The Dolores star., 1924-06-20
CRISP
COLORADO
NEWS

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held In Denver, September 10 ana ".
Fort Morgan.-Morgan county Is I"
spend several hundred dollars In IN"
| construction of two bridges over
| the Bijou creek, south of Virgins.
| LouIsville.-A monument TO the men
and TO Miss Genevieve Moffitt, nurse,
who represented Louisville In the
World War, was unveiled here last
week.
Golden.-Falling from an improved
| log bridge thrown across Bear creek
one and one-half miles above Morri-
son, Mary Colling. of Denver, was
drowned.
Denver.-Recall petitions against
Mayor Benjamin f. Stapleton have
been certified us sufficient for the
calling of II special recall election by
the municipal election commission.
Colorado Springs.-The twenty-sec-
ond annual convention of Colorado
State Chapter, +. L. o., was in ses-
sion at the First Christian church,
| Colorado Springs, from June 10 to IL.
Denvcr.-PInk granite ore struck In
the boring Of the Moffat tunnel an'
believed to be gold-bearing, was found
to contain no gold or other metals in
valuable quantities when assayed by
the Henry L. Wood Assaying Company
here
Denvcr.-A vein Of pink granite ore,
believed to contain n paying quantity
OF gold. has been struck in the cNca-
vatIon of the Muffat tunnel, accord
ing TO an announcement made here by
w. 7. Robinson, chairman of the Mof-
fat tunnel commission.
MOntrose.-An extra session of Con
grCsS to pass the reclamation bill is
being urged by the Uncompahgre Val
ley Water Users Association in rcso-
lutiOns which were drafted and wired
to President Coolidge and the senators
md representatives from Colorado.
Walsenburg.-Local officials here
nre confronted with an apparently i'm
penetrablc mystery in an attempt to
solve the puzzle created by the discov-
cry last week of the charred bones of
woman buried in the sands of dry
creek bed four miles southeast of
here.
Brighton.-Gcorge Haney was CON
victed of larceny today in connection
with the theft of material from n pa
per mill near here several months ago.
and sentenced TO term of two to
three years in the penitentiary by Dis
trict Judge Samuel johnson in the Dis
trict Court here.
Denver-Simultaneo announcement
Of the resignation OF Ben S. Read as
president of the Mountain States Tele-
phone and Telegraph Company and the
selection of Frederick III. Reid, form
erly of Denver, as his successor, were
made by the board of directors of the
company here.
Rocky Ford.-Hugh Smith, farmer
living south of Vroman, narrowly
averted death when he leaped from
his automobile just before it was
struck by a passenger train at Fay
ette, west of Rocky Ford Due to Il
worn catch, the door of the car was
open and Smith, suddenly sighting the
on-coming train and realizing that II
crash was imminent jumped to safety.
Denvcr.-Suit for $4,000 damages
against the Phillips County State Bank
of HOlyoke Colo, by Ira C. Newman,
farmer in the neighbOrhood of Hol-
yoke, who alleged that the bank failed
to collect, or permit him to collect.
three notes of $4,000 each which he
declared he had deposited with the
bank as collateral on Il loan of 81 500
was ordered out of United States Dis
trict Court by Judge j. Foster Symes.
Golden.-Under the direction of DR.
James Underhill, associate professor
at the Colorado School of Mines. firty
student engineers have entered upon
six weeks of practical mining operu
uons mt the school mine camp at Idaho
Springs. Most of these men Will he
seniors next year, and this field work
Is required of all graduates. This
work consists of the laying ont of
mining claims and in surveying under
| ground workings.
Bouider.-Men of national fame in
the railroad, banking, investment and
STOCK business are to address the Colo
rado State Bankers Association ot its
annual meeting to be held here Juno
| ~ and 2l. The list of speakers in.
cludes Carl Gray, president of the
Union Pacific railroad; Frank w. 81.
ihonds of the American Bankers AS
sociation, with offices in New yorl;
city; Eugene p. Gum, secretary of the
Oklahoma Bankers Association.
Gunnison.-Five-year-old Fredo Eos
ter was drowned when she was washed
away In the torrentlal current of the
CeDoiia river after an automobile
driven by her mother, Mrs Georri,
roster, plunged off bridge.
Boulder.-Twenty-flve hundred nor
sons crowded Macky auditorium for
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