The Ordway new era., 1919-02-07
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

western Newspaper Union News Service.
Red Gross workers at Ordway com
pleted 32.549 pieces of work and VI
900 was handled by the chapter.
A proposition has been made to
the city of Fountain by private cap
ital to install a $4,000 electric ligh'
plant.
Gorton E. Rushton. pioneer of
Pueblo and owner of the largest jew
elry establishment in the Arkansas
valley, died Tuesday. following a
ong illness.
The r. o. T. C. and military train
ing will be continued at the Univer
sity of Colorado, both Governor
Shoup and Acting President Norlip
told students gathered at assembly
in Boulder.
Prof C. NJ. Heron of La Junta en-
tered several of his Single Comb
Buff Leghorns in the Chicago Ma
tional Poultry Show and won firs'
prize on hen, first on pullet and sec.
ond on cockerel.
VIII Mathieson. a farmer of the
Timnath district. accidentally killed
his 1s-months-old daughter by back
ing his automobile over the child.
Her neck was broken and she died
within a short time.
The Myron Stratton Home Corpor-
alton, as the holding company own
ing the Colorado Springs and Inter
urban Railway Company. has agreed
TO sell the street car lines to Colo
RADIO Springs. but no price has been
named.
The Apex Company is now under
full operation at the improved refin
cry at Loomis, six miles east of Boul
der. The plant is one of the finest il
the West and is producing practically
all the gasoline handled by. the Ape>
| Company in its extensive retailing
business in Denver.
Action by the Railroad Administra
ton on the suggestion of shippers
backed by state officials of Colorado
that the government take over and
operate the Colorado Midland railroad,
which has been sold to be dismantled
is being withheld until a definit,
proposition is submitted.
A memorial avenue of elm trees te
be called Liberty Lane" is to be
built this spring by the park commits
sion of Colorado Springs to com
memorate the soldier and sailor dea,
OF Ell Paso county. The trees will
extend through Monument Valley
park for three blocks.
L c...1,h ;ofluap1a tnoG toll n.
2,s71 lives in Colorado up to Jan. l
All together 44.sO3 persons wert
taken down with the disease. accord
ing to official reports from county
health officers to the State Board ol
Health. In other words, of every 10(
persons who contracted the disease
6.43 died.
Platteville's commercial club hat
received definite assurances from the
Kuner company that the next fac
tory for putting up pickles and othe,
vegetables which the company estab
fishes will be at Platteville. but thai
the sudden ending of the war has dis
arranged their plans so that it is moi
likely to be this year.
A million-dollar copper enterprise
for western Montrose county was an
nounced by james n. Mcbride, rep
resentative "a syndicate of Michi
gan and Colorado mining men %ht
have obtained an option on the ole
Cash In mine, long owned by a Mich
igan widow. Mcbride is on his wa.
to the mine to arrange for a flota
ton mill which will employ 500 tt
1000 men The mine is the onl,
one with native vein of copper II
Colorado.
betterments on the United States pos
road between Breckenridge ant
Kremmling this season.
David Mulvaney. brakeman on tn
freight train from Laramie. whicl
was held up at Greeley and eighty
one pints of contraband booze .takel
from the caboose, pleaded guilty ii
Judge Ewing's court and was fine'
$500 and costs.
Prof. Lowells ]. Thomas. holder o
the chair of public speaking II
Princeton University. native of Vic
tor. Colo, was shot and seriousl
wounded in riot in Bremen, Ger
many. when an attempt was mad
! to assassinate him for an alleged at
tempt to split the Spartacan force
in the national elections.
Freight rates on coal from Pals
ade and Cameo to Grand Junction
are the subjects of an appeal to TIL
: Public Utilities Commission by tw
, Grand Junction consumers and thre
, Palisade and Cameo producers O
, coal, They charge that the rates ar
q discriminatory and force Gran