The Ordway new era., 1917-03-09

Governor Gunter has signed the
land appraisal bill.
Inheritance tax collections for Feo-
ruary amounted to sS,GOl.
Nearly 5000 corporations in Colo
rado have failed to pay the flat tax.
The influx of settlers to Colorado
from states TO the east continues at
steady rate.
Fort Collins has population OF
1889 people, according 10 direc'
! tory census.
Four eastern seed firms have men
in Greeley territory contracting for
seed bean acreage.
Nearly 100000 acres have been
| taken up under the new 64O-acre
| homestead law since Jan. l.
| a jubilee celebrating increasing
prosperity and the growth OF the city
was held by Brighton citizens.
The charge OF murder against Stel-
| "a Newton Moore-Smith is scheduled
10 be tried March IL in Denver.
LoveIand citizens will hold a mass
meeting to discuss the possibility OF
paving the business streets.
Several automatic stokers valued at
about $4,000 each. are being installed
IN the Lafayette power plant.
Keota is to have public hall,
equipped with stage, dressing rooms,
cooking facilities and lockers.
Kersey business men are becoming
Interested in the proposition of capt
.alists to establish a milk condensary
at that place,
Clarence Cox and w. II. Smith, pro-
prietors of the Waysjde Inn at Peters
burg, were arraigned at Littleton and
pleaded not guilty.
A Mexican boy under the age OF
f6 was tried in the juvenile court at
Loveland and found guilty OF forging
A check for $35.
A record was established during
February for the number of applica-
tons for citizenship filed in Federal
and District Courts in Colorado.
Senator Staley's bill. to allow farm
ers to kill pheasants when the birds
destroy crops, will undoubtedly re-
ceive the support of the Senate.
Mrs William F. Greenwood, whose
husband formerly was wealthy real
estate dealer of Colorado Springs,
ended her life in Chicago by jumping
into Lake Michigan.
Representatives of the beet growing
industry from all parts of the state
will meet in Denver to lay plans for
the proposed fight against the sugar
companies for IS beets.
The curator of the natural history
exhibit in the state museum has in
stalled an exhibit of plants poisonous
TO livestock that possesses a high ed
ucational value for stockmen.
The new members of the state in.
dustrial commission, Hiram J. Hits
A. Newton Parrish and George w
Densmore, were sworn in and took
charge of the affairs OF the commits.
sion.
Robert Walters, Al, brakeman on
the Moffat road, was killed near Tol
land. when he slipped between the
couplings and suffered a compound
fracture Sf the skull. He died in
stantly.
The belief that President Wilson will
call the nation to arms within thirty
days has caused officers of the Colo
rado National Guard to lay plans fol-
increasing the numerical strength OF
the state units.
President Wilson has signed the bill
extending the boundaries of the
Rocky Mountain National Park to in
clude three additional scenic areas
Deer mountain, Gem lake and the
Twin Sisters mountain region.
Senate bill 403, by Senator Lines
which authorizes the state land board
to lease the Avondale farm in Pueblo
county to the state penitentiary fol-
twenty years at not less than 81 pei
acre, passed the Senate on third read
ing by vote of 10 to 16
William Hamilton of Black, Hawk
who owns group of claims in the TiI
Top section, recently took a sample
from a good.sized ore shoot. The sam
pie was assayed and showed values oi
40 ounces gold, $50 ounces silver
and IS per cent copper, the total value
being $1G1.20 ton.
Where formerly the average value
of Georgetown ores was in excess oi
500 per ton, the year 1916 saw the
average drop to s62.71, but what was
lost in values was made up in an in
creased tonnage caused through mill
ing low grade ores which were for
merly thrown over the dumps as
worthless.
At ouray the work of remodeling the
Forester zinc mill for the installation
of the custom plant has comenced and