The Dolores star., 1924-02-22
CRISP
COLORADO
NEWS

| Injecting OF tne MOuntuln anu tlalu
Farmers Institute was held at Pleas
antview, two miles north of Boulder,
last week.
Denver.-Two armed bandits entered
a Continental on Company filling sta
ton here held up X. Il. Hedlund, col
lector, and Harold Hutton. an attend
ant. and carried away more than ST.
100.
Denver. - Selection of Colorado
Springs as the convention city for the
Republican state convention March IL
| was made ut the meeting of the state
central committee of the party held
last week.
Fort Collins.-PermissiOn has been
granted by the Interstate Commerce
| Commission to the Union Pacific rail-
road to construct eighteen miles of
rnidroad from Fort Collins north into
| the Fort Collins and Wellington gas
and oil fields.
| Canon City.-The steel viaduct sup
| porting the pipe line of the Canon City
water works system across deep
| gulch in the hills near the tunnel
| driveway at the mouth of the Royal
| Gorge collapsed few days ago and
| fell with Il great crash into the ravine
| below.
Dcnver.-The report of the special
| federal grand jury holding CRANKY
| Hillyer, United States attorney, to be
'in league with bootleggers and unfit
| to hold his Office was ordered ex-
| plunged from the records Of the United
States District Court and stricken from
the court files by Judge Colin Neblett
| of New Mexico.
PueblO.-Alleging that men under ar
rest charged S1.50 for each quarter
grain tablet of morphine l.. II. Watts,
federal narcotic agent, said that new
high record price for drugs had been
established. The men are DIR. A. l..
Holcomb, white; DIR. Thomas H. Lee,
| colored, and l.. J. Harris, colored,
real estate agent.
KiOwa.-William d. Reilly, state
senator from 1914 to 1918. and delegate
to the Democratic national convention
mt San Francisco in 1920, died at his
home here last week of heart disease
caused by acute indigestion. Mr.. Rell-
ly was Al years old. His funeral was
held in Colorado Springs, where he was
II member of the Elks lodge.
Denver-Postmaste for six Colo
RADIO towns We're appointed last week.
according to word received by Post
master Frank l.. Dodge They are as
follows: Antonito, Charles c. Hurst;
Delagua, George Baker; Louisville
Lillian d. Watson; Mancos, james NJ.
Brown: Tungsten, Edward f. Green,
and Two Buttes, Mary J. Fuller.
Denver.-The average assessed value
of all agricultural land in Colorado has
Increased 21 per cent in Colorado since
1914, or from S11.67 In 1914 to S1412
in 1923. During this period there has
been an increase in the average as
sessed value per acre of every class of
land except improved fruit land which
has shown decrease of SO per cent.
Otis.-The first annual Washington
county corn show, held at Otis, was
one of the most successful shows of It's
kind ever held in Colorado, according
to business men of Akron, Platner and
Otis, who financed the affair. Wood
row took first prize, loving cup, and
Otis won second award in the commun-
ity exhibits. Eightytwo Individual ex-
hibits were entered.
DEMONSTRATING guilty to having
swindled Colorado and Wyoming farm
ers and business men out of thousands
of dollars by the promotion of fake
tractor and implement company in
Denver in 1918, James L. Hand and
Mont Flynn, both of Kansas City, Mo-,
were fined $1,000 and costs each in
United States District Court by Judge
Colin Nebett.
( Salda.-O. Randall Meacham, 49,
year-old son of o. II. Meacham, Sr.,
publisher of Salida, has been appoint
ed to the United States Military Acad-
emy mt West Point, n. Y, by Senator
Phipps. according to recent an
nouncement from Washington, D. C.
Meacham was appointed as principal,
but in case he does not enter the acad-
cmy two alternates were named.
Boulder-Leases on nearly $500
acres of land in the Haystack mountain
region. eight miles north of Boulder
have been filed at the county clerks
office here by the Ohio Oil Company
Of Flndlay, Ohio. The company is un-
der contract, according TO the leases,
to begin drilling before April 26 and to
make "A thorough test of the acreage
by drilling to 5000 feet IL necessary.
Denver.-Five Colorado men have
received commissions as officers in the
organized reserves, according to word
received at headquarters Of the 103rd
reserve division. They are Capt. Ed
ward NJ. Gregory, Cortez, Colo, and
Second Lieuts. Joseph Albert West
brook, Sanford; Cecil Wengert Marcy,
1862 South York street, Denver; Frank
II. Hall, Trinidad, and c. Curtis
Combs, 220O Holly street, Denver.
Denver-Federal hunters of the
United Stntes bureau of biological sur