The Colorado statesman., 1922-03-25
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

| week of April 10 to enact flood control
| legislation and bonding law for con-
struction of the Moffat tunnel, Gov
ernor Shoup announced at luncheon
of the members council of the Denver
| Civic and Commercial Association. ITO
save the people of our state the Mof-
fat railroad and to build for the fu-
ture, we must build the Moffat tun-
nel' he said. 1.-THE creation of the Pu-
eblo flood control district and the
building of the tunnel will distribute
more than $10,000,000 in Colorado in
wages and in pay for supplies. All
the money will be spent in the state.
Colorado labor and Colorado supplies
will be used.
Canon City.-Litigation of far
reaching character growing out of the
floods of last June has been institu-
ted in the courts of Fremont and Tel
Ter counties involving both the Arkan-
sas Valley Railway, Light and Power
Company and Beaver Water and Ir-
| rigation Company in suits for heavy
damages on account of losses result
ing from the bursting of dams and
reservoirs along Beaver creek on June
| 3, 1921. Dispatches have told of the
filing of suits for damages aggregat-
ing S450,0o0 by the Beaver Water and
Irrigation Company against the Ar
kansas Valley Railway, Light and
Power Company for the destruction of
the Schaeffer dam and reservoir.
La Junta.-C. ]. Matthews, said to
| be the missing cashier of the Osawat-
omie State Bank of Osawatomie, Kan,
was arrested recently by Chief of Po
| lice Rose at La Junta and taken from
Il Santa Fe train on which he was rid
ing from California to Kansas City. He
is held in the Otero county jail at La
| .Junta awaiting action by the Kansas
authorities, who have been notified.
The man was travelling without bag
gage and had only 81 on him when ar
rested.
| Colorado Springs every
effort is being made to find Mary
Louise Cleary, she has neither been
seen nor heard of in Colorado Springs,
and therefore does not know that
legacy of $4,000 has fallen to her.
The will of Adolph Norden, who died
in New York city, gave the sum of
| $4,000 to Mary Louise Cleary of
Camp Stratton near Colorado Springs,
who was described in the document
as my faithful nurse and friend"
Brighton.-Arthur Sales, z. J. Berg
man and Frank Olson, held in connec-
tion with the burglary of the Virgins
Mercantile Company of Virgins, Colo,
which resulted in the death of d. j.
Ashmore, a fourth member of the al
legged bandit gang, were turned over to
Morgan county officials after they had
| been taken to the spot where Ash
more's body was found and had given
additional information to the authori
ties.
Loveland.-The Loveland railway
| station was broken into recently and
three trunks, one of them containing
jewery and clothing valued at S1,50O,
were stolen. The rifled trunks We're
found later in Lake Loveland. The
trunk containing the $1,500 worth of
valuables belonged to Mrs Burt Davis
Cripple Creek.-The RittenhouSe
mine property of the Moonlight Min
ing and Milling Company, has re-
days Extensive development work is
planned on various levels of the prop
erty and there will be considerable
territory open for leasers.
Denver.-Mrs. May Gresdel, who has
had charge of the cigar stand at the
Brown Palace hotel for four years, was
crushed to death near Cheyenne, Wyo.,
when the automobile in which she was
riding with Samuel Wilson and Mrs.
G. Belts, both of Denver, overturned
and pinned her underneath.
Cripple Creek.-Officers of five met
al mines in the Cripple Creek district
will make formal application to effect
wage reductions at a hearing sched-
uled to take place before the Colorado
Industrial Commission March 2S.
Fort Collins.-The Boy Scouts in
Fort Collins are enjoying a boom in
the organization. The fourth troop in
the city has just been organized with
Assistant Scoutmaster Craig in charge.
The Mexican boys of Fort Collins are
taking to scouting in fine style and
many of them are speeding up in their
learning to read English through the
studying of their Boy Scout manuals.
Delta, Colo.-Reuben Fluke, a Grip
pie % years old, shot and killed Ar
thur McConville, 40 years old, at the
Fluke ranch at Crawford, forty miles
from here. The shooting climaxed
quarrel in which McConville is said to
have attacked Fluke.
Limon.-A woman, Mrs. Albert Matz-
dorf, wife of a railway engineer has
been chosen as the taxpayers NOM
inee for mayor. She will oppose A. G.
Sinclair, president of the First Ma