The Ordway new era., 1919-03-21
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

land in the state in 1918, compared
with a total of 25,149,454 acres for
1917.
Former Governor Elias NJ. Ammons
has been selected as president to head
Denver's next Stock Show, at the an
nusl meeting of the directors held in
Denver.
Colorado has 2S5,O73 miles on tele-
phone line, every county In the state
being represented. Telephone prop
erty in the state 10 valued for taxa
tion purposes at $12.666,34O.
l. OIL excitement caused by the spud-
ding in of three wells In the Round
Butte field. west Of Carr. has caused
an unusual number of visitors and
workmen to go to that locality.
| With new secretary and a revived
interest by all members. the Sterling
Chamber Of Commerce has taken on n
new lease of life. with promise of con-
siderable activity this season.
Hugging the borders of Colorado.
within two miles of the Utah state
line in western Montrose county, is
| the smallest school in Colorado The
| building is 9x9 feet and has four pu-
pills.
Philip Bnndn and Fred Marone,
Italians. were found guilty of murder
in the second degree by a jury in the
District Court at Pueblo. They were
| accused of numbering Andrew Dra-
gasch for the purpose of robbery.
Potash deposits believed to be of un-
usual extent and exceptional purity.
have been discovered in the vicinity
of Stoneham and syndicate of Ster-
ling, Grover and Stoneham capitalists
has been organized to develop the
same.
Eleven hundred jobs for returned
soldiers and sailors have been OBJ
talned through the Rocky Mountain
Auto Trades Association. This state
ment was made by Harrison Gold
smith, secretary of the association at
Pueblo
In Leadville's second fatal mine ac-
cident, William Germon, %, a eager
employed at the Mikado shaft, was in
stantly killed when he fell 1,20O feet
from the cage to the bottom of the
sump Every bone in his body was
broken.
A high-powered electric railway is
soon to be constructed from Pueblo to
Monte Vista through the San Luis val
ley, according to statement made
by William Allen Hunter of Hooper,
Colo. retired Indianapolis capitalist,
who went to the San Luis valley In
1916 for his health.
An epidemic of fake officers has
hit Colorado Springs, with the arrest
during the last week Of half dozen
men parading in uniforms that they
were not entitled to wenr The latest
of these is Capt" G. A. Hebb, who
claimed to be Canadian captain and
that he was wounded in thu. fighting
on the SOmme.
II you stepped into grocery store
to buy apples and were told that they
were $1.40 each, wouldn't you be
stunned? And yet that is an every
day occurrence in the stores of Paris,
according to a letter received in Pu.
eblo from Miss Wave Richardson, u
Pueblo girl who is engaged in hosp,
tal work III that city.
A deal of more than ordinary i'm.
portance to GlenwOOd, II deal by which
GlenwoOd parties secure the Hotel
GlenwOod, one of the best business
properties in the city, was consum
mated. Il. f. Lucas and C. r. Nc.
Carthy have secured from the BOlles
estate lease with an option to prr-
chase the property, and have already
begun to remodel the property
Arbitration is not a substitute for
preparedness, but only an adjunct to
it," Gen. Leonard Wood declared in an
address at Colorado Springs. "The na-
tion which is organized and strong
can arbitrate more successfully than
one which is unarmed Belgium trust
ed to treaty but the Swiss trusted
to organized national defense, and the
boche did not even try to go that way.
The next time France and Belgium
will be ready. VIII we?"
All indications point to the largest
beet acreage ever planted In Arkah-
sas Valley. 1t is said that the A. b.
S. Company will have better than 25,-
600 acres contracted for before plant
ing time, and that the Holly Corpor-
alton at Swink also will have an un-
usually large acreage. 1t is also re-
ported that the American Beet Sugar
Company's plant at Las Animas,
which has not been operated for the
last few years, Will be in operation
during the next campaign to heip
make into sugar the vast amount of
beets which will be grown. The Rocky
Ford plant, which has large capac-
ity, will be taxed to its utmost TO
handle the beets grown in that i'm
mediate vicinity.
Denver & Rio Grande passenger