The Ordway new era., 1919-05-02
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
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Tat Leadvilie on the basis Of mini
mum wage Of "a, cut Of so cents
day.
The town of Byers. in Arapahoe
county, is enjoying an unprecedented
building boom. Several new business
| structures are being built, as well as
ii number of homes.
While eating his lunch In the Wolf
Park mine, near Canon City, ]. Quin-
| by Walker leaned against high power
electric wire, was electrOcuted and
died almost instantly.
Fire of unknown origin destroyed
all of the buildings of the Sunnyside
mine at Eureka except the transform
er house, with loss estimated at
| s25O0OO, that is partly covered by in
| surance.
Littleton's welcome to returning sol
diers will not be held until some time
| in July, as those in charge Of the
homecoming celebration desire to walt
sufficiently to allow practically all of
| the service men to have been mustered
out.
When George McQuown, discharged
soldier, went home TO New RayIner he
didn't loaf about town or go to Gree
ley or Denver to get job. George i'm
mediately Incorporated himself as the
| New Raymer Electric Light and Pow
er Company.
With the death of Samuel Hunt,
cowboy at Colorado Springs, injured in
a cattle feud which developed into
battle on the morning of Dec. 20. 1918,
four cattlemei are locked up in the
| Ell Paso county jail, on charges of first
degree murder.
Mrs. N. NJ. Flitner, wife of a rancher
living near Fort Lupton, was killed on
the road between Erie and Fort Lup-
ton when a small automobile she was
driving overturned at culvert over
an irrigation ditch and she was
crushed underneath.
Robert r. Ross, pioneer resident and
county Judge for the past sixteen
years at Trinidad, is dead at the age
of 81. Death was due to acute indi-
gestion Judge Ross had been active
politically, was state representative
from Huerfano county a number of
years ago.
State officials have estimated that
the inheritance tax from the Werner
H. Reed estate, which is variously
placed at from $1S,OOO,OOO to $4,000
900, will double the amount of any
previous single inheritance tax paid
into that department. The tax Is ex-
pected TO be in the neighborhOod of
| $75OOOO.
Hay in some parts of Colorado has
sold this spring as high as $40 ton,
the highest price that has prevailed for
a great many years. The high price
has been due to shortage in some
sections, but most of this shortage has
been supplied by Colorado hay from
other sections where there has been
no shortage.
Confessing to the shooting of Jacob
Mellinger, proprietor of store at
Rush, Earl and Tom Combs, cousins,
are in the county Jail ut Colorado
Springs, where they will face charges
of deliberate murder. The two men,
attempting to rob the store, shot Mel
linger through the back and then tried
to escape.
The chimes of the midnight bells
had not ceased their echoes in Duran
20 Sunday night when Durango and
La Plata county "went over the top"
in subscribing their allotment of S245,-
100. establishing record for prompt
ness than can be equaled, but cannot
be excelled, La Plata ia the first coun-
ty In Colorado, If not the first in any
state, to raise its quota.
La Junta again went over the top
this time in the old clothes drive. La
Juntas quota was 2,4OO pounds, which
was shipped to Denver. Swink added
to the quota by giving 315 pounds and
Timpas twenty pounds.
John w. Spencer, supervisor of the
Battlement forest, with headquarters
Grand Junction, has made a requisi-
tion upon the federal government for
10000 black spotted trout which Will
be distributed In the streams of this
section of the state. Another requis-
tion, about one-fourth as large, will be
made upon the state government. The
hatcheries at Glenwood also will make
volunteer contribution.
Charging his former partner in the
automobile business not only with
stealing his wife and breaking up his
nome, but also with attempting to
steal his youngest son, w. j. Woods,
3S, stepped out of his garage door in
Sterling and shot George Dykes, 81,
1--WE times, firing once, 1t is said. while
Dykes lay on the ground. Three of
he bullets took effect in the right leg,
one in the body and one penetrated an
ear and grazed Dykes face. None, 1t
s said, will prove fatal.
} A veteran of the Mexican war of
IS4R of the Civil war of '01. and of