The Ordway new era., 1919-03-28
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

WOrkmen'S compensation IN CoiOrauo
from IS to $40 week, under the state
compensation fund, and reducing from
fourteen to ten days the so-called wait
Ing period Intervening between the
date of injury and the time when COM
pensation becomes available The bill,
as passed, increases the medical bene-
fits to 500 within sixty-day period
following injury. Under the present
law. the maximum medical benefit is
500 within a limited period of thirty
days. The maximum death benefit.
under the new measure, Is increased
from $500 to So, 125. Sponsors for the
measure declare that 1t contains an
aggregate increase of approximately
25 per cent in the maximum benefits
available from the state compensation
fund.
Because Of slowness Of local beet
workers to sign contracts for the sea-
sons work at the prevailing price OF
$25 an acre, they demanding $50,
which the growers refuse to pay, the
Great Western Sugar Company will
import enough laborers to take care
of the enlarged acreage of beets
around Windsor L. G. Walters, agri-
cultural superintendent of the COM
pany, says the laborers will be Mexi-
cans gathered from New Mexico and
Old Mexico
The Leadville Water Company is
sued an order allowing the city to
use the surplus of the appropriation
fund left over at the end of the fiscal
year. ending April IA, to pay the re-
manning debts incurred during the re-
cent influenza epidemic. The surplus
Is expected to be around $4,000. The
total debts incurred during the cpl
demic amounted to $1,000, of which
$1,000 have been paid to date, leaving
total of $1,000 to be paid out Of the
surplus.
six-ton fighting tank over the top
of Pixies Peak as feature of the fifth
Liberty Loan compaign is one of the
stunts now contemplated, according to
Eli Powell, member of the press bu-
reau service, donated the state Liberty
Loan organization by the Union Pa
cific railroad. This sensational feat
is to be attempted in whippet type
tank, manned, as Mr.. Powell puts it,
by "the hardest fighting tank men to
be had from service overseas"
The body of an Italian laborer, be-
lieved to be Philip DeMarka, employed
ut the steel works of the Colorado
Fuel and Iron Company at Pueblo, was
found by workmen on their way to the
plant, the top of the head nearly blown
off and N Infintfn of iIantt ft.
cation on the body. 1t is believed that
DeMarka, If he be the dead man, was
the victim of a black hand gang. A
shotgun was used to kill him, No 8 shot
being discharged at short range.
Plans for constructing mammoth
bath house at .Manitou have been out
lined by the business men of the Pixies
Peak region and it is hoped to have
the structure complete by the summer
OF 1920. The bath house will be built
near the soda springs and will cost in
the neighborhood of 100000. Com
mittees composed of leading hotel men
and merchants now are at work on the
promotion program and the company
will be Incorporated shortly.
Because of broken spring in his
automobile which broke as he was
making his getaway from the state
constabulary with fifteen cases of
Cheyenne liquor, man giving his
name as c. Williams, was fined $500
and costs in Justice Court at Carr and
turned over to the. U. S. authorities to
be prosecuted for transporting liquor
into dry territory.
While Greeley has been debating the
desirability of potato flour mill,
Eaton has apparently gone ahead and
got the mill. At least the Eaton Po-
tato Milling Company has been incOr-
porated with capital stock of $780,
900 In 100 shares of 500 each and the
business men and farmers interested
say that construction will be started
in the very near future.
Students of the State High School of
Industrial Arts at Greeley staged n
peace conference at their sophomore
junior-senior banquet given in the
Woman's club building. AT the peace
table students costuped to represent
the leading characters and statesmen
of the allied nations were introduced
by the toastmaster, Prof. E. B. Smith,
impersonating Uncle SAM The speak
ers in turn told of the part taken by
their nations In the war and expressed
their views as to conditions requisite
to permanent peace. DIR. ]. r. Bell,
principal of the school, impersonated
Premier Clemenceau and President
Crabbe, President Wilson.
Before the minimum teachers sal
ary Iii was put to n vote, Senator
John McFadzean succeeded in obtain
ing unamous consent to an amendment
striking out graduated pay proviso
which would have based the minimum