The Dolores star., 1924-10-17
CRISP
COLORADO
NEWS

Rocky Ford-NIycrs Buc6eSs, IL,
was Instantly killed and his father,
/ II II. BuckleSs Of Eads, Colo, received
| serious injuries when small motor
/ truck In which they wen riding was
struck by a train at Rocky Ford, II
/ few days ago.
! Denver - Existing non-sectnrian
| charitable Institutions in Denver and
I through the state will be made the
benefIcIaries OF an annual income Of
| approximately 10000. accruIng from
half the S4Oco,OoO estate OF A. V. Hun
/ ter. Colorado pioneer. II was revealed
| here by Gerald Hughes, Denver attor-
ney, one of three executors Of the es-
tate OF the banker and mining man.
Boulder.-Because they attended a
house party last June in Estes Park,
/ held by members OF the Alpha Tau
Omega fraternity after the close of the
school term, fourteen students at the
| University OF Colorado here have been
prohibited by faculty order from at
tending any school social function dur
| ing the first quarter OF the present
school year. Such post-term parties
are in violation of faculty ruling.
Pueblo.-Pat Rowand, head driller
on afternoon shift at the Chico oil and
gas test location northeast of Pueblo
was badly burned by gas explosion
while workmen were lowering cas-
Ing into the hole. A spectator, light
ing cigar. carelessly threw the match
toward the hole, with the result that
the ignted gas shot upward with n
roar, burning Rowand, who stood five
feet away, in the face.
Greeley-The discovery of the scat
tered bones OF man and n pile Of
clothing near the spot on the Platte
river in the vicinity OF Fort Morgan.
where n mans skull was found last
week. was made by L. V. Warner, a
rancher living nearby. The grewsome
| find was made about $50 feet from
where the skull was found. the bones,
plainly those of small man, being
| scattered over n radius of 200 yards.
Boulder.-The amazing statement
that 90 per cent of the school children
ItNtINly 'h Ntt
western slope have goter indications,
was made here by A. c. Cross, secre-
| tary of the bureau of community or
ganization of the University of Colo
RADIO, who made the inspection. The
condition, he said, is traceable to lack
II iodine in the water. Five thousand
children in forty-siX communities were
examined.
Denver.-A demand for % per
cent reduction in the assessed valua-
| ton of farm lands, improvements on
| farm lands and livestock, which, in
1923, was 575 million dollars, was
made on the state board of equallza-
ton, consisting of the five executive
officers of the state, by the Colorado
| Taxpayers association, made up of
representatives of the various farm
ers' unions. If the reduction should
be made us requested, the state equali-
zation board would be compelled to
cut approximately 40 million dollars
from the assessed valuation on farms,
| improvements and stock.
Cripple Creek.-Systemati develop
ment intelligently planned and per
sistently carried out has added another
large producer in the Cripple Creek
district, which will this year add
| S50OO,OOO or over to the permanent
| yellow metal stock of the world, to
| be drawn upon in the creation of gold
reserves for the great Dawes plan
| hunl.c nj ,,-In riI
serve as the everyday currency of the
people. Meet the Big Banta. This
is the new producer which has shipped
| to the Golden Cycle well at Colorado
Springs upward of seventy carloads of
ore-2,54O tons-in the past month,
ranging in value from $40 to $11O to
the ton.
! Pueblo.-Juan Torrez, youthful ban.
| dit, lies in the city Jail suffering from
many knife wounds which were in.
flicted by Lee Wung Loo, proprietor
of a Chinese restaurant on Northern
avenue, wl3n he caught him stealing
the proceeds of his days work. 1t re-
quired two hours work on the part of
the city physician to take care OF
Torrez' wounds.
Denver.-The state conference o,
the Womnn's Home Missionary Societ,
will be held at Trinity church, Denver
October 81 and %. Mrs. May Leonard
Woodruff, national corresponding sec
retary, will be the conference speaker
Mrs. Woodruff comes directly to Den
yer from the national conference n,
Chicago. The evening meeting of tn,
conference. which is Tuesday, Octo
ber 21 Is arranged especially for tn,
young women. They will be the guest,
at banquet given at $50 In tn,
church. Following this Mrs. Wood
ruff will give an address on "Shall w,
Christianize American A play will
be given by the girls Of Trinity church
This play was written for the occa
sion by Mrs. Guernsey Walker, and Il
entitled, 1.-THE Only Way"
Fort Collins.-Two hundred pupil