The Colorado statesman., 1924-08-09
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS

| panoramic speciul-bound from Ogden
to Denver, was derailed on the main
| line,' between West Jewell and West
| Asbury avenues. The engine, tender
and baggage car left the track, the
engine and tender turning over as they
rolled into a ditch along the right-of-
| way. The accident was due to an
open switch. Reports by Denver &
Rio Grande employees who made an
| investigation Immediately after the
| train had been wrecked, indicated
that the switch had been tampered
with
Milliken.-Otto l.. Altvater is the
Poo Bah of Milliken. Finding time
hanging on his hands, though he had
| four positions that were more than
enough to keep an average man busy,
Mr.. Altvater has purchased the towns
drug store and will serve the nos
trums and refreshments necessary to
the good health of the community. He
| is editor and manager of the Milliken
Mail, is a rural carrier, is manager of
Il moving picture house. and when not
otherwise busy, notary public"
Montrose.-After a thrilling 300
mile chase, Wayman Welk, 10 years
old, of Pueblo, held up the parents of
his sweetheart, Gladys Swearinger, in
q lonely canon on the Blue river, near
here, and carried off the girl at the
point of gun, according to Sheriff
| Samuel Phillips of Montrose, who ar
rested Welk and his companion, Ray
mond Watkins, II, and the girl few
| hours after they had escaped from
the parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Swear
| niger, also of Pueblo.
Estes Park.-NIiss Mary Harmon, a
and eight other persons were injured,
one Of them probably fatally, when Il
| sightseeing car in which they We're
riding, owned and driven by James
Robertson of Estes Park, plunged over
fifty-fOot cliff on Horsetooth hill,
five miles southwest of Fort Collins.
| The accident occurred when the
brakes of the car failed to hold on
down grade.
Paonia.-Suicide, due to temporary
arrangement, was given in Il coroner's
verdict as the cause of the death of
Miss Elizabeth Foote, 20 years old,
prominent Paonia society girl whose
| body was found in Fire Mountain irri-
CATION canal near HOtchkiss, Colo. Her
body, clad in an undergarment, was
| found in the canal in three feet of
water. George Foote, the girls father,
is a prominent ranch owner near Pa
onia.
Fort Morgan.-Clarence Tidball,
years old, was seriously injured when
| he was struck by an automobile driven
by Mrs C. w. Frischie of At West Ala
media avenue, Denver, In a Fort Nor
gan street. The boy, according to wit
nesses, ran into the street and into the
path of the machine. Mrs. Frischie is
said to have attempted to dodge the
boy, but succeeded only in turning her
car so that it did not run over him.
Canon City.-Charles A, Raish,
student at the Colorado Agricultural
College, was arrested at the gates of
the Colorado state penitentiary and
lodged in the Fremont county Jail,
charged with attempting to smuggle
weapons into the prison with which
his brother, Thomas w. Raish, con-
victed murderer and train robber, in
tended to shoot his way to freedom.
Leadville.-Charged with being re-
sponsible for the theft of large
amount of scrap brass, copper and ca
BILE from the A. V. Smelter where he
was employed, Mike Sabol is in the
county Jail on the charge of grand lar
ceny. He is believed to have been the
cause of long series of robberies
which have mystefied the officials of
the A. V. smelter.
Canon City.-Caught in the rapidly
moving machinery of Il stone crusher
NJ. S. Rutledge of Portland Ore, an
Inspector in the employ of the War
ren Bros. Company here, received fatal
injuries from which he died few
minutes later after being rushed to
the hospital. Rutledge came to Canon
City about two weeks ago with his
wife, to take charge of concrete in
spection work for Warren Bros. Com
pany, which has contracted for CON
siderable paving work in Canon City.
The accident occurred on South First
street when Rutledge climbed to the
top of the stone crusher His cloth
ing caught in the machinery and he
was whirled round and round. His
head and body We're crushed. work
man stopped the machine Immediately
but Rutledge lived but few minutes
after reaching the hospital
Montrose.-Albert Murphy alias R
d. Mckenzie, is wanted in Oklahoma,
where he was serving a life term for
murder of Charles Reuter- in Tulsa.