The Colorado statesman., 1922-06-10
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

the daughter of boarding house keep
er at the Royal mine, one mile north
west of Aguilar, and Wilbur n. Fer
guson, %. of Saco, Maine. Junior at
the Colorado State School of Mines,
who was employed temporarily as a
watchman at the Royal property, were
shot to death few days ago by Jo-
seph McGonigal, 35, watchman EN-
ployed at the Jewel mine. The shoot
Ing followed threats McGonigal is said
to have made against Ferguson and
occurred in the Royal mine boarding
house, as Ferguson was writing let
ter to his mother in Bangor, Me. Miss
Centers was at work in the room MS
McGonigal entered. McGonigal fired
once, the bullet striking Ferguson in
the heart and killing him instantly.
AS Miss Centers ran screaming from
the house, McGonigal fired again. This
second bullet struck the girl in the
leg She sought refuge in an arroyo
While McGonigal secured Il shot
gun, supposedly in the boarding house,
and started in pursuit. She was run
ming along the dry arroyo toward
bridge where five men were working
and was begging loudly to McGonigal
not to shoot, the wOrkmen said, when
the armed man raised the shotgun to
his shoulder and aimed slowly. The
charge of buckshot struck her head
and killed her instantly.
Denver.-The second bandit to be
Ihot and killed in an attempted holdup
N Denver within twenty-four hours,
net death few nights ago when he
uttered the White Star garage at Cher
" street and Leafs Dale drive, on the
Sullivan Parker road, and engaged in
gun battlew it'll George t. Carson,
gun battle with George L. Carson,
If the garage. An accomplice is be-
ieved to have escaped on motorcycle.
From letters found on the dead ban
| Tits bady, his name is believed to be
W. L. Stephenson, and he is thought
% have relatives in Colorado Springs.
Trinidad.-The Colorado State Fed
Grafton of Labor declared itself for
showdown between organized labor
and the state rangers, under the con-
stitution of the United Suites After
hearing the report of Mock Fontec-
chic, organizer of the United Mine
Workers of America, that he was pro-
hibited from holding meeting of coal
miners at Aguilar by state rangers
stationed there, the convention pro
posed to go to Aguilar In body and
| hold session of the convention. A
committee was named to make ar
rangements for the trip.
| Colorado Springs.-John Mcfarland
was reelected president of the Inter
national Typographical Union In the
election held May "a, according to re-
turns from $50 of the 7S0 local unions,
received at the Union Printers home.
Mcfarland defeated Walter w. Bar
| rett, present first vice president, by
| 3,10O votes. Charles p. Howard was
| elected first vice president, James }.
Hoban second vice president, and John
| w. Hays, secretary-treasurer, the lat
ter being reelected by $500 majority
Greeley.-One of the worst hail and
rainstorms which has struck Greeled in
the last twelve years caused damage
unofficially estimated at S25o,oOO,
few days ago. Sweeping path more
| than two miles wide, downpour OF
hailstones some as large as golf balls,
shattered hundreds of windows in res
| licences and business houses, damaged
young crops in the outlying districts
and flooded many easements in the
heart of the city.
C.Ia Cr.,-; pt a
Templeton gap, northeast of Colorado
Springs, sent wall of water ten feet
high through Papeton, mining camp
four miles northeast of Colorado
Springs, marooned scores of people
washed out portions of the Denver
Rio Grande and Rock Island railroad
tracks and did thousands of dollars
worth of damage to residences, gar
dens and civic improvements.
Trinidad.-W. 1. Reilly, member
of the State Industrial Commission
and a delegate from the Typographical
union of Colorado Springs, was re-
| fused a seat in the convention of the
Colorado State Federation of Labor
recently The vote, which was 100 to
As against seating Reilly, was taken
after more than four hours of discus
sion, during which vigorous attacks
were made by delegates on the State
Industrial Commission as n body and
the decisions of Mr.. Reilly as mem
her.
Canon City.-Loua Pacheco, convict
| No. 1O327, who escaped from the pIis-
on gang working on the Canon City
armory, by unhitching horse from a
wagon near the armory and riding off,
was captured six miles from Beulah
in the foothills of the Greenhorn
mountains by Lieut.. Billy Green and