The Colorado statesman., 1924-03-29
LATE NEWS
From All OUer
COLORADO

to get their ground in proper shape for
the 1924 crop have been held up by un-
favorable weather conditions.
Greeley.-Greeley High school won
the championship of the lntermountain
basketball tournament at Salt Lake City
by defeating Latter Day Saints High
school, Salt Lake City, 20 to 13.
Boulder.-The Ohio Oil Company
spudded in their first we'll in the Hay
stack structure, eight miles north OF
here, last week, without ceremony.
Two hundred persons witnessed the
operation.
Leadville-Five persons were ar
rested here in a series Of liquor raids
by federal prohibition officers from
Glenwood Springs, who expressed their
intention to "clean up" Leadville be-
fore they left town.
Glenwood Springs.-Harry o. Swift
ger, alderman and associated with
Mayor Mcdonald In the Mcdonald
Switzer Hardware Company, died here
as the result of complications settling
in, following a recent operation.
Pueblo-Five million dollars will be
spent with the Colorado Fuel and Iron
Company for 100000 tons of steel rails
by the Santa Fe system, asserted e. l..
Copeland, secretary-treasurer of that
railway, at a recent dinner of the
Pueblo Commerce Club.
De Beque.-Jake Gilman, a we'll
known rancher of De Beque, Colo, is
at the point of death in the hospital
here as a result of two bullet wounds
which he received, and his wife, Nat
tie, is being held in the county jail at
Glenwood Springs in connection with
the shooting.
Fort Collins.-William Ross of Love
land, who is now serving a years SEN
tence in the state penitentiary for
manslaughter in connection with the
death of Mrs. Anna Lapp, also of Love
land, who was killed Feb. 4, 1921, by
an automobile said to have been driven
by Ross, was found not guilty by a
jury in District Court here on charge
of perjury which resulted from his tes-
timony at the time of the manslaugh-
ter trial.
Notwithstanding will erect a mu
nicipal light and power plant despite
the protest of the Public Service Com
pany Contracts for the completion of
the plant, upon which work was start
ed several years ago but not carried
out, have been let by the city council
to the Hendrie-Bolthoff Company of
Denver for S371, ,5S7. IA. The Hendrie-
Bolthoff Company also agrees to buy
the city's bond issue of $425,000 vot-
ed by the council for the plant.
Boulder.-Leading educators of the
state are to meet in Boulder April 3
and for their annual high school
and college conference, sponsored by
the University of Colorado. The
junior college, plans for the Colorado
Education Association, school citizen
ship, the platoon school and its possi-
bilities, professional preparation OF
the elementary teacher, duties and re-
sponsibilities of principalship and
preparation of teachers are some of
the subjects that will be discussed.
Denver.-Suit to foreclose a trust
mortgage upon property of the EN-
pire Consolda Mines Company in
Clear Creek county, Colorado, given
to secure n bond issue of 100000 and
interest thereon, was filed in District
Court here by Charles d. Cutler. De-
PENDANTS in the action besides the
mines company are the Bankers and
Stockmen's Trust Company, Wyo-
ming corporation, and William A.
Skinner, NJ A. Jobe and Thomas z.
Fahey, as trustees after the dissolu'
ton of the trust company.
Fowler.-The local high school build
ing was destroyed by fire of unknown
origin A pumper apparatus was
rushed here from Rocky Ford, making
the twenty-five mile run in thirty-five
minutes, when the blaze reached such
proportions that the local department
was unable to check it. The loss is es-
timated at $4,000.
Loveland. = Interests representing
the Midwest Refining Company have
Just appeared for the first time in
the records of Lariner county as ac-
quiring property in the northern Colo
RADIO oil field. The entry consists of
oil and gas assignments covering l.
$50 acres in sections 8, 8, 16, II, 20
and 81, township f. range GO. This
location is about two miles directly
west of Berthoud and about forty
miles north of Denver and twenty-five
miles south of Fort Collins. The
transfer is from the Rocky Mountain
Oil Company to G. B. Jenkinson, the
latter being a member of the Mid
west Refining staff. 1t is understood
that Sinclair interests are also acquir-
ing oil properties in the Berthoud
field, although the records of such
transactions have not yet been en-
tered in the Larimer county records.