The Dolores star., 1924-01-25
CRISP
COLORADO
NEWS

| ms anu toboSSdluHS ledtureu lne open
ing of the winter sports here, Jan. 10.
Glenwood Springs.-W. p Bates,
pioneer railroad man of Colorado,
whose home was at Basult, died ut the
hospital at Glenwood Springs of
Bright's disease.
| DenVer.-MOre money was spent by
| travellers and tourists in Colorado in
1923 than was collected in taxes from
the citizens of the state, according to
figures cited by Harry n. Burhans,
secretary of the Tourist Bureau, in an
address before the City Clup.
Colorado Springs.-Colorado Springs
experienced touch of the crime wave
now sweeping Denver when thieves
broke through the plate glass show
window of Hibbard's department store
and made a clean getaway with ap-
| proSimatcly 500 worth of goods.
1olly.-An examination to fill the
position of third class postmaster at
Holly. Colo, will be held Feb. .. The
position which pays salary of $1,000
a year, is open to citizens who have
lived in Colorado for the last year
Examinations will be held ut Lamar.
Pueblo-Twenty-four members of
the Chamber of Commerce and 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.
| Grand Junction.-Fire broke out in
| the Saint Regis hotel at Grand June
| tion, destroyed the entire west wing of
| the hostClry and did damage estimated
at $4,000. Dozens of persons were in
the burning section of the building
when the fire was discovered, but es-
capped without injury.
| Boulder. -"N "Nlncty-nine rcgistrants
| take their courses as would Il small
hoy his morning toilet-an unavoida-
| bic preliminary TO n delicious break
| fast. The life of the scholar is as
| strange to the ninety-nine as. are the
| red men of Mars" writes DR.. Arnold J.
Lien of the political science depart
nent of the University Of Colorado To
the Silver and Gold, student paper, in
giving his reasons why students fail
in their college work.
| PueblO.-pucblo police received Il
| telegram from police at Dallas, Texas,
| informing them of the arrest ut that
| place of II. Il. Jones and Lee Dougan,
| wanted in Pueblo in connection with
| the disappearance of Margaret Par
| sons, 2l years old of Denver, who dis
| appeared sometime during the night of
| Jan. 6 from the state insane asylum.
| Parsons ,aly IN.
tody with the men, but is believed to
be in hiding in or around Dallas.
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
mcnt 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.
O00,O0O cubic feet in twenty-four
hours. Oil experts here who are in
tcrested in the Navajo oil fields, say
they never heard of opening petrol
| cum gas in "A coal mine.
Fort Lupton.-Fie of unknown
origin, which for a time threatened the
| business district of Fort Lupton,
| caused $4,000 damage in the Win
bourn building on the main corner of
the downtown section a few days ago.
The fire destroyed the roof Of the
| building and destroyed practically ev-
| crythng in the rooms of the Ameri-
can Legion, on the second floor. The
| lower floor is occupied by the Neil &
Wyrick Mercantile Company, whose
stock was badly damaged by smoke
and water.
| 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 communica-
tion received by Lieut.-Co X. c. Mas
teller chief of staff, 103rd or Cactus
division, from the War Department in
| Washington.
| DenNer.-AnnOuncem of COM
comprehensive program for the erec-
| tion of modern hatcheries, equipped
with the latest and best parapherna-
liza, is made in the biennial report of
II. G. Parvin, state game and fish
| ''iHiiiSsl'hei- IarNlHS pldHS 10 IN
crease the present fish Matching facili-
ties from 20,OO0,OOO to 5O.0O0,OOO eggs
| Il year.
Cortez.-Usng 30-3O rifle, Il
year-od boy took five shots ut Jesse
Demarco, 33, Italian homesteader, at
the latter's ranch. thirty-fIve miles
northwest of CorteZ, wounding him fa-
tally. No cause is known. After an
arduous two-day trip over almost I'm
passable roads the wounded man was
brought to hospital in CorteZ. 1t is
said the two were alone at the home
Of the victim, near where the youthful
assailant resides, when the shooting
| occurred.
Denver.-Albert +. Houser, 81 years
old. a coal miner of Longmont, Colo.
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