The Ordway new era., 1919-07-04
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
The Colorado Editorial Associatio
meet in Denver, July IL. IL. 1919.

| The Colorado Editorial Association
meet in Denver, July IL. IL, 1913.
The fire In the San Isabel national
forest has been reported at an end
Forest rangers are still watchful as the
wind might blow. the smoldering EN-
bers and cause renewal of the fire
The fire destroyed 1000 acres Of tim
ber.
With the price of wheat still fixed
until the. 1919 crop is sold Colorado
farmers will receive from their output
this year II conditions remain favor
able until harvest, approximately $40,
100000, or only about $10,OOOOOO less
than the farm value of all crops grown
in the state In 1909
According to Colonel Bower, pio-
neer resident of Palisade, the chief
peach growing section of the western
slope. the indications for bumper
peach yield was never better. He pre-
diets that not less than $50 carloads
will be shipped from vineland, a load
Ing point at Palisade, during the COM
ing season.
|. Hurled sixty feet from the side car
Of n motorcycle when southbOund
Union Pacific train crashed into the
machine in which she was riding five
miles east of Loveland, Mrs. William
Tracy, was Instantly killed, and Mrs.
Verne Tippits. driver of the vehicle
received injuries which 1t is feared
may cause her death.
Believing that male juvenile delin-
quency and incorrigibility are largely
due to nasal malformations, diseased
or enlarged adenoids and tOnsils,
Judge Karl w. Farr of the Teller
county court, has decided that surgi-
cal operations will effect more reforms
than the imposition of sentences to
penal or semi-penal institutions.
Wyborn L. Cunningham, attorney
and graduate of Denver University
law school, and his school companion,
Perry Jackson, were married at Castle
Rock to Misses Floss and Eunice Got
hard. The young men have been chums
since boyhood, graduating together in
high school and college, and serving to-
gether on the battlefields of France.
Boys and girls pig-raising clubs
have now been organized by County
Agent NJ. r. Knapp and his assistants
in practically every large town In
Weld county. Clubs are in existence
ut Greeley, Kersey, Johnstown, Ault,
Eaton, Windsor and Platteville. More
than 100 pure-bred pigs have been
purchased by the Club members.
Albert Bevan, 10, and Frank McCar
thy, IA, rescued, Jack Simpson, 10,
from drowning at Colorado Springs. 1t
was Bevan's fourth life-saving exploit
and McCarthy's second. The Simpson
boy. too. participated in the event for
the second time, as Bevan pulled him
out OF reservoir last summer after
he had sunk for the third time.
The Pixies Peak region will become
the background of a series of pictures
of Bible times which are to be pro-
duced at Colorado Springs. A studio
has been erected and the Garden Of
the Gods, Seven Falls, Cheyenne
mountain and the slopes and summit
of Pixies Peak soon will become the
setting for a screen drama which had
its origin in Palestine.
George Bosko. convicted of killing
Elton c. Parks and VIII T. Hunter on
the Rye road near Pueblo on the after
noon of April IL, was sentenced to be
hanged during the week beginning
Sept. %. Tom BOsko, brother of the
doomed man, was given life imprisOn-
ment. 1t is likely that appeal to the
Supreme Court will be made. The at
torneys have sixty days In which to
file their bill of exceptions.
A thirty days stay of execution has
been granted Cruz Romero and Cliff
ford Sproul, condemned prisoners at
to be hanged during the last week in
June. Their execution will now take
place some time darlng the week be-
ginning July 10th, unless further Glenn
ency is granted by the Supreme Court
or the governor. The stay Of execution
was granted in order that their cases
might be reviewed by the State Board
Of Pardons, which meets on June 10th.
Colorado's public school fund has
produced in the last six months more
than 100000, which Is to be dlstrib-
uted July l to the sixty-three counties
of the state on the basis of school pop
ulatiOn for use of the county schools.
This is the largest sum in the history
of the state which has been produced
and distributed in this manner, the
previous high figure having been the
1921 900 distributed Jan. 1 last. The
public school fund now amounts to So
3S9,S6O, that being the total June l.
The sum to be distributed next month
is made up of the interest on the total
fund, rentals on state lands and inter.
est on deferred payments paid Into the
fund by buyers of state land.
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