The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1924-02-23
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Pagosa Springs-The school build
ing at Pagosa Springs was destroyed
by fire recently. The loss Is estimat-
ed at $4,000.
Fort Colllns.-A steady flow of gas
| has been struck in the Union oil Com
| pany's well on the Whitaker place,
| three miles east of here, according To-
reports current here.
Denver. Selection of Colorado
| Springs as the convention city for the
Republican state convention March IL
was made at the meeting of the state
central committee of the party held
| last week.
Denver-A series of public hear
ings for the proposed licensing of po-
tGto warehouses under the United
States Warehouse Act is to be held
by the Agricultural Department. one
of the hearings will be in Denver,
Feb. IS.
Eckley-Followlng disclosure by an
audit of a shortage of $3.50 in his ac-
counts, Albert Whitney, town clerk of
Eckley, Yuma county, and editor of
the Eckley Tribune, committed suicide
by shooting himself in the head. Mr..
Whitney took over the Eckley Tribune
several months ago and had been
town clerk for two years.
| Denver-Gross value of all crops
produced in 1923 on the Uncompahgre
project of Colorado was approximate
ly 100000 more than the value of the
| 1922 crop, or an increase in the aver
age value per acre of 40 per cent over
the 1922 value, according to report
issued by the Department of the In
terror at Washington, d. C.
Fort Collins.-The Interstate COM
merce commission Saturday approved
the Union Pacific railroads applica-
| ton to extend its Fort Collins branch
in Colorado from Fort Collins a dis
tance of eighteen miles through Lari
ner county. The new branch will
serve agricultural territory as well as
an oil field now under development.
| Palmer Lake-Members of the sher-
| ifs office are endeavoring to identify
the body of n man found buried under
clump of weeds near the railroad
station here by Pedro Munoz, a rail
road employee. The mans head was
fractured and it is believed he was
attacked by thugs and robbed. Coro-
ner Swan of Colorado Springs took
charge of the body.
Grand Junction.-A searching party
recovered the body of Karl Page, a
locomotive engineer employed by the
| Denver & Rio Grande Western, from
the river east of here. Page was with
a party of men, and, while attempting
to cross the river on the ice, he is
thought to have stepped in hole and
to have been swept down the stream.
Searchers dynamited the ice near
where he was lost.
| Denyer.-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,
14G2 South York street, Denver; Frank
Fl. Hall, Trinidad, and C. Curtis
| Combs, 1900 Holly street, Denver.
Craig. - Leasing ana preparatory
production activity is becoming more
pronounced each day with the APP
| preaching spring, and the opening of
the highway from Rawlins, Wyo., to
| Craig, which has been closed during
| the winter. Two 5,000-barrel field
tanks have arrived for the Texas Com
pany, to be used in connection with
the Hamilton well. Dial Weyland, reg
istrar of the land office here, sold one
half of his one-eighth royalty in the
Hamilton well for $4,000.
Cripple Creek-The Cripple Creek
Mine Owners Association, of which
some of the largest operators in Tel
Ter county are members, filed suit in
the District Court against the Teller
county board of commissioners, alleg-
Ing misrepresentation of funds totalng
more than $1,000 The suit is direct
ed against Richard Quinn, Jold Wild
and Matt Edwards. members of the
board, and Sheriff Henry Won Publ.
The mine owners declare that the
county commissioners, and Sheriff
Won Publ have been using the county
funds without proper legal sanction.
DurangO.-John c. Campbell, former
president of the Burns National Bank
of Durango, and Clyde Potter, promi-
nent sheepman of southern Colorado,
on trial in Federal District Court in
Denver on charges or conspiracy to
misappIy 1000 of the funds of the
bank in the fall of 1922 won direct
ed verdict of not guilty on eleven oi
the twenty-five counts against them.
A jury mt the same time took under
consideration charges contained in