The Ordway new era., 1920-04-16
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

| wood Springs It WIN be Known as The
| 6sienwaod Brick Company.
Ply vote of 20 10 n, property own
ers AZ R..rsey favored hontina a bond
issue or SRI. 600 10 s4o,00G TO construct
modern waterworks system.
\ Property owners, voting ar Nuuu m
a bond Issue. bnlloring 81 to I4 In
favor or fioatiug 10000 in bonds 70
construct a warervorlss system and to
string an eierfric power line from
Pierce 10 Nunn.
Gov. Oliver Fl. shoup and, Mrs. Mary
e. O.. Rradford, STATE superintendent
Of schools, have been Invited TO at
rend rhe "atore Pay For Teachers
conference TO he held in Washington
NAY ~ Iohn p. Payne. secretary of
The interior, extended the invitations.
Wholesale bitumiaous cnai prices IN
Colorado have been advanced from 30
cents 10 90 Genes at the mouth of
rle mines, compared to prices nc this
rIne last year, as result Of the
- per cent wage Increase granted the
miners, IL was announced by leading
coal companies.
o.
has been appointed chairman Of the
delegation of Chamber OF Conimeres
members. who viii afrend the cnnvsn-
fion OF Chambers of Commerce In fhe
Cnifed STATES at ArIsntic CRY On April
n, % and 20. G. e. Hamlin was named
az alternate 10 JIr. Bennett
Trour streams In the Montrose sec
rion VIII be wonderful neccas for an
qiers this year, according TO announce,
nent BY 6seorge T.. Price, secretary Of
fhe Montrose Fish and Came CIuh.
who stated that arrangements had
been made for an unusually large
stock for the local streams
Ashley Murphy. former sheriff of
T.ent county. Colorado. died at Los An
geles after drinking poison At the home
Of a woman who had declined 10 see
him. The woman fold the police she
had known Murphy IN Colorado. and
fhat he had threatened to commit
suicide y she refused his attentions.
Hg the accidental discharge OF his
.S8- -eaIfher revolver when it slipped
FROM ifs holster at the police station
as Trinidad, Archie Mccoy. night cap
tain Of police, was shot through the
ankle, Inflierfnx an injury which may
keep him out Of service for several
months. W r.. Waller Will serve as
night captain.
The state Highway Commission at
! a recent meeting designated the road
materials laboratory Of the Colorado
Agricultural College as their official
laboratory for the testing Of road ma
terfals. This action came as result
Of the work done by the laboratory
for state highway officials shroughour
the state during the year 1919.
Eleven and three-qua arrers per cent
OF the school children In the Greeley
district are Of Esssian parentage, ac-
cording to school census Just com
are 1854 persons Of school age In the
district, and fourteen foreign coun-
tries are represented. Seyenty-two
gave Mexico as the birth Of their par-
ents, and sfxty-tbree Sweden.
1t is estimated that fully 10000
acres d land in Weld County viii he
planted 10 sugar beets this year for
the Great Western Sugar Company
and the new Industrial plant at Fort
| fupt0n. These beets will bring the
farmers more than st5,OOO.OCO, Fif-
teen Thousand five hundred acres have
been contracted In this district for the
Eaton factory md 1900 acres In the
| Windsor section for the Windsor fac
tory.
Inheritance tnxes received by the
state for the last half of March to-
tailed s1y.s25 81, bringing the total re.
ceipts for the biennial period 10 date
TO slightly over u million dollars. The
lnrgest taxes were on the estates Of
| Amelia o. Peters and Lewis g. Colds
borough. which were appraised al
more than 100000 each.
According to information received by
the Colorado Cooperative Crop Report
ing Service. through the Colorado
brunch Of the u. &. Bureau Of sfnr-
kets, there nre In the st1te yet to be
shipped only about 500 cars OF potn-
toes from the 1919 crop. compared
with about 1900 cars Mt this time last
year. Shippers In the Northern Colo
| 'ndo district were receiving 81 per cwt.
FOR potatoes about the middle OF
March. which In said to he the record
pricc ut TINT season during the his
| .ory Of the potato industry there. Rec
,rds Of the Bureau Of Crop Estimates
md the Bureau Of Markets show that
up 10 March Goth there had been 1874
.orloads Of potatoes shipped from
points In Colorado. compared with
1.222 carloads shipped 10 the same
late last year and total shipment
from the 1918 crop Of 1891 carloads.
The Industrial Sugar Company OF
| folnruun ia consolidating thlrtccu or