The Colorado statesman., 1924-07-12
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control of the local high and grade
schools from county rule. Castle Rock
is another township in Douglas county
which maintains its own schools.
Brighton.-John Sheaba, AZ, Japa-
nese lease-farmer of the =. X. Orison
ranch near Eastlake, twelve miles
south and east of Brighton, shot and
killed his American wife, Ellen, Al,
and few minutes later killed him
self
| Denver-Forest rangers and volun-
teer fire fighters succeeded in placing
| the forest fire, which for time threat
ened Rollinsville, under control. For
time 1t was thought that the blaze
would wipe out the town of Tolland,
but was prevented from doing so by
| river.
Boulder.-Members of the Colorado
Editorial Association of Colorado are
promised an enjoyable time during
their annual meeting here July 1S and
49, by the local Chamber of Commerce,
the newspapers of Boulder and the De
partment of Journalism of the Univer-
sity of Colorado.
Waunita Hot Springs.-The summer
season has opened in this resort In
Gunnison county by scores coming to
enjoy the radium waters and the
scenery, and DIR. Charles Gilbert Davis
of Chicago, owner of the resort, Is
looking forward to a record breaking
crowd here this summer.
Colorado Springs.-The body of a
man discovered few days ago in
deserted two-room shack forty-siX
miles southeast of Colorado Springs,
was identified as that of Charles Cole,
40 years old. formerly of Lamar, and
for the last eight years an inmate of
the state insane asylum at Pueblo.
| Denver.-The official call for the
Republican state assembly to select six
Republican presidential electors and
designate candidates for the primary
election has been sent out by George
H. Shaw, state chairman. Under the
| call the assembly will convene at IL
o'clock, August 6, in the city audito-
rum.
Colorado Springs.-For more than
| five hours Richard Manning of Ponca
| City, Okla, was marooned in a cleft
on the sheer face of one of the giant
rocks in the Garden of the Gods, and
1t was not until the fire department
had been called out that 1t was pos
sible to rescue the terror-stricken
youth.
Greeley.-Judge George H. Bradfield
| in District Court here confirmed the
sale of the Farmers Union Co-opera-
tive Elevator and Supply Company and
the Union Milling Company mills at
Longmont. The sale was made by Da-
100000 paid by group Of the bond
holders of the milling company.
Greeley.-With a staccato bark like
a machine gun, and trailing stream
er of grey-blue smoke as 1t sped
through the sky, meteor's spectacu-
lar descent broke up ball game near
Elwell, last Sunday, and the sky
traveller narrowly missed a funeral
procession in the town when it buried
itself two feet in the ground near the
church entrance.
Fort Collins.-Curious motorists
caused the deaths of two Silver fox
pups, valued at $1,000 and owned by
Tom Berry, who conducts a kennel
near Livermore. The pups were con-
fined in a narrow kennel with their
mother, and Sunday, in Berrys alb
sence, II party of motorists stopped
and went to the cage, frightening the
mother, who, in her attempt to protect
the pups, buried them with earth and
smothered them to death.
Mr. and Mrs. Lars Sorensen of Peck
ham, Colo, was killed on his fathers
ranch, twelve miles south of here,
when the wire cable of a hay stacker
on which the boy was working struck
the power line of the Public Service
Company and allowed 6600 volts of
electricity to pass through the boys
body. The boys mother, who discov-
cred the body, was severely shocked
when she attempted to detach the
cable from the boys grasp.
Denver.-Total area of vacant land
| in the Denver district of the United
States land office available for entry
under the homestead and other acts
is 3S7, $40 acres, according to the an
nual report of the registrar, Miss
Martha Spears. Vacant acreage is d.
vided by counties as follows: Adams
forty; Arapahoe, forty; Boulder, 4S0 {;
Clear Creek, 1900; Douglas, 760 /;
Eagle, 1880; Elbert, 100; Gilpin,
$40; Grand, 92,240; Jackson, 1S9, $50 !;
Jefferson, 1,700; Larimer, 27,760; Nor
gan, $50; Summit, $3.50, and Weld,
40 In Routt county there are 1859
acres of mountainous grazing land and
mineral land as yet unsurveyed
Castle Rock.-The failure of the