The Colorado statesman., 1922-10-21
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years old, died ut the GlenwoOd hos
pital of Injuries incurred when his au-
tomoblle overturned near Rifle.
Fort Collins.-Three escaping con-
victs. two negroes and a white man,
are believed to be leaving the trail of
fire through the forests west of Fort
Collins.
Boulder.-George Richter of Denver
has been elected president of the Uni
verslty of Colorado chapter of the AS.
sociatlon of Collegiate Engineers. He
is senior student this year.
Denver. - Contracts calling for the
expenditure of S116,263 in the con-
struction of four new bridge and road
projects In Colorado are to be let soon
by the state highway department.
Boulder.-rhe Prussian Mine group
in the Rowena-Gold Hill section of
Boulder county has been purchased by
the Gold Mines corporation, which
filed articles of incorporation in Den
yer for 100000.
Trinidad.-Frank Salapich, 95 years
old, ranchman, was Instantly killed,
and Pete Corich escaped injury when
IN duIOluOUlle ny
plunged over thirty-foot embank-
ment into an arroyo near Cikedale.
Pueblo.-Informatio filed in Dis
trict Court charges Il. z. Garrett and
j. G. Garrett, father and son, with
murder, as a result of the killing of
Pat Flannery on Sept. %, when the
men became involved in u quarrel.
Ia hS
tor on the Colorado & Southern train
No. %, was stricken with paralysis
shortly after leaving Denver recently
and is now in the Fort Collins hos
pital. 1t is expected that he Will re-
cover.
Durango.-At test run at the Mid
west well in the new Navajo field, an
average of barrel of oil minute
was piped from the well. The test was
in progress for two hours, and during
the period 120 barrels of oil were pro-
duced.
Durango-After 1900 acres of gov
ernment timber land in the Montezuma
national forest and 1000 acres in the
San Juan national forest had been de-
stroyed in "a series of four fires, the
forest fire menace in southwestern
Colorado had passed.
Limon.-Eddie Bell and George Jen-
nings, state rangers, who are at the
point of death following the wrecking
of their motorcycle near Limon,. were
the victims of murder plot. in the
opinion of Adj. Gen. Patrick j. Ham
rock The two rangers were taken to
Denver and are in a critical condition
at st. Luke's hospital.
Eagle-The discovery of a 24-foot
vein of carbon coal about one-half mile
from Red Cliff, mining town thirty
five miles east of Eagle, has been re-
ported. The finder is Miss Elizabeth
Brown of Red Cliff, who recently dis
covered a six-seam of Ignite near
Pando ut an elevation of more than
5000 feet.
Greeley.-That Americas beautiful
Ideals which she so proudly held out
before the world during the war and
Immediately following the great con
flict are fading away, is the belief of
Prof Edwin b. Smith, professor of
history at State Teachers College, ac-
cording to statements made by him in
an address before the students in the
college chapel.
Trinidad.-Guilty of murder in the
first degree for which the death pen
atty by hanging was recommended,
was the verdict in the case against
Joe McGonigle. McGonigle was tried
in the District Court charged with
killing Ella Centers, who had discour-
aged his attentions, and Wilbur n. Fer
guson, a School of Mines student,
whom he believed the girl had favored.
Denver.-O. d. Mckay, 40 years old,
prominent rancher of Palisade, Colo,
is lying at the point of death mt the
county hospital with two bullets
through his lungs as the result of his
encounter with u bandit. Mckay was
shot down when he pursued the ban
dit after the gunman had wrecked Nc
Kay's automobile.
Boulder.-Three Denver students at
the University of Colorado, Simon Mil
Ter, Charles Num- and Dwight Young,
have been appointed members of the
National Red Cross life saving corps
They will direct swimming at the uni
versity and will try to make it take a
place beside track, tennis and the
other major sports of the university
Denver.-Denver voted the school
bonds. Polling 19,49S ballots, the larg-
est vote ever cast in the city in
school bond election, Denver taxpay-
ers announced that they want better
schools for Denver children. The SEN
timent in favor of the bonds was par
ticularly shown in the vote from pre-
cincts in West Denver, North Denver
and South Denver districts that voted
3 to l to 8 to l against bond issue