The Ordway new era., 1919-05-16
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.


shipped on April /, according to a re-
port of the United States bureau OF
markets issued Monday. 1t is esti-
mated that between 450 and 800 cars
yet remain to be shipped. The remain
ing supply is as follows: Glenwood
Springs Carbondale, eight cars; Routt
county, ten cars; Monte Vista. Del
NOrte, Center, 125 cars; Eagle, Gyp-
sum, twenty cars Greeley, $50
Eldredge Anderson of Denver is
dead and Charles J. Ross, also of Den
yer. is badly injured, the result of
collision of their motorcycle side car
with an automobile driven by w. G.
Riddock, Fountain, Colo. The collision
occurred on the Pueblo road seven
miles south of Colorado Springs at
curve. Riddock drove out to the left
to pass load of hay, and his car and
the motorcycle met head on. Riddock
said he could not see the motorcycle
approaching.
The matter of holding a Western
Slope fair this year was brought up
at the annual meeting of the associa-
tion at Montrose and thoroughly dis
cussed. 1t was decided to hold the
biggest fair In the history Of the West
ern Slope, to be called the "Victory"
fair. The fair will last four days. the
exact dates to be announced little
later. They will be the last Of Sep
tember, however, and about a week
before the state fair.
Edward L. Seiwald, who Is serving
a life sentence In the Canon City pen
itentiary for the murder of james
Lloyd, Valverde saloonkeeper, who,
with Patrolman William Mcpherson,
was shot to death during an attempt
ed hold-up by Seiwald and Oscar
Cook on the night of March 10, 1912,
was denied new trial by the Su-
preme Court In a decision handed
down at Denver.
Frank A. Carlson. Swedish min
er. railroad and auto repair man, IS
years old and for several months en-
ployed in Denver, was found muir
dered ON the outskirts of Telluride.
Robbery is believed to have been the
clew to the perpetrators, though they
are believed to have been men who
met Carlson on the train from Den
yer and lTed him to the spot where
he was shot dead.
Upon opening the door of his bro
TIERS home at Pueblo, to pay him n
short visit, Louis Gonzales found his
brother, Macmillan, dead in bed with
his head crushed in by some blunt in
strument and the body in an advanced
condition of decomposition. He had
been dead several days. A coroner's
jury was summoned, but was unable
to determine the identity of the MUIR
derer or murderers.
James Milier, a rancher living four
miles east of Montrose, may lose his
left arm, If not his life, as the result of
being stung by a scorpion while plow
Ing on his ranch. He dismounted from
the riding plow to remove a large
stone from the path. The scorpion
was on the underside of the stone and
dropped into his glove before he no
ticed it.
Fastened under big spring-toothed
harrow on which he was standing
when his team started to run, throw
Coming, a farmer near Platteville,
was dragged twice across fOrty-acre
field and his body rolled and pounded
almost to pulp. Coming was rushed
in bleeding and unconscious cOndi-
tion to the Longmont hospital.
Colorado, while not among the lead
ing petroleum producing states, has
one oil field, In Fremont county. which
has been producing steadily for more
than thirty years, a record enjoyed by
comparatively few oil areas.
A complete copper still, bottling
works and dried fruit in large quanti-
ties, ready to be made into white
mule" liquor were the fruits Of raid
on the home of Louis Strana, an Aus
trian, at Leadville.
w. r. Tebbs of Dolores, Colo, SOL
der who was injured in the wreck on
Cerro summit, told people who were
caring for his wounds that with the
Fifth engineers of the Seventh divi-
sion he had gone through warfare for
days and days, and that he had mar
rowly escaped death several times
day for weeks at stretch, and that
he came through without scratch,
and had hoped for the time when he
could walk into his home unscathed.
Instead he went home wearing BAN
dage on his head and big black eye
MS result of being dumped around in
narrow gauge upset
Inability of the police to locate
Judge George Briggs saved Gov. Rob-
ert Carey of Wyoming from paying a
Police Court fine In Greeley. Governor
Carey was overtaken by the Greeley
speed cop while driving a big six
through the city ut thirty-mile clip.