The Dolores star., 1922-11-24
CRISP
COLORADO
NEWS

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Hall, who was found dead in private
garage.
Denver.-Dr. Heber Il. Harper, until
recently of the faculty and admins
trative department OF the Boston Uni
versity, has assumed his new duties as
yer.
Denver-As q climax to Denver
| biggest and best flower show, two hun
dred Colorado florists formed state
wide organization that Will be known
us the Colorado State Flower Associa'
ton.
Denver.-Acting on the request OF
the National Bureau of Education, the
American Legion and the National Ed
ucational Association, Governor Shoup
has set aside the week beginning Dec.
3 as American Education Week.
Denver.-There will be an approx.
mate Increase of 2,19l. 600 bushels In
the Colorado corn crop this year over
that Of last year, according to the re-
port of w. w. Putnam, statistician of
the United States bureau of asricul-
tural economics.
Denyer-There were sixteen more
deaths us Il result of automobile acci-
dents in Denver in the first ten
months of 1872 than during the entire
year of 1921, statistics prepared by
Police Sergt. Henry Reno, police de-
partment statistician. show.
Denver.-Every miner employed by
the Juanita Coal < Coke Company at
Bowie has gone on strike, according
to an official notification received by
the State Industrial Commission from
the companys officers at Pueblo. I'm
official reports to the commission said
the men had gone out to force recog-
milton of the union.
Deuver.-James NJ Hamill, assistant
to L. Ii. McClenahan. prohibition en-
forcement officer for Colorado, has
been relieved of duties in the Colorado
prohibition enforcement department,
under general orders from the Wash
inGton headquarters to eliminate as
slstants of this rank in states west of
the Mississippi river as matter of
economy.
Denyer.-The Denver & Rio Grande
Western railroad will spend S22 ,2GS.-
90 on improvements within the next
three years. OF this sum S1G,I00OOO
will have been spent by Jan. l, 1924.
This was announced by Special Mas
ter Cass l.. Harrington upon subms-
sion of his report To the United States
District Court recommending the i'm
mediate expenditure of ST,OO0,0O0 on
improvements. The expenditures will
be made under the direction of the
court.
Colorado Springs. Colora O
Springs is going into the municipal ad.
vertising business. The City Council
has passed levy of siXteenths of II
mill, to raise $4,000 for city adver.
tislng in 1923. At the same time a
proposal was made for municipal and
county gasoline tax in addition to the
state tax of 1 cent gallon, the pro
ceeds to be used in street and road
Improvement funds. The city has q
100000 paving plant available for @
municipal program.
Pueblo.-lIrs. NJ. c. Mccall was
shot and painfully wounded by Pueblo
police officers when the automobile
she was riding in failed to halt when
the officers commanded 1t to. The
police were searching for four ban.
dts, said to have robbed jewelry
store in Canon City, and were stop
ping all the automobiles coming into
Pueblo from the west. Il. l.. Duffieid
was driving the automobile, and when
the officers ordered the car to stop
he put on more speed and the officers
opened fire.
Denver-IEe area of patented land
in Colorado this year is 32,192,O22
acres. compared with 30,S67 ,235 acres
last year, according to data compiled
by the State Immigration Department
Commission and from other sources
This is 1852 per cent of the total
area of the state.
Trinidad.-Joe McGonigal, convicted
slayer. of Wilbur Ferguson, State
School of Mines student, and Ella
Conters, at the boarding house at the
Royal mine on June /, has been sen.
fenced to be hanged during the week
beginning Feb. IS. McGonigal was
tried and found guilty of murder IN
the first degree on Oct. 13 last. The
jury recommended the death penalty
Pueblo.-A whisky manufacturing
plant rivaling any Tennessee moon
sinners den. two fifty-gallon stills. GOO
gallons of mash and fifty gallons of
whisky almost as good as before pro.
hibitlon bonded brand, were found In
raid made In u mountain glen near
Rye, Colo, by Federal Prohibition
Agent G. d. Badovinac and State
Rangers Mitchell and Carix The out
fit belonged to John Gardner and his
wife.
Denver. Improvement of more
than 1,100 miles of state highways
during the current ya0r hy tho Ct,t,