The Colorado statesman., 1923-05-05
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COLORADO

featuring and Roofing Company plans
to build factory In Lafayette.~
\ d BeQue-The trustees of the
ttchool district Of De Beque plan to
frect school building costing approx
bmately $4,000.
Calhan.-Two men, presumed to be
fleeing bootleggers, drew revolver
on deputy sheriff at Calhan when he
started to search their machine, and
escaped
Grand Junction.-W. F. Kinneman,
local representative of the M. ].
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
rado for seven years, gave up that Of
ice to accept a position with the
Fidelity Finance Corporation of Den
yer.
Denver.-The convention of the Fra
ternal Order of Eagles, scheduled for
the week of August to II In Denver,
will bring nearly 10000 people to Den
yer, according to Edward Hirsch of
Baltimore, Md. chairman of the pub
Lefty committee.
Denver.-F1nancing has been COM
pleted, steel contract let, and final de-
tails In the negotiations for q suitable
tenant are expected to be complete
within a week for q new $685., 900 ho-
tel, twelve stories high, and featuring
600 rooms for the use of Denver's tour
list and travelling publics.
Lamar.-A vivid re-enactment Of the
scene of the killing of George Rose, a
farmer living ten miles southwest of
Lamar, who was found shot to death
about four weeks ago, brought con-
fession of the shooting from Henry
Rose, 10-year-old son of George Rose.
according to Sheriff A. L. Beaver.
Pueblo.-At a special meeting Of
Scottish Rite-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 Sprngs.-Messrs. Howard,
Johnson, Stoiberg and Hall, represent
.ng the Denver Ski club, appeared be-
lore the Idaho Springs Bureau of
Mines and Commerce with a PROPOSE
lion to hold ski tournament on the
Alice glacier, above Idaho Springs at
St Mary's lake, ten miles up Fall riv-
sr from the city on July Fourth.
Durango.-A giant gas well came in
recently with a roar that could be
heard for 10 miles on the property
owned by the Producers and Refiners
Corporation, 80 miles southwest of
Durango. The flow is estimated at
100000 feet. The force of the flow
was so great tools were blown hun
dreds of feet in the air and the der
rick destroyed
Wray.-Seated with his family and
sheriff in a bedroom of his home,
Sherman w. Jones. 81 years old,
wealthy, retired farmer, unfolded the
story of his romance with the wife of
another man. Completing the confes-
sion of his love and the admission
that he had Illegally transported the
woman of his affection into another
state, Jones calmly told his listeners
that he had swallowed deadly poison.
Ten minutes afterward he was dead.
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 n stretch of sand short
distance north of here. Mohon is said
to have been plotting the big car mt
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 u $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 at the close of u
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
chosen were Mayor NJ. b. Gill, Fort
Morgan; Manager ]. E. Daniels, Mont
rose; Mayor A. II. Day, Trinidad /;
Manager S. NJ. Wilson, Colorado
Springs, and Mayor Blackman, Little
ton, Don G. 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
had been greatly benefited by the con-
ference and that the spirit of coop
Grafton among the officials and NUM-
cipalities of the state that has re-
suited from this meeting will be Of
lasting benefit to the entire common