The Colorado statesman., 1924-01-19
LATE NEWS
From All OUer
COLORADO

the Chamber of Commerce ana Amer
lean Legion posts of towns in the San
Isabel National forest region met in
Pueblo to confer on the new illustrat-
ed San Isabel booklet, which is to be
published for the coming season.
Denver-Announcem of com
comprehensive program for the erec'
ton of modern hatcherles, equipped
with the latest and best parapherna-
liza, Is made in the biennial report of
II. G.. Parvin, state game and fish
commissioner. Parvin's plans to in
crease the present fish Matching facili-
ties from 20,000o00 to 50,000000 eggs
year.
Pueblo.-Two ten-year-old Pueblo
lads, now on parole from Juvenile
Court, barely escaped burning to
death when they set fire to house in
Avondale, eighteen miles east of this
city, in orde rto get warm and then fell
asleep in the house. The lads were
rescued by Percy Sutcliff Mt whose
home they had been given food after
their bicycle ride from Pueblo to the
neighboring village. They were turned
over to the Juvenile Court officials.
Colorado Springs.-Making his way
through darkened room. his hand
gripping a pistol in the belief that
burglar was in the home, w. Bartlett
Chew, Jr., widely known young Dusi-
nessman of Colorado Springs, STUN
bled, fell and was killed by the acct
dental discharge of the gun. Chew's
bride of two months, the only other
occupant of the house, on hearing the
report of the pistol sprang to her hus-
bands side and he died as she took his
head in her arms.
Durango.-News that a shot in the
wall of tunnel of small coal mine
twenty miles from here had opened a
flow of natural gas, has raised excite
ment to fever pitch here. The mine
Is filled with gas, which witnesses de-
clare is petroleum gas" and prelimi-
nary estimates place the flow at l.
100000 cubic feet in twentyfour
hours. Oil experts here who are in
terested in the Navajo oil fields, say
they never heard of opening petrol
cum gas" in q coal mine.
Fort Morgan.-A freight train of the
Burlington railroad was wrecked five
miles west of Fort Morgan last week,
injuring Conductor w. f. Coleman of
Denver, who suffered badly
wrenched back. He was in the ca
boose at the time the cars left the
track. Five cars were wrecked, two
coal cars being burned by the rescue
crews, and the others, containing mer-
chandise, showcases and soda foun-
tains, which were upset without break
ing a single glass.
Canon City.-The total production
of eggs in the International Egg Lay
ing Contest at Canon City was 2,0S4
for the first month, or A eggs per
bird. This low production, according
to announcement made by Superin-
tendent r S. Denman, is due to the
fact that there are entered a large per-
centage of late maturing pullets. 1t
shows why high-priced eggs are
shipped into Colorado in the early win
tel, instead of being produced at
home
Denver.-The acreage of crops har-
vested in Colorado in 1923 was the
greatest in the history of the state.
This was due to an exceptionally fay
orable season, which made it possible
for growers to harvest at profit
practically the entire acreage planted
to all crops except wheat. The acre
age planted for the 1923 harvest was
t1Naf nf hn fYafr
year and was materially reduced by
the heavy abandonment of winter
wheat on account of dry weather.
Much of the abandoned wheat land,
however, was planted to other crops
Denver. - Colorado ranks eighth
among the states of the Union in the
number of reserve officers in proper
ton to population, according to the In
formation contained in a communica-
ton received by Lieut.Col. X. G. Mas
teller, chief of staff, 103rd or Cactus
division, from the War Department in
Washington.
Denver-Final decision of the
Scruggs, Vandervoort & Barney Dry
Goods Company of st. Louis to buy
the controlling interest in the Denver
Dry Goods Company will not be made
until the latter part of February, ac-
cording to officials of the two big con-
rerns. The st. Louis company seeks
control and will not be satisfied, it is
said, with a minority holding in the
Denver company.
Littleton.-Promotio through merit
from the superintendency of once OBJ
scure two-mile electric street car line
in Colorado to the superintendency OF
all interurban lines of the Philadelphia
Rapid Transit Company at Niagara
Falls is a new record for Robert G.
Larkin, formerly superintendent of the
Denver & South Platte railway be-
tween Englewood and Littleton. News
of his recent advancement was re-
ceiyed here by friends last week.