The Ordway new era., 1919-06-20
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
The Colorado Editorial Associatio
meet in Denver. July II. II. 1878.

been made as soon as the blossoms
were well off the trees.
vandals have looted the building be-
longing to the Breckenridge Gun Club
ut Breckenridge and caused destruc-
tion to valuable property.
A complete counterfeiting plant
ready for operation was unearthed
and the two men held responsible for
its erection taken into custody in
Boulder canon, eighteen miles west of
Boulder, by Roland X. Goddard of the
United States secret service, Sheriff
Robert Euler and two deputies.
A balance of S965O, 769.OS on May 81
is the amount on hand in the state
treasury, according to Harry Il. Null
nix, treasurer. This is an increase of
S1,30O,O0O over the balance on hand
Feb. 2s. The receipts for the last
quarter We're $4,643,045.49 and the dis
bursements S3,311, 1881
An offer of 500 acres of land by
the city of Colorado Springs for site
for a military sanatorium cannot be
accepted by the government, the comp
troller of the treasury ruled because
Congress in authorizing construction
of military hospitals did not include
Colorado Springs among the places
| named.
The first distinguished service med
al presented in Colorado was given to
Wendell w. Jacobs of Colorado
Springs by Lieut.. Col. G. NJ Barney.
commander of the Denver army re-
cruiting station. Private Jacobs was
a. ~ ,f,,a
Battalion, and was cited for extraor-
dinary herOism.
The Greeley Commercial Club will
protest efforts of the railroads TO
change the minimum loading require
ments for lambs shipped from north
ern Colorado. Local shippers say that
the proposed change will cause an ad-
ditional charge of $50 upon every car.
load of lambs shipped from the Gree
ley and Fort Collins district.
Maintenance of the government guar
anteed price of S226 a bushel to the
wheat producer is absolutely neces-
sury to assure the production needed
to care for the world wants, it was de-
clared by julius Barnes, United States
wheat director, presiding at confer
ence of $50 representatives of all the
grain Industries of this country in New
York.
The week of June 22nd to 2Sth, in
elusive, has been declared mo acci-
dent week" by Hale Haddon, regional
director of railroads, and in this week
the 100000 railroad employees in the
central western region will not only
l... -, f,,I go
selves but to the public. 1t is an ed
ucational week designed to prevent
railroad accidents.
The Denver mint, after July 1st, will
pay the regular market price for sil-
yer. Instructions to this effect w1fs
received by Superintendent Thomas
Annear from the director of the miAt
at Washington, d. c. During the war
the price paid for silver by the mint
was 81 an ounce. This fixed price
was only war measure and is to be
abandoned on July 1st.
A building permit has been issued
for the first hangar to be built by the
Curtiss-Humphreys Aeroplane Com
pany of Denver, which starts its Estes
Park aerial bus line in n few weeks.
The hangar, frame structure 70xS0
feet in dimension, will be built at 1901
East Twenty-sixth avenue, on the
Oneida street flying field, which was
used by the Victory loan circus. 1t
will cost $1,000.
Hay is ColoFado's banner crop Its
value last year was about S42,0O0,OOO,
or approximately as much as the val
h.. tnl
for the same year.
Salida stockmen and business men
have signed a contract for six air
plase flights to be held in that city
July 4th and 9th by Aviator Brock Of
Chicago, one of the most daring ex-
hibition fliers in the country. Two
flights will be given each afternoon
and one at night accompanied by fire
works bombardment. Ten thousand
visitors are expected in Salida on the
two days from western and southern
| Colorado.
Ernest Jannucci, a coal miner, was
shot in the left arm and left hip at
Louisville, by three unknown holdups
Jannucci had just alighted from a car
from Denver and was walking up the
street toward home when three men
| stepped out of an alley and command
ed him to throw up his hands. The
coal miner refused and dashed away
amid the flying bullets. One bullet
lodging in his left arm and another
in his left hip. He was rushed to
the hospital where his condition is not
considered serious.
All public offices in cities having
population of 250O0 or more closed at
l O'Clock Saturday afternoon and will
be closed every Saturday at that hour