The Ordway new era., 1919-07-11
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
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COMING EVENTS.
Th< Colorado Editorial Associatioa
meet IN Denver. July II. u. 1873

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Of sending the first shipment Of fruit
from that section The shipment was
made to Denver.
Teller county. Coiorado's banner
gold producer. has added to the
worlds gold supply up to the end Of
1915 approximately s3coppo.ooo- Gold
Is practically the only valuable metal
prOi1ced in the famous Cripple Greek
district
Tentative plans for a S20o,Oo0
brildiBz and loan association have
been accepted By leading business men
Of SiOuirrsse- This Is q direct result
Of the unusual demand for houses In
this city. which at present greatly e1-
csads the supply
The Rico mining district has been
producing steadily for nearly forty
years. There has been some agricui-
tural development in the river valleys
and stock raising is carried on 10 a
limited extent Lunbering and tie
making have also been Important in
uutries at various times In the past
Raymond Elnbler Walker. twenty
two years old. son Of Mr.. and Mrs
c. A Walker, lowing In the Haskell
nelghborh0Od, was drowned at Hugo
while fishing in the Blue lakes Mr.
Walker returned recently from war
service In France, and was one of the
most popular boys in Hugo.
One hundred and siIty-one gradu-
ates received their diplomas at the
University Of Colorado. DR.. Liyings-
ton Farrand, former president of the
university. delivered the commence
meut address. Governor Oliver Shoup
gave d short talk on the work the in
stitution has done during the year.
Two motorcycle police are to be ap-
pointed by w. F. K. Mills. manager Of
parks and improvements, to help po-
lice Denver's mountain highways and
parks, 1t has been announced. The
authority of the city to police the
parks was given through an act Gre
aied at the last session of the Twenty
second General Assembly.
Forty volunteers. including five pris-
oners from the county jail at Colorado
Springs. fought a forest fire which
threatened for time to sweep Engle-
mans caion- Sheriff John H Weir
and Forest Ranger Patterson led the
fire fighters. The blaze was extin-
guished after five hours unremitting
labor.
ThIrty-si1 f1ye-ton Packard army
trucks in addition to the 200 trucks
- 1IlnSfad
TO Colorado by the War Department
for use on state and county roads
have been shipped, Elmer T. Som
mers, chairman of the State Highway
Commission, was informed in q teao-
gram from Washington.
Only $500 will be available for
range Improvement In the national for
est district in which Colorado is in
cluded under the federal agricultural
appropriation BILL, which passed by
congress, Is now awaiting President
Wilson's signature A total of $4,000
has been asked.
Total collections by the inheritance
tax department for the last fifteen
days Of June amounted to 81, $50. 70,
bringing the total for the new bien-
nisl period to S415,5I5-3s. according to
figures given out by Attorney General
Victor f. Keyes. The largest tax
against any estate was that Of Isaac
Berlin of Denver, the amount being
$3.50. The estate Of Albert Hahen-
wald was given the second highest tax,
1t being s24O95.
Charles 7. Crockett, son Of yfr. and
Mrs. E l. Crockett Of Pueblo. was
awarded the highest honors obtainable
at Colorado College when he was grad
uated with summa cum laude. The
honor bestowed upon Crockett is the
fourth OF its kind in the history OF
the school, and IL is the first time in
nine years that anyone has won the
honor.
Two million feet of timber. valued
at 81 thousand feet, was destroyed
in the forest fire In the San Isabel
National Forest, seven miles north OF
Beulah. according 10 rough estimate
made by A. G. Hamei, forest super
visor. Watchers are still On duty in
the fire area for the purpose of pre-
venting the fire spreading If 1t breaks
out in a new place.
The Lafayette Farmers Elevator
Company has let to the Burchard Con
siruction Company OF Lincoln. Neb-
the contract for the erection of a new
elevator at this place The building
will be 40x75 feet in dimensions, and
will be located on a site recently pur
chased from Frank Miller just south
of town on the right Of way of the
Colorado Il Southern railway. Tbs
cost of the building will be $4,000
Two experienced yeggs, working
with q crowbar. prowled four Denver
insurance offices, cracked five safe,
and nine desks and made away witt