The Ordway new era., 1920-09-17

VIII be held at Hugo, sept zs-5V.
Census returns made public include
Pueblo, Colo, whose population is
given as 42,909, decrease of 1,4S7, or
B.3 per cent.
Approximately 10 per cent Of the
$1,000 men employed in Colorado coal
mines will ask for an increase of S1.5O
day. 1t has been announced. These
compose class of men known as in
side and outside day labor and do not
include men who dig coal.
Miss Anna Laura Force, president of
the State Teachers Association of
Colorado and principal of the Lincoln
school in Denver has been appointed
chairman of the executive committee
Miss Force is doing graduate work at
the State Teachers College this sum-
mer ut Greeley.
AS the night jailer at the county Jail
at Leadville entered the cell house to
replenish the fire in the stove there,
three prisoners who were in the corri-
dor made rush for the open door and
escaped. At late hour tonight they
had not been captured. The three men
We're awaiting trial in the District
Court on minor charges.
Two bears We're killed within few
yards of each other by J. f. Naylor in
North Park while on n camping and
fishing expedition. He found the AMI
mails early in the morning within 100
yards of the camp and dropped one at
the first shot. The second one started
TO run away and it took four shots TO
bring it down, after 1t had run about
100 yards.
Delta will hold its annual flower
show Saturday, September 11th, when
locally grown gladiolus, sweet peas,
dahlias and usters will be put on dis
play. Many attractive prizes have
been offered by the merchants for the
hest flowers shown. After the exhl-
bition the flowers win be auctioned off
and the proceeds given to the City
Park fund.
The Cripple Creek Short Line, which
operates tourist trains between Colo
RADIO Springs and Summit, has closed
its season. The road was re-opened to
Summit on June 2Sth. On May 18th,
last, Judge II. E. Lewis of the Federal
District Court in Denver, gave the OPP
orators of the road permission to close
and the traffic to Cripple Creek and
return was annulled.
The condition of rye in Colorado on
July 1st was 92 per cent normal, COM
pared with 01 per cent on June 1st.
Based on this condition and an esti-
mated area of $4,000 acres devoted to
the crop, the forecasted production is
1,571 800 bushels. This accounts only
for the rye planted for grain, the total
acreage of rye being considerably
larger than that given above.
The condition of barley in Colorado
on July 1st was 92 per cent of normal,
compared with 96 per cent on June 1st.
Partial reports of county assessors in
dicnte that the area devoted to the
crop is about 100000 acres. Based OIL
this acreage and the condition of the
crop on July 1st, the estimated produc-
ton is 5,943,200 bushels, compared with
100000 last year.
Remarkable yields of both wheat and
barley are reported from fields of
grain just threshed in Larimer county.
Fred Schmer has just harvested twelve
acres OF wheat and six acres of barley
on the w. A. Drake farm two and Il
half miles south of Fort Collins, which,
while they have broken no records, are
unusually fine crops. The wheat
threshed 74.16 bushels to the acre, and
the barley So bushels to the acre.
W. f. Stoltz, alias William Brown,
who was seriously injured August 2Sth
when he was crushed between two
tram cars at the central car barns,
where he was working, died as the re-
suit of his injuries at st. Luke's hos
pital in Denver.
Forrest Wood, - years old, was
thrown off his bicycle ut Boulder and
run over by Il touring car, receiving in
juries which may prove fatal. In dodg
ing two automobiles at a busy street
corner he turned his bicycle too far,
striking the hub of one of the cars
and being hurled directly in the path
of the other. His right arm was broken
and he suffered severe wound on
the head.
Partial reports of county assessors
indicate that about $4,000 acres of po-
tatoes We're planted in Colorado this
year, compared with 92.5O0 acres last
year. The condition of the crop on
July list was % per cent of normal, an
exceptionally high condition for this
season of the year. The estimated pro-
ductlon, based upon this condition and
the acreage given above, is 1902, 900
bushels compared with final esti-
mate of 100000 bushels last year.
Apple growers of the Montrose dis
trict have voted unanimously to hold