The Dolores star., 1923-03-16
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

| twenty minutes without even the saw
ing grace of Inconsistencies, Johh
Crayton passed through one OF the
most narrowing experiences In the an
nails of local industry. working IN
fifteen foot hole one of the sides OF the
excavation suddenly collapsed anu
Crayton was buried beneath fNe iee'
of earth. The fast that several large
clods of earth stuck about his hehu
was the only thing that saved nm
from suffocatloL. After about twenty
minutes of furious digging n movement
of the loose soil disclosed the location
of the entombed man 10 the workers.
Denver-Pnymen of approximately
s., 600, 900 to beet growers on April =
has been announced by the Great West
ern Sugar Company. The distribution
of moneys, hailed by business men OF
the beet growing districts as Il great
boon to farmers and the sugar factory
towns represents 81 additional per ton
for the 1872 beet crop grown under the
company's sliding scale contract. rms
dollar will bring the total payment per
ton in the Colorado and Nebraska DIS
tricts of the Great Western sugar
Company TO 81.
Leadyille, The State supreme
Court has been appealed to to set
aside q decision of the District Court
which held that Harry Schraeder. for
years sheriff of Lake county, was
guilty of malfeusance In office. APP
plicat!on for a writ of supersedeas ou
a writ of error WIS filed by Fraser
Arnold, attorney for Schraeder. Schrae-
der was convicted Feb. 10 by Judge
Francis L. Bouck. fined 500 and costs
deposed as sheriff and declared dis-
qualified to hold office for two years
Denver.-The condition Of live stock
in Colorado continues very favorable
and stock In feed lots are doing well,
according to reports of the Crop ana
Live Stock Division of the United
States Department of Agriculture. 1t
is too early to note any change in the
condition of winter wheat Whlch
ranges from poor TO fair. Plans are
being made for spring work and an in
crease in the acreage of corn, spring
WHeut ullu DeuLis 10 tAPe't'h' c'' - ~
crease in the acreage of potatoes.
Colorado Springs -Marsden G. Scott,
former president of the international
Typographical Union, died here after
an Illness of ten days. Born in FL
mira, n Y, fifty-eight years ago, Mr.
Scott was educated there, and about
thirty-eight years ago entered the
printing trade For years he was em-
ployed In various shops and newspa-
per offices, both as writer and print
er, throughout the state of New York.
Denver.-What police and federal
agents believed was hot tip toward
capture of three men suspected of i'm
plicution in the 100000 robbery In
front of the Denver mint on Dec. Is,
fell short of realization when three
men trapped in u cabin near Liberty,
Mo-, proved to be others than the men
sought, according to Il press dispatch
from Liberty.
Denver.-Ten thousand children in
the Denver schools are seriously under
weight for height; this of Il total Of
nearly 10000 children weighed and
measured by the Denver tuberculosis
Society in cooperation with the play
ground department of the schools last
year. a startling figure when one real
izes that SO many of our children are
beginning life handicapped.
Boulder-Dominic Mostriane of La
fayette was sentenced to Il term in the
Iat nf IaSl fhun fiffnan
months nor more than three years By
Judge George II. Bradfield. He plead
ed guilty to violating the liquor laws.
This was Mostriane'S second offense.
1t is the first penitentiary sentence for
liquor violation to be imposed in Boul-
der county.
La Junta.-Refugio Rodela was shot
and killed by Night Marshal Thomas
l.. Cook. Cook alleges that Rodela was
intoxicated and resisted him when or.
dcred from the railroad station. Cook
says Rodela was trying to take his gun
away from him when killed.
Denver.-Because, she declared, he
was an over-persistent suitor, Miss
Bessie Thomas, y years old, shot and
fatally wounded Al Cornish, 81 years
old, as they stood on the sidewalk in
front OF the hotel where the girl re.
sides. Cornish died shortly afterward
at the county hospital and a formal
charge of murder was placed against
Miss Thomas. A number of passersby
witnessed the shooting.
Denver.-Unless municipality OF
county has provided procedure for the
recall of its own officers these offlc.
ers cannot be recalled, according to Il
decision of the State Supreme Court
in the case of w. w. Hall and Others
against l.. Il. Cummings, county CLERK
and recorder Of Washington county. In
its ruling the Supreme Court upheld
the decision of the District Court o,
Washington county.
Castle Rock.-O. Henry Munson, for