The Colorado statesman., 1924-07-26
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS

drilled by the Union OIL Company OF
California on the Mitchell place, one
mile south of the discovery gas well,
came in Il few days ago with n flow OF
gas estimated at approximately So
| 100000 cubic feet n day. SO terrific
was the pressure of the gas that the
water which had been run into the well
for its full depth of 1920 feet in an
attempt to overcome the gas pressure.
was blown $50 feet In the air. The re-
port caused a great furry of excite
ment AT the time the well blew itself
in the drillers had just removed the
tools from the hole and were standing
near the rig. One of the drillers sud-
denly heard a noise issuing from the
| casing. The noise was soon apparent
to everyone and within q few minutes
water was ronning from the top of the
casing. being forced out by the gas
pressure from below.
Fort Collins-C. L. Hover of Long
mont was elected president of the
Colorado Farmers Congress to sue
ceed DIR. l. L. Gotthelf of Saguache.
III. b. Teller of Byers was chosen
llISl VICE pItSlueult w. w. ldy-
lor OF Fort Collins second vice presi-
dent, and Roud McCann of Fort Col
Inns, director Of extension of the Colo
RADIO Agricultural College, secretary
and treasurer. Those appointed TO
the executive committee were as fol-
lows: Denver district, d. w. Thomas
| Of Denver; plains district, G. E. Col
| Inns of Kit Carson northern district,
| X. M. Haythorne Of Eaton; western
| district, II. f. Rockwell of Paonia;
southwestern district, David Halls of
Gotthelf of Saguache; northwestern
district, r. S. Elting of Hot Sulphur
| Springs; Arkansas district, Mrs. Wal
ter Marriott of Pueblo.
Denver.-Funeral services for Harry
H. Tammen, one of the owners of the
Denver Post, was held last Tuesday
afternoon at his home, 1061 Humboldt
street. The funeral was public. Bur
| lal was at Fairmount. The active pail
bearers were: w. C. Shepherd, Charles
A. Bonfils, Carl Lltzenberger, f. w.
| Feldwisch, Samuel Fry, Joseph II.
LANCER, Louis Levand, Josiah Maloney.
]. Ogden Armour of Chicago, close
| personal friend, who accompanied Mr..
Tammen on his return trip from Bal
| timore hospital three weeks ago, and
Mrs. Armour, arrived in Denver to at
tend the funeral. 1t is estimated that
Mr.. Tammen's estate will be more than
| S6,000,000. Besides a half ownership
| in the Denver Post and the ownership
| of the III. III. Tammen Curio Company,
Mr.. Tammen was heavy investor in
| government securities.
Palisades.-Earl Swisher. son of Mr..
and Mrs. Frank E. Swisher of Pals
| ades, and graduate Of the University
| of Colorado in June, has sailed from
San Francisco for Canton Christian
| College, Canton, China, where he has
| accepted appointment as instructor in
| the department of history. Mr.. Swish
er is the first graduate of the univer
sity to be appointed to the college,
which In the leading institution of
higher learning in South China. Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Taylor of Colorado
| College are also members of the staff
at Canton. Miss Josephine Farley
Budd, for the last year student secre-
| tary of the Y. w. G. A. at the univer
sity has been appointed to work in the
Middle school at the college, and will
devote a good part of her time to the
young women of the student body.
Denver.-Announcem of read
| justment at Cheyenne of air mail
schedules to go into effect Aug. 1,
whereby Denver mail will be enabled
to Oh, in,
New York in twenty-four, was made
by Luther X. Bell, special assistant to
the postmaster general in charge of
the traffic division of the air mail
service who arrived in Denver to con-
fer with Postmaster Frank L. Dodge
and local business men on the new
schedules.
Telluride.-When their automobile
plunged from the road on Keystone
hill, near Telluride, and fell 500 feet
down the hillside, Miss Katherine Nc
Donald, city treasurer of Telluride,
was killed and Mrs. NJ. A. Lynch was
injured, perhaps fatally. Three other
women were thrown from the machine
as 1t started to fall, but were only
slightly injured. Miss Mcdonald and
Mrs. Lynch were thrown practically all
the way down the hill. The car,
wrecked, came to rest in huge tree
overhanging the San Miguel river. Ac
cording to the other women in the
machine, Miss Mcdonald who was
driving, halted to allow another car to
pass. Her brakes failed to hold and
the car slipped backward over the
edge of the road.
Fort Morgan.-The declaration of
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