The Colorado statesman., 1921-12-31
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado
(westsrn Newspaper Union News serice)


were chasing the animal 1t is said TO
have attacked several other dogs.
The Brush city council has accepted
the plans drawn by City Engineer
Glen A. Izett for paving the main
streets of the town, the estimated cost
being $150,000. Bids for the work will
be received up to February l. move
ment is now on foot to curb and gut
ter all of the streets Of Brush.
An accidentally discharged rifle
caused the instant death of Arlo
Stoops, 4-year-old son of V. V. Stoops,
farmer living fifteen miles from
Brush. The little boy was struggling
for possession of the gun with his elder
brother, 0 years old. The rifle struck
n chair and was discharged. The bull
let passed through the boys head.
DIR. L. w. Cole, head of the psychol-
ogy department of the University or
Colorado, has gone to Toronto, Canada,
where he will address an educational
meeting. DIR. James F. Willard and
Prof. Harold Goodykoontz, both of the
history department, viii attend the
America historical convention at st.
Louis. Professor Willard is TO read
two papers.
Word was received in Boulder of
the death of Donald McGinnis, 10
years old, n sophomore in the Univer-
sity of Colorado. McGinnis, according
to the dispatch, was run over in the
railroad yards at Seligman, Ariz. He
left Boulder last week for San Diego,
Calf. McGinnis was the son of Harry
McGinnis, prominent attorney of Bue-
ma Vista, Colo.
The four sons of the Rev. DIR. David
| Stuart Dodge, for sixty years promi-
nent in Presbyterian church work in
America and the Near East, inherit the
bulk of his estate by the terms of the
will filed for probate. Clarence Dodge
of Colorado Springs receives one trust
| fund for 100000 for life and another
of 100000 for ten years, after which
the principal is to revert to his chill
dren.
With three children looking on, Mrs.
| Caroline Rossi, wife of Mike Rossi,
proprietor of the Moonlight ranch,
killed a man identified as Norman d.
Gould in her home in Denver,
by beating him on the head with
baseball bat. Gould died in the
county hospital shortly after. Accord
| ing to the statement of Mrs. Rossi the
man was burglar. She declared that
she welded the bat after he struck her
in the face with revolver.
The body of Thomas Flynn, 81 years
old prominent Pueblo business man,
was found hanging from a rafter in
the basement of his place of business,
by his son. Coroner r. B. Dibble an
nounced that Flynn left note in
which he bade his friends good-by and
designated the cemetery in which he
wished to be buried. Dependency is
assigned as the cause for his act.
Flynn came to Pueblo in 1884 and had
been in the saddle and harness busi-
ness since that time.
Margorie Windstead, the 4-year-old
daughter of l.. Il. Windstead, living
one-half mile south of Brush, was
burned to death. Mrs. Windstead had
gone to a neighbor's for some articles
for dinner, leaving Margorie to look
after the baby, who was in cradle.
AS the room was cold Margorie opened
the heating stove door and 1t is sup
posed filled the stove with newspa-
pers, which ignited her dress and all
her clothing was burned off down to
her Shoes Her mother returned and
at once called the doctor. The girl
was rushed to the Brush hospital, but
died within an hour.
The arrest of two men and two wom-
do en- nraupnta6 q
bank robbery, according to n confes-
sion Chief of Police Hugh ID. Haper
saws was made by Ralph Demasters,
one of those arrested. The alleged
yegg said the plans for the robbery
had been worked out, but refused to
admit which bank was spotted" Fol
lowing clues to n series of small rob-
berries, police placed Lew Cargil, his
wife, Mrs. Marion Cargill Ralph De-
master and Mrs. Mary Aldord Under
arrest.
Z. II. Marshall, former Kansas oil
man, has gone to Mesa Verde Nation
al Park, taking with him an improved
moving picture machine, 10000 feet of
film, supplies for a month and an eX-
merit camera man. Mr.. Marshall recent
ly financed the making of a 2,000-foot
film of the park, and the effort was
attended with such degree of success
that it has encouraged the present trip.
1t is the plan of the party to make
7OOO-foot feature picture of the park
for educational purposes to be exhib-
tied throughout the East. Mr. Mar
shall plans to enlist the services of
DR.. Fewkes, lecturer of the Smithson-
ian Institution, in his circulation of the
film.
Coyotes or dogs got into the sheep
pens of Charles McManee, farmer,
near Brush, and 153 sheep were dead