The Dolores star., 1924-03-14
CRISP
COLORADO
NEWS

| completely destroyed the flour mill
here. The loss Is placed at $4,000.
The mill. which was owned by r. c.
Boulder.-The debating team of the
University OF Wyoming met its first
| defeat in nineteen debates here. when
the team of the University OF Colo
rado won an unanimous decision over
the visiting orators.
Fort Colllns.-Cement has been laid
in the Union Oil Company's well
north of here on the Fort Collins
| dome. The we'll Is about 1,4O0 feet
deep and the cement has been laid
at this depth.
Loveland-A crew of men under
W. II. Campbell, road overseer, is
| blasting large rocks in the Big
| Thompson river, in the canon west of
Loveland This is done as matter
of flood prevention.
Fort Morgan - Predictions made
here that development of the oil and
gas pools in northeastern Colorado will
make Fort Morgan one OF the largest
mated discussion and u marked inter-
est in real estate values.
Boulder-Contract for the construc-
tion of $4,000 fraternity house here
has been awarded to the Denver CON
tracing firm of Alex Brown and C. c.
| Schrepferman, 2l2 Interstate Trust
building, 1t was announced by officials
| nj
Denver-Rosallnd Elsner was found
| incompetent to care for her share of
the 100000 estate left by her father.
the late DIR. John Elsner. by lunacy
| commission appointed by County
Judge Luxford, Feb Il, to conduct an
examination into her mental condition.
! Colorado SprinEs.-One of Denvers
| first Catholic priests, who labored in
| the community when 1t numbered but
"A few thousand back in 1876. ccle-
brated his golden jubilee in the priest
| hood here last week. He Is the Rev.
Father John II. Brlnker, for eighteen
years at the local Sacred Heart
church.
Sterling.-Samples of the sausage
which was believed to have been re-
| sponsible for the death of five per
| sons at Sterling, week ago CON
| tanned no sign of botulinus, the germ
which 1t was believed caused the
| fatalities, DIR. J. C. Geiger, professor
of bacteriology at the University of
Chicago. declared
Lafayette. Announcement was
made here last week that active drill
| ing for oil will be under way before
| long within n short distance of Lafay-
ette. A company composed of former
Governor Shoup and associates have
| obtained leases on n large amount of
acreage and it is indicated that half
dozen wells are to be sunk in the
| first test
Denver.-A secret thirty-day re-
prieve by Governor Sweet last week
viii save Joe McGonigal. murderer of
Ella Centers and Wilbur Ferguson.
from the gallows for the present The
| reprleve was signed, according to
! Hale Smith, the governors secretary,
to give alienists an opportunity to ex-
anime McGonigal to determine his
sanity.
Colorado Springs.-Three Colorado
Springs pollcemen-Reuben NJ. Webb,
Edgar l.. Barbee and Jesse NJ SchiSIer
salaries during the last two years as
result of the ruling of the State
Supreme Court. holding invalid the re-
peal ordinance permitting the city
council to fix policemen's salaries
which was adopted at a special cleo
ton in January. 1922.
Denver.-Colorado sugar beet grow
ers already have signed contracts
with the Great Western Sugar Com
pany for more than 10000 acres.
which exceeds the harvested acreage
of last season, according to announce
ment made here. II is expected that
10000 additional acres, or more, will
be signed up in the companys ten
Colorado factory districts, before the
planting season opens.
DurangO.-How Hiss Helen Randall
of the Pickett Corral school, twenty
two miles from Durango, eXtinguished
fire that threatened to destroy her
schoolhOuse was learned here when
Miss Randall arrived in town on
horseback TO secure books and school
supplies. Miss Randall's school Is
built of logs set upright in the ground.
The inside walls are of composition
board" and the roof is galvanized
iron. The ceiling rafters caught fire
from a defective flue. ImprOvising n
scaffold of chairs and desks, Miss
Randall reached the ceiling, tore off
the board and fought the flames with
snow. The school children, under her
direction. formed ''snow line" from
outdoors and passed buckets of Snow
up to her.
Boulder-Students of the Univer-