Cheyenne Wells record., 1922-12-28
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

1921. when the Snue1IeE ooA"' vs.
yer creek, broke and flooded the iar'ns
on lower Beaver creek, was called III
the Fremont County District court
here The case called was that OF W.
s. Emerson against the Beaver fark
Water and Irrigation Company. Eiher-
sons ranch is on the Arkansas river,
n short distance below the mouth Oh
Beaver creek. There are fourteen
other complainants asking damages
| from the same cause, the ageresa'e
amount asked being S125,OOo.
Greeley.-Somewhere In the sand
hills of northern Colorado or western
Nebraska, four men believed to be the
bandits who robbed Federal reserve
Bank truck of 100000 In Denver anu
killed Charles T. Linton, bank guard,
| are hiding while Denver police anu
Weld and Morgan county sheriff's OIL
cials are searching for them. Jumped
from DR.. ]. w. Fuequa's untennnteu
| farm house, eight miles northeast ot
Greeley, where 1t is believed they were
hiding, the suspects. driving two large
automobiles, divided and sped ava!
before posses, hastily organized, cou'u
get on their trail.
| Golden.-On the ground that the
| Colorado Supreme Court held constitu-
tional law that first should nave
been submitted to the direct vote OF
people in the district involved, an ap-
neal will be taken Immediately to the
United States Supreme Court IN the
| Moffat tunnel case, Edwin H. Parks,
| attorney, announced recently. Park
represents Mary L. Milhelm and Fred
erick Metcalf, who brought the orig
inal action attacking the constitution
ality of the tunnel law.
Pueblo-Elmer Beasley, 10 years
old, found guilty of the murder OF Os-
cur Kronke, Continental Filling Sta
ton employe, when given trial last
| week was sentenced to hang during
the week of March 81, by Judge J. 5.
Trimble in the District Court. Beas-
| ley took his sentence with 10 comment
other than that he was sorry kronke
| had died and that he felt sorry Tor his
mother. He shot and killed kronke
when the latter resisted the robbery
| Of the oil station.
Brighton.-John Jones, negro, ar
rested with Fred Merchlon, negro. on
| the charge Of numbering George Mil
| Ter of Denver on Nov. 20, pleaded
guilty to the charge when arraigned
here. Merchion entered plea Of not
guilty. The trial of both mer Is set
for Jan. .. Resulting from the In
| tense feeling generally aroused
through the Staying of Miller In Globe
VILE, both men were taken TO the Weld
county Jail at Greeley for safe keep
Ing.
Greeley.-Grant Haldeman, acting
for the State Public Utilities Commis-
sion, sentenced Greeley citizens to
walk for 100 days. He was here to
pass on the application of u bus line
for the right to run Its cars on Gree
ley streets. He decided that the com.
pany must procure franchise from
Greeley before 1t can maintain IN ap-
plication before the State Board for
the right to run autos. He gave the
company 100 days to get this fran
chise.
| Denver.-Colorado's memorial win
dow to David II. Moffat, which stands
on the right of the lieutenant govern
| Or's rostrum in the Senate chamber,
was unveiled recently In the presence
of Governor Shoup, Carl S. Milliken,
secretary of state; W. =. Robinson.
chairman Of the Moffat tunnel COM
mission; a. NJ. StOng, state treasurer; !;
James Williams of the state Board of
Capitol Managers, and other state Of
| ficials.
Denver.-W. +. Carver was granted
n certificate Of convenience and ne
cessity for the operation Of an auto
mobile passenger stage line between
Denver and Steamboat Springs via
Idaho Springs, Empire, Fraser, Hot
Sulphur Springs and kremmlins, by
the State Public Utilities Commission.
Denver.-Apportlonment of SG,777,-
50G for construction Of highways in
Colorado in 1923 was announced by
the highway advisory board in report
which has been approved by Governor
Shoup. The budget for next year calls
| loT uu expenditure VI So, ,OJl on
highway construction, the remaining
sum being left over from 1920, 1921
and 1922. Federal aid projects total
S5,272,7 100 and state projects Sl,494,-
s9e.
Estes Park.-Painting vivid word
pictures of the peaks and ranges, flow
ers and birds and beasts of the Rocky
mountains, Charles Edwin Hewes, Es-
tes Park poet, has just completed
book Of verse, "Songs of the Rockies"
Marked by simplicity of style that
reflects keenly the beauty of mountain
nature many Of the verses show u
depth of feeling unusually beautiful.
| Denver.-Four armed and masked
bandits attacked four Federal Reserve
Bank men In charge Of bank truck
ut the Colfax avenue entrance Of the
Denver Mint. They shot Charles Lin
| ton, bank guard, through the abdomen