The Ordway new era., 1919-02-21
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

tai area, most of the remainder being
national forests, homestead land and
state land.
A committee of citizens from -Fruita,
In Mesa county. is in Denver urging
the State Legislature to pass law
creating the county of PabOr on the
| Western Slope.
The value of farm, orchard and gar
den crops grown in Colorado in 1918
was approximately S150OOO,OOO, as
| compared with $5O,974,95S for 1909
and s16,5sS for 1899.
Considerable ranch property Is
changing ownership in the various sec
tions of La Plata county. During the
past week sales aggregating more
| than $4,000 have been completed, the
largest transaction being the transfer
| of the II. d. Brindle 20O-acre ranch to
Groves Brothers for $4,000.
A steel and concrete bridge is being
| built across Black creek on the
| Kremmling- Dillon mail route, twenty
miles south of Kremmling. Its cost,
| $4,000, is divided between Summit
county and Flebbe Brothers, whose ir-
rigation pipeline will be carried across
| the canon on the new bridge.
The grand encampment of Odd Fell
| lows will be held in Denver Feb. IL.
II was scheduled to be held in Fort
| Collins last October. and was post
poned on account of the Influenza
| epidemic. The military council of
Patriarchs Militant will meet the eve
ming of the opening day at 1Iol
| Champa. The final feature of the pro-
gram will be a grand ball.
The mysterious disease which has
been killing many cattle around Crest,
Colo, and which started in the west
ern part of Morgan county, where it
destroyed entire herds, has been dl-
| amosed as corn stalk disease by vet
erinarians from the State Agricultural
College at Fort Collins, and there is
no cure for it save to keep the cattle
out of the corn fields.
All the Weld county sugar mills are
assured long campaigns next season,
because of the immense beet tonnage
contracted for in the country, accord
ing to Hi Tymothy, agricultural super
intendent of the Greeley factory. He
says that the Greeley factory has con-
tracted more than 5000 acres, and
that Windsor and Eaton have con-
tracted about 10000 acres between
| them.
Death few days ago claimed one
| of the earliest pioneers in j. 5. silva,
a member of the First New Mexico
company of volunteers during the
Civil war. A short time before death
Mr.. and Mrs. Silva celebrated their
| golden wedding anniversary at their
home near Allison. Their nineteen
sons and, daughters with their seven
ty-four children and grandchildren
We're present.
| Although Il. Lee Craft, special
agent of the Department of Justice,
went to Fowler to arrest one man on
charge of evading the draft, he
brought to Pueblo another on the same
charge, and through peculiar cir
cumstance, the name of the man
| caught is the same as the man sought.
He is James NJ. George, and he is held
| in the local Jail awaiting action on
the part of government officials.
The secretary of the interior has
designated sO.3s2 acres of land as
stock grazing homesteads, Colorado
list No. IL, within Pueblo and Sterling
land districts, to become effective
Feb. 1S, 1919. OF this great acreage,
all of 1t has practically been applied
for by citizens of this state. Within
the Pueblo district forty-nine applica-
| lions were made, and in the Sterling
land district forty-one citizens made
applications.
| More than 5000 men, women and
boys were placed in farm and ranch
| Jobs in Colorado last year through the
agricultural and livestock bureau of
the Denver Civic and Commercial AS
sociation, according to report issued
by d. w. Thomas, farm help specialist
and secretary of the bureau. This was
accomplished with the aid of $50 local
organizations throughout the state, in
| rluding county agricultural agents,
farm bureaus and county councils of
defense.
| Original Jurisdiction was assumed by
the Colorado Supreme Court in. th''
civil service wrangle arising from the
appointment of two commissions, one
by the outgoing governor, julius Z.
Gunter, and the other by Gov. Oliver
H.. Shoup. The court, sitting en- banc,
authorized writ of custer to issue,
which compels the members of the
| Gunter commission to make reply as
to why the, should not be removed
from office. In announcing that the
writ may issue, the court let 1t be
known that It would consider no dis
| putad fuctS This will limit the de-
cision as to who in law constitutes the
civil service commission.
Definite action to hold an automo-