The Ordway new era., 1920-07-23
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

attack of heart disease while on his
way TO the Denver stockyards. He was
Us years ole. Accompanied by a
rancher friend, Mr.. Gregg motored
down to Denver from Longmont to
attend to business at the stockyards
and they We're motoring along Cali
fornia street between Twentieth and
Twenty-first streets when he was
stricken The veteran runchman died
a few hours later
One hundred thousand people will
pass through the turnstiles of the
Colorado State Fair this year. This
is very conservative estimate based
ON the attendance in 1919 and the as
surances already given for this years
big show. Al low estimate there
will be l,5OO exhibits. Think of the
educational results to come from 1OO,-
600 people studying 1900 interesting
and instructice object lessons. Fair
dates are September 10 to % and all
railroads are making rates from all
over the state to Pueblo.
Killed and buried by u snow slide
many years ago, unmissed, unidenu-
fled. is the story 10 be told by the
skeleton of IL man which was found
i'll the debris of last years slide from
the Telescope mine near Chattanooga.
The bones were found by a prospector
and the accident which befell the un-
known several years ago was only
revealed by another slide, Every eff
fort is being made to connect the dis
covery with some one missing for
years from the district, but so far none
has shed light on the mystery.
Two Western slope swimming pools
We're recently caught in the net which
local Internal revenue collectors put
out for those who failed TO pay proper
taxes 10 the government. The tax on
swimming pool sales became effective
in September, 1917, and up TO the mid
die of this year the swimming pools
ut both Ouray and Ridgway had not
made any payments of taxes. The pool
at Ouray was forced 10 pay more than
$500 in taxes. Appeal has been taken.
The pool at Ridgeway had to pay more
than 500.
Apportionment of the $50, 191 81
public school income fund which was
assigned for distribution July /, 1920,
is now ready, according 10 state
ment made from the offices of the
state auditor. Mary c. G. Bradford,
superintendent of public instruction,
will make the apportionment. basing
the various sums on the district school
populations. The money will be turned
over to the counties for actual eX-
penditure,
Work, has started on 2o,Ooo-bush
grain elevator at Agate for the Scott
George Grain Company of Denver.
Colo. This will place the total value
of buildings under construction there
At more than $4,000. This building
BON is the result of the bumper crop
of wheat and corn crops raised there
last year The prospects are for
and the corn acreage will exceed 49,
900 acres.
Wheat and corn crops will be
greater In the state this year than ever
before, according to forecast by the
Colorado crop reporting service made
public The report is based upon crop
conditions on July /. 1t Is estimated
harvested. The yield of corn Is placed
at 15,0OO.OO0 bushels. The average in
crease. over any previous year is about
- per cent, according TO the report.
More than 800 trophies of war will
be received by the state of Colorado
as Its share of the articles which are
being distributed to various states
number of men who were In service
during the conflict, according to n
bulletin received by Morton NJ. David,
state adjutant of the American Legion,
from Lemuel Bolles, national adjurant
of the organization.
Five firemen were injured and thou
sands of dollars worth of property
destroyed when fire of unknown
origin broke out in the storeroom of
the Pioneer garage in Pueblo, in the
Bessemer district. The garage was
completely destroyed and sparks flying
from the building set fire to the homes
of George c. Lutz, proprietor of the
establishment, and II. c. Thompson,
who lives next door.
Delta people are not satisfied with
the government census Of the city.
The 1920 report gives Delta 2623,
while 1t is believed the city has 1900.
Efforts will be made to have a munich
pal census taken soon This is AT less
than the count made by the Chamber
of Commerce two years ago and Delta
has grown greatly since then. The
Chamber of Commerce count gave g.
$50 in 1918.
The Fort Collins city council has
adopted report of committee ap-
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