The Ordway new era., 1920-10-15
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
western Newspaper Union News Service.

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palatial home of l.. II. Guldman head
OF the Golden Eagle Dry Goods Com
pany in Denver.
Denver will have another mountain
park in the near future If plans OF
Deputy City Attorney Minor e.
| Gleaves for the requirement of $40
acres near Georgetown materialize.
Approximately $500 teachers are ex-
pected to attend the annual convention
! of the Colorado Education Association
to be held In Denver. Pueblo and
Grand Junction from Nov. to Nov. g.
The derailing of passenger train
on the Rio Grande Southern railroad
at Valley View, nine miles south of
Ridgeway. Colo, resulted In the in
jury Of twenty-five persons, none sert-
ously.
The celebration of the opening of
| the Poudre canon road as far up as
10 the Rustic, which is TO be given
Oct. 10, Columbus Day, will be an elab-
orate affair, and plans are rapidly
taking shape for the occasion.
william Norell of Walden accom-
panied a shipment of cattle to Omaha,
LaSalle Colo, couple of tramps held
| up one of the men who were with
Norell and secured between s15 and
$50.
B. f. Speak, A years old, driver OF
truck for the Masters Transfer
Company, was seriously bruised and
possibly internally injured at Love-
land when the truck he was driving
was struck by Colorado & Southern
freight train.
Colorado's coal production amounted
to $50, 900 tons in August, according to
| figures based on railroad shipments,
announced by the geological survey.
The August output exceeds that of
July by $1,000 tons, the figures show.
During the first eight months of the
year 1920, Colorado produced 6,129,00O
tons.
Henry Hazelmeyer and Frank Ber-
sanry of Glenwood Springs are lying
at the point of death in hospital at
Grand Junction, as the result of an
auto turning turtle four miles north of
Mesa, Colo, on the Midland trail. The
car rolled down bank on top of
the machine. The steering gear was
| broken.
The body of Mr.. L. F. Grace,
| of Garfield county, who; with Zenas
| Crawford, was drowned in the Grand
river in Glenwood canon on May 81,
was recovered on an island near Silt,
sixteen miles west of Glenwood. The
| body was in an excellent state of
| preservation and was Identified by
papers and money found in the dead
mans clothes.
The taxable property in Colorado is
valued at S1,592, ,OO7,796, according to
the annual report issued by the Colo
rado tax commission. The state is
richer by S9G,794,137 than it was In
1919, this report shows. Abstracts of
| assessment submitted to the commits
sion by the county commissioners from
every county in the state have been
examined by the state body.
The Colorado Springs City Council
has granted the Colorado Springs
Interurban Railway Company seven
| cent fare, being an increase of one
cent. The company has filed n petit
ton with the public utilities commits
sion, asking for similar increase in
its interurban fares. The local street
car company last June granted its
employees an increase of wages to
fifty-eight cents an hour apd then
asked the City Council and the utilities
commission for one-cent increase in
city fares.
Recruiting offices for the Colorado
national guard have been opened in
| Denver, with Col. Joseph G. Taylor in
charge. All members of the old guard
organizations will be mustered out and
new units are to be recruited in Den
yer as well as over the state.
Lieut.. Arthur c. Wagner of the
naval air service, who formerly was
connected with the Denver police de-
partment, was killed at Hartford,
Conn., when naval airplane in which
he was riding with Lieut. Com. VIII
liam Merrill Cory, Jr., commanding Of
ficer of the aviation section of the At
Iantic fleet, crashed to the ground on
the Hartford Golf Club course.
The city building department of
Denver has issued n permit for the
construction of the first extensive ad-
dition to the exhibition quarters of
Denver's big annual stock show. The
Western Stock Show Association,
which has charge of the show, OBJ
tanned permission to construct an ex-
hibition house for hogs at the stock
yards. The structure will be ninety
five feet in width and $50 feet in
length. 1t will be built of brick and
concrete and will cost $4,000.
A fifty-cent increase in the prices