The Colorado statesman., 1923-09-08


Elbert County Fair-Matheson.
Grand County Fair-Kremmling.
La Plata County Fair-Durango.
Moffat County Fair-CraiS.
Golden.-The Gibbons and Lawrence
Construction Company plans to build
a rock crushing plant costing approx
lmately $4,000 in Golden.
Gunnison.-The Continental OIL
Company plans to erect warehouse
in Gunnison, according to an an
nouncement in the Gunnison News
Champion.
Denver.-The forty-nlnth convention
of the Colorado Education Association
will be held in three divisions at
Grand Junction, Pueblo and Denver.
between Oct. 16 and 20.
Durango.-After pleading guilty to
charge of bigamy in the District
Court here, George Weir, % years old,
was sentenced to two years in the
state penitentiary and fined $40.
Westcliffe.-J. F. Morgan, 81 years
old, was killed when he fell fifty feet
from ladder in the Terrible mine, six
teen miles east of Westcliffe, after be-
ing struck on the head by falling
rock.
Denver.-Jack Warner of Lamar, a
Denver University student, was held
up by two youthful bandits at the in
tersection Of Nineteenth and Larimer
streets as he was returning from q
dance.
Antonito-The license to teach of
o. T. Jacobs, superintendent of schools
at Antonito, was revoked in hearing
before the State Board of Education.
Jacobs was recently indicted by the
federal grand jury on charges of yio-
lation of the white slave law. He is at
present under Indictment and awaiting
trial in the Federal Court.
Durango.-A record in the number of
high school graduates making decisions
to attend higher schools of learning
has been established by the class of
1923 of the Durango high school. Forty
per cent of the class, which represents
twenty-four of the graduates, will leave
the city this fall to enter colleges or
universities.
Denver.-Colorado cattle made a
Fair at Des Moines, when Herefords
owned by w. N. w. Blayney Of Den
yer walked off with ten prizes. The
Blayney prizes are Wyoming 16, sec
ond; Mischief Wyoming, fourth Muir
ply Wyoming, first; best three bulls,
third; Elsie Domino, second; Dolly
Wyoming first; Donna Domino, fifth ;
young herd, first; calf herd, second,
and Wyoming get of sire, second.
Denver.-When P. r. Dease of 1929
East Twenty-sixth avenue took to his
heels as two bandits commanded him
to throw up his hands, one of the hold
ups fired three shots after him. The
holdup occurred at an alley on East
Twenty-sixth avenue near Downing
street. Dease ran three blocks and fell
exhausted. All three bullets went wide
of their mark.
Wiley.-More than 1000 people, res
idents of the Arkansas valley, assem-
bled in Wiley recently for the annual
Sugar Beet day. cooperative mar
keting" was the subject Of an address
by Governor Sweet, principal speaker
of the occasion. This was the first
gathering of Importance in the Arkan-
sas valley at which the governor has
appeared since his election.
Grand Junction.-Three cases of
western slope Colorado Elberta peach
es from Grand Junction, and three
cases of Mountain peas from Buena
Vista were shipped last week to Los
Angeles through the offices of the
Civic and Commercial Association to
be part of an unusual dinner in that
city rendered by the Adventures
Club to a party of notable British sci
entists, soldiers and adventures.
Pueblo.-Arthur Baggisu, 10 years
old and son of Bert Baggisti, a miner
In the Rockvale district, west of Pu-
eblo, lost his left leg when he was
caught in cable while playing around
the mouth of the mine.
Alamosa.-United States Senators
Lawrence G. Phipps and Alva B. Ad-
ans, and w. 2. MacLean of Topeka,
Kan, state commander of the Ameri-
can Legion in Kansas, were the prin-
cipal speakers on the second days
program of the fifth annual state con-
vention of the American Legion at
Alamosa.