The Colorado statesman., 1924-06-07
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS


hands of the national bank examiner
for an investigation of It's affairs. 1t
Is understood that overloans on farm
lands are responsible for the closing.
w. w. Vaught, president, said the
bank would be able to pay depositors
in full. The bank has approximately
100000 on deposit, with $4,000 cap
ital and $4,000 surplus. Besides the
president, the officers are Mrs. w. w.
Vaught, cashier, and Charles Peterson,
vice president. Directors, in addition
to the officers, are George L. McCone,
Earl c. Harris and Swan Friscopp.
Denver.-Douglas n. Stewart, for
the last six years road supervisor for
Douglas county, with headquarters at
Castle Rock, has been appointed divi-
sion maintenance superintendent for
the fifth lewiston of the state highway
department. He will look after the
maintenance and repairs in central
eastern Colorado, his territory includ-
ing the counties from the Continental
Divide east to the state line, and from
the north line of Arapahoe to the
south line of Pueblo county.
Golden.-Appointmen of Richard
w. Lindemann as a member of the
faculty of the Colorado School of
Mines in the English department has
been announced by officials of the in
stitution. Mr.. Lindemann, a graduate
of Washburn College, Topeka, Kan,
holds masters degree from Harvard.
For two years he has been assistant
professor of English at Washburn. In
September he will begin his new du-
ties at Mines.
La Junta.-C. ]. Jones, entomologist,
and c. NJ. Thompkins, plant patholo-
gist, of the State Agricultural College
at Fort Collins, are in Otero county
ready to assist in the control of insect
outbreaks or plant diseases. There is
perhaps more annual loss caused by
insects and plant diseases in Otero
county than by any other two destruc-
tive agencies known, and these two
men will use every effort to correct
these evils as nearly as possible.
Fort Collins.-Commence exer-
cises at Colorado Agricultural College,
Fort Collins, took place June 3. There
were 120 candidates for degrees in
agronomy, animal husbandry, forestry,
entomology, horticulture, general sci
ence, home economics civil and irriga-
ton engineering, electrical engineer
ing, mechanical engineering and divi-
sion of veterinary medicine Master
of Science degrees are to be conferred
upon seven candidates.
Limon.-A band of twenty-five ho-
boes attempted to overpower the con-
ductor and brakeman on an eastbound
Union Pacific freight train near Deer
trail and were only frustrated in their
efforts to gain control of the train
when they were overpOwered in bat
tie with Sheriff A. G. Loss and posse
at Limon. Nine of the band were
| placed under arrest, locked in cattle
car and taken to Hugo, Colo, where
they were lodged In jail.
Denver.-William II. Rice, credit
| manager of the Colorado National
Bank, was killed and George McHugh,
Of DeBeque, Colo, was seriously in
jured when the automobile in which
they were riding skidded off the noun
| tain road near Genesee Park and
| crashed into Il tree, wrecking the car.
Denver-Colorado' highest highway
bridge, the 249-foot Sapinero and
spans over the Lake Fork of the Gun
nison river on the Rainbow highway
between Montrose and Gunnson, will
be opened for traffic June "a, Off
cials of the State Highway depart
ment announced here.
Denver-Frank Newton Briggs, for
mer president of the defunct Interstate
Trust Company, who was found guilty
of embezzlement several weeks ago, be
| fore Judge F. E. Bouck of Leadville, in
| the West Side Court, was sentenced to
pay a fine of $1,000 by Judge Bouck.
Pueblo.-Pueblo had more forty
pound butter-fat cows during April
than any other county in Colorado in
| proportion to number of cows tested.
| Out of 254 cows in the Pueblo County
Cow Testing Associations ten herds,
| there were siXty-three Foreground
cows, according to the report of the
state dairy commissioner. The aver
| age pounds of fat per COW for the coun-
| ty was 32.5, and average pounds milk
per COW, SS67
Pueblo.-A meeting of the railroads
and public service companies which
| use the Union avenue viaduct and city
officials was held to consider plans
for building a new structure on the
site in cooperation with floor conserv-
Rncy work now under way. Plans are
| to be presented to the several COM
panies and definite decision made at
future meeting.
Greeley.-H. f. Allen, an attorney of