The Colorado statesman., 1924-07-05
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COLORADO


Akron.-one hundred members of
the Boys and Girls Pig Club of Wash
ington county, with headquarters in
Akron, Colo, visited Denver stock
yards last week.
Denver-The date for the recall
election was definitely set as August
II, when an ordinance providing for
the same was passed on second and
final reading by the city council.
Craig.-The Midwest Oil Company,
drilling on the Clarence French home
stead in the lies structure, reported
been made. The strike was made at
l,322 feet.
Durango.-Jack Kimsey was cleo
trocuted at the top of n power COM
pany pole, while welding live wires
carrying a heavy voltage. Physicians
worked five hours in a vain effort to
save him.
Greeley.-The mysterious death of
Ernest Zeiss, wealthy land owner
whose body was found in the Eng
lish irrigation ditch with a bullet
wound in the head, is puzzling local
authorities.
Del Norte.-C. E. Smith of Boston,
who has been in the San Luis valley
for several weeks investigating the
prospects for locating woolen mill
either at Monte Vista or Del Norte
has returned home.
Denver.-The State Industrial Com
mission has approved new schedule
of rates for workmen's compensation
insurance in this state, increasing the
rates in effect during the last few
years by approximately 10 per cent.
Trinidad.-Two armed bandits held
up and robbed ii. Il. McKinsley, cash
Ter of the Gottlieb Mercantile Com
pany at Cokedale, and II. McCabe, of
$500 in a grip which was being taken
to the Boncarbo coal mining camps
near here. The bandits escaped.
Loveland.-Word has been received
by Mrs. L. L. Furnish from headquar-
ters of the marines at Washington that
her son, Glen o. Burk, died June %
of burns incurred the day before in Il
kerosene explosion while boiling water
nt Camp Schurman, at Peitaiho, China.
Fort Collins.-The Wellington Oil
Company spudded its first well, it was
announced here, on the Hanna farm,
half mile east of Waverly, on the
Douglas structure. The well is To-
Gated in the southeast corner of the
southeast quarter of section 24-9-69.
Pueblo.-The body of Miss Marguer-
lite +. Rayner, a school teacher, was
recovered from the Bessemer ditch
here. Her drowning, believed suicidal,
was the fifth to occur in the Bessemer
canal In eleven days. III health Is be
lieved to have led Miss Rayner to sui
eide: aSg aS:E 'e~-
Denver.-B. A. Leach of Loveland
was instantly killed and his son, Rob-
ert, 8 years old, was probably fatally
injured when the truck in which they
were riding toward Denver was struck
by q Denver & Interurban train at
tbs Federal boulevard crossing, two
miles north Of the city.
Boulder.-The Society for the Pro-
motion of Engineering Education, at
the final session of it's annual conven-
ton selected A. A. Potter, dean Of en-
gineering at Purdue university to be
It's next president. Dean Potter is now
in London, business there having pre-
vented him from attending the conven-
lion
Boulder.-After he had been bested
in fight with deputy sheriff, Paul
Frantz, convicted bootlegger, suddenly
knocked the officer down when he was
closing the door of the prisoners cell,
sped through the Jail corridor, lodged
n shot fired by the sheriff's wife, and
made his escape from the city Jail
here.
Estes ParB.-Myriads of girls, men,
bers of the Delta Gamma national col
legiate sorority, thronged into Estes
Park for the twenty-second biennial
fiftieth year of existence. More than
700 delegates attended. The conven-
ton was officially opened with an ad-
dress by Miss Nancy Woolett, presi-
dent.
Denver.-The resignation of CRANKY
HiIlyer as United States district at
torney will become effective July 1,
whether or not his successor has been
appointed by that time, Mr.. Hillyer an
nounced here. At the time of his res
ignation, the first part Of May, he re-
quested that a successor be appointed
by July l, and officially resigned the
position.
Leadvile.-Jack Fallon was found
guilty of the murder of Miss Doris
Fortney by a jury in District Court
here. The jury's verdict was second
degree murder. The body of the wom-
an was found on the Denver & Rio