The Colorado statesman., 1924-03-22
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COLORADO


Antonito.-F'ire completely consumed
the general merchandise store of
Charles a. Green, causing loss In
stock and building of 100000.
Manzanola.-Twop parts or the Man
zanola high school were destroyed by
fire last week, entailing loss of ap-
proXimately. $4,000 before it was
brought under control.
Pueblo-The 1924 South Central
High School league track meet Will be
held in Pueblo on Central High field
May 3, in accordance with vote of
league coaches held here.
Delta.-Frulta boys basketball team,
staging great comeback, won the
Western Slope basketball title by de-
feating Gunnison, "a to 81, in the final
and feature game of the Slope tourna-
ment.
Loveland.-Fifty-fiv thousand cher
ry trees, imported directly from
France, arrived recently in Loveland,
consigned to the Colorado Nursery
Company, who already have them sold
to fruit growers of this vicinity.
Palmer Lake.-Fire which started
from an explosion, believed to have
been caused by short circuit or back
fire in gasoline engine operating
home electric lighting plant, complete
ly destroyed the Palmer Lake hotel
and garage and fifteen automobiles
here, resulting in loss of 100000.
Canon City-In one of the most eX-
citing elections ever held in Canon City
the proposition to issue bonds in the
sum of $250,000 to erect a new high
school and otherwise improve local
school facilities was carried by ma
jority of 1,241 votes, there being 1,606
votes in favor of the proposal and 365
against.
Denver-Weighted down with leg
irons and manacles and in the custody
of deputy United States marshal and
three armed guards, Okey L. Jacobs,
former superintendent of schools of
| AntonitO, Colo, who was recently con-
victed on four counts charging viola
ton of the Mann act and sentenced to
serve eighteen months in federal peni-
| sentiary left for Leavenworth, Kan.
| Denver-The estate of Dennis
Sheedy, pioneer Denver business man
and financier, and president of the
| Denver Dry Goods Company, will be
taxed S175,000 under the state inherit
ance tax laws, according to an an
nouncement by the tax department.
| The value of the estate, which in
cluded a controlling interest in the
Denver Dry Goods Company, was
listed at $3,S40,000. r.
Lake City-The Golden Fleece mine,
| located upon the Lake Fork of the
| Gunnison river, about four miles
| south of Lake City, Hinsdale county, is
| the scene of high-grade strike of tel
| lurde ore, for which this property was
| famous in 1898 and the years follow
| ing, when it paid as high as 40 per
| cent monthly in dividends, and eXhib
| tied at the Worlds Fair in Chicago a
slab of tellurium gold-silver ore esti-
mated in value at $3.50, upon which it
was awarded first prize in that min
eral division.
Denver-As the climax of a chase
| through downtown Denver streets and
a gun battle in full sight of hundreds
of pedestrians, Lawrence Clifford Mel
son, alleged member of bandit gang
that has terrorized Denver for the last
month, was fatally shot, and his com
panion, Eugene Charles Vos was ar
| rested. Nelson was shot with a riot
gun in the hands of Patrolman Arthur
c.. Wachter, when he pulled his gun
from his pocket to shoot the officer
after he had been cornered with Vos
by police automobile.
Arvada-Wesley B. Staley, president
of the First National Bank of Arvada,
and former state senator and represen-
tative, shot and killed himself while
seated beft a mirror in his home at
| Arvada Mr.. Staley had been in i'll
health for some time and despondency
over his failure to recover is given by
relatives as the reason for his act.
Denver.-The Department of Com
merce at Washington announces, for
the state of Colorado,s It's preliminary
estimate of the value Dec. 81, 1922,
of the principal forms of wealth. the
total amounting to S3,229,352 900, as
compared with 50 ,614,OOO in 1912,
an increase of 400 per cent. Per capi-
ia values increased from $2,674 to S3,-
2S5, or 22.S per cent.
Denver-A wedding ceremony per-
formed in the presence of members of
the family and few intimate friends
united George A. Carlson, former gov
ernor of Colorado, and Mrs. Louis A.
Crosse, formerly of Fort Collins, at the
home of the brides mother, Mrs.
Frank Avery, in the Ililbourne apart
ments The ceremony was performed
by the Rev. DIR. Robert A. Pollock.
pastor of the First United Presby-
terian church.