The Ordway new era., 1920-11-26
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

to improve the public library, parks,
streets and alleys.
Work has been started on the par
ish house of st. Nicholas church of
Platteville. The building will cost
$7,750.
A swing that went wrong, while
John l.. Lemons of Denver was chop
ping wood, led TO his death in st.
l.uke's hospital.
The twelfth annual meeting of the
Colorado Farmers Congress will be
held at the State Agricultural College,
Fort Collins, Colorado. November 10Th
TO December 3rd, inclusive.
One of the largest ranches in the
Pixies Peak region, the former
Zanger ranch, has been sold by its
present owner. Jonathan Bingham, to
II. ID. Richeson and others. The
ranch consists of 920 acres.
Completing her record with pro-
duction of 1O,6S6.G pounds of milk and
62O.s7 pounds of fat, Rainbow's Ro-
sette, 3l12S6, owned by the Agrlcul-
tural College here, is now champion
of her class in Colorado. Her record
was begun at 4 years and S months
Of age.
Incendiarism is believed to have
caused a fire in Pueblo which de-
stroyed the buildings and contents Of
the Foley Lumber Company and II
train of box cars on II Denver X Rio
Grande siding nearby, damaged a
large rooming house and fifteen resi-
dences and caused an estimated loss
of S15O,OO0.
Sheriff n. Hall of Weld county has
returned from Oklahoma city with
Mrs. Josie Clinton, girl wife of Charles
Chester Clinton. alleged bank bandit.
Mrs. Clinton will be formally charged
with participation In the robbery Of
the bank of Evans. Colo, last March.
She had been held under $4,000 bail
at Oklahoma City, awaiting the ar
rival of the Colorado officer.
C. NJ. Johnson, SO. Cherokee In
dian who shot and killed his 25-year-
old wife after they had quarreled,
his head, at his home at Cedars,
was found dead with bullet hole in
near La Junta. Julian Whatley,
father of Mrs. Johnson, is missing
and 1t is believed he killed johnson.
Police have started search for
Whatley.
A road project calling for the eX-
penditure of $57.5O0 for the con-
struction of one and three-tenths
miles of concrete road between Den
yer and Boulder creek has been sub
mitted to the United States bureau
of public roads for federal aid. The
road is to be eighteen feet wide. II
approved by the Washington office,
construction will begin at an early
date.
X. v. Kyrklund of Colorado
Springs, retired boatswain in the
United States navy, received one of
the thirteen distinguished service
medals which have been awarded in
that branch of the service. Kyrk-
lund is credited with having saved
the lives of about 1900 American
soldiers and sailors while serving
aboard the u. S. S. Downs, a torpedo
boat destroyer.
Out of 13.250,000 acres of nation
al forest land in Colorado. only IA
acres were burned over by forest
fires in the season just ended, ac-
cording to Wallace Hutchinson of the
forestry service. The cost of fighting
| the fires, 11S in number, was $4S1.
| Timber destroyed amounted to 371,-
900 board feet, worth approximately
| s1,113. Seventy-eight per cent of
the fires were less than a quarter of
an acre in extent. The record is con-
sidered an excellent one when COM
pared with that of former years.
| %.
ing tank corps company. equipped
with fifteen tanks, a squadron of
thirteen airplanes, combat engi-
neering battalion. squadron of cav
airy, two batteries and one regiment
Of field artillery and medical corps
regiment, have been allotted to Colo
RADIO temporarily under the new re-
organization plan of the National
Guard, according to announcement
made by Adjt. Gen. w. A. Spangler.
Growers of sugar beets in northern
Colorado delivered upward of S14.-
100000 worth of beets in October to
factories of the Great Western Sugar
Company. according to statement
issued by the company. This is a
now record for the northern fields
and means that practically 90 per
cent OF the crop was harvested and
delivered last month. Checks for
payment of the crop have been dis
tributed to beet growers as follows:
Fort Collins, $2.045,000; Loveland,
$1,125.O00; Longmont. $1,760, 900;
Fort Morgan, s1,40O.0O0; Greeley,
$3.50, 900; Windsor. $1,550.000;
Sterling. s2,5O5. 900; Eaton, $780,
900; total, s13,S35.000.
A binding snowstorm interfered