The Ordway new era., 1919-12-19
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

on its work In 1920. Saguache count.
holds the record as being the first II
the state to complete its quota. Sum
nit county is close behind having re
ported two-tliirds of its quota collected
and the remainder in sight Pueblo
county reported S5,Os2 on Dccembe
Sth while Weld, Boulder and Larlmel
counties are just beginning their nc
tive work. Denver has raised S25,00t
to date and expects to continue the
sale of Christmas seals for some time
Due to the snow and cold weather the
campaign has been delayed in many
sections of the state but all the coun
ties report confidently that they ex
pect to raise their quota before Christ
mas.
American boys who fought In the
great European war are keenly inter
ested in the national campaign which
has been undertaken to eradicate tu-
berculosis. Official support of the
Christmas seal campaign by which
funds are being r,,ised by the National
Tuberculosis Association and its state
branches for the fight against the
white plague is announced by the
American Legion which adopted reso-
lutions to that effect ut the national
convention held in Minneapolis. Army
men realize the need of this work from
the fact that draft statistics show that
enough men to comprise nearly three
divisions were rejected as unfit for
military duty. The local work is be-
ing carried on by the Colorado Public
Health Association.
All commercial bodies in the state
will be asked to cooperate with the
State Immigration Department in max
ing manufacturing survey of the
state early in 1920 The Board of
immigration voted at its November
meeting to have this survey conducted,
and an effort will he made to get the
work under way sometime in January,
covering operations of manufacturing
establishments for the calendar year
1919. The federal census inquiry will
be made about the same time and
many of the items of information com
piled by manufacturers for this inquiry
may be used without change for the
state inquiry.
In one of the first convictions re-
turned under the Colorado trust Jaw,
James NJ. Campbell, Frank Theobal1,
+. w. Patterson, r. s. Barnes and
Thomas McCarty, members of the MiS-
ter Plumbers Association, were fonn1
guilty in the District Court ut Colo
RADIO Springs of the charge of unlaw
full combination in restraint of trade.
7 ;., to- ri,
ing trust cases which have been in the
courts since November, 1917.
The value of afi livestock on the
farms In Colorado in 1919, as estimat-
ed by the Bureau of Crop Estimates
of the United States Department of
Agriculture, was $172,T51,O 900. Asses
sors' reports show increases this year
in practically all classes of livestock,
so that indications are that the State
Cooperative Crop Reporting Service
will find the value of livestock on
farms January 1, 1920, to be close to
5000, ,0OO, 600
Struck by n mammoth rock while at
work in the SOpris mine of the Colo
RADIO Fuel and Iron Company, Antsnio
Salla, coal miner, 30 years old, was
instantly killed. The rock, Weighing
several tons, struck Salla on the lle1d,
crushing 1t to pulp and scattering
brains about the working place. The
lower portion Of the body was also
badly crushed. The dead man leaves
widow and two children Mt Sopris.
A new Boulder beet sugar company,
capitalized at $2.0OO,O0O. has filed in
corporation papers with the secretary
Farmers Independent Sugar Company.
Erection and operation of sugar plants,
growing, buying and selling of sugar
beets, acquisition of livestock, and
other interests are stated as among the
purposes of the concern.
Girard Douglas, colored youth,
charged with n statutory offense fol-
lowing his alleged attack upon Miss
Lutte Marshall, Sophomore student
in Colorado College, on the night of
Nov. IA, will be taken to Colorado
Springs for trial on the first day Of
the January term of the District court.
the January term of the District Court.
Court requesting his delivery into the
court on that day.
Due to the stimulus of. the two
weeks campaign to secure jobs for eX-
service men. employers in Denver AID
Colorado have responded to the call
to such an extent that job is wat
ing for every Yank who is quail fed TO
fill it, according to reports received at
the rehabilitation bureau in the
Chamber of Commerce building in Den
Yer.
Frank Crossen, well known farmer
and stockman living near Knrval, in
the southern part of Lincoln county, is
in a Hugo hospital in serious condi