The Colorado statesman., 1922-09-02
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

No. 10, United Mine Workers and an
effort made to collect between $780,
200 and 100000 in back pay alleged
to be due the coal miners employed
IN those mines, according to Felix
Pogliano, secretary of district No. 10.
Mr.. Pogliano claims about seventeen
coal operators working under Il signed
agreement with the union, broke their
contracts several months before the
contracts expired on April 1, 1922, and
the men were forced to take a lesser
wage for several months previous to
April l, when the contracts expired
and the mine workers went out on
strike.
Durango.-Believing that the man
addressing her was n representative of
a telegraph company led to the arrest
of Mrs. Allie Johnson, alias Mrs. Mar
tin, at the auto camp grounds at Du-
range, on charge of forgery. The
arrest was made by Sheriff George
A. Rowe upon telegraphic orders from
Sheriff Calmas Merritt at Lake VII
lage, Ark. The woman, in company
with a male companion, had been
trailed to Durango, the pair travelling
In an auto. Mrs. Johnson was known
to be in Durango, she having wired
back for money to be sent her by tele
graph.
Denver.-Districts along the Denver
& Rio Grande Western Railroad will
yield 1850 carlot shipments of pota-
toes this year, compared with 1867
in 1921, according TO estimates in a
bulletin just issued by the railroad
company. This years crop will be di
vided as follows: San Luis valley,
6,250 carlots; Eagle-Gypsum district,
300; CarbondaleAspen, 1900; Rifle
and Lower Grande valley, 1000; Mont
roSe-Olathe-Delta, 5000, and Utah and
Salt Lake basin, 1,500.
Boulder.-For four weeks, fourteen
hours day, students in the field geol-
ogy course offered at the University
of Colorado summer session, during
the term just closing, studied nature
in the heart of the mountains, thirty
miles from Boulder. Last week they
made Il thorough survey of the Rocky
Mountain National Park. Now they
are back on the campus and have
started reports on the work of the
course, which are to be called in
Dec. l.
Fort Collins,-AIiss Maude Sheridan
of this city, state leader for Colorado
Boys and Girls Clubs, has been select
ed as judge of the Girls Club work to
be exhibited at the interstate fair to
be held at Sioux City, Iowa, Sept. II
to %, according to information re-
ceived here. The judge for the boys
work will be S. L. Newton, superin-
tendent of the extension service of the
Canadian Department of Agriculture,
with headquarters ut Winnipeg.
Boulder.-An automobile obtained
from ]. NJ. Pike of Boulder, through
what is said to be fraudulent trans
action, last October, has been recov-
cred at Spokane, Wash, along with
child, which Mr.. Pike stated was not
included in the accessories sold man
who gave his name as Fred r. Hoff-
man. The child is being held in the
detention home at Spokane and the
car, which has been badly used, at
the city garage.
Pueblo.-With the arrest here of a
woman giving the name of Grace Hays
of Topeka, Kan, police believe they
have in custody one of the persons
connected with the selling of default
ed bonds of the Chicago, Rock Island
& Pacific Railroad Company. In her
possession, according to the police, she
had six of these defaulted bonds of
twenty-dollar denomination.
Pueblo-Colorado coal miners who
have been on strike since April l were
authorized to return to work as soon
as the wage scale in effect prior to
Nov. 1, 1921, is restored by mine own
ers, following a meeting of the eXecu-
tive board of District 10 of the United
Mine Workers of America at Pueblo.
Colorado Springs. - Clarence Nc
Cain, the 3-year-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. X. II. Mccain, West Colorado
Springs, was instantly killed when
struck by an automobile driven by
Warren B. CARROT of Houston, Texas.
The child was playing behind a tree
on the street parking and suddenly
darted across the path of the car, it
was reported.
Denver.-Lightning struck and in
stantly killed w. b. Heath of 5000
South Acoma street a few days ago.
Heath, who is widely known con-
tractor and former city alderman, was
fishing along the Platte river seven
miles south of Denver when the cleo
trical disturbance arose.
Colorado Springs.-Two were seri-
ously but not fatally injured when an
auto plunged off an embankment on
the Pixies Penk highway. FOur others