The Colorado statesman., 1922-05-13
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado
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was about to catch a fly ball in base
ball game here, Floyd Agarbright, 10
years old, was struck on the head and
incurred fractured skull. Agarbright
was playing left field for the Central
High School team.
Flagler.-Dr NJ. G. Traw was elected
secretary of the school board for Con-
soiidated District No. 30 at the recent
election. G. NJ. Smith, present incum-
bent, lost by eleven votes. The ballot
was the heaviest recorded at school
election in years.
Colorado Springs. = Announcement
has been made that the regular sum-
mer season at Eldorado Springs, Colo,
will open May IA, and beginning on
that day Denver & Interurban railroad
cars will make regular bi-hourly runs
to the summer resort from Denver.
Colorado Springs.-Mnnltou is clean
ing house. Following the removal last
winter of its town marshal through
grand jury action for failing to enforce
the prohibition laws, campaign to put
an end to drinking at the dance halls
of the town has been inaugurated.
Denver.-The O'Malley-Kelley Oil
and Auto Supply Company is being
sued in the District Court by the state
of Colorado for $5,047.04, alleged to be
due as 1-cent tax on. each gallon of
gasoline sold by the firm. The tax was
imposed by the Legislature in 1919.
Glenwood Springs. = Phil Rigney,
four-letter athlete of Glenwood Springs
high school, set the western slope rec
ord in the pole vault at an officially
judged test here. The distance flown
was ten feet eleven inches. In all prob
ability Rigney will be sent to the state
meet at Boulder.
Colorado Springs.-Colorado Springs
police lost their attempt to prevent the
city council from cutting their salaries.
Judge Arthur Cornforth in the District
Court sustained the demurrer of the
city to a mandamus suit filed by the
police to force the city to pay the old
scale of wages.
Loveland.-While blasting the river
bank on the state highway half mile
south of Loveland, preparatory to
erecting cement abutments for new
bridge over the Big Thompson river,
Contractor Floyd Malcolm unearthed
what physicians declare to be petri-
fled human foot.
Denver-Members of the Colorado
Public Utilities Commission recently
authorized the maintenance of and au-
tomobile bus line over the Rainbow
route between Grand Junction and
Montrose, Colo, on application of the
Motor Transportation Company of
Grand Junction.
Lafayette.-One man, resident OF
Lafayette, is under arrest on suspicion
of having had part in the robbery OF
the First National Bank, when four
bandits blew open the safe and vaults
and took loot valued at between $15,-
600 and $4,000. Frank Lamont, a
painter, was taken into custody.
Durango.-T. ]. Chandler, 62 years
old, with a crippled foot, has estab-
llshed a long distance walking record
that few younger sound men would
care to attempt. With n companion,
C. ]. Munger, %, Chandler recently
reached Durango after a 4S0-mile
jaunt from Silver City, New Mexico.
Fort Logan-Colorado' delegation
in Washington will be appealed to by
every merchant and manufacturer in
the state to exert every influence pos
sible for the enlargement of Fort Lo-
gan as a military center, according to
an announcement by the Colorado
Manufacturers and Merchants Associa-
ton in Denver.
Eckley, Colo.-A force of men and
teams have started the construction of
a 13,000-volt electric pole line trans
mission system from Eckley TO Yuma.
The new line will insure electric cur
rent from the municipal light plant at
Yuma for the lighting of Eckley and
the operation of it's water works. The
new system will cost $4,000.
Durango.-Twenty years effort to
..btain better transportation facilities
for Durango and southwestern Colo
RADIO have been rewarded. A western
syndicate has notified the railway
committee of the San Juan basin that
it had succeeded in financing a $4,000
600 standard gauge outlet from Duran
go to Gallup, N. NJ, distance of 160
miles.
Glenwood Springs.-The State Bank
ers' convention will be held at Glen
wood Springs June % and %. Presi
dent Mccarthy of the First National
Bank is in charge of the entertainment
of the bankers, who will be treated roy
ally from arrival to departure. The
big Colorado hotel will be owned by
the delegates at this time, and every
thing from banQuets to swims and mo-
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