The Colorado statesman., 1924-06-14
LATE NEWS
From All OUer,
COLORADO


construction of two bridges over
the Bljou creek, south of Virgins.
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.
Colorado Springs-The twenty-sec-
ond annual convention of Colorado
State Chapter, L. Il. o., was in ses'
sion at the First Christian church,
Colorado Springs, from June 10 to 13.
Boulder.-Twenty-fiv hundred per
sons crowded Macky auditorium for
the forty-first annual baccauaureate
services, at which the Rev. Robert
Hopkins of Denver gave the address.
The audience included many promi-
nent state officials, parents of the
graduating class of 2SS, friends and
students.
Boulder.-The new $5,000,000 Val
mont electric plant of the Public Serv-
Ice Company of Colorado, four miles
east of Boulder, on the main Denver
Boulder highway, is 75 per cent. COM
pleted and will be ready for operation
on Nov. /, according to Clare n. Stan
nard, vice president and general mama
ger of the company.
Denver.-A grand conclave of the
knights Templar of Colorado Will be
held in Denver, September 10 and 20.
Gunnison.-Five-year-old Freda Fos-
ter was drowned when she was washed
away in the torrentlal current of the
CebolIa river after an automobile
driven by her mother, Mrs. Georgia
Foster, plunged off bridge.
La Junta.-The knights of Pythias
Home Association took over the Men
MONTE sanitarium, located about five
miles west of La Junta on $4,000 op-
ton. The sale includes the large san
itarium building erected by the Men
nonites as tuberculosis hospital some
twelve years ago, and 160-acre farm
and all improvements thereon for $780,
600.
Fort Logan.-Nearly 5000 student
soldiers have enlisted for a months
vacation at Uncle Sans expense in
the Eighth Corps area, according to
an announcement at Fort Sam Hous-
ton. Four hundred and fifty of them
have been assigned to Fort Logan.
The western corps is filling more
rapidly than any other in the country,
according to the War Department.
Sheriff's officers and a
posse overpowered band of twenty
five tramps at Limon recently, after
the men had attempted to overcome the
conductor and brakeman on an east
bound Union Pacific freight train near
Deer Trail, and gain control of the
train. Sheriff A. G. Loss placed nine
of the band under arrest and locked
them in a cattle car at Hugo, where
later were lodged in Jail.
Rocky Ford.-Hugh Smith, farmer
living south of VrOman, narrowly
averted death when he leaped from
his automobile just before 1t was
struck by n passenger train at Fay
cite, west of Rocky Ford. Due to a
worn catch, the door of the car was
open and Smith, suddenly sighting the
on-coming train and realizing that a
crash was imminent, jumped to safety.
The car was totally demolished.
Denver.-Suit for $4,000 damages
against the Phillips County State Bank
of Holyoke, Colo, by Ira G. Newman,
a 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 a loan of $500,
was ordered out of United States Dis
trict Court by Judge j. Foster Symes.
Golden.-Under the direction of DIR.
James Underhlll, associate professor
at the Colorado School of Mines, fifty
student engineers have entered upon
six weeks of practical mining opera
tions at the school mine camp at Idaho
Springs. Most of these men will be
seniors next year, and this field work
is required of all graduates. This
work consists of the laying out of
mining claims and in surveying under
ground workings.
Boulder-Men of national fame in
the railroad, banking, investment and
stock business are to address the Colo
RADIO State Bankers Association at its
annual meeting to be held here June
20 and 81. The list of speakers In
cludes Carl Gray, president of the
Union Pacific railroad; Frank w. ST.
monds of the American Bankers AS
sociation, with offices in New York
city; Eugene p. Gum, secretary of the
Oklahoma Bankers Association.
Pueblo.-Earl r. Hoage of Denver
was reelected president of the State
Federation of Labor at the closing
day of the session here. Hoage de-
feated r. F. Robinson of Trinidad by
vote of 100 to 80.