The Colorado statesman., 1923-09-29
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS

ma ueSperute, Iony hernuHuez up
preached the manager of the Brush
festival last week, stating he was
professional snake charmer and that
le would perform in n den of rattlers.
The services were accepted and Her
aandez stepped into the cage of ser
pents and before crowd bravely
went through with his Gle" His ef-
forts met with some success, for the
moment, but as he picked up a huge
rattler and held 1t at arms length,
there was hiss and flash, and blood
trickled from several tiny points on
his barred arm. Several awe-stricken
women spectators screamed as the
brave youth let go and backed away
from the pile of coiled monsters. He
half fell and was carried from the
cage to the Fort Morgan hospital
where he died a few days later.
Denver. - Damages amounting to
$15S, 200 are sought by w. X. Stubbs, j.
Il. Stubbs and the Stubs Land and
Cattle Company, from the Reorganized
Catlin Consolidated Canal Company, in
suit filed in the office of the clerk
of the Federal District Court. The
plaintiff compan- contends that
through the negligence of the canal
company In erecting u diversion dam
near their ranch In Crowley county,
the flood waters of the Arkansas river
In June, 121, destroyed a quantity of
feed, horses, cattle and buildings on
the ranch and rendered 200 acres Of
land, valued at $500 an acre, unfit for
agricultural purposes.
Canon City.-Wild life in the Royal
Gorge game preserve may soon become
as tame and interesting as in the Yel-
lowstone National park, and hunters
who have heretofore slain many deer
In this territory during the open sea-
son will be for the first time prohib-
tied from killing them when the ap-
preaching deer-shooting season opens.
The Royal Gorge game preserve, Gre
ated by action of the last Legislature,
extends to the very limits of canon
City and embraces $1,000 acres.
TrinIdad.-Three men were shot,
one fatally and two others seriously
up of two days celebration of Mex
lean independence day at Cokeville
Ralph Garcia, %, was shot three times
and Leo Trujillo twice in the body.
Trujillo Is in the hospital here in u
critical condition and Garcia died
from his wounds. Agrepino Nolasco
was said to have done the shooting.
Denver.-With Europe faced with
the problem of paying the overwhelm-
ing cost of the World War, the race in
ornaments is on again, at least in
England and France, observed DR.. He
Der NJ. Harper, chancellor of the Uni
verslty of Denver, in an address on his
Impressions of the European situation
at the weekly luncheon Of the Optim-
lists Club.
Notwithstanding plea of guilty
to murder In the second degree, grow
ing out of the killing of his older bro
ther, Fred Bishop, at the farming vii
lage of Campo, in Baca county, Aug
27, Cyril Bishop was sentenced by
Judge A. F. Hollenbeck in the Dis
trict Court here to term of twenty to
twenty-five years in the state peniten-
tiary.
Boulder-A belt at the Strange Ma
guire paving plant broke and snapped
around the shoulders of Royal w.
Smith, who was working on the plat
form. He was drawn into the machin-
cry and suffered injuries that resulted
in his death few hours later.
Fort Collins.-More than 200 repre-
sentatives of Colorado's manufacture
ing, agricultural, mining and mercan-
tile Industries gathered In Fort Collins
for the sixth annual convention of the
Colorado Manufacturers and Merch-
ants Association.
Denver.-Colorado, greatest produc-
er of beet sugar in the world, has
started its annual sugar manufacture
Ing compaign with production 80 per
cent greater than in 1922.
Colorado Springs.-The capacity of
the Union Printers Home at Colorado
Springs will be increased so per cent
by the erection of 100000 addition
in the near future, according to Chas.
P. Howard of Detroit, president of the
international Typographical Union.
who visited Denver recently en- route
to Portland, Ore, where he will attend
convention of the American Fedora
tion of Labor Oct. 1.
Denver.-Mrs. Anna M. George, 80,
of Alliance, Ohio, died at the county
hospital of injuries received in an ac-
cident at the Central garage. The au-
tomoblle in which she was sitting was
driven into an open elevator shaft by
Frank Towey, garage employee. 1t
dropped to the basement, turning over
in the plungs, and pinned the woman
beneath 1t.
Denver.=Sixteen counties in the