The Ordway new era., 1920-12-17
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

school year of 1920, with 10 teachers
The Weld county commissioners
have voted to thoroughly modernize
and double the capacity of the Greeley
hospital at cost of $4,000.
Odell de Noya. Usage squaw, was
granted a divorce from Wesley de
Noya, Usage brave, in the District
Court of Colorado Springs ON charges
Of cruelty. t.
Congress has been asked 10 appro-
pirate $4,000 for the maintenance of
forest experiment station in Colo
RADIO. The station would be under the
direction of the Department of Agri-
culture -f.
An elevator owned by the Farmers
Cooperative Elevator Company at
Paoli was destroyed by fire. About
1900 bushels of wheat had been
stored in the bins. The damage is es-
tlmated at $4,000. ~
In an effort to have legislation help
full To the livestock industry enacted
by the present United States Congress-,
a series of telegrams addressed to all
United States senators and represent
atives from Colorado in Washington
stock exchange.
National parks in Colorado will need
S205, 900 of the S2,476,594 being asked
for from Congress for 1922, according
to the estimates prepared by Stephen
T. Mather, director of the nineteen ma
.. nlI lot, Wi
cover necessary improvement funds
for the Rocky Mountain and Mesa
Verde National parks.
There is n strong movement under
way in Grand Junction and other
towns 10 secure the changing of the
name of the Grand river TO the Colo
RADIO river. The Grand river, which
flows through Grand Junction, is the
largest river in the state and is the
largest branch of the Colorado river.
Its junction with the Green river near
Moab, Utah, forms the Colorado river.
Colorado livestock took good share
of the prizes at the International Live
stock show in Chicago, which is de-
clared the greatest stock show in the
world. "Blayney's Domino" bull be-
longing to w. n. w. Blaney of Den
yer took second prize in the two-year-
old class. In the senior yearling bull
class. wyoming Eighth was sec
ond, while Blayney's Hereford steer.
Stripe" was sixth in class of
thirty-siS.
BY ruling of Judge Greeley W.
Whitford in the District Court in Den
yer, the Denver Gas and Electric Light
Company must pay to the city of Den
yer SSS, 134.24 of its collections during
the year 1918. The ruling also means
In 1910, 1920 and future years must be
turned over to Denver, according to
attorneys involved in the case. and Il
big reduction in gas and electric rates
chal ged TO the public is predicted il
the Supreme Court upholds Judge
WhitfOrd's decision.
More than 5000 Boy Scouts, Camp
Fire Girls, Young Mems and Women S
Christian Association members spent
their annual outings last summer in
the national forests of Colorado,
Wyoming, South Dakota, Nebraska,
Minnesota and Michigan last year, ac-
cor,lIng to statistics compiled by allen
S. Peck, district forester. Scout or
ganizations in Longnost and Greeley
have already built permanent camp
sites for outing purposes, and 1T is
expected that many similar organiza-
tlons over the state will apply for
s;ta fa &c
recreational huts within the next year.
The veterinary division of the Colo
RADIO Agricultural College at Fort Col
lins is the fourth largest institution of
its kind in the United States. 1t num-
bcrs its graduates among some of the
highest-salaried veterinarians, as well
as some of the most noted in the
country. The new hospital and labora-
tory for this department on the college
campus is almost completed and will
be one of the finest and most mo Iern
in the West.
The first suit of its kind to be filed
in Pueblo county was brought by At
torney General Victor Keyes of Colo.
rado for the collection of S5,9S4 alleged
to be due the state from the / per
cent tax on gasoline and oil up 10
Nov. 1. The defendant is the Jewel
Oil Company of Pueblo and it is
alleged that the tax which is collected
by the companies selling gasoline and
all products of gasoline and which,
under the law, should be turned over
to the state, has been withheld by the
carmnny. The suit is In line with the
announced plan of the attorney gen
eral TO sue the companies that have
t"n cole t'rg the IaN on every gal
Ion of gasoline or oil and holding it TO
their own use.
Clinton X. Coles and John OkkIre