The Colorado statesman., 1923-04-07
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luuu near Superior lllty-lnree yeulS
ago, died a few days ago.
Colorado Springs.-Dr. J. G. Pace
superintendent of the Modern Wood
man sanatorlum, underwent serious
operation at the Mayo Brothers clinic
in Rochester, Mimi, recently.
Colorado Sprlngs.-Police Captain
Fred Fl. Springer was slightly cut by
flying glass and drenched with Vile
smelling liquor when bottle which he
was emptylng into sewer at the
police station exploded.
Boulder-Dr. Kate Lindsey, pioneer
physician of the Boulderado sanitar.
ium died recently after long illness.
DR.. Lindsey was 81 years old. She
had been connected with the santa
rum for almost quarter of cen
tury.
Lamar.-The town of Lamar has
contracted for Its first paving. Eleven
bids for the project were submitted at
city council meeting and the con-
tract was awarded to the Strange-Mc-
Guire Company of Denver. Work Ii
to start at once.
Greeley.-Charles E. Wickline, %
years old, is in the Weld county jail,
charged with the murder of Irwin o.
Hittle, 81 years old. near Greeley,
July IT or 1S, 1922. Wickline was ar
rested at the home of his father.
Charles Wickline, near Kansas City.
Boulder.-The April term of the Dis
trict Court at Boulder opened Monday
with Judge Neil F. Graham of Fort
Collins, presiding. A panel of forty
jurymen has been ordered to appear
at the court April 8. The docket Is
the smallest that the District Court
has had come before it in many years.
There are no criminal cases in the list
and but fifty-four civil cases.
Pueblo.-Following visit to Wood
croft hospital, formerly owned by
Secretary of the Interior Hubert Work,
Governor Sweet refused to make any
statement concerning the possibility
of the Institution being obtained for
state hospital purposes. Governor
Sweet inspected the hospital accompa-
MED by DIR. II. A Lamoure of the
state hospital, b. S. Hoag and Den
yer architect.
Canon Clty.-That the Cafion City
Chamber of Commerce is not dis
couraged in Its effort to make the
Arkansas river between Salida and
Cafion City trout fishing stream is
evidenced from the fact that 10000
brook trout fry from four to ten inches
long were liberated into the river from
the propagating ponds at Parkdale re-
Gently by ]. p. Waits Of Canon City
who has had charge of the ponds for
the past year.
Delta.-A scourge of black diph-
liberia has claimed three lives in the
little settlement of Escalante Canon,
thirty-five miles from Delta, and SO
Isolated that the sufferers have been
unable to obtain physicians. report
from Delta stated that the village has
TO telephone connection. One Of the
plague victims is Miss Amelia Simineo,
school teacher from Whitewater, Colo.
Robert Shreeves. 6 years old, and
Henry Street, are also dead.
Denver-A little japanese girl,
scoring a grade of 100 per cent. won
the 500 first prize in the spelling
"bee" of the fourth annual Colorado
East Denver high school. She is Miss
Frances KIDD of Rocky Ford, who
made not a single error in a long list
of difficult words. Miss Ruth Scheid-
egger of Fort Morgan won the 500
first prize in the oratorical contest.
Miss Bernice Jensen of Mount Harris
took second place in the spelling con-
test and received $56, and second
prize in the oratorical contest was
William Wood of Deer Trail.
Denver-Senate bill 1876, which
would authorize the funding of judg'
ments by the issuance of county bonds,
was vetoed by Gov. William e. Sweet
as "vicious measure" The bill had
passed both Senate and House The
bill, as the governor expressed his
understanding of 1t. was passed as
relief measure for Montrose county,
which is now In difficulty over the
construction of a new court house.
Brighton.-Walter Walker, one OF
the promoters of the automobile races
at Brighton was injured, possibly ia
tally and Fred Parrish, motion pic
ture man, and Roy Bradbury, driver
in the race, were cut and bruised In
accidents during the races few days
ago. Walker and Parrish were in II
car by the side of the track, when one
of the racing machines, driven by
Howard Baker of Boulder, went
through the fence and upset the auto.
Walker was pinned beneath his car
and was unconscious when taken from
under 1t. He was taken to Denver
hospital. Parrish was not much hurt
Baker escaped injury. Bradbury was
severely cut about the face and head
when his car went through a barbed