The Colorado statesman., 1923-07-21

GfanQ county talr-hremnllnB.
LaPlata County Fair-Durango.
Moffat County Fair-Craig.
Boulder.-A corps of fifty experts
were assigned to the task of restoring
service to the 1884 subscribers when
the exchange here was badly damaged
by fire.
Estes Park.-The Rotary Clubs of
Laramie, Cheyenne, Greeley, Fort Col
lins, Loveland, Boulder, Longmont and
Sterling gave their joint intercity pic
mic at Estes Park at the Country Club.
Denver-Denver will soon have a
one-day mail service from New York,
with correspondingly smaller intervals
between intermediate points, when
new schedule of transcontinental air
mail service is put into operation on
Aug. l. IL ~ -
Durango.-District Attorney Lane
filed information here charging first
degree murder against James Johnson,
In connection with the killing of Bryan
Morrison, %, son of State Senator j.
l.. Morrison, on July 8, at sheep
camp near Dolores, Colo.
Pueblo. Dale Underwood, who
claimed to be official speed officer of
Trinidad, Colo, was arrested here by
Speed Officer Van Pelt for making
thirty-five miles an hour in motor
cycle and side car. On being informed
that it would cost him $15 fine, Under
wood declared to Van Pelt: wait till
| get you in Trinidad"
Boulder. - The entire Mountain
States telephone system in Boulder,
both long distance and local, was put
out of service by a mysterious fire in
the basement of the main office here.
Misses Myrtle Patterson and Olga
Jones, operators in charge in the third
story of the building, discovered the
fire and through their efforts an alarm
was given and the fire extinguished by
chemicals. AS all phones were dead"
Miss Patterson ran to the fire head
quarters to give the alarm, and then
returned to her post in the telephone
building, where she and Miss Jones re-
mained until removed by firemen.
Hot Sulphur Springs.-Carlos e.
Stratton, former teacher of mathemat-
les at the East Denver high school,
was freed of charges of committing
statutory offense against Miss Virginia
Gilmore, II years old, by jury in the
District Court of Grand county. The
trial lasted one day and the jury delib-
Grated less than an hour.
Boulder-The Chamber of Com
merce has petltioned the county COM
missioners for two patrols to regulate
traffic in Boulder mountain canons on
Sundays and holidays. Though no ac-
cident or reckless driving has occurred
the increase in traffic, the Chamber OF
Commerce contends, makes II advisa-
BILE that someone be placed in charge.
Denver-Plans to finance the Colo
RADIO Wheat Growers Association, new
cooperative marketing association re
Gently organized under the state law,
were discussed and formulated at
meeting between Governor Sweet, Jo-
seph Passoneau, state director of mar
kets, and George Jewett, president of
the American Wheat Growers, Asoci-
ated, of which the Colorado organiza-
ton is a member, and a committee of
five prominent bankers of the city,
representing the Denver Clearing
House.
Grand Junction.-Word was received
here of the death of Andrew L. Halli-
gan of the Grand Junction police de-
partment and the serious injury of his
wife in an automobile accident at Ce-
dar City, Utah, forty miles from rail-
road.
Durango.-M. E. Skaggs, teller of
1,r
injured when his automobile skidded
off mountain road in rain storm
while Skaggs was on his way here
from Electra Lake. The automobile
was wrecked. Skaggs was taken to