The Ordway new era., 1922-01-20
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Cwes..ru Messages ualoa Ns., Service

York City contractor, suffering from
serious burns. Department offlciais
believe Jones was burned when the
house in which he lived nlone, caught
fire from an overheated stove.
Longrnont, Colo-Miss Martha Don
oyan. 80 years old, the daughter OF
Postmaster T. L. Donovan. died at the
Longmont hospital after an operation
| for appendicitis. For one year she
was an instructress at the Canal Zone
government school, giving up the
teaching on account Of i'll health.
Iittleton.-Less than ten hours after
he was arrested by Sheriff Robert Nc
Namara of Litteton and state officers
on charges OF violating the prohibition
law. John Lebin, 30 years old. was sen
fenced TO from one to two years III me
Colorado penitentiary. Lehin pleaded
guilty to the charge before Judge sam
uel w. johnson.
Pueblo.-T. II. Foley, IS years of
age. and for the past thirty-two wears
resident of Pueblo and one of its
most prominent business men, died
suddenly as result of apopleNy. Col
onel Foley was well known TO many
of the city's residents. He came TO
Pueblo from Piqua, Ohio, in 1889 as Il
penmanship instructor at Central High
school.
Brighton.-Tony Cordilo of Denver,
"A years old. was sentenced here TO
serve from five to seven years in the
state penitentiary after jury in the
District Court had found him guilty of
highway robbery. Cordillo was arrest
ed on n charge of robhing two tourists
from Nebraska of SIS on Sept. 20, aft
er haltlng their car on the Brighton
road and commanding them at the
point of a gun to hold up their hands.
Pueblo. Colo.-Two men are dead rs
result of two accidents on the rail
roads here. Jesus Miranda. an EN-
lead. 100000 pounds of copper. and
Western railroad, was killed when he
was struck by fast passenger train
three miles west of here. \ negro, said
TO be known as Van Blhbs, was fatally
hurt when he fell between two cars of
4 moving Santa Fe freight train in the
Pueblo yards.
Greeley.-Demosthen Bland Wyatt,
II years old, one of the most we'll
known pioneers of northern Colorado,
ended his life by firing a bullet into
his brain. Ill health, accompanied by
a recent announcement by physicians
that death was not far off prompted
suicide, relatives say. Several weeks
ago Wyatt burned his toe on an cleo
trio bed warmer Gangrene developed
in the wound and amputation was be-
ing considered.
Boulder, Colo.-One student has
been expelled and nineteen others pen
allied by a faculty committee of the
University of Colorado, which found
them guilty of overindulgence in intox-
icating liquor. OF these, seven have
been suspended until the spring, and
one refused admittanre; six will not
be allowed to register until September,
1922, and one has been suspended for
4 year. Four students were repri-
manded and their parents notified of
the action.
La Junta, Colo-''You've stolen my
watch - With this accusation, Ed
ward L. McInerny, % years old, sail
or patient on leave from the Fort Ly-
ons naval hospital, leveled a pistol at
a companion sailor, r. p. Brennan, and
pulled the trigger. The shooting oc-
Cured in chair car which was
stopped in La Junta. The bullet, how
ever, missed Brennan, although he was
but three feet away from the revolver.
Thinking that he had killed his COM
panion, McInerney trained the gun on
himself and blew out his brains.
Greeley.-President j. S. Crabbe of
the State Teachers College, stock
holder in the Greeley Loan Company,
whose president, r. A. Hoffman, re-
Gently committed suicide, declared that
valuables worth $4,000 were missing
from safe deposit box which he
owned at the loan company. The con-
tents of the bax consisted of Crabbe's
personal property.
Fort Collins.-The beautiful hair of
Miss Ellen Ryder, 14-year-old daughter
of William Ryder, was cut from her
head while she slept. The scissors
used was taken from table in the IL
brary of the home. No clues have been
obtained TO the identity of the clipper,
though the scissors will be put to test
for finger prints that may have been
left on them.
Boulder.-The presence of 1872 STU
dents, including some of those promi-
nent in activities, will be missed from
the University of Colorado for the next
two quarters at least, through failure
TO keep up in their STUDIES. This is a
little lower percentage than usual. The
official statement of the board of
deans shows that 295 of the 2,661 stu
dents failed "to make grade" during
the past quarter. OF this number 1873
were reinstated.
Denver.-The metal mines Of Colo
RADIO in 1921, according to c. w. Hem
derson, United States Geological Sur