The Dolores star., 1923-12-21
COLORADO NEWS NOTES

but harder than the rupy. hhu w
lieved TO be the only discovery OF the
kind made in the United States. was
reported found In the Sweet Home
Mine at Alma. Colo, recently, accord
Ing to statement made by lver II.
Daley OF Denver. vice president OF
the Sweet Home Gold and Silver Mln-
ing and Milling Company. Specimens
of the rock have been sent to lead
Ing jewelry firm in New York Tor eh-
animation and this firm has ofrereo
to take the entire output OF the stones
according to Mr.. DALEY.
Greeley.-Weld county will not con-
tribute toward the purchase OF the
forty-acre tract near here which Is
now being used as the site OF the ooio-
rado potato experiment station. 80
long as the price is set at $4,000, ac-
cording to an announcement made by
members Of the county board or COM
missioners. This decision was reached
by the officials despite the fact thnt
the last Legislature appropriated w.
600 for the purpose OF purchasing the
land, with the understanding that half
OF the purchase price should be PAID
by Weld county.
Pueblo.-License plates Of their au-
tomobIle smeared with mud to oblit-
crate the numbers caused suspicious
Pueblo police officers to arrest c. Il.
Musgrove. clerk OF Rogers county. Ok
lahoma, and his deputy. Mary Patter-
son. The pair were detained for In
vestigation while Pueblo authorities
communicated with Oklahoma Officers,
resulting In a reply to hold the pair
on warrant charging embeLzlement
of county funds. Musgrove is said to
have Il wife and two young sons In
Claremore. Okla.
Estes Park-Jack Moomaw. forest
ranger. narrowly escaped death from
an attack by vicious bobcat at
Horseshoe Park. eight miles northwest
of here, according to word reaching
this village a few days ago. Moomaw
had gone out to bring in bobcat the
rangers had trapped when n second
bobcat leaped upon him from a tree.
Moomaw engaged in n fierce struggle
with the animal before he could grasp
his pistol and kill 1t. Moomaw was
badly lacerated from the bobcats
sharp claws.
Observation-Disclosures sentences of
nine TO twenty years and fines aggre-
eating $4,000 were passed on Maurice
Mandell, 2G-year-old broker convicted
Of completely in embezzlements OF al
most half million dollars from the
Hibernla Bank and Trust Company. by
Judge Samuel w. Johnson in the West
Side court Nineteen different SEN
tences were imposed on Mandell for
his part in the bank looting plot. All
the sentences are to run concurrently.
Colorado Springs.-Bond and lease
of the Stratton mining properties In
the Cripple Creek district to w. Spen-
Ger Hutchinson and associates Of Bos-
ton for seven years was announced d
last week by David p. Strickler, presi-
dent Of the Stratton Cripple Creek
Mining Development Company, on his
return from Boston, where the trans
action was consummated. The con-
sideration Is said to approximate ST.
100000
Boulder.-Compromise Of damage
suit for $1,000 was made in the district
court here when T. N. Netherton, Den.
yer motorist, paid $1,000 to Margaret
Lucille Yates, 6-year-old daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Yates. Neither
toms car struck the child playing In
front Of her home last February. The
parents sued Netherton, claiming the
little girl was permanently injured.
MISUNDERSTANDING the arrival
Of X. D. Burnham of San Francisco,
manager of lands for the Union Oil
Company, at Wellington, it Is believed
that a second well will be sunk near
the giant gasser as soon as James
Douglas, chief geologist for the com
pany, selects site on the +. A. Whit
taker property, three miles north of
Fort Collins.
Denver.-Checks totaling upward of
| S5,OOO,0OO were sent out few days
ago by the Great Western Sugar Com.
pany as an initial payment on the 1928
sugar beet crop in the territory which
| 1t serves. The checks were for beets
delivered in November to the com.
pany's ten factories in Colorado, four
in Nebraska, one in Montana and one
in Wyoming. They brought the total
initial payments of the Great Western
Company on the 1923 crop up to be
tween s1o.OOO,0OO and S2O,OOO,OO
EayfIeld.-Construct of clever
end eleven-hundredths miles of gravel
surface road on the highway between
bayfield, and Pagosa Springs. eliminat
Ing several bad grades on the presen,
trail, Is proposed to the United States
Bureau Of Roads by the state highway
commission, in a tentative project sub
mitted las. week. The work Is esti
mated to cost $113,OOO.
Denver.-Reports received by the
state immigration department indicat,