The Ordway new era., 1920-02-06
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

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bill he Introduced in the next Leg sia-
ture providing for The licensing OF all
threshermen and requiring them To
make reports each week during the
ihrcshing season showing the acreage
and production of all grain threshed
| by them. The form of measure gen
orally favored is one similar 10 Tue
law now In effect in Michigan, winch
las proved very successful Under
this no fee is charged for the licensing
of thresherIncn. but they are required
| to furnish Information regarding scre-
age and production of grain thfeshed
in lieu of paying a fee- ihe stare
immigration Department now collects
through county asSessors Information
showing the acreage devoted TO each
crop. but accurate Information regard
ing production is not available
w. II. Murphy OF The Las Aniin.is
Leader WAS selected by the members
of the Colorado Editorial Association
AS chairman of the field department
committee. which is Ia work out
thorough organization of the associa-
! fion throughout the state. and 10 en-
courage the organization of local bod
les To co-operatc with the state Assoc
citation. The committee is to consist
of three members, one of whom is TO
be the field secretary, and Will be paid
Il salary by the state association for
his services.
Silver dollars are going TO he scarce
from now on. due to scarcity OF siI-
YER In their place dollar bilis VIII
he circulated. us in Eastern cities. No
more silver dollars can be obtained by
| banks unless silver certificates are
given in exchange Silver, under this
ruling cannot Ne bought with gold.
There. is shortage of silver certifi-
Gates The banks will he able TO get
only IL limited number of 81 and 81
bills. The result is expected TO be a
revival of silver mining In Colorado.
Approximately S25,O0o.oo0 changed
hands in live stock transactions dur
ing the six days of Denver's four
teentli annual National Western Stock
Show. which closed its gates after the
most successful season IN its history
Men in close touch with the market
have computed the amount from com
purative bank clearings and other
available data. Attendance records
were also smashed this year. Total
attendance figures for the show We're
announced as 72,3Sl.
An epidemic of smallpox has broken
out in the city of Durango. The city
commissioners, acting as the board OF
health. have issued orders 10 the ef-
feet that no person shall be permitted
al, %
of the city unless they have been vac
cinated. The board of directors of the
public schools and managers or per-
sons in ehaiee of private schools are
expressly forbidden 10 permit any stu
dent who Inns not been yaccinated TO
attend school.
Rule Il. johnson, alias Charles II.
Jewell, the alleged forger, who was
shot and dangerously wounded by
Turnkey Ed Coats when Johnson, TO-
gether with several other inmates of
the county Jail, attempted TO break out
| of that institution Dec. ~. pleaded
guilty before Judge F. A. Park in Dis
trict Court ut Pueblo to the charge of
passing bogus checks and received a
sentence of from seven TO ten years in
| the state penitentiary.
August Speck, perhaps the first set
| tier in what is now North Park, who
went to that section forty-five years
| ago. died at his home near Owl, Colo.
| and his body was taken TO Manches-
ter. Ia. for intermenr. Mr.. Speck was
horn in Germany a little more than
eighty-eight years ago, and went to
North Park fortyfive years ago, be-
ing engaged In sluice mining. He
shipped large quantities of gold from
I time to time.
Craig will have a modern creamery
manufacturing butter and ice cream il
| sufficient cream can be secured 10
make the proposition success.
The schedules TO be used by county
assessors in collecting agricultural
statistics for 1920 will be ready for
distribution early in February. Copies
OF these schedules will be sent by the
State Immigration Department to all
commercial clubs. To all daily and
weekly newspapers and 10 Others es-
peclally Interested in agricultural de
velopment. with the request that they
aid assessors every way they can In
obtaining full reports from farmers
this year The 1920 schedules are
somewhat more complex than were
those used for 1919, and an effort will
he made before the actual canvass he
gins TO lei farmers know what infor
nation they viii be asked to give The
assessors regarding their agricultural
operations. that assessors and theii
| N,-in l.4 Iszll N.-tl IA
tanning the Information.
The cnd of the 1890 beet season
came with the closing down of the su
-ar factory Of the Holly Sugar Corpor
alton al Grand Junction. The total run