The Ordway new era., 1919-10-31
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

from the United States government Tor
good roads under the provision of the
1915 law providing federal aid for post
al routes.
The state highway commission and
Weld county are spending S3O,OoO on
the Denver-C Cheyenne highway between
the south city limits of Greeley and the
town of Evans, which is about one mile
further south.
Carl Gustuve swanson. 40 years old,
employed at the Tomboy mines, near
Telluride, was instantly killed when IA
horse he was riding plunged from the
road near Smuggler falling a distance
of 800 feet into the canon below. He
was horribly mangled with practically
every bone in his body broken.
One of the most important silver
strikes made In recent years was dis
covered hi the famous old Champaign
mine, near Alma, in the Fairpiay us
trict, when six-inch vein of red car
donate ore that averages S9l ounces Of
silver and five ounces of gold, running
81 200 to the ton. was found.
During the absence of s. Okuri ana
his wife, who We're working III II peet
field. which Is located two and halr
miles northeast of Brighton, their two
children, 4 and years old, respective
Iy. were burned to death when their
house caught fire The parents left
their children playing in the kitchen
few minutes before the fire.
The sentiment of the 4,5OO coal min
ers In the Trinidad district concerning
the impending coal strike appears to be
against the plan. The result of bal
lot taken in the Bcrwind-Tobasco camp
shows that 1872 miners are against the
strike, while G2 voted in favor of 1t. OF
the 46 women who voted, Al are
against the strike and in favor of it.
John A. Lohrey, farmer of Gilcrest,
is tho defendant in a S11,950 damage
suit filed in District Court Mt Greeley
by Charlie Thomas. Thomas suit is
brought as the result of a collision in
which he lost his left leg, Sept. II,
1919. Thomas was riding motorcycle
within the city of Greeley when he
was struck by an automobile driven by
Lohrey.
The voters of Grand Junction, at the
city election Tuesday, Nov. 4, will de-
eide whether or not to waive the bonus
of 1900 for the year, beginning Jan.
II, 1921, which sum, according to Its
twenty-five-year franchise granted by
the city July II, 1908, the Grand juno
tIon Street Railway & Interurban Com
pany annually must pay after the fran
chise has been in operation for per-
-iod of twelve and half years.
The demand for sugar in Denver is
so great that the supply Of that COM
modify on hand at the plant of the
Great Western Sugar Company Mt
Brighton never exceeds a truckload, ac-
cording to officials of that organiza-
tion. The shortage has been so acute,
they say, that the wholesale and job
bing houses of the capital city are TAX
ing the entire output from the Brigh-
ton factory. Local dealers in turn are
buying back from Denver.
Oren Flinde, aged 20. was convicted
of first degree murder at Boulder after
the jury had been out forty-flve min
utes. The jury recommended life i'm
prisonment The youth was on trial
for Staying his father and ranch
hand employed by the latter on Sept.
IL, at Niwot, Colo. The trouble had its
start several days before the killing,
when the father killed a dog belonging
to the boy. The latter brooded over
the matter for several days, and then
shot the father and the ranch hand
The Colorado State Board of Immi-
grafton will make an effort during the
next few months to collect cOnsidera-
BILE statistical Information for the state
as II whole and by counties on the man
ufacturing industry This information
has never been available In Colorado
by counties and no surveys have been
available at all except those Of the
census bureau every five years. The
funds appropriated to the Immigra-
tion Department for the biennial peri
cd We're not sufficient to enable 1t to
collect this Information, but 1t expects
TO complete plans for cooperating
with commercial bodies In the larger
cities and towns for making the neces-
sary surveys. The city of Denver,
through Its Industrial bureau, is at
present making survey of the manu-
featuring industry within the city lin
its and the completion of this will
mean much toward the completion of n
survey for the state There Is con-
slant demand for statistics of the man
ufacturing industry in the state by
counties and the Immigration De-
partment expects in the near future to
be able to furnish this information
each year.
The advOcation of tunnel through
Marshall pass and the delaying Of the
hrOnd- -gauging of the line from Salida