The Ordway new era., 1919-05-02
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

SHOW. Attractive purses VIII De OF
fered for number of events in the
fancy class and already the assocla-
ton Is promised number of fine ami
mails from Pueblo, Colorado Springs
and other places. For the past few
years there has been some trouble in
securing the quality of melons that
the Association desires to give to pa
irons, but this year some twenty-five
acres will be grown in different parts
of the valley on the best melon land
to be found, from selected seed, and
there is reason to believe that the big
pile will be the most attractive that
has ever been offered
A. ]. Pierce, wealthy Meeker ranch
er, has presented the Meeker public
library with fifty choice volumes In
memory of mis- wife, who died several
months ago, and has promised 500 in
books each year to the library. Mrs.
Pierce was keenly interested in the
welfare of the library She was the
daughter of former Congressman
Towner of Corning, Iowa, and, her
mother for number of years was
president of the Iowa State Library
Board.
The present rate of tonnage produc-
tion in the San Juan mining region
will enable that section to occupy first
place during the years to come as the
most productive mining section In our
great mining state of Colorado. The
rugged San Juan mountains, eHlbrac-
ing an area eighty miles long by from
twenty-five to forty miles wide, with
Iits hundreds of submits exceeding 49,
900 feet in elevation, is only just now
beginning to produce the precious met
ais on big scale.
One alleged bandit killed and three
youths in jail ut Aztec, N. NJ, closes
week of terrorism in the San Juan rc-
gion In which two automobiles and
motor driven velocipede were stolen,
homes robbed and officers led a chase
over two counties and out into the des-
ert within fifteen miles of Gallup, N.
NJ, where the alleged band was final
ly captured The boys range in age
from 10 to 20 years.
Corporal John B. Johnson, late of
Co. L, Fifth Engineers, Seventh divi-
sion, and formerly an officer of the
Colorado state penitentiary, returned
to Canon City, having just been dis
charged from the recuperation camp at
Macarthur, Okla. johnson had thrill
ing experience in the war. On Oct. Is
in the st. Mihiel drive he was wound
u IN, tb. hAgraifO1 rarnVprinp
from his wounds for five months.
The largest class in the history of
the Odd Fellows lodge in western Colo
RADIO was initiated in Grand Junction
with big ceremonials, including BAN
quet and fraternal addresses. The class
was composed of sixty-eight members
and represented every district in the
county. Walter NJ. Merrill, grand pa
triarch of the state, was among the
higher officials Of the lodge to attend.
A man giving his name as w. j.
Bosko was arrested at Trinidad as a
suspect in the murder of Elton Q.
Parks, Pueblo automobile sales agent,
and William T. Hunter, wealthy and
prominent farmer of Rye. The Trim
idad suspect will be held pending an
Investigation as to his whereabouts
since he was released from the county
jail at Walsenburg.
Werner H. Reed, one of Colorados
wealthiest citizens, an oil magnatei
mining man, philanthropist and author
died Mt Coronado Beach, Calf, follow
ing long period of Ill health. Pneu-
monia developing caused his death, but
not until three hours before the end
did his physicians consider his condi'
ton serious.
With the summit of Pixies peak
within reach and the tank repaired
and ready to continue it's trip, the
climb of the peak was abandoned by
order of Samuel d. Nicholson, state
director of the Victory Liberty Loan
campaign.
Potato acreage will be cut about "a
per cent of the 1918 acreage this sum
mer, according to dealers and farmers
around Greeley. This years potato
shipments will total 5000 carloads
while the 1919 crop probably will run
under 1000. Much of the potato acre
age is going into sugar beets, while
other potato land is being seeded to
alfalfa. The value of the 1918 croI
to the farmer was about $2,25O.0O0.
The government has notified the
Colorado Agricultural College that the
department of animal husbandry, con
Quoted for ten years by the gov
ernment and college in cooperation
is to be transferred to Buf
falo, Wyo., before july 1. OF the
eighty fine breeding horses owned b!
the department, the government will
take forty and the other forty Will b'
auctioned by the college.
A bomb explosion which tore a hole
In concrete house, blew down trees