The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1924-02-23
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS

| been opened up recently In the Ores
son mine in the downward extension
of the ore body known as the 1920
stope, on the sixteenth level. The ore
was encountered in n raise fifty feet
above the seventeenth level and Is on
| all sides Of the raise. Samples ran
fifty ounces to the ton, or $1,000, and
the new strike Is admitted by the
management to be the most Import
ant since ore was opened on the six
teenth level, two years ago.
Colorado Springs. - Founding Of
| Better Business bureaus here and in
Denver was urged by Carl Hunt, gen.
eral manager of the Associated Adver.
Using Clubs Of the World, in attend
ancc Mt the annual convention of the
eleventh district here. Mr.. Hunt spoke
| mt the closing sessions of the organ
| izatlon Mt the Broadmoor hotel, saying
! that ideals and ideas expressed by
| Denver Pueblo and Colorado Springs
! speakers would be carried out better
! by such bureaus which have operated
successfully elsewhere.
Denver.-Alleging that she married
a second time, believing her first hus-
| band to be dead, Mrs. Leta G. Nc
| Nabb filed n petition in the District
| Court to set aside her marriage on
| July 3, 1923, to John V. Roach. Mrs
| McNabb states that her first husband
| Albert ]. McNabb, disappeared from
| Denver early in 1923 and for months
| she knew nothing Of his whereabouts.
She concluded, she says, he was dead,
and so she remarked
Fort Morgan.---N Ninety three EN-
ployees and officials of the Great
Western Sugar Company of Fort Nor
gan, Brush and Sterling, together with
eleven company officials from Denver
met mt the Curry hotel in Fort Nor
| gan for n pennant powwow to cele-
brate the awarding of the honor flag
to the Fort Morgan plant as the most
efficiently operated plant of the sew
enteen operated by the company dur
Ing the last campaign.
DeBeque-The Bank of DeBeque
| filed suit for $4,000 against the
| National Surety Company in the Dis
trict Court in Denver, alleging that
the defendant has refused liability 70:
Il bond issued to protect the bank
against misconduct of its employees.
| The bank charges that Harry a.
Quigley, an employee, made loans Of
| $500 without the knowledge of the
directors and embezzled $500 for his
own use.
Denver.-The Burns National Bank
of Durango, of which John c. Camp
bell, acquitted in the United States
| District Court of a charge of cOnspir-
| ing to violate the national banking
laws, formerly was president, was
made defendant in two suits institute
ed here in the Denver District Court.
| NJ. II. Hilbert is suing the bank for
| 81, 1916, and the w. A. Snyder Commits
| sion Company of Denver is suing for
$4,000.
Boulder.-"With five million Hitter
ates in the United States and 10000
OF them in Colorado, a big problem of
our rural school system is to educate
these people," said Mrs. Mary c. c.
Bradford, state superintendent of pub
| lie instruction, in an address on "Ihe
| 1924 viewpoint on Rural Education,
before the thirty-eighth annual session
| of the Boulder county teachers asso-
cation at Prep school here.
Fort Logan-The first day of
August has been chosen as the open
ing day for the Citizens Military
Training Camp ut Fort Logan, accord
ing to an announcement by Maj.
David Wood of the 103rd Reserve d.
vision. Five hundred students Will be
accommodated at the fort.
Kersey-Jake Reider, farmer, Is
in a hospital at Greeley, shot through
the chest, and Frank Chestnut, Is in
the city jail charged with the shoot
ing, which took place south OF hersey
during an alteration in which Ches-
mutt accused Reider of taking proper
ty belonging to Chestnut.
Grand Valley-Damage estimated
az approximately 10000, was caused
by fire which swept the main bust
ness section of Grand Valley last
week. The fire, origin of which has
not been determined, started in the
Grand Valley hotel and spread rapidly
to several adjoining buildings. Nolun-
teer firemen worked for several hours
until the blaze was brought under con
troll.
Denver-About fifty leading Den
Yer business firms have already signed
up as participants in the "All For All
Colorado" goodwill publicity and adj
yertising campaign initiated by the
colorado Editorial Association and
Inc association is now planning to be-
yin the campaign at an early date In
newspapers of the state reaching
more than 100000 readers.
Denver.-A surplus of 2,268 was
,,orred nv the Mountain States Tee-