jack T. Logic, formerly Of Denver,
head of the Gunnison Motor Company,
was fatally injured when he was
crushed under the wheel of a tractor
at lola, twelve miles from Gunnisun
Logic had been breaking the road at
lola and was in front of the hotel there
Nvban tho 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 coun-
ty and federal aid appropriations.
Montrose will be the host to more
than 500 members of the FL Jebel tenn
ple of Denver and other parts of the
state Saturday, June %, when the
Denver organization will hold cere-
monial session in Montrose at 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 Il
fit of anger, will be tried in the Coun-
ty Court unless she or those who may |
represent her insist that the. hearing |
take place in the District Court. The |
deputy district attorney at Steamboat |
Springs has filed complaint against |
the girl in the County Court, charging |
her with murder. |
County Judge George w. Dunn of |
Littleton, 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 he permitted |
to override the sanctity of the home,
and gave warning to officers that they
cannot search legally any mans home
without n search warrant, properly |
sworn to.
plans and specifications have been
completed by the Denver Steel AMI
Iron Works for the construction of the
highest bridge in the world, 1t will be
n suspension foot and burro bridge |
and will span the gateway to South
Boulder canon at Eldorado Springs,
on the Denver & Interurban railroad.
The bridge will be erected by the Ell
dorado Springs Resort Company.
The Supreme Court vacated an or
der of the State Public Utilities Com
mission, which had reduced rates of
the Mountain States Telephone and
Telegraph Company in Fort Collins,
and held that the latter city, as all
other "home rule" cities, has undivid-
ed rate regulating powers under the
recent ruling of the United States Su-
preme Court upholding Colorado de-
cision.
The national House of Representa-
tives has passed unanimously a bill