The Dolores star., 1923-05-11
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local representative Of the NJ. j.
o'Fallon Supply Company of Denver
was shot at Redlands while riding
with three men in an automobile.
Denver.-Harry Mcintyre, chief de
/ putty United States marshal in Colo
RADIO for seven years, gave up that of
| flee 10 accept position with the
! Fidelity Finance Corporation of Den
ser.
| Denver.-The convention of the Fra
ternal order of Eagles, scheduled Tor
the week Of August ) TO u in Denver,
will bring nearly 10000 people to Den.
! yer, according to Edward Hirsch OF
Baltimore, Md, chairman of the pub
licity committee.
LeadvlIe.-John Echin, proprietor
! of soft drink establishment, was
| shot and fatally wounded by Under
! Sheriff Charles Otell in n gun battle
| which is said to have followed an at
tempt by Otell to place Echin under
arrest. Echin died few hours after
! he was shot by Otell.
Wnlsenburg.-Harry Lernuniaux, ~,
| died a few days ago, and three other
coal miners from the Union Coal and
| Coke Company mine at Prior may die
| from injuries received when their auto
turned over on the highway. Louis
Wata, John Shaw and Andrew Der
| danic are in the hospital ut Walsen-
burg.
Pueblo.-At special meeting of
Scottish Rlte-Shrine members OF
southern Colorado 1t was voted that
an option taken on the site of the
former Opera House block should be
retained and the corner at Fourth and
Main streets should be used for the
new 100000 Shrine temple to be
built this summer.
Idaho Sprlngs.-Messrs. Howard,
johnson, Stolberg and Hall, represent
ing the Denver Ski club, appeared be
fore the Idaho Springs Bureau of
Mines and Commerce with PROPOSE
ton to hold ski tournament on the
Alice glacier, above Idaho Springs ut
st. Mary's lake, ten miles up Fall riy-
er from the city on July Fourth.
Duraugo-The strange disappear
ance of Dale COngleton, l0-year-old
son of Joseph CongletOn of Durango,
was solved when the boys body was
found dangling from Il rafter in the
attic of u ranch house twenty miles
southwest of Durango. Grief over the
death Of his mother last fall Is be
lievcd the motive prompting the boys
suicide
DurangO.-A giant gas well came in
recently with roar that could be
heard for 10 miles on the property
owned by the Producers and Refiners
Corporation, 30 miles southwest of
Durango. The flow Is estimated at
10000 900 feet. The force of the flow
was so great tools We're blown hun
dreds of feet in the air and the der
rick destroyed.
Nictor.-Willlam Cooper his wife,
and Mrs. Linn Frazier, all of Fowler,
Kan, narrowly escaped death at Vic
tor, when their automobile backed
over a fifty-foot cliff on the Fourth
street hill. The two women were tax
en- to the hospital and are said to be
in serious condition. Cooper, who
was driving the automobile, was less
seriously injured.
Palmer Lake.-D. A. Mohon, driver
for the National Auto Transit Com
pany of Pueblo, was killed, and his
wife injured when their automobile
overturned in a stretch of sand short
distance north of here Mohon is said
to have been plotting the big car at
fast rate of speed. When the wheels
struck the sand he lost all control, and
as the machine overturned both pas
sengers were thrown clear.
Greeley.-St. Johns college plans to
erect a $4,000 building on South
Eighth avenue In Greeley. Frank
Barber is the contractor.
Boulder.-A Colorado municipal lea
que, having for its purpose the better
ment of municipal government, was
formed in Boulder ut the close of a
three-day conference, in which city
officials from fifteen cities took part.
John NJ. jackson, chairman of the
board Of commissioners at Pueblo,
was elected president, Vice presidents
'iioo'h N'it VI. llll, Fort
Morgan; Manager J. L. Daniels, Mont
rose; Mayor A. II. Day, Trinidad :;
Manager S. NJ Wilson, Colorado
Springs, and Mayor Blackman, Little
ton, Don c. Sewers, executive secre-
tary of the bureau of business and
governmental research, University of
Colorado, was elected secretary-treas.
urer. This was the first meeting of
Its Kind ever held. Resolutions passed
unanimously stated that the delegates
| mad b, greatly benefited by the con
ference and that the spirit of coop.
| Grafton among the officials and mum.
cipalities of the state that has re-
suited from this meeting will be of
lasting benefit to the entire common.
wealth.
Loveland.-F. c. Dreher, Denver
contractor and crew of workmep
who are paving stretch of road he.