The Ordway new era., 1919-05-30
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

Governor and Mrs Shoup. who has
been in service overseas for two and
one-half years. has sailed from France
for New York.
The final settlement of the estate
of Winfield Scott Stratton. multi-mil
lionaire mining man who died in 1902
will be made in the county court OF
FL Paso county.
Lawrence C. Phipps has become Of
flciaIly senator of Colorado. A tele
gram TO his son. Lawrence C. Phipps
Jr.. announced that he had been sworn
In and taken his seat
A widow with four children was ar
rested at her home in walsenburg
charged with bootiegging- She was
arrested on the same charge about q
year ago and convicted
The average county tax levy in Colo
rado is 6.23 mills, which on an as
sessed valuation of sl.+24. .sl1 ,2ss
should produce county revenue from
direct taxation of SsSs6.s51.TL
A mortuary to cost $4,000 is to be
built in Greeley this summer The
building will be of Gothic type of
architecture The mortuary will be
the largest building of its kind north
of Denver.
Dr. Livingstone Farrand, former
president of the state university and
now head of the Red Cross in Wash
lngton. Will be in Boulder for COM
mencement and deliver the address on
June 25th.
The lowest county tax levy in any
county in Colorado for the year 1919
is $50 mills in Phillips county. and
the highest is 1878 in Hinsdale coun-
ty- Seven counties have tax levies be-
low mills
The first high-grader convicted in
the San Miguel District Court in four
teen years WIS sentenced to the pen
itentiary for three years, when John
CataftakIs was convicted OF stealing
rich ore from the Smuggler mine at
Telluride.
The Rev. McKendree DeAlotte of Pa
gosa Springs, 76 years of age, is now
in his fifty-ninth active year of minis
terial work He has married more than
800 couples, taken in over 1000 con-
verts, and offIciated at more than coo
funerals.
The sales of school land In. Colo
RADIO during the biennial period end
ing November 30, 1918, were 224.005
acres, and the total price was S3,216,-
SAT. Most of this sum goes into the
permanent school fund of the state.
and the interest 1t earns is used for
the support of public schools.
O. S. Parker. of Denver, and John
Hancock of Avondale, were both per
haps fatally injured when an auto 10
which they were driving collided with
street car at the intersection Of c
street and Union avenue in Pueblo.
Both men were catapulted from their
machine and landed on their heads
Construction work on Brighton's
new factory for the National Beet Har-
vester Company has started under the
direction of G. c. Leeper, local capi-
-talist and member of the board of di.
rectors OF the company. The other
directors decided to. turn the matter
entirely over 10 Mr.. Leeper and he Ii
giving the work his personal atten.
ton.
$50 people in northeastern Weld coun
ty, has voted to spend $4,000 fol
waterworks and an electric light plan
this summer. Grover already has q
public school building costing S40,0Ot
and has more money invested In pub
lie improvements per capita Of pop
ulafion than any other town in north
eastern Colorado, according to reports
That residents of various Colorado
towns may have an opportunity tf
hear the famous 157th Infantry bsnt
before IL is disbanded, the organiza
tion will make a farewell tour of the
state lasting six weeks, and commenc
ing June 1st.
A special trainload of Nexicans. in
Guiding $50 workmen and their fami
lies, arrived in Grand Junction ant
were distributed among the beet field
of this section. They were importe,
by the Holly Sugar corporation an,
were. assembled mt Denver and Pueblo
Marie Green, years old, fell from
the second story window of her hom'
at La Junta, and outside Of a sever'
shaking up. suffered no serious in
jury. The child was leaning agains
screen when 1t gave way. Sh'
struck on an electric light wire whicl
broke the fall.
Harold Monroe OF Montrose is /,
member of the crack gun crew whicl
captured the championship honors o
the Pacific coast. This crew, as I
result OF this record, received bonu
of $1,4OO and 50 a month extra pa.
for n period of two years, for the in
dividual craftsmanship,
An estate of sSO0,66o, mostly casl