The Dolores star., 1924-06-13
CRISP
COLORADO
NEWS

Q years old. is in the Fort Morgan hos
pital with his face badly injured us the
result of kick by horse.
Boulder-One hundred and twenty
seven. the largest class in the history
OF the State Preparatory School at
Boulder. graduated a few days ago.
Denver.-John W. Morcy, president
and manager OF the Morey Mercantile
Company, was elected president of the
Wholesale GroccrS' Association at Its
convention in Chicago, according 10
word received here.
Durungo.-Floyd Capps, llneman,
was electruCuted at the Western Colo
RADIO Power Company's camp at Cas-
cade, thirty miles north of here, when
| falling telephone wires, believed TO
| have been crossed with power line,
struck him.
Estes Park-The completion Of II
| $4,000 scholarship fund is expected to
be reported June %, when the fiftleth
convention of Delta Gamma, national
college sorority. meets here for its
| golden anniversary. The fund has now
passed the $4,000 mark.
Colorado Springs.-Declaring that
unless Il 1O-cent fare was granted that
the company would be forced TO dis
continue service and junk its lines, the
| Colorado Springs x Interurban Rail
way Company in communication to
| the city council, declared that 1t would
| no longer Opprntp ut n loss
Cripple Creek.-Nathan +. Leopold.
| Sr., millionaire Chicago box manufac.
| turer, whose son is held, with another
| youth, in connection with the kidnap.
Ing and murder of 13year-old Robert
| Franks, formerly lived in Cripple Creek
| and Is the owner of the Henry Adney
mine, on Beason hill, near the FL Paso
| mine.
Pueblo-Some of the most promi.
| nent men in the state of Colorado, in.
| Guiding Governor Sweet and the Hon.
| II. Z. Burke. justice of the Supreme
| Court OF Colorado, will be on the pro
gram for the state convention of Lions
which is to be held in Pueblo Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday, June 0, 10,
and IL.
Leadvile-The Leadville fire de-
partment was called out recently to the
top Of a hill in an outlying section OF
town by what appeared to be Il fire
but which they found to be huge
flaming cross. The flrcmen allowed the
cross to continue to burn and retreated
This is the first manifestation of ku
KluX activity in Leadvillc
Craig.-After deliberutlng for more
than forty hours, a jury returned 0
verdict of not guilty before Judge G
L. Herrick in the trial Of John Il. vii
lis, former cashier of the State Bank
| at Maybelle, Colo. Willis was charged
with embezzlemcnt in connection with
II $500 note, which 1t was charged he
had juggled while he was cashier The
bank was closed last fall by order oi
the stute bank commissioner.
Colorado Springs-Culurado Springs
police have redoubled their efforts tc
find Pete Martinez, believed to have
engaged in drunken brawl, which re.
suited in the death of Zuente Madrid
in a bunkEouse at Buttes, twenty-five
miles south of Colorado Springs and
given emergency treatment at the ST
Francis hospital, died without regain.
Ing consciousness.
Craig.-1t is reported in Craig that
the Texas Production Company will
build pipe line to Craig immediately.
from the Moffat oil field seventeen
miles south of Craig. 1t is said that
the Texas Company will establish "A
tank farm on the outskirts of Craig and
ship oil by rail over the Moffat road
and the Union Pacific to the refinery
at ParcO, Wyo.
BOulder.-Fire all but DESTROYED the
Alpha Tau Omega fraternity house at
broadway and Thirteenth streets. The
blaze, according to Chief Emil John
son of the Boulder fire department.
started with n short circuit in the at
tic, caused by dampness Of the roof.
L!mon.-Sheriffs officers and al
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 cattle car at Hugo, where
later were lodged in Jail.
La Junta.-C. J. Jones, entomologist.
and c. VI. Thompkins, plant pathoIo.
gist, of the State Agricultural College
at Fort Collins. are in Otero county
ready to assist in the control Of insect
outbreaks or plant diseases. There Is
perhaps more annual loss caused by
Insects and plant diseases In Otero
county than by any other two destr1,c.
tive agencies known, and these two
men will use every effort to correct
these evils as nearly as possible.
BouIder.-Mlss Marjorie Grace Fort
70 years old, teacher in the Unlver.
Sity Hill School at EOulder rvaa Lttlod