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Gunnison news-champion., 1923-10-05
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WRECK VICTIM
Was Caught in Terrible
Bridge Disaster on
Burlington Last Week
Thursday

Gunnison people were shocked last
Friday to hear that willard J. Nourse
was a probable victim Of the terrible
wreck on the Burlington near Casper,
Wyoming. It was feared from the
hrst that he was in the wreck, tho hope
was held that he might escape injury,
hut Monday word came from his bro
tier. e. n. Nourse who was returning
from Boston, that W.. L. Nourse had
been killed In the wreck of the ILL
fated train.
Willard Nourse was on his way to
Denver to meet his brother, Judge
Nourse. He had been ut Casper,
Wyo., on oil business for two weeks
and that afternoon had phoned his
brother, assuring him that he would be
down on the 1890 train Friday. In
the morning Judge Nourse read of the
great wreck and Immediately set the
wires busy only to discover that his
brother had been killed. He was in
the smoking car and when his body
was recovered it was in . position to
indicate that he had crawled out Of
the car window to the top Of the chair
car before being swept back. His
body was under the baggage car when
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Gunnison news-champion., 1923-10-05
Legion Prepares Pro-
gram For Nov. IL

The Bruce-Frew Post of the Ameri-
can Legion Of Gunnison has arranged
its it, A. g,ad., Day prSgram which will
Der 10 the Woman's Auxiliary viii
s Gsser vance ~sc /. On eh spGay tes LIE
has invited the Legion and Aukill ny
to the Episcopal church where special
patriotic services Will be held, or
Monday the 18th the Legion will hold
their regular annual services in the
Community church in TIE morning. e
eleven o'clock. A special picture -
been secured for that day ce1ot6.
FLASHES Of Action, which win -
shown ut the Unique Theatre Monllay
afternoon and evening. The piOgrn1n
certainly looks profnising.
Gunnison news-champion., 1923-10-05

Doc Shores returned Saturday
morning from several days at Irwin,
where he was investigating the well
fare of four patented claims which he
has not seen for 35 years. When the
slump came in that mining camp Doc
preferred to let time determine the de-
velopfnent, but after paying taxes all
these years concluded he had better
see what vas above ground at any
rate. Some good ore was found on
the claims in early days, yet the low
price Of silver is not encouraging to
mining at present. However, there is
some excellent timber growing there.
Gunnison news-champion., 1923-10-05

Gunnison stockmen are planning 70
send 20 cars Of high grade mountain
cattle, the best steers and heifers Of
the Gunnison valley, 70 Iowa about
the first Of November, making direct
shipment for . sale TO be conducted
ut the homes Of the Corn Belt feeders.
This has been talked Of for some
time, following similar movements
from Texas and Oklahoma, and their
great success in not only securing a
better price, but in saving freight, and
commissions and shrinkage.
w. L. Anderson, as representative
of the Gunnison County Stock Grow
ers, returned Wednesday from Attain
tic City, Iowa, where he attended the
first auction sale Of this character,
one consisting of 400 head of North
Park cattle, which are similar in grade
and appearance to the Gunnison val
ley stock. He reports that SAT year
ling steers, brot an average Of S5S.26.
the tops running to $1,000. These
were auctioned in carload lots, direct
from the North Park ranches, after a
thru fast freight shipment.
Two-year-old steers, i16 of them,
brot an average of SOTO. and the
tops went TO $3.50. There were 220
yearling heifers that averaged s33.40,
and the top in three-year-old cows was
$500.
These figures look encouraging to
our stockmen, who have been viewing
sales in the principal stock markets
with alarm rs indicating bad slump
in prices. To secure the 40 carloads,
some 1900 head, a number Of the
Gunnison news-champion., 1923-10-05
DEER SEASON OPEN
FOR FOUR DAYS
Oct. IL to Is Inclusive,
Gunnison Game Re
fuge Closes Consider
able Good Hunting
Territory

Local sportsmen who annually en-
joy q deer hunt, are already prepar.
ing for the four days open season
October 18th to 18th, inclusive. These
four days are thrown open for the
killing Of deer in Colorado, and in ad-
dition to the many local sportsmen,
the timber areas over the western
part Of the state will be well filled with
Denver and eastern slope sportsmen,
who come here because Of the excel
lent hunting offered.
The game laws Of this state provide
for the four days open season, but
provide that each hunter can slay only
one deer during the four days, and
that this one must be q buck with two
or more points on each horn.
A big game license is necessary to
hunt deer, this license costing . resi-
dent Of the state IS. It is said that
deer are plentiful this season, and the
usual number of hunters will be in the
field from Gunnison and surrounding
valleys.
Gunnison Game Refuge
A new feature of the deer hunting
in our locality will be the new Gunni-
son State Game Refuge, which pro-
hlbits hunting In large tract TAX
ing in the West Elk Mountains.
The southeast corner Of this irregular
tract is located some four miles west
of town, and the south boundary runs
along few miles north Of the river,
until just west Of Sapinero. The east
boundary runs north, taking in the
Beaver creek and most of the Antelope
valley. 1t joys around Baldwin, about
a mile from the town and goes east
far enough to take in Mt. Carbon and
the peak Of Mt. Wheatstone, then runs
diagonally south Of Crested Butte to
a point almost directly two miles west
Of that city, thence due west on the
section lines, between Mt. Beckwith
and Mt. Marcellena to . point a mile
west Of the line Of Mt. Gunnison and
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Gunnison news-champion., 1923-10-05
|SWEEP|NG RAILROAD CHANCES
CONTINUE pN RIO GRAADE
'Gunnison" Division Now. Headquarters in
Our City Takes in All Narrow Guage Lines
to Alamosa and to Durango.

DUEL will be superintendent and c. f.
Leverich will be superintendent Of the
Pueblo division.
The Sals0L Lake division, now in
cludes the broad gage lines from
Montrose and Somerset to Delta ana
Grand Junction, with headquarters ut
the Junction.
A number Of changes in location of
the operating force, from Gunnison,
to Salida and back again, that can
not be determined ut this writing.
Receiver Beacon has reorganizeli
the entire railroad system, not merely
by changing officers, but by abolishing
arranging the subdivisions and plac-
ing more responsibilities on minor
officers. He Is also combining the
clerical forces SO that they can CO.
ordinate and expedite business hereto
fore delayed by endless correspon-
dence.
Mr.. Beacon has certainly been on
the job for the last two months, and
we believe that he means to make a
real railroad Of the D. & R. G. w.
There is also change in the sched-
ule Of time, as to arrival Of the trains
in Gunnison. Effective Sunday the
morning train or No. 315 will arrive
ut 1926 instead of 1925 and the eve
ming train will arrive at 4:45 instead
Of $500 o'clock, allowing more time
over the pass and thru Black Canon
until the road bed can be improved
and better engines secured.
A meeting Of the division operating
staff appointed by Sup. J. w. Martz,
will be held in Gunnison Saturday,
The staff includes as representatives
J. s. Pope, J. Grafton, Jos. Crowley,
n. C. Hogue, Grant Darby, P. s. Mosh-
isly, J. F. Patton, H. Weirick, A. w.
Hogan, D. J. Lehan, B. H. Decker,
C. A. Henkel, A. s. Exter, J. H. Nc
Donald and Fred Winters.
Gunnison news-champion., 1923-10-05
5000 HOPE MINES SHOW
PROM|s|NG PROSPECTS NOW

n w. Bacon who recently purchased
the Good Hope Mine Il Vulcan came
In Monday to look over his property.
He came to Gunnison Thursday with
John Fox, superintendent, and took the
evening train for the east.
Mr.. Bacon stated before he left last
night that his inspection showed the
Good Hope mine unwatered to the
sixth level, and he had decided u keep
. force steadily at work during the
coming winter. 1T should not BE-
very long" he declared, before the
Good Hope is shipping ore"
With the control Of the Vulcan,
Mammoth Chimney and Good Hope,
in the hands of Mr.. Bacon. il would
seem that this wonderful chimney OF
high grade ore located in an ancient
crater of the schist belt south of Gun
nison, may speedily come TO its own
rs a producing mine. The Good Hope
shaft actually extends to 700 feet,
but very little mining has been done
below the sixth level because of the
heavy water fow There are vast
quantities of Stopping ore at the fifth
level which can be successfully mined
under modern conditions.
A good road now connects with the
railway station at lola, only l3 miles
distant and this will be an added fac
tor in successful handling of tine pro-
perty.
Mining experts have believed for
thirty years that Gunnison county
would show producing mine ut vul-
can, but it has been impossible to
overcome the conflicting interests un-
I'll Mr.. Bacon secured the control. He
Gunnison news-champion., 1923-10-05
BUELL. CRAWFORD
DIES AT SALIDA
Popular Youth From
Delta County, Victim,
After Accident on
Football Field. Casts
Gloom Over Town

A gloom settled over Western Col
lege and all Gunnison when news
came late Monday afternoon that
Buell. Crawford who had been accident
ly hurt in practicing football two
weeks ago had passed away.
Buell. was an ardent football enthu-
last and had been chosen TO play right
half back on the college team. On
Sept. 18th while in a scrin,mage
practice among the boys who went to
the training ground early, four men
were thrown into q pile and Crawford's
right leg WAS snapped near the ankle.
No one knows exactly how It occurred,
Just one Of those accidents that do
sometimes happen. Coach Krause
took him TO Salida Immediately, as
fortunately the evening train was late.
It was not thot for moment that the
injury was dangerous, but last week
blood poisoning developed. Friday
morning in a desperate attempt to
save the life Of the boy, his leg was
amputated below the knee Buell.
showed CHEEKY spirit all through, but
on October 1, his 22nd birthday, he
gave up the fight. His father and
mother, Mr.. and Mrs. A. M. Craw-
ford of Reed, Colorado, Pres. Quigley,
and Coach Krause were with him at
the end.
The body was brot to Grnnison
Tuesday morning accompanied by his
sorfowing parents whose only child
has thus been snatched from; them in
such an untimely manner. His body
was met here by team mates who
STAYED with him during the time il
Gunnison news-champion., 1923-10-05

Contrary to the rumor that Gunni-
son might lose its local railroad Offices,
great improvement has taken
place for US. The territory that was
known as the third division is now
known as the Gunnison Division with
all the lines that were taken care Of
by the Rio Crande Southern added to
il. The Rio Grande Southern has been
done away with, or rather added to the
Gunnison Division.
This Gunnison Division now takes in
all the territory from Salida 70 Mont
rose, embracing Ill branch lines
such as the Crested Butte, the Ouray,
and the Lake City branches. We now
have added to it the line from Ridg-
way to Durango. This may mean that
the Offices here will need to employ a
larger number Of helpers; however.
that remains to be seen.
The Gunnison division also includes
the narrow gage line from Salida to
AIamosa, in fact practically the mar
row gage lines of the d. 4 r. G. w.
system.
On the Gunnison division J. w.
Martz will be superintendent, p. c.
Moshisky has been named master
mechanic, J. S. Pope who was assist
ant superintendent has been made
train master; Grant Darby, division
engineer, and J. F. Patton succeeds
e. B. Finnesscy as roadmaster, John
Grafton is also roadmaster, J. E. Cros-
ley, master carpenter; C. A. Henkle,
road foreman, and J. T. Blukall will
be special agent.
The officials for the Salida division
at present are J. A. NaeKinnon, acting
superintendent; E. G. Haskins, master
mechanic; w. r. Walsh and P. Cliff
ford, trainmasters; J. D. Tamunyon,
road foreman; H. C. Webb and s. N.
Robinson, roadmaster; and Thos.
Burge, special agent.
On the AIamosa division, e. w.
Gunnison news-champion., 1923-10-05

ID . very experienced miner, a man
whs has made millions in Butte Mon
tana, and has the reputation Of know
ing exactly what he wants and getting
II. He now owns extensive mining
properties all over the west II. after
inspection Mr.. Bacon states, rs he
did, that the Good Hope should soon
be shipping ore, the prospect is en-
couraging. indeed for the growth Of q
big mining industry this winter that
will make the Gold Belt take on it,
old time activity.
Gunnison news-champion., 1923-10-05

At meeting Of the Gunnison High
School Alumni held Wednesday, an
election was held and all the last
years officers were reelected. Boil
Potter, President; Bruce Stone, Vice
President; Carlton Stills, Treasurer;
and Irene Hughes, Secretary; Plans
are now on foot for big Halloween
Carnival to be held on November 3
Last year the Halloween dance was a
big success, but this year the Alumni
hopes for even bigger time. Watch
this paper for further announcements.
Gunnison news-champion., 1923-10-05

Twenty ladies' enjoyed the hospi.
tality Of Mrs. Julia Urine Thursday
evening when she entertained at q
dainty dinner-party at the home Of
Mrs. j. d. Walker. The table was
tastfully decorated with sweet peas
and dainty place cards. After the de-
licious dinner the ladies' spent thu
evening in playing 500. Mrs. James
Ferris made the highest score for the
evening while Mrs. Ernest Miller got
the consolation.
Gunnison news-champion., 1923-10-05
Light Fingured Youth
Caught at Montr0se

Sheriff Pat Hanlon left this morn
ing to get the three boys who broke
into Mrs. Mary E. Wits house or
Pine street and stole her watch and
chain, little small change, and nu-
merous articles Of jewellery belonging
to college girls that have rooms in
Mrs. Wits home. The boys were
caught in Montrose and are being held
there until Hanlon gets there. He
will bring them back tomorrow. The
names of the pilferers are not as yet
Gunnison news-champion., 1923-10-05
lola HOMEsTEADER
TAKES DELTA BRIDE

1t was announced in the Delta paper
last week that Wallace B. LaMoy OF
lola was married to Miss Eda NJ.
Smith Of Delta. The ceremony wa.
witnessed by Waldo and Lillian B
Smith. The couple win make their
home in lola where Mr.. LaMoy has re-
Gently taken up homestead on the
Nine Mile Hill, near that Of his bro
tier. w. 8. LaMoy. News-C Champion
extends congratulations and best
wishes to the young couple.
Gunnison news-champion., 1923-10-05

John c. Reagan made business
trip TO Montrose this week. going
down Tuesday. Mr.. Reagan tells the
News-Champion that as soon as pre-
sent preliminary work is completed
and the new machinery installed, that
at least ten men will be reularly en-
ployed on the Morning Star at White
Pine, sinking on the vein.
Gunnison news-champion., 1923-10-05

N. v. Napier returned Sunday to
Colorado Springs, driving his car
over the range. Mr.. Napier and family
plan to leave shortly for three
months stay in California, hoping that
the change will bring back his health.
Gunnison news-champion., 1923-10-05

From description Of movie" hero
inc in The Pomona (Cal.) Progress.
A rather tall. slender girl, with
golden hair, q fair skin, deep blue eyes
rather large, shapely mouth which
when she smiles, discloses perfect
teeth and perfect feet.
Gunnison news-champion., 1923-10-05

Rev. Cotter spent several days in
Pueblo last week.
Evening star., 1923-12-24
Realtors Convention.

The National Association of Real
Estate Boards has recognized the
claims of Washington as the Conveu.
ton city and will meet here in June.
This association is composed of more
than 500 real estate boards in all
parts of the United States, has an ac.
tive membership of 10000, and its as.
sociated and affiliated membership is
much larger. The president of the
Washington Real Estate Board saws
that this convention of realtors may
be the largest assembly Of business
men which the Capital has enter.
tanned. At any rate it will be a large
crowd Of realtors, their families and
friends. and they will be made to feel
at home in Washington.
The delegates will find that the Capt
tai is something of a real estate cen.
ter. Real estate as a business or in.
dustry was established in these parts
before the creation Of the District in
1871. There had been unusual ac-
tivity in farm land here in anticipa.
ton Of the establishment of the fed
eral territory. Ever since the begin
ming of things in the Federal city,
which came to be named the city Of
Washington, there has been general
interest Ia real estate. A considerable
Evening star., 1923-12-24
Colonies in Southern MARYLAND.

Colonization plans are going well
in southern Maryland. which is that
part Of the Districts mother state
between the Potomac and the bay. In
the colonial and we'll into the repub-
lican eras the land-holding class in
that part OF the state was prosperous.
The soil was generally fertile. With
large farms and slave labor there
were many rich families in that sec
ton, though there, as everywhere
else, the majority of the people were
poor, but bitter poverty was known
to but few. Consecutive crops of
tobacco, the chief export, tended to
exhaust the organic elements and Ger
tain mineral contents of the soil, and
it grew poor over a wide extent Of
country. There was lack of under
standing and faith in the value of
artificial fertilizing agents
The lure of rich cheap lands in the
Ohio and Mississippi valleys made a
drain on the adventurous and aggres-
SiNe pcPuldtloi III TIE IdlteT part Oh
the eighteenth and first half of the
nineteenth centuries. The call of the
west beyond the Mississippi began
drawing people away in 1S4S. The
civil war upset the industrial and
social system and destroyed much
that had been classed as property and
capital. AS the land became poor
those who lived on it became poor. In
the '70s, sos and '90s the 10. of most
of the people seemed to grow harder.
The lure Of the cities drew thousands
from the farms. Washington and
Baltimore attracted them. II was bet
ter to work for a small wage in the
city, and get it, than to work on the
farm from sun to sun and be deeper
in debt at the years end.
Since the opening of the twentieth
century there has been an all-around
improvement, but while crop prices
and land values have advanced the
cost Of living in the country has risen
and taxes have mounted. Wages have
greatly advanced in the cities and are
still drawing people from the land.
There are vast areas of idle land in
southern Maryland, and 1t is believed
that the hardy and Industrious people
from Europe will find conditions ca sier
than in their former homes and will
at length come to prosperity here.
Evening star., 1923-12-24
A Three RS Education
Not Adequate Today

The schoolboy Of a hundred years
ago. when the free public school sys-
tenn was in its infancy, received his
education almost entirely out OF
school. He needed the school to teach
him to read, write and "fgger." His
broader training camewith his father
on the farm and in tho woods or 8
apprentice in the small shop OF the
time. The girl was trained by her
mother for the only vocation then
open to her. The school which taught
the three Rs was enough for those
simple times.
The times have changed, but this
ancient Idea Of q sufficient school sur
wives In many minds. A country
Of farms and small shops has become
a country of cities and enormous
complicated industrial establish
ments. Hard work has become ma
chine work. The home industries
have vanished. Fathers see their
sons at most only at the beginning
and the close of tho day, and have
small opportunity to transmit to them
their own practical and technical
knowledge and skill. Women have
entered the field OF business, industry
and the professions. The homo no
longer offers them an education for
life. y
The result is to force upon the pub
lie schools a burden of education
such as the little red schoolhousen
never knew. The city public schools
must give the children some of the
manual training, formerly acquired
in the home and on the farm. 1t must
give them, besides, a mental training
far surprising the needs of the sim
pier life of century ago. A three
RS schooling means a handicapped
existence in the mass OF moderN life.
Lincoln State Journal.
Evening star., 1923-12-24

pected guise Of a valiant defender
of the republican majority. Senator
OF the democratic minority. had been
chiding the republicans for their do
nothing record during the first three
weeks Of the session. Brookhart
arose In righteous protest. He OBJ
served that through all Of this tur-
any particularly constructive en-
thusiasm from the democratic side.
Brook hart declared that despite this
crowds" clamor about farm relief,
tax reduction and other issues, no
concrete propositions" emanated
the Iowa senator thought democratic
railings were little out Of place.
n
Attorney General Harry M. Daugh-
erty has found a Boswell. Some-
body named Kelvin Moore. whom even
the Department of Justices bureau
OF investigation cannot identify, has
written a brochure on Daugherty. 1t
is >panegyric pitched in a major
key. Apparently. the booklet is one
of a series entitled History Makers
of Today" A foreword by the author
states: IN this volume an attempt
is made to picture truth and hon.
esty as they exist and are related to
the Attorney General OF the United
know personally the subject Of this
discourse. Neither have I seen ply
sically this man who is a tower of
strength In republic founded upon
strength. But the facts given are
certain-gathered from friend and
foe. which process Of garnering
makes facts always trustworthy"
Andrew W. Mellon-with the ex-
ception of Calvin Coolidge, now the
most talked about man in America
was once described by Philander c.
Knox as the unconventional man of
high finance. Knox said Mellon was
different from the run Of moneyed
men because he always specialized
in taking hold of things that had
not yet arrived" developing them.
and then staying with them"
Practically all of the important in
dustrial enterprises from which Mr..
Mellon derived his vast fortune are
said to answer that description. They
include the plate glass, aluminium,
banking, coke and other interests,
which Mellon found as infants" and
nourished into colossal concerns.
Knox predicted. when Mellon was ap-
pointed, that his fellow-Pittsburgher
would become q famous Secretary
of the Treasury.
r < Il
From the government printing Of
flee these days annual reports OF
cabinet officers and subordinates in
the executive departments are COM
ing forth in deluge. 1t is a rarity
for anybody to pile through them ex-
oept people whose business requires
them to do so. President Coolidge
thinks these Official documents are
just the sort of literature which pa
triots and citizens ought to read and
inwardly digest. They are the ac-
counts of stewardship which Uncle
Sans faithful and underpaid serv-
ants render from year to year,
The country would know its bust
ness better if II took the time and
trouble to study the despised narra-
tives OF the nations tgials and
triumphs.
Copyright. 1927
Evening star., 1923-12-24

body of our citizens have always been
engaged in it, and many Of these real
estate dealers have been leaders who
have subdivided farms and tracts that
could not be titled, and have built up
these lands to become large and splen-
did sections Of the city.
OF course, the city would have
grown but its growth has been stimu.
lated and directed by men who have
taken raw land, and often idle land,
covered IL with houses and gardens.
and by advertising and other ways of
salesmanship have persuaded people
to buy houses and set up homes.
Washington's real estate men have
been important factors In the Capital,
not merely as brokers in bringing
sellers and buyers together. but as
builders and developers Of large dis
tricts of the Capital they have. when
they have done that work well. been
captains Of industry and bcnefactors-