The Colorado statesman., 1923-05-12
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Washington has been designated by
Gov. William Il. Sweet to fill the new
office of Colorado director of mar
kets, recently created by the state
Legislature.
Estes Park.-Governor Sweet ap-
pointed A. ID. Lewis, president of the
Lewiston Hotels Company, because of
his knowledge of Rocky Mountain
National Park and its operation within
the state, as Colorados representative
to the third national conference on
state parks, held at Turkey Run state
park, Indiana, May 7, s and o.
Aguilar.-The mutilated bodies of
ten coal miners have been recovered
from the wrecked interior of the
Southwestern mine, near here, after
an explosion In the north shaft Of the !
mine which twisted machinery into
ruins, demolIshing workings for thou
sands Of feet and toppled in the mine
entrance for distance of twenty feet.
Colorado Springs.-Bearing wounds
inflicted by the rejected suitor of his
intended bride William Clair Dyer of
Denver applied at the office of the
county clerk here for a marriage
license. Accompanying him was his
bride-to-be, Mrs. Myra Deatrich. also
Of Denver, whose former suitor, Sam
Nixon, attempted to take her life and
that Of Dyer.
Victor.-William 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 a serious condition. Cooper, who
was driving the automobile, was less
seriously injured.
Palmer Lake.-D. A. Mohon, driver
tor the National Auto Transit Com
pany of Pueblo, was killed, and his
wife injured when their automobile
overturned in stretch of sand u short
distance north of here. Mohon is said
To have been plotting the big car at a
fast rate of speed. When the wheels
struck the sand he lost all control, and
us the machine overturned both pus-
sengers were thrown clear.
Greeley.-Walter Lee Bedlien, an
employee of the White Ash mine,
southeast of LaSalle, Colo, is dead as
the result of bullet wound through
his chest, and his uncle, Christopher
Columbus Barlow, is in the Weld
county Jail, after what is alleged to
have been u family quarrel. Barlow
is said by authorities to have admitted
shooting Bedlien, claiming he shot in
self defense after he had been fired
upon. Barlow was wounded in the
forehead.
Estes Park.-To bring to Colorado
numerous conventions and national
meetings, plans for raising funds to
erect $4,000 convention hall at Es-
tes Park with capacity of $500,
were discussed recently at Estes Park
by representatives of Rotary clubs
and Chambers of Commerce of Den
yer, Fort Collins, Loveland, Longmont,
Boulder, Greeley and Cheyenne. The
necessary money will be raised by the
Chamber of Commerce and Rotary
Club of Estes Park, with the help Of
the other interested civic bodies.
Boulder-A building to cost $780,
900 is planned by students of the Uni
versity of Colorado and the general
alumni association as a memorial to
former students who lost their lives
in the world war. The building will
serve as II student common and will
contain meeting rooms, large dining
hall, small dance room and other
clubhouse features. Twenty thousand
dollars already have been raised and
the committee in charge hopes to COM
plete the fund by II o'clock on Armis-
tice day, Nov. IL, of this year.
Durango.-The strange disappear
ance of Dale Congleton, 16-year-old
son of Joseph Congeton of Durango,
was solved when the boys body was
found dangling from a rafter in the
attic of u rnnch house twenty miles
southwest of Durango. Grier over the
death of his mother last fall Is be-
lieved the motive prompting the boys
suicide.
Fort Collins.-A verdict of not guilty
was returned in the second trial of Ii.
A. Van Auken, president of the Kleen
Heet Sales Company of Denver, who
for the past two weeks has been on
trial before Judge George H. Bradfield
at Fort Collins. Van Auken was
charged with passing two worthless
checks, drawn on Denver banks, to
banking institutions at Loveland
Colorado Springs.-A snow plow
reached the summit of Pixies Peak
over the cog road few days ago. Ac-
cording to w. G. Dotterer, manager of
the cog road, this is the earliest in the
history of the road that ii has been
opened to traffic. 1t is closed through
the winter by snow. The snow at the
summit, he said, is ut the level of the
roof of the Summit house, a two-story
structure