The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1924-03-01
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS


Rameses II, Egypt's great pharaoh,
VIII apply for permission to change
his name to Frank Rameses, It became
known here with plans by Butler to
file his application. Butler believes
that he was adopted through his moth
er by the first member of that family
1900 years ago. Butler claims that he
has been In communication for years
with SethOs through spirltuallsm,
which he has adopted as his religion,
and has received advice on many per-
picking problems.
Denver.-Six Denver firemen were
hurt. three perhaps fatally, when
ten-ton triple combination fire truck
struck small automobile. skldded and
turned over three times. burying two
men beneath 1t and throwing the four
others to the ground at Eighth avenue
and Emerson street. The truck was
travelling forty miles an hour when it
struck small delivery car driven by
L. j. Larson. Larson's machine was
hurled fifteen feet and overturned. he
received only minor injuries.
Out
Of the most widely known pure bred
cattle men in the West, has sold his
| herd of 1000 pure bred Hereford
breeding cows to the San Luis Valley
Land and Cattle Company. The dis
pOsal of the herd removes temporarily
from the industry one of the most pic
turesque figures in the West. Sherlock
is known as Powder River and for
more than fifty years has followed the
ups and down of the range cattle
breeding business.
misunderstanding n gunnysack
containing about half the bones of
what was once Juan Meastav, Mexl-
can sheepherder, Sheriff Maupin OF
San Juan county, N. NJ, arrived In Du-
range last week en- route to Aztec. In
his custody was Edumenio Meastaz,
self-confessed slayer, who led the Of
| ficers to a clump of scrub oak five
miles south of Tiffany, Colo, and Just
over the line into New Mexico, where
he had concealed the body on June II,
1923, the day of the killing.
LittletOn.-One man is in Jail, sec
ond and two women, wives of the two
men, are suffering from bruises and
decorations as a result of a general
free-for-all fight between the two cou-
pies here. The man in jail, Marine
Leonetti, is alleged to have attempted
to shoot Leroy West during the course
of the fight. Wives of the two men are
alleged to have taken an active part in
the quarrel with their bare hands.
Meeker.-State prohibition officers,
assisted by a score of deputized citl-
zens, conducted a booze and gambling
cleaning, arrested twenty men and
wrecked what they declared was the
existence of well manipulated moon
shine dispensing clique, which had OPP
Grated uninterruptedly for months. The
raids were led by Officers James w.
Melrose and w. L. Reece of the staff
of Director John r. Smith.
Wiley.-Natural gas in strong flow
has developed in the deep water well
being sunk on the William Rudolph
ranch, three miles northwest of Wiley.
in Bent county. At a depth of 515
feet the flow coming from between two
sets of casing is so strong that pro-
gress with the drilling is made only
with extreme difficulty.
Denver.-Carcasses of twenty-three
mountain sheep have been found three
miles from Tarryall, in the Lake
George district, State Game and Fish
| Commissioner r. G.. Parvin announced
here. They are victims of the epidemic
which threatens to exterm1nate the
few mountain sheep left in that part
of the state.
| Pueblo.-A convention for District
Is, United Mine Workers or America,
| will be held in Pueblo March II and Is,
according to announcement of Felix
Pogliano, secretary of the district. Re
vision of the constitution and outlining
| of policies for the forthcoming year
are the objects of the meeting.
northumberland G. Parvin, state
fish and game commissioner an
nounced that Colorado has received
100000 rainbow trout eggs recently
purchased from Utah. These eggs will
| be taken to the hatchery near Brigh-
ton, where they will be Matched prepar-
atory to being placed in streams this
summer. This shipment brings the to-
tai of eggs so far received up to 2,0OO,-
| 900.
Denver. Denver's biggest booze
seizure" in the form of a freight car
loaded with sacramental wines, fell
with flop when Denver police who
had stood guard over the car for more
than twelve hours received summary
orders from the federal prohibition
agents to release the carload of liquor
and permit the shipment to continue
under an authorized government per
nit.
| Greeley.-A rich vein of gold has