The Ordway new era., 1919-12-12

from December l to 10. 1919.
There are about 10000 lambs being
fed in the Mesita- San Acas,a territory.
The proposed auditorium Mt Mesita
seems n certainty. Over $1,000 has
been raised already.
| George l.. Murray, son of Mrs. Ella
| A. Murray, returned to his mother at
Colorado Springs after being reported
"nissing" in the United States army
] since April.
William Edwards of Trinidad,
brakeman on the Santa Fe coal run
between Trinidad and Starkville, was
jolted from the top of n car and was
ground 10 death under the wheels of
the next car.
At hearing on estimates for gov
erninent reclamation projects held be-
| fore Il congressional committee, $780,
600 was asked for the Grand Valley
reclamation project and $4,000 to
continue work on the Uncompahgre
| project in Colorado.
There were twice ns many babies
| born In Pueblo in October than there
| were deaths, according TO statistics
| given out by the city board of health.
OF the babies born, the majority of
them We're boys. The health report
shows that there We're eighty-siN
babies born In October and fifty-three
We're boys.
Jurisdiction over delinquent girls be-
tween the ages of 10 and is years was
taken away from Juvenile courts of the
state by decision of the Colorado Su-
a. .
1911 on this subject unconstitutional.
The 1911 law provided that the defini-
tion OF delinquency should apply to all
girls under the age of is years.
a contract has been awarded by the
State Highway Commission to George
Toupnine of Grand Junction for the
construction of the first quarter of a
mile of the proposed concrete road
from this city 10 Palisade. Approprin-
tions have already been made for an
additional three miles on this road. ex-
tending the concrete roadway TO Fruit
dale.
An unusual preponderance of youth
ful criminals of quasi and semi-mis-
chief makers. ranging in ages from 10
to 81 years, was the outstanding fea-
ture of the records and convictions In
the West Side court In Denver during
November. Twenty-Five lads to the ro-
formatory in Buena Vista was the
months toll with automobile stealing
as the main avenue of conviction.
Ten miles of the new roadway up
Big Thompson cafion leading to Estes
Park, have been completed and auto
is.ts- af tha oct
and safest mountain highways in the
state. The road bed is from twenty to
thirty feet wide at all points, thus elm
mating much of the danger to passing
vehicles that has always heretofore ex-
isted
The State Inheritance Tax Depart
ment paid into the state treasury dur
| ing the first half of the 1919-1920 bien-
NAL period grand total of $500, ,097 GA,
or more than $4,000 in excess of what
it was estimated the departments re-
ceipts would he for the entire biennial
period according to n report issued by
Attorney General Victor f. Keys, ex-
officio head of the department.
| Judge John Hough, for more than
| forty years the dean of mining in the
San Juan country and especially Hins-
dale county, is dead. Had he lived un-
| til Christmas he would have been 80
years of age. He had been county
| judge at Lake City, the county seat of
Hinsdale county. for many years and
was highly esteemed and respected by
the entire community.
Increases of from 10 to % per cent
l,, all .,tt ,l.,, .lnI
ordinance adopted by the city council
at Colorado Springs Pntrolmen, fire
men and city clerks Jared best with
increases of from $50 to S35 monthly.
That building is still on the boom in
Pueblo is proven by the figures given
out by the city building inspectors of
flee. For eleven months so far this
year the value of buildings constructed
or under construction is 10 per cent
greater than that of the first eleven
months of 1918. There were 551 build
ing permits issued so far this year and
the value of these buildings approx
mates 1855, 5,3GO compared to 432 permits
with valuation of S387,307 last year.
Discovery of an nrtesian water basin
in the Larsen dry farming district
northwest of Grover has caused great
rejoicing among cnttlemen and farm
ers. The flow was struck on the Wick
ert ranch, which is fifteen miles north
west of Grover. There is volume
sufficient to keep two-lnch pipe
filled, and the water is free from sui
phur and other dlstasteful contents
An engineer who investigated the well
believes that the arteslan basin lies
under large acreage Of land.
Pueblo is to have a new electric pow
er house, according to recent an
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