The Dolores star., 1922-12-08
CRISP
COLORADO
NEWS


By fire
Castle Rock.-The dedication Of the
electric light system here was attend
er By a general celebration
Denyer.-NIIIIam ). Cochran. Jr-
was nominated recently By President
Harding to be postmaster at Del NoFte,
Colo, and John Il o'DOnnell at Sugar
City.
La Junta.-ln the game TO decide the
southern Colorado high school football
championship. played between the a
Junta Tigers and the Colorado Springs
Terrors here, Terrors won By q scO-'
OF Is to ..
Hugo.-John J. Huddart. Denver
architect, is drawing the plans for the
Lincoln county court house TO he
erected in Hugo. The structure was
authorized by d $4,000 bond issue
passed recently.
PueblO.-Armed with q can opener.
the Ully weapon in the place, Miss
Louise Evans. waitress in a waffle
house, chased away robber when he
tried TO get away with the prOprietor's
purse containing So.
Colorado Springs.-Petiuons asking
the forming OF flood conservancy
district on the Fountain creek. south
Of Colorado Springs, have been filed
by Interested property owners and Ir-
rigatiOn companies
Castle ROck-A health conference
and exhibit was held at the court house
In Castle Rock recently which lnclud-
ed the free physical examination Of
children under years OF age and a
practical program In health subjects
Denver.-SchOOl children of Colo
RADIO, from one corner Of the state to
campaign against forest fire danger
at the request of William b. Greeley,
chief forester at Washington. d. e.
Fort CoIIlns-Fort Collins High
school won the northern Colorado in
terscholastlc football championship
here u triangular pigskin tourna-
ment which proved one of the most
sensational football contests ever
staged here when II beat the Greeley
Wildcats TO and the LoyeIand Lob
sters 2 to 0.
Greeley.-Dr. Charles B. Dyde, Gree
ley physician who was called to treat
the hands and fuce of Bert ]. Lowe,
charged with the murder OF Edna Fern
skinner, his sIster-in-law, testified that
redness waE the only indication OF
burns which he saw on Lowe on the
morning Of July =, soon atrer the fire
n the Kitchen of the Lowe home.
Denver.-The Republican state cen.
lral committee spent Sis, ,53342 dur
!ng the recent campaign, according to
Il statement by George II. Shaw, Re.
publican stute chairman, filed with
Carl 5. MilIken, secretary of state
The report shows receipts of Sllg,-
725.7O, of which S116,475.7O was from
contributions and $3.50 from assess
ments of candidates.
Denver.-A drop of $4,000 a gram
in the wholesale price of radlum was
made known with the closing, on ac-
count of the decrease Of It's carnotite
properties in Paradox valley in west
ern Montrose county by the Standard
Chemical Company. Officials of the
company, which Is said to be the larg.
go men had been thrown out of work
by the decline In price.
Pueblo.-A. L. Robertson, CLAIMING
TO be the son of Alexander Robertson,
president of the Aero Manufacturing
Company, Nineteenth and Broadway
st. Louis, No.. and wanted in Denver
on a charge of jumping" Il bill Of
S93.S0 at hotel, was arrested in Pu.
eblo when he registered for one of the
most expensive rooms at the Vail no
tel. He had only cardboard suit.
case as luggage.
Pueblo.-The will of the late Alva
Adams, banker, merchant and former
governor of Colorado, was filed In the
County Court here and 1t gives no es.
innate of the value of the estate
Friends of the former governor say no
estimate can be made until appraisers
have checked up on the items. The
will remembers relatives and friends
of the late governor.
Charles Martello, driver for the
Motor Trading and Transit Company
of Denver, was instantly killed at
Larkspur when the motor truck which
he was driving from Denver to Colo
RADIO Springs was struck by a north
bound Colorado e. Southern train. The
truck was demolished and MartellO's
body badly mutilated. The accident
happened on the grade crossing on the
main street of the town.
Denver.-Eight of the states lead
ing crops-corn, wheat, oats, barley.
rye, sorghums. alfalfa and sugar beets
represent S5.19 per cent Of the cult
waited area thi2 year. The remainder
Is divided among large number of
less important crops, including wild
hay and several varieties of tame hay,
a wide range of truck crops, potatoes,
field beans, field peas and few 9TH
ers.
Hooper.-Oil came In ut well on