The Ordway new era., 1919-05-16
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

office Of the State Board OF CHARITIES
and Corrections, was appointed secre-
tary of the State Board of Pardons by
Governor Shoup.
A bond issue OF 100000 was voted
by the Brighton school district at the
election for the purpose Of erecting an
eight-room addition to the present
grade school building.
The Nucla Lumber Company will
open its big sawmill in the Basin soon,
to help take care of the immense or
ders for lumber now being received
from all over that valley.
Neil Bogie, so, of Goldfield, was
killed and Harry Jones, fellow work
man, was badly injured by a prema-
ture explosion I'm the 1,SOO-foot level
of the yindicator mine at Victor.
| Henry Shaffer, employed on the B.
C. d. Bishopp ranch at Virginia Dale,
was exonerated by q cOrOners jury
for the killing of Henry Hansen,
mover, who had been stealing from
| the ranch.
n. r. McCreery, manager of the
Longmont plant Of the Great Western
Sugar Company, announces that the
company will build $4,000 dOrmitOry
! for the use of the employees of the COM
pany during the coming summer.
Few people even in Colorado know
that this state has an available sup
ply of bituminous coal more than two
and one-half times as great as the COM
bined available supply of anthracite
and bituminous coal in the state of
Pennsylvania.
Oliver Peterson, who shot and killed
Earl Brown, near Dolores, March ~,
was acquitted of a charge of murder
by Cortez jury after celebrating
for seven hours. Brown was killed
after ali attack upon Mrs. Peterson,
the defense contended.
Linton welch of Delta has been
awarded the Croix de Guerre in France
as reward for keeping up the COM
munication from the front line TO the
regiment headquarters when the Sec
ond division made the big gain in the
Champagne sector.
Were other crops not to be consider
ed, the sugar beet crop alone would
spell prosperity for the Longmont sec
tion this year. The acreage is the
largest by far in the history Of the
Longmont factory, being more than
10000 acres, and all indications are
the crop will be hummer.
"The Huns were going good when we
got over there, and felt little fancy.
The first tangle, however, with the
khaki uniforms, and they began to lose
their ginger, and little while later
| 1t was just like shooting rabbits" That
was the statement of Sergt. w. S. El-
lingwood of the 157th, who arrived at
his home in Delta feeling entirely
pleased with his reception en- route.
G. w. Price, city band leader at Syr-
acuse, confessed in court before Judge
| Vance of having made an assault on
| 13-year-old girl who was one of his mu-
sic pupils He wns sentenced to
term in the penitentiary of not to ex-
ceed twenty-one years. Price, is 81
years old, has wife and is the father
| of six children. He had been a resi-
dent of Syracuse for about year.
| Miss Helen Dove has accepted pO-
sition as lookout for the forestry serv-
ice and will spend the summer on Dew
IFS Head mountain, forty miles south
west of Denver. 1t will be her duty to
report forest fires in the surrounding
area of 1000 square miles, which in
cludes Pixies peak. Miss Dove is the
first woman lookout to be chosen for
this important work in the Colorado
Wyoming district.
Five cities in Colorado are soon to
have recreation areas in the national
forests of the state under plans now
being worked out by the Denver office
Of the United States forest service, CO.
operating with the officials of the mu-
inequalities. Some definite action al
ready has been taken by Fort Collins.
which has secured such n tract of land,
and residents of Pueblo, Florence,
Longmont and Canon City are prepor-
ing similar areas.
Business transactions have been es-
pecially lively In Glenwood for the
last month. In view of the proposition
Of the Colorado hotel being leased for
n hospital by the government, there
seems to be great need for houses to
meet the demands of the tourists.
There has been real shortage of
comfortable houses all winter, due to
, the discontinunnce of the Midland
railroad. The people from the ndjoin-
/ ing towns came to Glenwood to make.
n home. Now that the summer senson
Is at hand, the need of more houses
} Is vital. The Chamber of Commerce
) has taken the matter up and several
; Indications point to an immediate
erection of houses.
: This late in the spring the miners