The Colorado statesman., 1922-07-08
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

all other applications We're denied.
Robert Robtaille's application was
continued. He was sentenced from
Denver county Oct. 81, 1918, to life
Imprisonment on a conviction for mur-
der. Walter w. Fugate, sentenced
from jefferson county, Dec. IA, 1920,
to from five to six years for larceny.
will be paroled Sept. Is. Robert
Jackson, sentenced from Pueblo coun-
ty, Aug. 10, 1919, to seven to ten years
for robbery with a dangerous weapon,
will be released on parole Dec. 10.
| Denver-More than q sufficient
number of signatures have been OBJ
tanned to the petitions being circulated
over the state in support of the &c.
100000 state bond issue for the use in
the construction and improvement of
roads and in meeting federal aid until
the close of 1926, according to an an
nouncement by Rodney ]. Bardwell,
chairman of the bond boosters COM
mittee Following the obtaining of the
required number of signers, the com
mitteemen will be permitted to place
the matter before the electors at the
election this fall. The law requires
that at least 24,000 signatures to the
petitions be obtained and that they be
filed with Secretary of State Milliken
on or before July g. before the bond
proposal can be voted upon.
VICTORIA shortage in low grade
ores is given as the reason for
the announced partial closing
down of the cyanide mill which
has been working on the Port
land Gold Mining property. Two
stamps will be kept in operation, ac-
cording to the announcement, and the
others closed down July 1. The strike
made in the Portland mine at the 1900
foot level is proving as rich as at first
stated. Assay tests of the ore return
from 800 to $210 to the ton, while Sc
lected samples run higher. A north
and south crosscut will be made TO
open the shoot further and establish
its size.
Canon City.-Mrs. Francis Strainer
was arrested at Canon City on
charge of attempting to kill Mrs. Annie
Parke, neighbor, who is in a hospital
suffering from severe scalp wounds
said to have been received when she
was beaten over the head with a pistol
The women are said to have fought
over a ticket taken by a child from
paper balloon which a local firm had
sent up. Mrs. Strainer is charged with
having first attempted to brain her an
tagonist with an AK, and then to have
beaten her with a pistol. Mrs. Parke
will recover.
Greeley.-The charred body of
Thomas G. Meeker, Lucerne farmer,
was found under the exhaust pipe of
big gasoline engine on the Walter Carl
son farm at Lucerne, five miles north
of Greeley recently, by Carlson. The
clothing was burned from the body and
| the flesh over the chest and abdomen
badly scorched. Physicians who were
called said that Meeker had probably
died from asphyxiation from gasoline
| fumes. When last seen by Carlson
Meeker was apparently in good health.
The gas engine was used to drive a big
irrigating pump.
Colorado Springs.-Martin P. Nelson,
former president of the Ordway State
bank, at Ordway, was arrested at Colo
RADIO Springs on request of the Crow
| ley county sheriff's office. According
to Colorado Springs authorities, Mel
son Is named in ten indictments, in
connection with the closing of the bank
last October. Nelson is being held in
the county jail.
Denver.-A rich silver strike has
been made by the Sweet Home Gold
and Silver Mining and Milling Com
pany on Mount Bross, near Alma, in
Park county, according to an an
nouncent by officials of the company.
Hot Sulphur Springs.-Commissi
ers of nine counties met at Hot Sui
phur Springs and Kremmling recently
to discuss proposed S6,000000 high
way bond issue. The commissioners
were unanimous in favoring the issue
and passed a resolution urging it. 1t
was explained that the amount will
not be obtained through direct tax
upon the people, but it will be paid out
in nineteen years by the state motor
vehicle tariff, and thus, motorists who
enjoy the roads, will in that length of
time pay for them.
Cripple Creek.-Roy Bourquin, "a
years old, was convicted of criminal
assault in the District Court at Grip
pie Creek, the jury being out fifteen
minutes. Judge Arthur Cornforth SEN
fenced Bourquin to the state peniten-
tiary for from twenty years to life.
The verdict was returned at O'Clock
and at o'clock Sheriff Won Phul left
for Canon City with his prisoner.
Cripple Creek.-Roy Bourquin, an
| armless inmate of the county poor