The Ordway new era., 1919-09-19
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.

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conejos County Fair. Manassa. Sept.
western Slope Fair. Montrose. Sept
Central Community Fair. Greeley. Sept.
Beaver Park Fair at Penrose. Colo.
Yuma County Fair. Yuma, Sept. 1920.
Phillips County Fair. Holyoke. Sept
saguaehe County Fair. saguache. Sept
coloradc-New Mexico Fair. Durango.
colorado State Fair. Pueblo. Sept 22-
Grand County Fair. Kremmiing. Sept
Crowley County Fair. Sugar City. Aug.
Inter Mountain Liye stock and Fair
Grand Junction. Sept 80 to Oct B.
Douglas County Fair. Castle, Rock.
Oct. rs.
The assessed valuation of Colorado
property for 1918 amounted to ST.
3S4.9I per capita. The highest per cap
ita assessed valuation, S4,70S.67, was In
Jackson county. and the lowest, S1SS.33
in Huerfano county.
Construction of a new woman's
building on the campus of the Univer-
sity of Colorado will begin some time
in October, according to plans of the
board of regents expressed at their
meeting in Boulder.
Reports from various part of the
state are to the effect that many deer
are to be seen In the mountains and
hunters are expecting to enjoy some
fine hunting during the open season on
these animals from Oct. ! to 4.
Warren Poston, IA, accidentally shot
and killed himself while hunting ducks
on a lake one and half miles east of
Stoneham. The youth had separated
from two companions n few minutes
before and was crawling across a ledge
when his gun exploded.
Work on the Loveland road to Estes
Park will be started at once, and an
expenditure of $4,000 will be made.
The road will be double tracked from
there into the park village, and will re-
quire all this winter and the coming
spring for completion.
Plans for the new Montrose county
court house which is to be n memorial
| 10 the soldiers and sailors of Montrose
county, have been accepted by the
| board of county commissioners. The
plans We're prepared by Denver archi-
| tect. The new building will be erected
| in the center of block, but the loca-
| tion has not yet been determined. 1t
| will cost S125.0O0.
Lars Haugen, one of the most fam
Gus of the professional ski Jumpers
who comes to Steamboat Springs each
winter to take part in the carnival of
midwinterS sports and who on Feb. 2s
n ~ a i'm
of 212 feet on the Steamboat course,
has arrived from st. Paul for visit
with Carl Howelson, the old Colorado
champion ski jumper.
Approximately $3,5OO,OOO will be ex-
pended in Colorado this year on new
school buildings, 1t Is estimated by
Mrs Mary c. C. Bradford, state super
| intendent of public instruction, on the
hasis of report now received from two
| thirds of the sixty-three counties in
the state. Buildings costing $3,OOO,O00
| are actually in course of construction,
| and others will be building soon.
One hundred thousand tourists, equal
| to three times the normal population of
| Colorado Springs, visited the Pixies
| Peak region this summer. This is the
estimate based upon the sales of Pull
| man tickets, the registration of auto
| mobiles and the number of inquiries
at the Chamber of Commerce informa-
| ton booth, which shows that there
were fully 25OOO more visitors to this
rart of Colorado in June, July and
August than ever before in the history
| of the region.
Next to Denver, Costilla county has
| a larger percentage of its area on the
| tax rolls than any other county, OILS
| per cent. Arapahoe county ranks third,
| with 94.25 per cent, and four other
counties have above so per cent.
Fire and an explosion destroyed
property valued at $4,000 in Rye, a
| summer resort forty-five miles south
west af Colorado Springs. The fire,
| which was of unknown origin, started
in the town hall, and in forty-five min
utes had consumed the hall, general
store, confectionery establishment,
| postoffice and part of the schoolhousc.
A kerosene tank back of the store ex-
ploded. spreading burning kerosene
over 100-yard radius. .
Cortez, county seat of Montezumn
county, is to hold stampede celebra.
ilon on Oct. l, 2, 3 and the arrange
ment committee announces that the
wild west part of the program Will be
the same as that shown at the Duran
| go roundup, Sept. 1926, inclusive. At
tractive prizes are being offered the
| participants. In addition to the wild
west there will be agricultural, horti-
cultural, livestock and poultry displays
as well as airplane flights and base
| hall games.
Ralph X. Peake, "a years old, an en-
| gineer, was killed when engine No. 217