The Ordway new era., 1920-12-24
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

| use several buildings which were for
merly used by the Ute Indians.
Fifteen hundred farmers and stock
growers rf the. Uncompahgre valley
are expected to attend the farmers
conference TO be held at Montrose al
Feb. 4.
At meeting of the board of educa-
| tion of the Colorado Agricultural Col
lege plans were made public for two
new buildings to be built in the near
| future on the campus.
s. f. Land. superintendent of the
state fish hatcheries, arrived ut Steam
boat Springs few days ago with
GiO,OO0 eastern brook trout eggs for
the new fish hatchery there.
Students of the State Preparatory
school ut Boulder are hard at work
rehearsing two plays that they will
give in the high school auditorium be-
fore the Christmas holidays.
Two vessels have been launched at
| Delaware River shlpyards Mt Phiia-
delphia. One of them was the 1909
| ton passenger and cargo steamship
/ Centennial State, named for Colorado
and built for the shipping board.
Four arrests have been made of
Colorado sheepmen in the dispute re-
! garding the bringing Of Colorado sheep
into Utah against the quarantine reg
ulations. according to word received at
Salt Lake.
Representatives from eighteen West
ern states, who are to have charge of
the campaign for funds in the Europ-
can relief council drive, headed by
Herbert Hoover held an organization
| conference at Colorado Springs.
Two hundred chiropractors of the
state will attend the two-day conven-
tion of the Colorado ChlrOpractic As
sociatiou during Stock Show week
here. Clinics, business sessions and
lectures will be the features Of the
sessions.
All previous records of the Denver
navy recruiting station We're broken
last week when 40 men enlisted. The
Denver station bested St Louis,
Kansas City, Omaha, Des Moines and
several other cities in the west central
recruiting district in this week.
The popular festivals which the cat
tlemen of the western slope held each
year until during the war, when they
were discontinued, will be resumed,
and on Feb. the Uncompahgre Valley
Cattle and Horse Growers Association
will hold the biggest meeting that has
ever been planned by this organization.
Governor Oliver II. Shoup has already
been invited to be the chief speaker OF
the day.
Benjamin o. Cook, former Salida
rooming house proprietor, convicted of
the murder of Charles Cope, business
rival, has been pardoned by Acting
Governor George Stephan. Cook was
sentenced to serve from twenty to
twenty-four years for the crime. He
would have served his maximum SEN
tence by Jan. 8, 1922. Finding of new
facts tending to show that Cook had
acted in self-defense was given by Gov
crnor Stephan rs his reason for grant
ing the prisoner his freedom.
Another chapter in the affairs of
Mrs Zoe Marksheffel. added to the
maze of legal documents in the Dis
trict Court at Colorado Springs, when
she filed suit for separate main
tenance, asking $1,000 n month from
A. w. Marksheffel, prominent local
motor car dealer a year ago she filed
suit, asking receivership for her hus-
bands business, claiming she had in
vested much moneySin in it, and asked
that she be appointed receiver. This
case still is pending.
Almost $500 gallons of sacramental
wines have been used by various
churches over the state for commun-
ion services during the past nine
months, according to data compiled by
Frank j. Medina, federal prohibition
director for Colorado.
The real estate men of the San Luis
valley met in Alamosa and organized
II board of realtors with membership
both in the state association ana also
In the National Association of Real
tors. The organization was named the
San Luis Valley Realty Board.
Following a clash between Colorado
sheep owners who were attempting to
move 2l 900 over the Utah line for win
ter pasturage and Utah officers who
stopped them on the state line charg-
ing an attempt TO evade the quarantine
law, the sheep owners secured tens
porary injunction which will prevent
Utah authorities from enforcing the
quarantine law. The injunction will
hold until the attorneys of the sheep
men have placed their case before the
courts. In the meantime Colorado
sheepmen, who assert that their flocks
will starve If forced to remain on the
home range, are moving them over the
line to the regular Utah pastures.
Eastern Colorado towns report that
corn is being burned for fuel Farm
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