The Ordway new era., 1920-04-02
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

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Cooperative Crop Reporting Service
from reports turned in by county as
| SCISSORS throughout the state. The av-
erage value of good plow lands In the
state is placed ut $145 an acre, with
other classes of irrigated land valued
rs follows: Pasture land. $50 an acre
meadows. S2S; poor plow lands, $40 F.;
all plow lands, not including meadows
or pastures. $125; improved lands,
$40; unimproved lands, $40.
The safety deposit boxes of the
State Bank at Parker. were rifled of
several thousand dollars worth of Lib
erty bonds, war savings stamps and
other negotiable securities. The rob
bers went about their work in the
same manner as they did at Sedalia,
when they stole about $1,000. En-
trance was gained through back win
dow. The robbers then sawed their
way into the vault, where they rifled
the boxes. The thieves escaped, leav-
ing no clues.
Mrs. l. A. Prlsbey, proprietor of n
steam laundry ut Golden, suffered the
loss of $50 Liberty Bond and $50
worth of Wnr Savings Certificates
when the securities were accidentally
burned. The bonds and stamps had
been taken from her house to the
laundry and We're left on n counter
The counter wns cleared off and the
papers were swept into waste paper
basket, the contents of which were
thrown into the furnace fire.
President W.. II. HUFF of the Victor
American Fuel Company, largest oper-
ntor of Colorado coal mines under
union contract, has announced that the
company has declined to renew the
agreement with the United Mine Work
ers of America, expiring on April J..
Other operators are expected to take
the alternative of refusing to work or
continuing to dig coal without union
contracts. ~
Approximately 1000 acres of state
school land will be offered for sale at
public auction in the House of Repre-
sentatives chamber in the state house
on April Z. Included in the land for
sale are sections in Alamosa, Bent,
Clear Creek, Conejos, Elbert, FL Pnso,
Larimer, Lincoln, Jefferson, Logan,
Moffat, Montezuma, Pueblo, Rio
Grande, Routt, Washington and Yuma
counties.
Plans for rousing demonstration of
Americanism to offset the threatened
May day outbursts of the reds were
launched by Governor Shoup when he
issued a proclamation designating May
] as American day" All municipal
tiles throughout Colorado are urged by
the governor to observe the day in a
manner calculated to show their pa
triotism and leYalty TO their country.
Better salaries. for the teachers Of
Colorado will be the principal topic of
discussion at the state convention of
the Mothers Congress and Parent
Teacher Association, to be held in Pu-
eblo April IA, 15 and 10, following
which the state organization Is eX-
pected to step definitely into the fight
for the proposed increase in teachers
wages. r
Plans are being formed to take the
Boy Scout band of Denver to the in
ternational meeting of the organlzn-
ton in London next July. The 200 or
more scouts that will represent the
United States in London will be Sc
Iected on some basis of troop competi-
ton. Each local council. however, is
entitled to send one scout at its own
expense.
The condition of. Under Sheriff VIII
liam s. Stretcher, who was seriously
injured In an accident at Boulder,
which resulted In the deaths of Chief
of Police Lawrence Bass and Joe d.
Salter, son offCity Manager Salter
was reported as still dangerous Mt the
University hospital. The under sheriff
is suffering from a fracture at the
base of the skull.
Five hundred sheep and lambs were
burned to death in fire which de-
stroyed the corrals, feeding sheds and
troughs on the A. j. Morrison ranch,
adjoining Lafayette. Morrison esti-
mated his loss ut $4,000. Sparks from
passing locomotive set fire to the
prairie, and high wind carried the
flames to the rancn buildings.
An excess of $37 over the
amount available for administration
and engineering purposes was spent
by the State Highway Commission In
the fiscal year ending Nov. 30. 1910,
according to report by State Audi
tor Stong The total expenditure for
these purposes was S1S2,775.96.
School land sold at public auction
at the statehouse in Denver brought
an average price of S19.41 an acre for
7,240 acres. One quarter-sectiOn In
Weld county brought S1OO.25 an acre,
the bidding surfing Mt $50 and the