The Dolores star., 1923-12-07
COLORADO NEWS NOTES


state here last week. Officers were
elected as follows: Hallett Smith,
Boulder prep, president; Robert Cor
| don, East Denver, vice president !;
| Dorothea Terry, Greeley. secretary |;
| Harold Jones, Fort Collins, treasurer.
The Sigma Delta Chi journalistic fra
ternity loving cup for the best all
around high school newspaper. COM
| peted for by schools having an enroll
| ment OF 400 or more students, was
won by the Boulder Prep Owl.
Steamboat Springs.-A jury In the
District Court here returned a verdict
| of guilty of first degree murder
| against Edward Carnes, proprietor OF
soft drink parlor and so-called
"booteg king" of Oak Creek. who was
alleged TO have shot and killed b. f.
| Williams. n member of the town coun-
ell OF Oak Creek, last May 13, in a
fight that was said to have started In
the course OF the town elections.
Judge Charles T.. Herrick sentenced
Carnes TO life Imprisonment. Carnes
also shot ]. H. Williams the same
night he killed b. +. Williams. ]. IL.
Williams later recovered.
Gunnison.-Sudden and tragic death
claimed the fourth and last child Of
Mr.. and Mrs. William J.. Dean here.
Dean. Denver & Rio Grande West
ern Railroad brakeman, returned to
his home to find his wife and three
| babies i'll with ptomaine poisoning.
The mother of the three children who
died from ptomaine poisoning, and
who has been critically i'll as a result
of eating the same food that caused
the death of the children, is said to
have chance for recovery.
Denver.-A judgment OF Sl0,32S.50
was awarded Il. l.. Dollard, II former
| employee of the Denver & Rio Grande
Western railroad, by jury in the
United States District Court for in
| juries incurred when the plaintiff,
while engaged in loading cattle on a
| ID. & Il. G. w. train at Gunnison, Colo,
was severely gored by large and vi
| cious bull. Dollard Instituted a civil
suit against James c. Davis, federal
| director of railroads, at that time.
Denver.-Appointm of Frank z.
| Shepard, prominent Denver engineer,
and director of the Civic and Com
| mercial Association, as superintendent
of the United States mint ut Denver,
was virtually assured as the result of
his recommendation for the post by
Senator Lawrence c. Phipps and Rob-
ert J. Grant, recently appointed nation
| al director of the mint. The appoint
snent will be made by Andrew J. Mel
Ion, secretary of the treasury.
Pueblo.-Pueblo county is In excel
| lent financial condition, according to
an auditors report recently completed
by State Examiner Joseph NJ. Wood
| and submitted to State Auditor Arthur
| NJ. Stong. The report, which covers
the period between Jan. /, 1922. to Dec.
81, 1922, shows that Pueblo county in
| creased its cash balance from Sl94 ,S42
| on Jan. l to S2l0,434 on Dec. 81, indl-
| eating that the county is not only SOL
vent but actually on paying basis.
CorteZ.-Louis Archuleta, a Mexican
| sheepherder, died in hospital here
as the result of gunshot wound in
| flicted by member of posse that
| trailed and surrounded the Mexican.
| Archuleta, according to Sheriff Frank
| Philley of Montezuma county, attacked
| Mrs. Ruth Fowler in her store in Me
Elmo canon. Thomas Fowler, father
| in-law of Mrs. Fowler, fired the shot
that resulted in the death of Archu-
| leta.
| Colorado Springs.-The city budget
for Colorado Springs presented to the
council in its tentative shape as
drawn up by the city manager, A. NJ.
Wilson, provided for levy of 14.5
mills, which will raise $577,SOO The
levy is the same as last year The ap-
preparation ordinance was for SS92, 900,
about $4,000 more than last year.
| Denver-Colorado's first auction
lands, held in the Senate chamber at
ands, held in the Senate chamber at
the statehouse, was attended by more
than 300 prospective buyers and re.
suited in the sale of leases on $40
acres of the 1,6OO put up. with total
proceeds of S2S,0O0, which go to the
state school fund. All of the lands of.
fered were in the vicinity Of the BIZ,
Wellington gas well, north of Fort
Collins, and were made up into ten
tracts.
Colorado Springs.-Mrs. w. |. Cley.
enger pleaded guilty to bigamy and
| was sentenced Dy District Judge
Arthur Cornforth to from one to two
years in the penitentiary and fined
$50. Mrs. Clevenger Is said to have
left her husband here and married II
l.. Roseman of Pueblo leaving him n
few days later and returning to her
husband.
Boulder.-Two hundred editors and
managers of high school papers and
ANIMALS were in Boulder last week fol
the third annual high school editors
conference under the auspices of Sig