The Dolores star., 1924-06-27
CRISP
COLORADO
NEWS

last year, according TO the crop report
of the Department OF Agriculture for
June ].
Blanca.-A family quarrel led to the
suicide OF Sarafine Arguella after he
had shot and wounded his wife. After
shooting his wife Arguella rushed
from his home and killed himself with
the same gun.
Pueblo.-The bodies OF Mrs. Grace
Cole, her S-months-oId baby, and her
brother-in-law, Louis Cole, who were
drowned in the Bessemer irrigation
ditch here, were recovered when the
ditch was drained.
Denver-The unloaded rifle added
another to its toll here when DR.. 7. Il.
Wilson, 81 years old, Denver chiroprac-
tor, was shot and instantly killed
when rifle in the hands of his son,
Aldean Wilson, 81, was accidentally
discharged.
Greeley.-The Colorado State Teach
ers' College closed its registration day
for the summer school here with n to-
tai enrolment of 2,2OI students. This
number is several hundred more than
were registered for the first day Of
summer school last year.
Delta.-AIrs. b. L. Simmons and her
3-year-old child were drowned near
Hotchkiss when an automobile which
Mrs. Simmons was driving carecned
into an irrigation ditch. The car
turned over and pinned Its victims be
meath 1t. The bodies have been rccoy-
cred.
BouIder.-Goods and cash amount
ing to more than $1,000 and n wrecked
coupe are the result Of Il raid by bur
glars who ransacked the entire bust
ness district of Niwot, Colo, near here.
Bank, the providers entered practically
every establishment in the town.
PagoSa Springs.-The little sons of
NJ. X. Thomas and Everett Pollard are
eating wheat at the Pollard ranch
which had been treated with formal.
dehyde for smut After violent vomit-
ing the youths recalled that they had
been eating wheat and barley while
playing rabbit. They will recover.
To carry out the policies laid down
In the resolutions adopted by the cur
rent biennial session OF the General
Federation OF Women's Clubs, to con-
tinue the work begun by her prcdeces-
hn
sources and beauties of the country,
these are the high lights of the first
official statement Issued by Mrs. John
d. Sherman of Estes Park, Colo, elect
ed president of the organization at Los
Angeles.
Fort Morgan.-George Bath, As years
old, a farmer living six miles north
east of Fort Morgan, in fit of violent
insanity, welded a crowbar with prob
ably fatal effect upon his wife and
after leaving her for dead, crushed the
skulls of two daughters, Lydia, 10
years old, and Marie, H. Bath then
committed suicide by hanging himself
to rafter In barn behind the house,
slashing his wrists with u razor before
leaping with the moose about his neck
Fort Collins.-The Colorado Agricul.
tural College again has won the honor
of being classified as distinguished
college for the high quality of It's mil
itary training, according to Information
received by President Charles A. Lory
from Eighth corps area headquarters
Mt Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Iht
college held this honor, which Is ac
corded to about one college in five a
which Il. o. T. G. units are main
talned, two years ago and the yeal
previous to that.
Colorado Springs.-The state p. L
o. convention here was attended b,
300 delegates representing the seventy
three chapters of the organization. TIL,
purpose of the society, which is on,
of the strongest national secret organ
lzations for women in the country, |.
to secure higher education for youn.
women.
Fort Collins.-Official reports of tn
progress of drilling operations on tn
Wellington, Fort Collins, Dougla
Lake and adjacent oil structures shov
that the Union Oil Company of Cali
fornia, despite bad luck, still has tn,
two deepest wells drilled in the fiel,
since the bringing in of the huge Wei
lington gasser.
Otis, Colo.-From the farm regio,
twenty miles south of Otis, Colo
comes the story of 14-year-old girl
| heroism which saved the lives of tw
younger children when the kitchen O
| their home became n roaring furnace
after the overturning of gallon ca1
| of gasoline upon hot kitchen stove
The little heroine, Gladys Peterson
was baking bread while the parent
were visiting with neighbor.
Colorado Springs Decentralization q
a 10-cent tramway fare in this cit
was given by the local city councl
here sitting as Il public utilities bod,
The councils action authorizes an In
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