The Colorado statesman., 1922-12-09
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COLORADO


idud has authorized bond issue OF
sS3s,0O0 for I'll improvement and ex-
tension of the citys water works.
Keenesburg.-Fire recently destroyed
the store building of the Superior AL
fulfa Milling Company ut Keenesburg,
near Sterling. The loss Is estimated Ut
$4,000.
Castle Rock.-Mrs. r. H. Lindsey,
mother-in-law of Senator Walter Il.
OBrien of Leadville, died on a Rio
Grande Western train shortly before
the train reached Castle Rock a few
Greeley.-Willlam Nelson Fashbaugh,
vice president of the Western Union
Telegraph system, died ut the Greeley
hospital of peritonitis. Mr.. Fashbaugh
had undergone an operation for the
disease.
Nucla.-When his brother-in-law,
VIII Delphine, fired at coyote at
Coal canon the bullet went wild, strik-
ing Richard Williams OF Nucla in the
head, killing him almost instantly. Del
phlne is prostrated by the accident.
Williams, who was 81 years old, Is sur
vived by his widow, his father, +. Z.
Williams of Grand Junction, q brother
and u sister.
Denver-Effective over the Buriing-
ton, the Northern Pacific and the
rreat Northern lines, special summer
rates to tourists bound for Colorado,
the Rocky Mountain parks, Glacier Ma
tional park, Yellowstone park and to
Spokane, Seattle and Tacoma, will be
offered again next summer, f. w.
Johnson, city passenger agent or the
Burlington, announced here recently.
Denver-A charge of nigh explosive e,
believed to be dynamite, wrecked the
'front.' part of the home of &. falistreri,
1902 Navajo street, in what police be-
lleve to be bombing plot. In addi-
ton to tearing off the front porch of
Balistreri's home and blowing out all
the windows, the e-p!osion 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 a gram
in the wholesale price of radium was
made known with the closing, on ac-
count of the decrease of Its carnoute
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
$50 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 ut
Larkspur when the motor truck which
he was driving from Denver to Colo
RADIO Springs was struck by north
bound Colorado & 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.
Boulder-Mrs. Margaret Whiteley
Hellems, 80 years old, wife of Fred g.
Il. Hellems, dean Of the college of lib
eral arts of the University of Colorado,
was instantly killed near the Goodview
school on the Arapahoe road, six miles
east of Boulder, when the automobile
in which she was riding with her nus
band was struck broadside by car
driven by Celeste Romano, proprietor
of a pool hall in Louisville.
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 frac-
ture of the skull and other Injuries.
John Gonzales, one of the injured, is
in a critical condition with fractured
skull, also 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
hoard 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, Rockvale 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 count!
farm bureau ct Its annual conference.
The Longmonters have made special
ty of Minnesota No. 13, one of the va
rieties that is considered a leader in
the corn crop. of the country. So well
have the Colorado men developed this