The Ordway new era., 1919-04-18
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

pany at Hugo, and drilling will be re-
sumed at-once.
Residents of Archuleta county have
signed petition asking State Game
Commissioner Fraser for not less than
100000 trout fry for the San Juan
river and its tributaries this season.
Asa Sterling. n years old, president
of the First National Bank of Greeley,
director and stockholder In nearly ev-
cry business and irrigation enterprise
in northern Weld county, is dead at
Greeley.
G. r. Beers of Mancos has been
awarded the concession for furnishing
transportation to the visitors to the
Mesa Verde National Park during the
coming season. The park will be open
to visitors on May 1.
Every public school pupil in Little
ton is happy because new modern
and up-to-date high school is in sight.
The voters, in addition to electing u
new set of town officials, voted $780,
600 for that purpose.
The board of education of school
district No. 81 have decided to sub
init proposition to the voters at the
annual school election, May 9th, to
bond the district for $4,000 to erect
an addition to the school building at
Ignhcio.
| c. o. Earnest, well known Montrose
banker, has been elected president Of
the Chamber of Commerce by the new
directors, in executive session. Sec
retary F.. +. Schuyler, whose record
has been splendid, is retained for an
other year.
| Mrs. Nancy Bush, 20, was found
guilty of murder in the second degree
by jury which returned It's verdict at
Montrose in the trial of the aged wom-
an for the killing of her son, John
Bush, on the night of Dec Is, 1917.
The verdict carries a penalty of from
ten years to life Imprisonment.
The Supreme Court of Colorado sus-
tained the citation and fine for CON
tempt of court entered by Judge John
A. Perry of the District Court of Den
yer in October of 1915 against Juven-
lie Judge Ben b. Lindsey when the lat
ter refused to testify before the former
judge in the murder case of Mrs. Ber-
husband, John A. Wright
A coroner's jury at Aguilar investi-
gated the explosion in the Empire
mine of the Empire sCcal Mining Com
pany, in which thirteen miners lost
their lives on March 31st. The verdict
as returned found that the explosion
was due to an accumulation of gas ig-
,nited in some manner unknown, and
that both the fire boss, Joe Jackson,
and the mine foreman, William Wad-
dell, had been negligent in the dis
charge of their duty.
Eleven out of twelve members of
Boy Scout Troop No. s, the first scout
organization ever formed in Greeley,
wore their cOuntry's uniform during
the war. One, Lester March of MILL
ken, was the first Weld county boy to
be killed in action. He died last June
near Chateau Thierry, when the ma
rines, of which he was a member, were
blocking the Hun advance. Another
member, John BEEN, died of influenza
while in camp at Lincoln, Neb.
The State Senate killed on final
reading. by n vote of 10 to 13, the
Rhoads House bill, under the terms of
which, had 1t been enacted, an In
itiated measure proposing constitu-
tiOnal amendment would not be consid
cred as ratified and adopted unless
the total number of votes cast on the
proposition We're equal to at least 80
per cent of the entire vote for gov r.
nor at the same election.
Great preparations are being made at
Rocky Ford for the annual convention
of the G. A. r., department of Colo
RADIO and Wyoming, which will be held
for three days, June 4th, 9th and 9th.
With an allotment of 500 pounds In
the drive for used clothing for EurOp-
can relief, the citizens of Lafayette
contributed 900 pounds. The Lafay-
cite chapter of the Red Cross is the
banner chapter of the Rocky Mountain
division. In every drive made during
the war IT never failed to oversub-
scribe its quota and is the only chap
ter in the division which has never
failed to complete every allotment of
work assigned it.
A big business deal was closed at La
Junta when w. E. Andrews and son.
Harold, took a ten-year lease on the
building now occupied by the Public
library, and will put in another drug
store, in addition to the one they al
ready own. The new store will be one
of the finest In the state, and will be
up-to-date in all details. The fixtures
will cost about $4,000, and when the
building is ready for occupancy 1t will
be one of the show places of the val
ley.
The University of Colorado has is
sued the first volume of II new series
of IliiilIi on Ir.,i. Of