The Colorado statesman., 1922-06-10
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado
twestsrn Newspaper Union News seric..)

Boulder.-The University of Colo
rado will graduate 270 seniors Monday,
June II, at the close of the most elab-
crate commencement week held since
before the war.
DENY Pinhorn, proprie-
tor of the Manhattan restaurant, the
most widely-known restaurant in the
West, died at few days ago at his resi-
dence in Denver, of uremic poisoning.
Rocky Ford.-Bert Hopper has re.
ceived two carloads of bees colonies,
numbering more than 900, which is the
'argest shipment to this section for
rears. The bees were shipped from
New Mexico.
Longmont.- annual summer
field meeting and basket picnic of the
Colorado Honey Producers Associa-
ton, and the Larimer and Boulder
County Beekeepers' Association was
held in Longmont, June 8.
Pueblo.-Postmaster General Hubert
Work disposed of all his interests in
Woodcraft hospital, located in Pueblo,
the property being purchased by Dr.
G. w. Thompson, who has been asso-
ciated with DIR. Work for the past ten
years.
Monte vista.-E. L. Sprout, 81 years
old, well known rancher, died of In
juries incurred when he was struck by
motor rnil car recently. Sprout was
walking along the tracks and, being
slightly deaf, he did not hear the ap-
proach of the car.
Denver.-Hot lead from Patrolman
William Pundt's revolver summarily
ended the banditry of an unidentified
man less than two minutes after he
had held up and robbed Stanley c..
Crouch of S1O4.35 in n Continental Oil
Company filling station at Thirty-third
and Downing streets, recently.
Denver.-David Stead, formerly sec
retary of Inspiration Lodge No. 143, A.
F. and A. NJ, pleaded not guilty to q
short check charge when arraigned be-
fore Judge Charles c. Butler in the
West Side Court. Another charge, that
Of embezzling funds of the lodge, is
pending against Stead in magis-
trate's court.
Lamar-One man was killed and
two others critically injured near
Granada, twenty miles east of Lamar,
when an automobile in which they
we're driving was struck by Shriners'
special train bound for the San Fran
cisco convention. Richard Bagshaw of
Knowles, Okla, said to have been the
driver of the car, was instantly killed.
Critically injured were Bert Boseman
and G. II. Kelly, also of Knowles,
Okla. The latter two are in the La
mar hospital.
Alamosa.-If conditions in the San
Luis valley may be accepted as bar
ometer of the conditions of the state as
whole, it may be said that good times
are lowering near. The wide diversity
Of farm products raised in Alamosa Is
a great contributing factor in the has
tening of the return to normalcy, and
the present market standing of many
Of these products, coupled with a sat
lsfactory labor situation, seems to indi
cate the dawn of new prosperity.
Las Animas.-The largest irrigation
development in Colorado during the
last ten years is being made in Bent
county, in the lower Arkansas Valley,
under direction and control of the
State Board of Land Commissioners
and the state engineer. The land was
government land, segregated and
passed to the state under the terms of
the Carey act, and comprises a fine
body of 2500O acres. The majority of
the land owners come from northern
Colorado, with others from the middle
western states.
Pueblo.-The first anniversary of
Pueblos greatest disaster found a new
er and more progressive city than ever
before. The great toll of life taken by
flood waters never can be forgotten,
but the memory of the wrecked build
ings and homes has been wiped out by
the erection of new buildings and resi-
dences, larger and more substantial
than those swept away.
Antonito.-Jose Risos was shot and
seriously wounded in n jail break at
Conejos, and Luiz Gonzales is at large
being pursued by posse and pack
of bloodhounds. Hayes, another pris-
oner, returned to the Jail after run
aing a short distance. Ben Martinez,
the jailer was overpowered by the
prisoners as he opened the door to put
food into their cell at supper time.
Trinidad-Governme postoffice in
spectors haye released information Of
mail stolen from the Santa Fe baggage
room at Trinidad some time in the ear
ly morning of May 81 last. A checkup
of the contents, inspectors said, found
that $1,000 in currency and $4s,000 in
Liberty bonds are missing, together
with checks and money orders or un-
Ennu,n amounts