The Ordway new era., 1920-03-05

In Denver. March to c. at Stock
yards Stadium.
The Cox Mercantile Company store
it Fruita was entered by burglars AMI
$50 worth of clothing was confiscated
and some cash taken from the regis
ter.
Twenty-seven building permits, in
volving the expenditure of more than
$4,000, have been issued by the city
NJ Fort Collins since the first OF the
year.
A tract of 1000 acres in the Black
Forest, northeast of Colorado Springs.
owned by Gov q. II. Shoup and asso-
ciaies, is to be cut up and sold for
farming land.
drill an artesian well with the hope
that they may strike oil also while AFT
er water A fund of $1,000 is being
raised TO finance the work.
The city of Fort Collins will spend
$780, 900 fer street improvements, m
Guiding concrete paving and graveling,
according to projects now being pro-
noted by various civic organizations.
The number OF swine in Colorado at
the beginning of this year is estimated
at 49,, 900, compared with 100000 last
year. and the average value per head
is SIS, compared with SOD last year.
The number of dairy cattle on Colo
RADIO farms this year is estimated at
2To,OOO, compared with 28i,0O0 last
year, and the average value per head
is SsI. compared with SSS ON January
!, 1919.
Declaring that his life was failure
and that he had nothing TO live for
John Alarollc, 10 years old, shot him
self through the head in IL barn at the
home OF his sister. Mrs. W. II. Smith,
one mile west of Hudson.
The State Highway Department lost
81 900 in the fire which destroyed the
Tom Roberts garage in Denver. This
sum represents the value of a Marmon
passenger car belonging TO the depart
ment and stored in the garage. No ILL
Sulance vas curried ON the machine.
Railroad Administration estimates
place the net cost to the government
of federal control of the railroads at
S,iJ6 600, 900, Chairman Esch of the In
terstate Commerce Committee told the
House in opening debate on the con-
ference report on the compromise rail
road bill
Three drafts which total more than
x2OO,O0O and II large number of checks
which bring the entire amount to S3l0,-
900. mailed from Pueblo, Feb. 6. have
failed to arrive at their Denver des-
finatlon and bank officials fear tha!
tley either have been lost or stolen
from the mails.
Jack Klpeck, prominent mining
man of the San Juan section, is dead,
WAS one of the promoters in opening
the famous Kansas group of mines he
tween Gladstone and Red Mountain.
lie had just reorganized his company
to operate this summer.
At meeting of the Larimer County
Fair Association in I.oveland the fail
this year was set for Aug. 81, Sept. l.
>, 3. The Larimer county fair Is one
of the largest in the state and is recog-
nized by all breeders of livestock as
one of the hest advertising mediums in
the fair field in the West.
Mrs Anna l.. Mccormick, &C years
old, II pioneer of Cedaredge. who ar
rived In Denver May 3, 1874, and was
married there In 1882, Is dead. Sh,
was one of the prominent residents OF
Cetlare,lge and her death has occa'
stoned general sorrow. She had spent
fifty-six years in Colorado.
Robbers entered the Acacia Drug
store ut Aurora, and stole merchan
disc estimated by II. Mcdowell, propri
etor of the store to he worth $1,000.
Que of the largest real estate deals
completed on the western slope in sew
eral months took place when Col. Man
ford w. Smith sold the Golden Rod
ranch 10 Fred Light, Sr., for S1l3,O1O
This sale includes $40 acres, all the i'm
proveinenis, buildings, machinery, i'm
plements and livestock near Aspen.
Schedules for the annual agrlcutur
al survey will he sent out to county as
SCISSORS from the office of the State
Board of Immigration about March
this year, giving assessors n month t'
prepare for this work, instead of Ill,
few days that We're allowed last yea.
because of the fact that the law pro
viding for this survey WIS signed only
II few days before the actual assess
ment began. The blanks are in bool
form this year and will he much easicl
for asscssors 10 handle than those use,
in 1919. They will also call for fullcl
information on crops that are not cN
tensively grown. thus giving better rep
resentation to counties that grow gar
den and seed crops and vegetables fo
canning to Il considerable extent.
The number of sheep in the state a
the beginning If this year was esti