The Colorado statesman., 1923-05-12
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS


is owner and publisher, was purchased
by syndicate, making the second
! time within year that It has changed
| hands. The syndicate consists OF
Clarence Hamlin, president and pub
Usher of the Colorado Springs Even
ing and Sunday Telegraph; Spencer
| Penrose, owner of the Broadmoor ho-
| tel I; l.. Tut, local capitalist, and Ern-
est Novels, manager of the Telegraph,
! The Gazette Is the oldest paper In
| Colorado Springs and was started fif-
| ty-one years ago, or the year after the
city was laid out by General Palmer,
1t has been a staunch progressive
newspaper and among the Presidents
1t has supported has been Theodore
Roosevelt. The Telegraph is Repub-
lican newspaper.
Denver.-Colorado now has 67,60s
miles of highways, according to sur
veys made by the United States
Bureau of Public Roads and the Colo
RADIO State Board of Immigration OF
this mileage, approximately $4,000
miles are improved in some way. OF
the improved roads, 141 miles are
cement and AGO miles are surfaced
with some special surfacing material,
ranging from sand to various types OF
water-bound surfacing. About 2S,5OO
miles have been graded and drained,
while the remainder are unimproved.
The total includes 8,147 miles OF state
highways, all of which are improved
and nearly one-half of which are sur
faced.
Denver.-Tourists travelling by auto
mobile may now get into Mesa Verde
National Park, according to the April
reports on the conditions of Colorado
roads received by Robert Higgins,
superintendent of maintenance of the
State Highway Department. Early
tourists may reach the park from Den
yer by way Of Grand Junction, Mont
rose, Telluride, Norwood, Cedar and
down through Dove Creek into the
park. The reports show the roads
are generally in good condition, with
few rough spots, due to the rains and
grading work. Wolf Creek pass is ex-
pected to be opened soon.
Boulder.-A sentence of 1S0 days
was meted out to L. A. Smith of Long
mont by Judge Neil f. Graham when
Smith pleaded guilty to a charge Of
manslaughter. He had previously
been given a seventy-five day sentence
requested Judgment to be set aside,
pleaded guilty a second time and re-
ceived the longer sentence. Smiths
automobile ran over and killed Martha
Josephine Shacklett, years old, on
Feb. 1 at Longmont. He at first de-
MED his guilt, but admitted 1t after
ward, and excused his previous denial
by saying that he was trying to save
his family from notoriety.
Longmont.-Frank Redd, agricultu-
raj agent for the Great Western Sugar
Company at Longmont, sustained a
fractured skull when his automobile,
In which he was returning from a
dance at Lyons, collided with a furni-
ture truck from Denver. Rain, obscur-
ing the visions of both drivers, Is be-
lieved to have been responsible for the
accident. Reddrs car, 1t is said, struck
the truck with such force that 1t
climbed up over the radiator and
knocked the cab off. The truck driv-
er was uninjured. Redd Is in hos
pital, where his condition Is reported
as serious.
Colorado Springs.-A man believed
to be c. NJ. Carr of the Carr Dental
Manufacturing Company of Denver
was Instantly killed at the Buttes
crossing, 18 miles south of Colorado
Springs when a small car which he
was driving overturned and crushed
his head and chest. train crew
brought word of the accident to Colo
RADIO Springs.
Pueblo.-Dr. Fl. G. Dodge, who has
been head Of the veterans bureau in
Pueblo, Is to be transferred to the
Denver offices, and will begin his
duties there soon. DIR. Dodge will be
succeeded in Pueblo by G. L. Harrison.
who has been connected with the local
offices since last September.
Denver.-Cutting $4,000 from vari-
ous items in the $1,S7o,000 long ap-
preparation bill for the maintenance
Of state governmental departments fol-
The present biennial period, Gov. VIII.
liam e. Sweet signed the measure
which was one of the last acted upon
in the dying hours Of the Twenty
fourth General Assembly. The slash
es involve removal of ten employees
from the state pay roll and cuts In the
funds of various departments.
Denver.-Cuts about the face and
bruises about the body were incurred
by A. c. Schoening, SO, rancher of
Gapoo Colo when the automobile
truck which he was driving was struck
yesterday by an inbound Thirty-fourth
avenue tram car. at East Thirty-fourth
avenue and York street. Police Sur
geon Sickafoose removed him to the