The Dolores star., 1924-05-09
COLORADO NEWS NOTES

lyn Trust Company against Tue 'i's VA
Lovclund was tried in the united
States Court in Denver ami II decision
rendered i'm favor of the city. Inc
trust company sought 10 have the court
declare the proceedings of the city OF
Loveland wherein the building OF
hydro electric plant was involved, IL
legal. There was one clause In the
ordinance that caused Judge Symes to
decide against the city, but the ordln-
unce has been changed since 10 suit
the demands of the court, and the case
hinged on the endcavor of the trust
company to prevent the city from go
ing ahead with the work on the plant.
Grcelcy.-A request that Judge
George ii. Bradfield, summon Dis
trict Court grand jury TO consider evil
dcncc of the operation of an alleged
liquor ring ut Fort Collins, and inves-
tigate the office of Louis Il. Reed, dis
trict attorney, and Sheriff Frank
Smith of Lurimer county was filed
here by F. S. Caldwell, assistant attor-
ncy general, with the court. Judge
BrudfIeld took the request under ad-
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.
Aspen.-An example of speedy JUS
tIce occurred in Pitkin county when
Sheriff Bruin and federa!.aEents from
the office of Prohibition Director John
Il. Vivian raided the ranch of Nels
Ecklur-l. twelve miles northeast of AS
pen. arrested Eckland. brought him to
the Pitkln county Jail and the same
day witnessed him being sentenced to
pay fines of 500 and $50 and costs
after he had pleaded guilty respective
ly to charges of Illegal manufacture
and possession of intoxicating liquors.
Arvada.-Wlth the capture near Ar
vada of W. III. Williamson, convicted
bootlegger, who followed slippery
DELI Hanlon and his buddies, Herman
Herbert and Thomas Edwards, out of
the Denver county Jail last week in the
sensational "walkout' from that insti
tuition, and the capture at Leadville of
Frank Cameron, another of the group
who followed the leader through the
several iron doors of the institution,
two of the thirteen who got away are
once again behind Denver bars.
Glenwood Springs. than 1000
oil and gas filings have been made in
the United States land office in Glen
wood Springs since the first of the
year and virtually all are for pros
pecting in Moffut and Routt counties,
the majority being in Moffat county.
These represent possibly 1,500 persons,
ing new oil structures or working
those already discovered in the two
counties this summer.
Denver.-To take over the old Colo
RADIO, Wyoming & Eastern Railway
Company, which is about $50 miles
long, running from Laramie, Wyo., to
Coalmont, Colo, and which was sold
recently under foreclosure for S20l 900
at Laramie, the bondhOlders OF the old
company incorporated the Northern
Colorado & Eastern Railroad Company
with Secretary of State Carl S. MILL
ken.
Denver.--With appointment of Will
liam J. McGreevcy, former Denver
traffic policeman, to take charge of
tbs county Jail over the head of Harry
Livingston, assistant warden, who was
in charge at the time slippery Dell"
Hanlon led fourteen prisoners to free
dom, general sliakeup in the employ
ees of the Jail was started by Reuben
w. Hershey, manager of safety and ex-
else.
Denver.-PreparatI for the distr-
button of 100000 trout fry in Colo
radios streams, are now being made by
Il. G. Parvin, state game and fish com
missioner. The fish have been kept
in retaining ponds since they were
Matched, and have reached a size which
| enables them to maintain themselves
in the fast-flowing mountain streams.
Fort Morgan.-Fifteen nationalities
are represented in the school census of
the Fort Morgan school district, 1t was
was completed. There are Americans,
Russians, Germans, Bclgians, Bohem-
inns, CzechoslOvaks, Austrians, Poles,
Spaniards, MeXicans, Italians, Danes,
Swedes, Jews and French.
Walsenburg.-A man giving the
name of Watt, believed to be T. NJ.
Bainardt of Blythcville, Ark, wanted
in connection with the robbery of the
Greenhorn store, twenty miles north of
here, was found in the basement of the
local high school and lodged in the
county Jail.
Colorado Springs.-Herman V. Her
bert and Thomas Edwards, convicted
bandits and comrades of Slippery Dell
Hanlon, highwayman and gangster
who escaped with Hanlon and eleven
other prisoners from the Denver coun.
ty jail, were arrested here
Pueblo.-Seventy-five dogs were en-.