The Dolores star., 1924-06-13
COLORADO NEWS NOTES

| loNtl.ntl.- silFAiN"h''
| city of Lovcland for certificate OF
public necessity and convenience i"r
the erection Of municipal light and
power plant was denied by the STATE
| Public Utilities Commission. after
hearing the application and the pro
| test entered against II by the Pubic
! Service Company OF Colorado. 1t con
stituteS the second time Loveland has
applied for such certificate and has
been denied. for in 1917 the city also
planned municipal plan. The fubiic
Service Company protested against the
| application of Loyeland before the
| commission, and the commission ruled
that the company is giving perfectly
satisfactory service TO the consumers.
In its denial the commission added tNHt
due TO the expense of erecting mu-
nlcipal plant, the cost of light ana pow
er to consumers would be increased 80
per cent over what the Public Service
Company is now charging.
Cruiy.-The Texas Production Com
pany will build II pipe line into Craig
Immediately from the Moffat field. sew
entecn miles south of Craig, according
to reports II is said that the Texas
company intends TO establish tank
farm on the outskirts of Craig ana
ship oil by rail over the Union Pacific
to the Parcu, Wyo., refinery. Residents
of Craig are inclined to take this an
nounCement us meaning that the Tex
as company will establish refinery
there in case the other five wells II is
drilling in the Moffat field and the
combination well II is drilling with the
Midwest and Transcontinental in the
Hes and Beaver Creek structures are
productive. At present the Texas com
pany has a 5.0O0-barrel well in the
Hamilton field, brought in last Janu-
ary. The company has only 6.5G-bar'
rel storage capacity ut the well and the
hole has been capped.
Pueblo.-Officers were elected at the
annual conference of the lnternoun-
tain Typographical Union ut Boulder,
Alonzo Wiley of Denver being made
president. Other officers elected are
W. |. Reilly, Colorado Springs, first
vice president; J. r. klnch. Pueblo,
second vice president August koester,
Pueblo, third vice president; Ward
Hudson, Cheyenne, Wyo., fourth vice
president S. W. Culhane, Grand June
ton, fifth vice president; w. II. Gard
ner, Greeley, sixth vice president; ii.
a. Morgan. Trinidad, seventh vice pres.
ident; Charles Deus. Pueblo, secretary;
w. J. ShroadS, Pueblo, fraternal dele
gate to annual state conference of Fed
Grafton of Labor The next annual
meeting will be held in connection
with the state convention.
Denver.-Total operating revenues
Of the Colorado & Southern Railway
Company In the year ended Dec. 81,
1923, were S23,SGO2l9, Il decline OF
S4GS, ,542, or 1.93 per cent from the to-
tai in 1922, according to the annual re-
port sent TO stockholders. Net revenue
from operations was S5,1GO.TJ5. com
pared with S5,771.902, and railway op-
erating income was S3.S26, 500, COM
pared with S4,i29,3 ,3a8. Gross income
was SJ,O99.S0O compared with $500.
iST. Net income of S1,924.54 after
charges and Interest and preferred div
idends was equivalent To S4.Ol share
on 3l,ooO,0OO of common, compared
with $3.40 in 1922
Pueblo.-Pueblo had more forty
pound butter-fat cows during April
than any other county in Colorado in
ton %
Out of 25I cows in the Pueblo County
Cow Testing Associations ten herds.
there were sixty-three forty-pomi
cows, according to the report of the
state dairy commissioner The aver
age pounds of fat per COW for the coun-
ty was 80, and average pounds milk
per COW. SS6.7.
Dcnver.-Frank Newton Briggs, for
mer president of the defunct Interstate
Trust Company. who was found guilty
of embeZzlement several weeks ago. be-
fore Judge F. L. BOuck of I,eadvilIe. in
the West Side Court. was sentenced to
pay fine of $1,000 by Judge BOuck.
Limon.-A band of twenty-five ho-
D''S HAlf'HplFu 10 DNeTpOWer the CON
ductor and brakeman on an eastbound
Union Pacific freight train near Deer.
trail and were only frustrated In their
efforts to gain control of the train
when they were overpowered in a bat
tie with Sheriff a. G.. Loss and posse
at Limon. Nine of the band were
placed under arrest. locked In cattle
car and taken to Hugo, Colo, where
they were lodged in jail.
La Junta.-The Knights of PythIss
Home Association took over the Men.
MONTE sanltarium, located about five
miles west o. La Juntn on a 5000 Oh
'ton. The sale includes the large san.
ltarium building erected by the Men
nonites as tuberculosis hospital some
twelve years ago, and leO-acre farm
and all improvements thereon for SO
900.
Walden.-The North Park Bank of
Walden Is In charge of the stat. bont