The Ordway new era., 1919-12-19
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
The Red Cross Christmas Seal sale vii
take place all over the United state
from December l To 10. 1919.

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take place all over the United States
from December TO 10. 1919.
Burglars looted the Brewer
Mercantile Company's store at Fruit.l
and obtained $500 worth of mercinui-
disc. besides $40 in money. They left
no ,clew.
A memorial tablet in honor of the
twenty-five Routt county men who
llied in the war with Germany is to
be erected in the high school building
ut Steamboat Springs.
Never in the history of Walsenburg
have so many investors visited there.
Men from several states have been in
town looking for business openings and
for land which they can purchase.
The state highway commission has
included In its 1920 program of read
Improvement an item of S146,OOO .p,r
building six and one-half miles of ee-
ment road between Brighton and For:
Lupton.
Miss Edythe Biggs, daughter of r.
p Biggs of Boulder, and n member
of the freshman class ut the University
of Denver, has been awarded the first
prize in the initial literary contest
cial sorority.
DIR. Ralph ID. Mace, former practic-
ing physician in Delta, and Mrs. Ella
Kehr, nurse, who We're charged with
the murder of Mrs. Ada Scnger, wife
of Adam Senger of Hotclkiss, on May
25th, through an Illegal operation.
were vindicated of the charge in Dis
trict Court ut Delta.
William +. Munroe, about As years
old, miner in the Strong mine, was
killed instantly at Victor by falling
about 100 feet down n slope mt the
I00-foot level. The accident was the
result of timbers giving way. lie is
survived by his wife and two children
who are now in Nova Scotia.
The farm products of Montrose
county again came TO the front when
John Howell of Bostwick Park, with
exhibits in the international grain and
hay show ut Chicago, captured sew
eral of the most important prizes, in
the wheat and oats entries mainly.
These same exhibits recently took the
main prizes at international EXPOSE
tions at Kansas City and Wichita, Kan.
| Harry Hatters, n Japanese, proprie-
tor of barber shop in Swink, Colo,
was shot through the body and in
stantly killed by an unknown assail-
ant, believed to be another Japanese.
The shooting occurred in building
in the rear of the Saddle Rock restau-
rant In Swink. No further particulars
of the shooting have yet been obtain
ed. The only suspect arrested so far
is u japanese, who cannot speak Eng
lish, and has failed to shed any light
on the affair.
A water system adequate for many
years has been founded by city Off
cials of Fleming who will submit
$4,000 bond proposal next month to
taxpayers. The village has closed
deal for n half acre of ground in the
west part of the town, for $1,000. 1t
is considered a record price for land
In Logan county. On this plot is To-
Gated fine well of water, and work
will commence Mt once on another
well, which will give the town three
municipal wells.
| Inquiries are coming in daily from
Eastern capitalists who are anxious
for investments in Gilpin county mines
and the indications are that 1920 will
show n much greater activity in the
mining industry than for many years
past. The handicap that has been
placed on the mines which produce
| only gold by the high cost of labor and
mining supplies, with the staple and
one price for the yellow metal of S2087
per ounce, has retarded operation and
production on those properties.
Federal aid for the construction of
four stretches of road in Colorado to
cost an aggregate of S2TS,2OO is asked
by the state highway commission in
plans just submitted to the Denver
district office of the United States
bureau of roads. Chief among the
projects is the building of 2.76-mile
stretch over Battle mountain between
Red Cliff and Minturn at an expense
of $4,000, of which amount the fed
eral government is asked to pay $685.
200, or the maximum allowed under
the law for Il project of that length.
Incomplete estimates made by the
State Cooperative Crop Reporting
Service show that the value of all
| crops In the state this year is in ex-
cess of Sl70,00O,OOo, which is much the
largest on record. Twenty years ago
the value of all crops grown in the
state, us reported by Federal Census
Bureau, was II little short of Sl7,O0O,-
600, or pne-tenth of the value of all
crops grown this year. Ten years ago
| the Federal Census Bureau found the
value of all crops grown in the state
| to be n little short of SOL 900, 600, or
considerably less than one-third of the
value of this years output.
| With throat cut from ear to ear,