The Colorado statesman., 1924-03-15
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Sampllner, prominent Grand Junction
merchant, has left to his daughter,
Cornelia, junior at the University of
Colorado at Boulder, one-fourth of his
estate, valued at 100000.
| Denver.-Joe Brindlsi was found
guilty of murder in the first degree
and will serve sentence of life i'm
prisonment for the murder of Mrs. Lii
liam McGlone, Aug. 81, 1923. This YER
dict was brought in by jury in the
West Side Court following over thir-
teen hours of deliberation.
Fort Morgan.-Morgan county set
new high record for the season at the
Kansas City stockyards when John
Clay & Company sold for Bath & War
ner of Fort Morgan 315 ewes averag-
ing 102 at $40, and for Peter H. Peter
son of Brush PIG ewes averaging Ill
pounds at the same price.
.Denver-State Game and Fish Com
missioner r. G. Parvin is Investigating
complaint of residents of the San
Luis valley that mining companies are
polluting Kerber creek, a tributary of
the Rio Grande. The charge is made
that water containing kaolin is per-
mitted to run into the creek, and that
the presence of the foreign substance
Is killing the fish.
Craig.-A twenty-four hour test of
the Texas Company's new oil well in
the Hamilton dome, twelve miles from
here, has shown the well has a daily
flow of $500 barrels, A. r. Wilson, as
sistant treasurer of the. Company, an
nounced. The flow was announced
following the test. According to the
announcement of the company the
flow was natural one and the guam
tity at the end of the test was just as
great as during the first hour. This
well, Colorado's latest, was drilled in
the oil sands at a depth of $500 feet.
Denver-As the climax of a chase
through downtown Denver streets and
a gun battle in full sight of hundreds
of pedestrians, Lawrence Clifford Mel
son, alleged member of a bandit gang
that has terrorized Denver for the last
month, was fatally shot, and his COM
panlon, Eugene Charles Vos was ar
rested. Nelson. was shot with riot
gun in the hands of Patrolman Arthur
G. Wachter, when he pulled his gun
from his pocket to shoot the officer
after he had been cornered with Vos
by a police automobile.
Denver.-Another dollar ton for it's
sugar beets for the 1923 crop will be
paid to beet farmers by the Great
Western Beet Sugar Company on April
l, it was announced here Total dis
tribution among the growers by the
company on that date will be about 81
100000. This represents the second
payment, each of 81 per ton, since the
close of the 1923 beet harvest, or to-
tai ton payment to date of $3.50 In the
Colorado-Nebraska districts of the
company and So a ton for the beets of
higher sugar content in the Montana
district
Boulder.-Windsor high school bas-
ketball team, backed by the Windsor
band and roofing squad Of more than
200 frenzied Windsor fans, won the
state championship at the state high
school tournament, which came to a
close here, when they defeated the
Canon City team 81 to 10. Windsor
went through the entire three days of
play without losing a game, and as II
result captured the second leg on the
large silver loving cup, which repre-
sents the championship of the Colorado
high schools in basketball and which
must be taken three consecutive times
to be retained. They also won the
Spalding cup as a permanent trophy.
Canon City wins the cup offered for
runnersup as well as a bronze shield
for second place.
Observation-Disclosures Dell, II years
old the son of John w. Dell, a Long
mont laborer, was found dead on the
Colorado & Southern tracks near the
city, his body mangled almost beyond
recognition.
| Winds or-Windsor high school bas-
ketball team, champions of Colorado,
will attend the national basketball
tournament to be held under the aus
pieces of the Chicago University at that
city on April 1 to
Colorado Springs.-One of Denver's
first Catholic priests, who labored in
the community when it numbered but
few thousand back in 1876, cele-
DRAFTED his golden jubilee in the priest
hood here last week. He is the Rev.
Father John II. Brinker for eighteen
years at the local Sacred Heart
church.
Denver-A secret thirty-day re-
prieve by Governor Sweet last week |
will save Joe McGonigal, murderer of
Ella Centers and Wilbur Ferguson,
from the gallows for the present. The
reprieve was signed, according to
Hale Smith, the governors secretary
to give alientsts an opportunity to ex-
anime McGonigal to determine his