The Colorado statesman., 1923-02-17
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Fort Collins.-George III. Shaw,
state Republican chairman, was re-
appointed county attorney by the
board of commissioners of Larimer
county.
Leadvlile.-Presdent Harding re-
Gently sent to the Senate the nOmina-
tion OF Mrs. Eva A. Britain of Colo
RADIO to be registrar of the land office
at Leadville, Colo.
Denver.-The complied statutes of
1921, now being printed and which will
replace the revised statutes of 1908.
will be sold for $15 copy, according
to an announcement by Secretary of
State Carl Milllken.
Breckenridge-Cit of Brecken-
ridge have passed resolution con-
demning State Senator William Rem
shaw of Idaho Springs for his presen-
tation of a bill giving the right of emil
pent domain to dredging and hydraulic
mining companies
Golden.-The Woodmen Of the
World have elected to the board of
head managers ]. w. Klein of Golden,
1t was announced at the national head
cancy caused by the death of f. p.
Hawke of Pueblo.
Colorado Springs.-Colorado Springs
is to have a new and powerful radio
broadcasting station, and the operator
in charge is to be William ID. Pyle, al
present operator in charge of KDZQ
of Denver. Mr.. Pyle will take up his
new duties the latter part of this
month.
Deer Trall.-Unless possible special
motions are granted, George Griffith
of Carthage, ILL.,, charged with killing
Howard Hamilton, as the latter left
dance hall at Deer Trail the night of
Dec. "a with Miss Pearl Occur, will
not be tried in the Arapahoe county
District Court until October.
Denver.-A 4-year-old child was in
jured fatally, ten other persons were
Injured and five were lodged in the
city jail as a result of series of au-
tomobile and tram car accidents in one
night here. The dead child is Hazel
Pease, daughter of Carl j. Pease, in
structor of mechanical drawing at
Denver high school.
Boulder-Boulder is to have road
of remembrance ten miles in length as
a memorial for the war heroes of 1917
1S. Plans are being made for the
road. Trees are to be planted and
other improvements made. The road
to be improved is the Arapahoe road
which connects with the Lincoln high
way.
Denver.-If the present rate of In
crease continues, Colorado will in
very few years produce all the hogs
necessary to supply the demand of To-
cal packers, which in the past has
been brought in annually from other
states to be butchered at the Denver
centers in the state.
Rifle.-That bad booze was respon-
sible for the gun duel near Rifle in
which Edward Brunes was killed and
Bert Taylor wounded, was the verdict
of coroner's jury. First dispatches
of the affray stated that Taylor and
Brunes engaged in a pistol duel after
the former had been fired upon. The
shooting occurred in the cabin of Ed
Bois on Corral creek.
Denver.-Thriving under favorable
conditions not found outside the state,
Colorado's bee industry now produces
between 100000 and 100000 pounds
of honey yearly from about 125,000
colonies of bees. An unusually dry
climate help the bee in keeping down
the moisture content in his honey,
and the specific gravity Is therefore
considerably higher than in foreign
honeys.
Greeley.-An investigation of the
cost of growing sugar beets, expected
to take many months, was launched
here by the Mountain States Beet
| Growers Association, with United
| States Tariff Commissioner e. p. Cos
| tigan, formerly Of Denver, in the role
| of official observer.
Canon City.-Four mountain lions
bagged in one week Is the record of
Dave l.. Couch, hunter of predatory
animals for the United States biolog-
| ical survey. The animals were all
killed in the San Isabel national forest
| In the western part of Fremont county,
and are said to be the largest kill of
lions by one man in this part of the
state in recent years.
Colorado Springs.-A decision laid
| down by the State Public Utilities
Commission recently, it is believed, will
prevent the junking of part of the
| Cripple Creek Short Line railroad that
is necessary for the operation of many
mines in the vicinity of Cripple Creek.
| A controversy of years standing was
settled by the decision Under the rul-
ing, no railroad lying wholly within
the state can abandon service and
take up its track without first obtain
ing the permission of the commission