The Ordway new era., 1918-08-16
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
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SGT IxI-srx Enxfnee-s meeting in
sept I-Fny-s.Ith annual eoafes,
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seq. 4--zs. DezisrS Association
ze=:i1z .n Denver
SEPT Is-BezEer Park fair at Penrose-
s<St .1---coiorza0 state Fair Al
sept .Gu-Lneoin County Fair =,
LttIetoa VII have an alfalfa prod
ucts mill
4 concrete watering trough has been
Installed at Hayden
a ne~ postoffice building Is In
course O. erection at Clark
The North Golden road is being re-
surfaced with crushed rock
Oak Creek exceeded its War Saw
inSs quota little over six times
Many Larimer county towns have
passed work or fight" ordinances.
A new $500 grader has been pur-
chased for use on the streets OF Fort
Collins
Fire destroyed the mill OF a lum-
ber company at Fraser, with loss
placed al $tp,ovt-
A meter system Of measuring water
Is proposed for Boulder by Z. o. Hem
rich, city manager.
The proposed bone-dry prohibition
Law Sill go TO the ballot. to be voted
upon by the people Nov. 5.
The house and barn and all their
contents at the Dunlap ranch north OF
Craig were destroyed by fire
Fourteen cases Of whisky were
found in weeds along the railway
track near Louisville Junction.
Salomer Martinez, IS. Mexican,
was shot and probably fatally wound
ed by an unknown person at Pueblo.
Oliver H. Shoup of Colorado Springs
will be a candidate for governor on
the Republican ticket in the primary
election
James King, a farmer in northern
Adams county, suffered a broken arm
and other injuries when he fell from
a wheat stack.
Home grown tomatoes are coming
into the markets. which means i'm
mense gain in quality as well as
come-down in price.
Last of the wheat harvest east Of
the mountains is being completed at
the higher attitudes. on the north slope
of the divide, and the yield is pretty
fair.
Thousands of bushels OF wheat will
be lost in Colorado unless farmers
and wheat growers CLEAN or back
cut their fields, Howard D. Crocksr
declared.
Steps are to be taken by the Coun-
ty Council of Defense to prevent trad
ing of Liberty bonds for merchandise,
a practice which is becoming COM
mon in Denver of late.
A Supreme Court decision ordering
that the Midland railway be kept in
working condition pending a more de-
tailed hearing on the junking order
stopped the junking work that already
had been begun.
Recent estimates of the 1888
American beet sugar crop show that an
increase in the crop is hardly possible.
and that unless favorable conditions
prevail from now on to the end of the
season the outrun will be short Of
normal.
Taking dare" from six compan-
ions, although he could not swim,
Henry lesser. age 16. leaped from the
high bank Of Lake Loveland at Love-
land and was drowned. DR.. ]. w.
Craig. formerly of Denver. recovered
the body later.
Claude A. Jameson of Denver has
been commissioned second lieuten-
ant in the quartermaster's corps.
D. B. Smith and Charles Harrison
were hurled from buggy near Fort
Morgan by the shock of a lightning
bolt that struck fence they were
passing. The lightning splintered
number of fence posts. Smith was
slightly burned and both men suf-
fered from the shock.
The proposition to issue over s13,-
100000 in bonds to buy the Denver
water plant was carried at the special
election by vote OF 6.24S for. to 1900
against, giving the proposition a ma
jority of 4.44s. and the amendment
naming board of managers was car
iiuS' thc 'o'e Deh6 ''-o" i"i' " N,"o'
against.
The mystery of the disappearance
on Dec. last, of Charles Spears.
citizen of Breckenridge and employe
of the Wellington mine, was solved by
the accidental finding of his badly de
composed body in a thick growth OF
young timber on the hillside near the
mouth of North Barton gulch. about
two and half miles north OF Breck-
enridge.
Three Colorado men were reported
Aug. 6 as having been severely