The Ordway new era., 1920-11-19
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

Denver's tr;imway controversy when
the striking car men voted almost
unanimously 10 return 10 work.
Grand Junction police believe that
the bank bandits who We're killed near
Colorado Springs recently We're the
same men who operated successfully
In this district.
Golden, Colo. - John Kerr, under
sheriff, was elected sheriff of .Jeffer-
son county, succeeding Bert Jones,
who served for two terms. William
Woods was elected coroner.
A new sugar factory is to be built
at Wellington by the Du Pont Sugar
Company, new organization of Den
YER and Colorado and Iowa men, which
plans TO build chain of sugar fac
tories in the state.
President c. A. Duniwny of Colorado
College announced Il gift of S750oO
from the Carnegie Foundation TO be
used for endowment purposes. This
brings the endowment fund of the col
lege up to S1,610,OOO.
The majority Of the farmers of Love
land and Larimer counties have re-
fused to sell their spud crop mt the pre-
vailing prices, and no shipments of po-
tatoes have been made out of Love
land for more than thirty days.
James NJ. Collins, Democratic nom
inee for governor. who was defeated
in the recent election, expended the
sum of S2,153.65 in conducting his
campaign, according to statement
filed with the secretary of state.
After deliberatinG three minutes Il
jury in the West Side Court in Denver
brought in a verdict of not guilty In
the case of NJ. Bruce Ammons, 60 years
old, who was charged with the murder
of his son-iB-law, Joseph Jardino, ut
the Ammons home last July.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Pletlcha, pros
porous Bohemian ranch couple living
in the Tampas district, are both dead
MS the result of being run down by Il
Santa Fe switch engine while they
were driving in their automobile four
miles west of La Junta. Mrs. Pleticha
was hurled 100 feet and instantly
killed. Her husband died few hours
later in La Junta hospital.
Forty-four counties in Colorado will
get S1lS,512 from national forest bust
ness in the Rocky Mountain district of
the United States Forest Service dur
ing the fiscal year 1920. Thirty-twO
counties in Wyoming, South Dakota,
Nebraska, Michigan and Minnesota
will share 800, ,12O. The total amount
turned over to the several states from
this source in 1919 was S197,O74. The
money goes to road and school pur-
poses.
Fire Of an unknown origin destroyed
the Currie fruit canning factory, one
of the largest canning plants in the
West, at Grand Junction. The loss is
estimated at S100,00O, according to of
ficials of the company. The fire
started in the elevator shaft. The
structure was three stories high. The
factory employed 200 persons, mostly
girls. 1t had just finished canning to-
matoes and had started on the apple
crop. About $4,000 worth of apple
butter was ruined.
Due to the increase and shifting of
population in Colorado during the past
ten years. the four-district congress-
ional map may have its boundaries
considerably changed by reapportion-
ments of the new Congress, which will
be made after the decennial census is
officially announced. A reGpportion-
ment of the representation in the
State Legislature also is believed to
be probability, in view of the greatly
increased population of certain farm
ing districts and the decrease in min
ing communities.
The primary object of the mining
convention in Denver is the revival of
mining. From 1913 to 1920 seven typ
ical Colorado mining counties showed
n decrease of about S2O,OOO,OOO in valu-
alton assessment for taxation purposes.
This decrease has to he made up for by
other counties. Every taxpayer in
Colorado is interested in the revival of
mining
Unusual alarm is felt by the beet
growers of the country near Montrose
that the large crop will be total loss
unless host of laborers are procured at
once to harvest the large crop before it
is frozen in the ground. While virtu-
ally the entire crop in the eastern sec
ton of the state has been harvested,
only a small percentage has been mar
keted there.
State lands aggregating 6,G0O acres,
sold at public auction in the state
capitol, brought n total of S14i, 200, ac-
cording to John i, Vivian, register of
the state land board. The lands were
located in seven counties and the
average price was S2iS4 per acre. One
block of 160 acres of irrigated land,
located in the Rio Grande county,
brought 500 per acre. This was one
OF the biggest sales conducted by the
state board in several months.
The largest audience ever gathered