The Colorado statesman., 1924-05-10
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS


press club, will edit a coed edition
of the Silver and Gold. They have
been preparing for 1t for some time and
already have interviews with Gloria
Swanson, Fannie Hurst, Henry Ford
and others concerning college girls
problems. Grace Gayle McCrimmon is
to be edltor-in- chief; Lucille Norvell,
Burdlne Ecke and Alberta Pike, asso-
ciate editors; Virginia Corlett, news
editor; Susie Adams, society feature
writer; Florence Beacham, society ed
itor; Isabelle Keating, sport editor ;
Marie Hayes and Lucille Stubbs, copy
editors; Virginia Harrell, mems page /;
Helen Holt, Alice Wildey, Katherine
Maroney, Edith Brown. Buena Dewey,
Elizabeth Yeaman and Mrs. Wilfred
White, feature writer's.
Greeley.-A request that Judge
George II. Bradfield, summon Dis
trict Court grand jury to consider evil
dence of the operation of an alleged
liquor ring at Fort Collins, and inves-
tigate the office of Louis B. Reed, dis
trict attorney, and Sheriff Frank
Smith of Larimer county was filed
here by f. S. Caldwell, assistant attor-
ney general, with the court. Judge
Bradfield took the request under adj
visement and did not intimate when
he might hand down an opinion on the
request. The request is not mandatory
but is entirely discretional with the
court.
Littleton.-Sentenced to from ten to
twelve years in the Colorado state
penitentiary, Mrs. Nellie Waters, 1S-
year-old bobbed-hair bandit, and her
husband, Clifford Waters, are in the
county Jail here awaiting removal to
Canon City. They pleaded guilty be-
fore Judge Samuel w. Johnson in Dis
trict Court to a charge of holding up
Nick Ranker, Denver taxi driver,
with a gun the night OF April "a. In
the struggle Mrs. Waters shot her hus-
band through the arm and the pair
gave themselves up.
Denver. - Charges of conspiracy
county, who were alleged in an indict-
ment returned by a Federal Grand
Jury last January to have threatened
and inundated" a flock of sheep at
bridge over the Colorado river at New
castle, Colo, from crossing over, were
ordered dismissed by United States
District Judge j. Foster Symes The
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the joint Indictment entered by coun-
sci for the twelve defendants.
Boulder-It will be Nov. before the
first unit of the S12,000,00O power plant
of the Public Service Company of Colo
RADIO will be ready for operation, it has
been announced. Delay in the arrival of
machinery has held up the work so
that it now will be impossible to COM
plete the project on July l, which was
the original date. The first unit is to
cost 100000, and the greater percent
age of this already has been expended
or contracted for.
Denver.-A motion for bill of par
ticulars making more specific para
graphs in indictments charging H. d.
Mustain, mayor of Walsenburg, and
Charles II. Sanchez, night chief of
police, with conspiracy to violate the
Volstead act, which was filed in United
States District Court and was refused
by Judge ]. Foster Symes, after coun-
sci for the government and for the
defendants argued for more than two
hours.
Aguilar.-The strike of employees of
the Brodhead mine at Aguilar, arising
over a fifteen per cent cut in the wage
scale, was 100 per cent complete, ac-
cording to statements made by Mike
Livoda, vice president of district No.
IS, United Mine Workers of America.
The Temple Fuel Company headed by
Frank r. Wood of Denver and Trini-
dad, made no attempt to operate the
mine.
Littleton.-A bloody gun battle be-
tween Denver jailbreakers and Mar
shal Virgil Stevens of Littleton was
climaxed by the suicide of Joe Angelo
Russo after he had fatally wounded
Samuel Ditmars of Castle Rock and
had thrice wounded the Littleton
marshal. Carl Carmal, alias Charles
ERGO, who was with Russo but did
not participate in the fight, was cap
tured.
Colorado Springs.-H. d. Young, a
travelling salesman from Denver, who
was arrested in the lobby of the Alamo
hotel shortly after the arrest of "Slip-
perry Dell" Hanlon, after he was heard
to make a remark to the hotel clork
that it was too bad that Hanlon had
been captured because he was a good
fellow, was released from custody after
he had been questioned by police.
, Denver.-The twenty-ninth annual
convention of the Association of Oncr-