The Glenwood post., 1922-06-08
oENTENN1zf STATE ITEMS.


er at the Royal mine one mile north
west of AguIlar and Wilbur n. Fer
guson, %, of Saco, Maine, junior at
the Colorado State School of Mines
who was employed temporarily as a
Waterman at the Royal property, were
shot to death few days ago by JO-
seph McGonigal, 30, watchman en-
ployed at the Jewel mine. The shoot
ing followed threats McGonigal is said
to have made against Ferguson and
occurred in the Royal mine boarding
house, as Ferguson was writing Il let
ter to his mother in Bangor, Me. Miss
McGonigal entered. McGonigal fired
once, the bullet striking Ferguson in
the heart and killing him instantly.
AS Miss Centers rnn screaming from
the house. MyGonigal fired again. This
second bullth struck the girl in the
leg. She S. ,ht refuge in an arroyo
while McQ e;igal secured Il shot
gun, supposious in the boarding house,
and startedi'an, pursuit. She was run
ming alongesU, dry arroyo toward Il
| bridge where five men were working
and was begging loudly to McGonigal
not to shoot, the workmen said, when
the armed man raised the shotgun to
his shoulder and aimed slowly. The
charge of buckshot struck her head
and killed her instantly.
| 'Denver.-The second bandit to be
shot and killed in an attempted ho'dup
in Denver within twenty-four hours,
met death Il few nights ago when he
entered the White Star garage at Cher
ry street and Leafs Dale drive, on the
| Sullivan-Parker road. and engaged in
a gun battlew it'll George L. Carson,
a gun battle with George I. Carson,
of the garage. An accomplice is be-
lieved to have escaped on IL motorcycle.
From letters found on the dead ban
dts badly, his name is believed to be
| w. l.. Stephenson. and he is thought
to have relatives in Colorado Springs
Trinidad.-The Colorado State Fed
i GRAFTON of Labor declared itself for Il
| showdown between organized labor
and the state rangers, under the con-
| stitution of the United States. After
| hearing the report of Mock Fontec-
| chic, organizer of the United Mine
| Workers of America, that he was pro-
hibited from holding a meeting of coal
miners at Aguilar by state rangers
stationed there, the convention pro-
posed to go to Aguilar in body and
hold session of the convention. A
committee was named to make ar
rangements for the trip.
Colorado Springs.-John Mcfarland
was reelected president of the Inter
national Typographical Union in the
election held May "A, according to re-
turns from $50 of the $50 local unions,
received at the Union Printers home.
Mcfarland defeated Walter w. Bar
rett, present first vice president, by
3,100 votes Charles p. Howard was
elected first vice president, James ].
Hoban second vice president, and John
w. Hays secretary-treasurer, the lat
ter being reelected by $500 majority.
Greeley.-One of the worst hail and
rainstorms which has struck Greeled in
the last twelve years caused damage
unofficially estimated at S250,000. Il
few days ago. Sweeping path more
than two miles wide, downpour of
hailstones, some as large as golf balls,
shattered hundreds of windows in res
licences and business houses, damaged
young crops in the outlying districts
and flooded many Easements in the
heart of the city.
Colorado Springs.-A cloudburst at
Templeton gap, northeast of Colorado
Springs, sent wall of water ten feet
high through Papeton, Il mining camp
four miles northeast of Colorado
Springs, marooned scores of people,
washed out portions of the Denver &
Rio Grande and Rock Island railroad
tracks and did thousands of dollars
worth of damage to residences, gar
dens and civic Improvements.
Trindad-W. l. Reilly, a member
of the State Industrial Commission
and Il delegate from the Typographical
union of Colorado Springs, was re
fused seat in the convention of the
Colorado State Federation of Labor
recently. The vote, which WAS 100 to
rs against seating Reilly. was taken
after more than four hours of discus
sion, during which vigorous attacks
were made by delegates on the State
Industrial Commission as a body and
the decisions of Mr., Reilly as a mem
ber.
Canon City.-Loua pacheco, convict
No. 10327, who escaped from the pris-
on gang working on the Canon City
armory, by unhitching Il horse from IL
wagon near the armory and riding off,
was captured six miles from Beulah
in the foothills of the Greenhorn
mountains by Lieut.. Billy Green and
Jesse T. Salyer
Walden.-E. G. Randall of Boulder