Cheyenne Wells record., 1922-12-07
CRISP
COLORADO
NEWS

Trinidad.-The city council Of Trim
idad has authorized bond issue OF
$338, 600 for the Improvement and ex-
tension of the city's water works.
Keenesburg.-Fire recently destroyed
the store building of the Superior Al
falfa Milling Company ut keenesburg'
near Sterling. The loss is estimated ut
$4,000.
Denver.-Eugene Rockhill, 81 years
old, committed suicide recently be-
cause Malvinu F. Fletcher, 20 years
old, would not marry him In spite OIL
parental objections.
Castle Rock.-Mrs. II. H. Lindsey,
mOther-in-law of Senator Walter Il.
O'Brien of Leadville, died on Rio
Grande Western train shortly before
the train reached Castle Rock few
Greeley.-William Nelson Fashbaugh,
vice president of the Western Union
Telegraph system, died ut the Greeley
hospital of peritonitis. Mr.. Fashbaush
had undergone an operation for the
disease.
Denver.-K. Fageyman, GO years old,
farmer living ut Fort Lupton, report
ed to Patrolman Walter Padgett that
while he was standing near Twentieth
and Larimer streets IN undermined
man robbed him of his purse that con-
tained more than SIT.
Nucla.-When his brOther-in-law,
VIII Delphine, fired Mt coyote at
Coal canon the bullet went wild, strik-
ing Richard Williams Of Nucla In the
head, killing him almost instantly. Del
phIne is prostruted by the accident.
Williams, who was 81 years old, Is sur
vived by his widow, his father, f. e.
williams of Grand Junction, brother
and u sister.
Denver.-Effectiveo over the Buriins-
ton, the Northern Pacific and the
treat Northern lines, special summer
rates to tourists bound for Colorado
the Rocky Mountain parks, Glacier Nj
tonal park, Yellowstone park and to
| Spokane, Seattle and Tacoma, will be
offered again next summer, +. w.
Johnson, city passenger agent of the
Burlington. announced here recently.
Denver.-A charge of high explosive,
believed to be dynamite. wrecked the
front purt of the home of Z. Balistreri,
1902 Navajo street, In what police be-
leve to be q bombing plot. In addi-
ton to tearing off the front porch of
Balistreri's home and blowing out all
the windows, the explosion blew out
windows and transoms in houses near
by and rocked the entire Italian dis
trict of North Denver.
Denver.-A drop of $4,000 gram
In the wholesale price of radlum was
made known with the closing, on ac-
count of the decrease of Its carnotite
properties in Paradox valley in west
| ern MOntrOse county by the Standard
Chemical Company. Officials Of the
company, which is said to be the larg-
est of Its kind In the world, said that
go men had been thrown out Of work
by the decline in price.
Charles MartellO, driver for the
Motor Trading and Transit Company
of Denver, was instantly killed at
Larkspur when the motor truck which
he was driving from Denver to Colo.
RADIO Springs was struck by n north
bound Colorado l. Southern train. The
truck was demolished and MartellO's
body badly mutilated The accident
happened on the grade crossing on the
main street of the town.
Trinidad.-Ernest Hobbs, coal
miner of Walsenburg, one of four per.
sons seriously injured when two auto
mobiles crashed on the North and
| South highway near Trinidad, died at
the hospital. Hobbs sustained a frac.
ture of the skull and other injuries
| John Gonzales, one of the injured, is
in q critical condition with fractured
skull, aIso Ernest Hill. The fourth
person in the crash was Miss Iva Sem.
lar, less seriously injured.
Greeley.-Dr. ]. G. Crabbe, president
Of the State Teachers College, has
been elected member of the national
board Of directors of the Camp Fire
Girls.
Canon City.-The southern Colorado
older boys conference, attended by
nearly 200 boys from various cities and
towns in southern Colorado closed at
Canon City few days ago. Among
the places represented by groups Of
delegates are Pueblo, Colorado
Springs, Las Animas, Rocky Ford,
Manzanola, Ordway. Trinidad, Salida,
Walsenburg, PrimerO, Berwind, Flor
ence, Rockvule and Penrose. Colorado
Springs and Pueblo each have thirty
delegates, and Walsenburg twenty.
Boulder.-Growers of corn about
~Longmont are expected to have one of
the largest displays at the annual seed
show In Boulder to open Dec. 8 under
the auspices Of the Boulder county
farm bureau Mt its annual conference.
The Longmonters have made special
ty of Minnesota No. 13, one of the va
rieties that is considered leader in
the corn crops Of the country. So well
have the Colorado men developed this
variety that seed from Longmont Is
sent to all parts of the United States.