The Ordway new era., 1919-04-11
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

lIed and the growers viii isznt plenty
II sugar bee.a The total crop Sill Be
about 1000 acres or enough TO fur
niah 10000 tons The beet growers
won their sioa-ton price for all bee's
delivered up to q certain time iare in
The fail. and after that the market on
sugar is TO determine the price Every
Thing has been satisfactorily arranged
A whisky laden automobile, which
was taken by the sheriff when Its
driver fled. was confiseafed with the
liquor by County Judge Hood at Brigh-
ton when the case came up Alice May
Richards. mortgage of the car. VIII
carry the case to the Supreme Court
In an endeavor to get possession of IT,
When the car was abandoned by its
driver n bloody coat and smashed
windshield showed the effects of the
sheriffs buckshot-
Reports from fifty-one school dis
tricts out of q total of ITO in Weld
county show that twenty-seyen nafion-
aIities are represented in the schools,
and that twenty-one of these are found
in Greeley In the sixty-one districts
1,717 children were reported as being
Of foreign parentage, and 3.1s5 of
American native born parentage. Rus
SLAMS lead the foreign group. with IA
per cent
Montrose is the third best banking
city on the Western slope at present,
and the bankers say to watch for one
year and see who's who on the West
ern slope Durango leads with re-
sources of s3,265.513.9s. Grand juno
tion is next with $3,245,652.1S, and
Montrose third with 2,3Ss, 1902. The
population of the three cities at pres
ent is: Grand Junction, 10000; Duran
go, 6,JOO, and Montrose. S4,100.
Tomey Kitzer, employed at the Cres-
son mine, was crushed fiat as a piece
of paper at Victor when sixteen tons
of rock fell ten feet, catching him I'M
der Ii. The rock wRs used as coun-
terweight on the Cresson mine tram
way cable and the cable parted while
Kitzer was standing under the weight.
A fellow workman who was on top of
the counterweight sustained broken
leg when 1t fell.
To be buried under a snow slide in
a bed room isn't an experience TO be
desired, but A. e. Chapman and Don
aid Stewart, miners of Telluride, re
Gently experienced it without injury.
A snowslide engulfed their boarding
house and filled their bedroom with
eight feet of snow. Rescuers were
forced to cut hole in the side of
the house to dig the men out.
Labor leaders and state officials
who have to do with industrial affairs
assured Samuel D. Nicholson, state
chairman of the coming Victory loan
campaign, that labor stands ready and
willing to meet the obligation to be i'm
posed on 1t and will make sacrifice
in order that Colorado may again sub
scribe more than its loan quota.
A moonshine still was raided at the
home Of Gus Lindstrum in Santa Rita.
a suburb of Victor, by Sheriff Won
Publ and Assistant District Attorney
Shaw. The still, made OF copper, was
In operation when the officers ap-
peared. 1t was located In an outbuild-
ing and several gallons of raw white
whisky were seized.
Littieton voters approved two bond
Issues In the town and school elections.
An issue for 100000 to erect a new
high school building carried by vote
of 252 to IS, and proposal to bond
the city for $4,000 to construct new
municipal building was approved, 81
to 8S. But one municipal ticket was
in the field.
Owing to the prevalence Of influenza
and the fact that there was only one
set of candidates In the election at
Dillon, light vote was cast. The
following were elected: For Mayor, H.
T. Hamilton; for town trustees for
two years, r. E. Wehrley, James Tus-
sey and Frank Carmen.
Forty-six per cent of the commits
stoned officers who were on the army
lists Nov. IL, 1918, had been discharged
on March 20 last. A statistical report
prepared by the general staff showed
that Of the 1S8,43 officers on duty
when the armistice was signed, 1O2, ,473
were in service on March 20. The
greatest reduction was In the chemical
warfare service. SO per cent Of Its com
missioned personnel having been re-
leased.
Parvino Parmona, a Pueblo Italian,
was beheaded at Pueblo when he at
tempted to steal n ride on a Missouri
Pacific freight train in the yards. A
brakeman saw him along the track,
carrying an Overcoat, and, looking
back moment later saw him fall from
between two cars and the train pass
over his neck.
That General,yilla was not only far