The Colorado statesman., 1923-07-07
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| we're injured Wnen tnelr car jumped
The road on the highway three miles
west of Yuma.
| Fort Collins.-Acceptance of three
| city blocks from l.. c. Moore as gift
for the site of the proposed 100000
| high school here was decided on by
the board of directors.
Boulder.-The annual farmers pic,
mic of Boulde county is to be held
July 13 and is to be addressed by Gov.
William Il. Sweet. Both Boulder and
| Lopgmont are contending for the meet.
ing.
Strontia Springs.-Governor Sweet
opened weeks Farmer-Labor confer
ence at Strontia Springs with two
speeches. The subject of the govern
| or's first speech was 1.-The Ideals of
Progressiveism."
| Denver.-PersiStent rumors, current
here that an eastern man was slated by
| the Moffat Tunnel Commission for the
| position of chief engineer of the Mof-
| fat tunnel were declared to be without
| foundation by members of the tunnel
| board.
Canon City.-The "sky line" con-
vention of the Colorado societies of
| Christian Endeavor was held in Canon
| City June 2S, % and 80 and July 1.
Governor Sweet and former Governor
| Shoup were among the speakers on
| the program.
Denver.-With every effort being
made by the Moffat tunnel commits
sion to have the actual work started
on the big bore by August l, Colorado
day, the selection of chief engineer
| looms as the most formidable obstacle
for this accomplishment
Canon City.-General Marion chap
ter, Daughters of the American Revo-
luton, of this city, has had set up on
West Main street a huge granite boul-
der in honor of Col. Zebulon Pike, the
first citizen of the United States to
traverse the upper Arkansas valley.
Glenwood Springs. NJ. Shultz,
court stenographer of this city, who
was driving the automobile that struck
Mrs. S. j. Speyer of Kansas City, and
inflicted injuries which resulted in her
death a few moments later, was exon
Grated by the coroner's jury at the in
quest.
Canon City.-A big banquet at the
State Armory building here was
crowning feature of the Skyline" con-
vention of the Colorado Christian En-
deavor Union. About four hundred
participated in the banquet with form
er Governor Oliver II. Shoup as toast
master.
Grand Lake.-The United States
Senate and House appropriation COM
mittees, in a meeting at Grand Lake
lodge here made the decision that, at
the first session of Congress during the
first week of December there will be
a $2S0,000 appropriation for widening
the Fall River road to the Rocky
Mountain National park.
Fort Collins.-As a sequel to a
shooting which occurred in Denver in
October, 1921, two divorce actions
were filed in Fort Collins the same
day, one by Jesse NJ. Roseberry and
the other by his wife. Roseberry
filed suit in the District Court, and
Mrs. Roseberry in the County Court,
cruelty being alleged in both COM
plants.
Greeley.-Bert ]. Lowe, convicted of
the murder of his pretty sister-in-law,
Miss Edna Fern Skinner in Greeley,
July 2, 1922, and sentenced to life i'm
prisonment, must begin serving his
sentence at the state penitentiary i'm
mediately, while his case is still pend |
ing before the Supreme Court. The |
state court has denied loves applica-
ton for a writ of supersedeas.
Longmont-While crowds were hur-
rying here and there about their busi- |
ness, Harold V. Thomas, Denver voca |
tional student, followed his wife and |
George f. Taylor from the postoffice |
and just off Main street fired five |
shots into the body of the man who he
said "broke up his home"
Glenwood Springs.-Two persons
were killed and n young girl was in
jured seriously when the light coupe |
in which they We're riding was struck |
by locomotive at a crossing in Eagle |
county, twenty-five miles from here. |
The dead are John Foster, 40, and his |
mother-in-law, Mrs. Ella ID. Nanhorn,
20, of Peyton, Colo. Fosters daugh-
ter, Violet, 16, is expected to recover. |
Denver.-The resumption nf ami
cable relations betweeI the Denver 4 |
Rio Grande Western and their sirik
ing shopmen and n return 10 the old |
agreement under viii h the strike WIS |
settled, has ben practically assured, |
Governor Sweet believes, through the
offices of Attorney General Russell |
Fleming and Henry McAllister, Jr.,
representing the railroad. No new
agreement is being drawn, but n re-
turn to the old one has been effected
through conference.