The Dolores star., 1924-01-18
CRISP
COLORADO
NEWS

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completely destroyed the grain ele-
vator of the Summit Grain Company
mere. The damage is estimated Mt be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000
Colorado Sprlngs--Dcnver will get
the next convention of the Colorado
Association OF Real Estate Boards. ac-
coruing to decision of the conven-
ion which closed here recently.
Boulder.-Gonzaga University, Spo-
kane, WASH, has extended an invita-
tion 10 the University of Colorado for
football game as part of the 1924
season. 1t is under consideration.
Manitou.-A convention of rcpresen-
tatives of the Associated Advertising
Clubs of the World from Colorado,
wyoming. Idaho and Utah, will he held
mt the Broadmoor hotel, Manitou, Feb.
IL and H.
Denver.-The new provision of the
Colorado motor vehicle license law re
quirinS payment of taxes on automo-
biles before issuance of IA state license
is constitutional, the State Supreme
Court held in an opinion handed down
in AN action brought in the Denver
District Court by Alfred NJ O'AIearu
of the oAIeara-Green Automobile
Company.
| Ltttleton.-Prnmotion through merit
from the superintendency of II once oh
scure two-mile electric street car line
in Colorado to the superintendency of
all interurban lines of the Philadelphia
Rapid Transit Company at Niagara
Falls is Il new record for Robert q.
Larkin, formerly superintendent of the
Denver x South Platte railway be-
tween Englew0od and Littleton. News
of his recent advancement was re-
ceived here by friends last week.
Pueblo.-Two ten-year-old Pueblo
lads. now on parole from Juvenile
Court, barely escaped burning to
death when they set fire to "A house in
Avondale. eighteen miles east of this
city, in orde rtO get warm and then fell
asleep in the house. The lads were
rescued by Percy Sutcliff at whose
home they had been given food after
their bicycle ride from Pueblo TO the
neighboring village. They were turned
over to the Juvenile Court officials.
Colorado Springs.-Making his way
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gripping n pistol in the belief that a
,buTglar was in the home, W. Bartlett
Chew, .Jr.. widely known young pusi-
nessman of Colorado Springs, stum-
bled. fell and was killed by the accI-
dental discharge of the gun. Chew's
| bride of two months, the only other
occupant of the house. ON hearing the
| report of the pistol sprang to her nus
bands side and he died us she took his
head in her arms.
Canon City.-The total production
of eggs in the International Egg Lay
ing Contest at Canon City was 2,OS4
for the first month. or Al eggs per
bird. This low production, according
to announcement made by Superin-
tendent II S. Denman, is due to the
fact that there are entered Il large per-
centage of late maturing pullets. Ii
/ shows why high-priced eggs are
shipped into Colorado in the early win
ter, instead of being produced at
home
Denver.-The acreage of crops mar
vested in Colorado in 1923 was the
greatest in the history of the state
This was due to an exceptionally fav
orable season, which made it possible
for growers to harvest at profit
practically the entire acreage planted
to all crops except wheat. The acre
| age planted for the 1923 harvest was
smaller than that of the preceding
| year and was materially reduced by
| the heavy abandonment of winter
wheat on account OF dry weather.
Much of the abandoned wheat land,
| however, was planted to other crops
in the spring, chiefly corn and sor-
| ghums.
Denver-W. II. Whalen, George
Sullivan and Ted Knowles, county
commissioners of Gunnison county,
won their fight to have reversed the
decision of the District Court in that
county, which convicted them of mis-
appropriating money from the county
| treasury to purchase food and liquor
for entertainment.
Puebo.-Aliss Margaret Parsons, 81
years old, daughter of DIR. Stephen T.
| Parsons, Denver. escaped from the
| state hospital for the insane here, and
! according to the superintendent of the
hospital, the police of Denver, Pueblo
and other towns have been,asked to look
for her and Harold Jones, 30, and Lee
Dougan, u, who are suspected by
him of being connected with her disap-
| pearance.
Denver.-The largest gasoline tax in
history was raised by the state last
year, and one-half of the total amount,
S455 5,526.S6, was forwarded few days
ago by State Auditor Arthur NJ Stong
to sixty-two counties Denver county
being the only one not entitled to
participate. Under the state law. one
half of the 2-cent gasoline tax goes to
counties for road construction and the
other half to the state highway de-
partment.
Greeley.-O. Fl. Shoup, former gov
ernor of Colorado, will drill well