The Ordway new era., 1920-06-04
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
A movement is on foot to obtain an
Infantry company or u cavalry trooI
in the reorganized Colorado National
Guard for Grand county.
| A moderate measure of protection
to enable the tungsten industry to de
velop has been urged in the Senate by
Senator Phipps, Republican, of Colo
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Ralph Clifford Harris. 2-year-old son
Of Robert T. Harris, farmer, living
near kersey, was drowned when he fell
from high fence into a metal water
tank
Hans Bonichsen, % years old, was
instantly killed by lightning while nj
work on the ranch of his father neal
ST. vrain The men were planting seed
In the field when the accident Oc'
Cured.
Whnt is declared by mining men tO
be one of the most important strikes In
the San Juan district In recent years
has been mnde by the PaymasteI
Mines Company, operating the Paymas
ttt EtOuP vi tAtC Ae(a >sAONsA
thin mining section.
The Rnngely bridge, which fell into
the water three weeks ago. has been
raised and practically all the structure
saved. at saving to Moffnt county OF
5000. The bridge Will he safegunrded
against future mlshaps by concrete
abutments.
When C. F. Thayer of Fort Morgan
attempted to crank his automobile the
machine bucked forward. knocking him
unconscious, and then continued ita
course across the sidewalk and through
the plate glass window of grocery
store.
Crawling through hole in the stone
wall of the county jail, previously dug
by Ed Williams In an attempted jail
break" I3-year-old Willie Still, Jailed
AT Grand Junction for throwing rocks
at trains, successfully made a twelve
foot drop to freedom and ran to his
home, where he WIS later found by
his father and returned to Jail.
The first candle fire to occur in Den
yer in fifteen years resulted in SG
loss Mt the home OF Vic Walker. depu-
ty constable, $500 Lafayette street
The candle had been placed on table
earlier In the evening and when mem
bers Of the family retired for the nighl
It is believed they forgot to extin'
guish IL.
Resolutions authorizing the director
ate of the Industrial Sugar Company
to issue negotiable bonds to the value
Of $3.50, 600 Mt any time 1t may see FL
to do 10, TO remove the company head
quarters from Fort Morgan to Denver
and to Increase the directorate from
five to seven members were adopted
special meeting Of the stOckholders
of the company Mt Fort Morgan.
1t costs the taxpayers Of the state OF
Colorado only 75.7 cents day to keep
prisoner In the state penitentiary
The actual value Of the upkeep of each
OF the $50 prisoners In the custody OF
Warden Tom Tynnn Is OF cents n day
hut the 1T.3 cents in addition to the
taxpayers cost is represented by the
farm and dairy products of the prison
farms md gardens which nre worked
by the prisoners.
Railroad men hive acquired new
mining property Mt Monarch lake
about fifteen miles north of Cranky
on the south fork OF the Grand river
which Is expected to develop into one
Of the big mineral discoveries OF Colo
RADIO. A small corporation has been
formed md work is being pushed. The
lead is said to be sixty-five feet wide
and at depth of twenty-five feet gives
is thought by expert geologists to be
the biggest proposition that has been
found in the state.
Anspering the spirit calling, she said
few minutes before, of n former hus
band, James Waddcll. who is dead
Mrs. Josephine Stiles of Denver, the
wife of Frank Stiles. committed sui
hotel In that city.
The Denver livestock market Is now
leading all the big livestock markets
II the country, paying the highest
prices for cattle, hogs and sheep. The
high prices on the local market have
sent thousands Of cattle and hogs
there that otherwise would have been
sent to an eastern market.
The forest resources of America are
today being destroyed three times as
rapidly as nature, assisted by the or
ganized forestry movement, can re
place them with new growth. Unless
prompt and effective measures are In
troduced to arrest this process of dis
sipntion the country will. probably
within twenty-five years, find itself nc
longer able to meet the market demand
for forest products. Such a condition
can only result in Industrial staRna-
ton. sxorbitant prices for wood pro
ducts which enter into the daily life OF