The Ordway new era., 1920-12-10
COLORADO
STATE NEWS


larging its plant at Sterling; more
than $4,000 Will lie expended.
II. c. Smith has sold his ranch in
Norwood near Telluride, to the San
Miguel Development Company.
The Ralph w. Tenhaeff ranch of
$3.50 acres, near Fort Morgan, has
been sold to Eugene Q. Eaton of Hax-
tun.
Plans are under way to rebuild the
| Currie Canning Company at Grand
Junction. recently destroyed by fire at
a loss of $4,000.
Two paving districts, estimated to
cost quarter of a million dollars each
and storm sewer district for Univer-
sity hill that will cost S15T ,S94.54, have
been ordered by the city council of
Boulder.
Following community celebration
at Graylin Heights schoolhouse at
which his wife gave several readings,
John Kobler. 30 years old, wealthy
| farmer living near Sterling. shot his
bride to death and killed himself.
| The Denver & Rio Grande Western
Railroad Company has been incorpor-
ated with II capital of S5O,000,00O by
the filing of papers with Secretary of
State James Il. holland. Headquarters
of the corporation will be in Denver.
| Increases in the salaries of the coun-
ty school teachers is assigned as the
reason for the increase in the tax lev
| les for Montrose county for the year
| 1921. Other school expenses for next
year also helped TO boost the tax rate.
Civic officials and business leaders
of Colorado. Wyoming and New Mexi-
co will convene the afternoon and
evening of Dec. and the morning Of
| Dec. o in Denver to discuss matters
of education. The conference Will he
held under the auspices of the depart
ment of the interior.
Sentences ranging from five years
and one-half TO twelve years in the
state penitentIary were meted out by
District Judge \. f. Hollenbecll of the
Third judicial district to the four
young men who held up and robbed
william Coss, son of ]. f. Coss, pub
Usher of the Walsenburg Independent,
on the Walsenburg-Puebl road. All
four pleaded guilty.
| Following an alleged family quarrel
in which Charles A. Frost was arrest
ed upon n peace warrant and later re-
leased on bond, Lee Parrish surren-
dered after he had shot and seriously
wounded Frost at his home. The bullet
grazed the right side Of his face and
he was taken TO Il hospital. Several
quarrels are said to have taken place
between Frost and his fatheI-in law
during the past two months.
Field representatives of the Holly
Sugar Company at Montrose report
that beet harvesting in that section is
completed and that practically all of
the beets are now on top of the ground
although thousands of tons are yet to
be hauled to the dumps. Because of
the lack of sufficient cars, both the
Montrose and Olathe beet dumps have
had to dump thousands of tons on the
ground near the dumps, which will
later be loaded in cars and shipped to
the mill.
The estimated production of pota-
toes in Colorado for 1920 is 11,1S0,00O
bushels, as compared with 11,04O,0OO
bushels in 1919, according to the of
ficial report of the State Board of I'M
migration. The quality of potatoes for
this year is figured ut 80 per cent OF
normal, compared with So per cent
last year and 30 per cent average for
the last ten years. In the United
States the production of potatoes will
reach 42l ,252,000 bushels. Last year
this country's total potato production
was 3S2, ,113,000 bushels.
Official count of the ballot cast in
Colorado in the last election shows
President-elect Harding carried the
state by 6S,3l2, according to announce
ment made by the state canvassina
. board. The report shows Harding re-
ceived a total of 173,2 ,24S ballots as com
pared with 10i,936 cast for Cox.
Nine coal companies, operating in the
Routt county fields, have filed with the
/ Public Utilities Commission request
5 that the recently installed triweekly
! passenger service over the Moffat line
be continued. The reason given is that
curtailment of passenger service give.
n greater service to the freight trains
/ and aids materially in the transporta'
tion of coal by affording more cars ant
more service.
An increase of $50 year has
: been granted the teachers in the Colo
RADIO Springs schools and the tax levy
for the school district has been set N
1899 mills, an increase of IL mills
over the 1920 figures. The Colorado
Springs teachers have requested an ad
ditional increase to bring the wage
standard up TO that recently awarded
in Denver School operation here will
cost S600,000 in 1921.