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COLORADO NEWS NOTES. Cafion City.-The State the peniten- Pardon meeting at Board held a with twenty-six cases were tiary recently Two persons the docket. extent of on time elemency being to the some given ordered for and one next fall, paroles case was continued denied. were from all other Robitaille's applications application was Robert He was sentenced to life continued. county Oct. 31, 1918, for murDenver on a conviction imprisonment Walter W. Fugate, sentenced 1920, der. Jefferson county, Dec. 14, larceny, from five to six years for Robert to from be paroled Sept. 15. counwill sentenced from Pueblo ten years Jackson, Aug. 15. 1919, to seven to weapon, ty, with a dangerous 19. will for robbery be released on parole Dec. Denver.-More than a sufficient obof signatures have circulated been number to the petitions being the $6,tained the state in support of use in over state bond issue for the of 000,000 construction and improvement until the and in meeting federal aid anroads of 1926, according to Bardwell, an the nouncement close by Rodney J. comof the bond boosters' of the chairman Following the obtaining committee. number of signers, the place mitteemen required will be permitted to at the matter before the electors requires the this fall. The law to the election at least 24,000 signatures be that be obtained and that Milliken they petitions with Secretary of State bond filed or before July 6. before the proposal on can be voted upon. Victor.-A shortage in low grade for as the reason ores the is announced given partial mill closing which of the cyanide Portworking on Two Mining down land has been Gold property. operation, the acwill be kept in and the stamps to the announcement, strike others cording closed down July 1. The 2.600in the Portland mine at the first made level is proving as rich as at return stated. foot Assay tests of the ore from $92 to $210 to the ton, while north selected samples run higher. A to south crosscut will be made and open the shoot further and establish its size. Canon City.-Mrs. Francis Strainer a arrested at Canon City Annie on was of attempting to kill Mrs. a neighbor, who is in a from severe she charge Parke, suffering sculp when wounds, hospital to have been received said beaten over the head with a pistol. The was women are said to have fought a ticket taken by a child from had a balloon which a local sent Mrs. Strainer is over paper up. charged firm with having first attempted to brain her have antagonist with an ax, and then to Parke beaten her with a pistol. Mrs. will recover. Greeley.-The charred body of G. Meeker, Lucerne farmer, a under the exhaust engine on the big was Thomas gasoline found Walter pipe Carl- of son farm at Lucerne, five miles north of Greeley recently, by Carlson. The clothing was burned from the body and the flesh over the chest and abdomen badly scorched. Physicians who were said that Meeker had probably asphyxiation called died from from gasoline Carlson fumes. When last seen by Meeker was apparently in good health. The gas engine was used to drive a big irrigating pump. Colorado Springs.-Martin P. Nelson, former president of the Ordway State bank, at Ordway, was arrested at Colorado Springs on request of the Crowley county sheriff's office. According to Colorado Springs authorities, Nelson is named in ten indictments, in connection with the closing of the bank last October. Nelson is being held in the county jall. Denver.-A rich silver strike has the Sweet Mining and and been Silver made by Milling Home Com- Gold pany on Mount Bross, near Alma, la Park county, according to an announcent by officials of the company. Hot Sulphur Springs.-Commissioners of nine counties met at Hot Sulphur Springs and Kremmling recently to discuss a proposed $6,000,000 highway bond issue. The commissioners unanimous in favoring the issue a resolution were and passed urging it. will It explained that the amount obtained through a tax the but it will be out was upon not be people, direct paid in nineteen years by the state motor vehicle tariff, and thus, motorists who enjoy the roads, will in that length of time pay for them. Cripple Creek.-Roy Bourquin, 34 years old, was convicted of criminal assault in the District Court at Cripple Creek, the jury being out fifteen minutes. Judge Arthur Cornforth sentenced Bourquin to the state penitentiary for from twenty years to life. The verdict was returned at 5 o'clock and at 6 o'clock Sheriff Von Phul left for Canon City with his prisoner. Cripple Creek.-Roy Bourquin, an armless inmate of the county poor farm, was sentenced by Judge Corn