The Ordway new era., 1920-08-20
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

western Newspaper Union News Service.
A summary of the effect on Denver
IT the first week of the tramway mems
strike follows:
Casualties.
Dead @; wounded o..
Financial Losses.
Expense of bringing in GOO strike
breakers, $4,000; TWO street cars
burned, six others wrecked, damage
to company barns and tracks, 100000 /;
loss to company in fares owing to in
operation of cars, $4,000: loss to
union men in wages, S40,2J0; total fl
narcial loss, S2i9,OOO.
Men Under Arms.
Regular soldiers from Camp Fun
ston. J2S; regular soldiers from Fort
Logan, 80; regular police. 2l0; Ameri-
can legion men, LOO; volunteer civil
ian police. 1000; total men under
arms, 3,OlS.
lincoln County Fair will he held at
Hugo. Sept. -, 20. Oct. l, =. and prom
ises TO he one of the most successful
ever held.
Frank Norman of Crested Butte died
from injuries received in an accident
which occurred when he WAS helping
tear down the old anthracite breaker
at the Ruby anthracite coal mines near
Floresta.
Paul Hinmnn, Il years old, of Den
yer, died at the county hospital from
the effect of internal injuries received
when the motorcycle he was drivr
crashed into telephone pole in North
Denver.
More than 200. delegates attend
ed the twenty-fifth annual conven-
tion of the Colorado Federation
of Labor at Labor Temple in
Pueblo. This was the silver an
niversary Of the Colorado Federation
Of Labor, which held its first meeting
In Pueblo ut Labor Temple twenty
five years ago.
Colorado will come into its own as
a result of the freight increase an
nounccd by the Interstate Commerce
Commission. Freight rates, for years
discriminatory against the west, will
he more nearly equal those of the east
under the new schedule, with the re-
suit thar present manufacturing indus
tries will be vastly stimulated, and
that many new industries will be es-
tablished in the west.
A new valuation on Logan county
land was established when Henry
Therkhorn, owner of a five-acre tract
short distance south of Sterling.
along the Lincoln highway refused an
offer of $1,000 for his place. This is
equal to 81 400 an acre, but includes
all improvements, and if the cost OF
the latter were deducted the price
would represent Mt least $500 an acre
as the improvements could be replaced
for $1,000.
Colorado's alfalfa crop this year will
he the largest on record and at cur
rent prices will be worth above $685.
100000. compared with about S31, ,000,-
900 last year Nearly complete
ports from county assessors show 1885,
ca acres OF alfalfa in the state, com
pared with total of 620, 1856 acres re
ported last year. Complete reports
this year will show above 640,OOC
ncres, mn increase of 10000 acres over
the amount reported last year.
The Monte Vista second annual
stampede" proved one of the best
events of its kind held in Colorado In
recent yenrs. The program featured
twenty of the best riders who took
part in the Cheyenne Frontier day
celebrations. including Miss Wyoming
More than 10000 persons attended the
fair, which was held at Monte Vista
on Aug. to G. A special carload OF
longhorn steers We're shipped from
Texas for the occasion, in addition tc
sixty head of running horses.
A "get-together meeting" and picnic
of the farmers of Larimer county wa.
held Mt the State Agricultural college
mt Fort Collins.
The already spacious grounds of thu
Colorado State Fair were so com
pletely filled with exhibits last year
that an additional forty acres has beer
purchased by the fair commissioners
| on the west. Fair officials decided I,
use this largely for added buildings an,
ponderous exhibits, and decided upoI
an elaborate system of wire fencing TO
the new acreage. To fill the require
ments of the specifications, the War
ner Wire Fence company of Pueblo
was Obliged to have special machine
| built and installed, and the product il
simply superb. A considerable portion
of this added tract will be set asid
for the use of campers. Families an,
| parties coming by automobile or othe
private conveyance to attend the fair
will, have the privilege of camping in
side the new enclosure, where they viii
have fire and police protection, waite
and all the comforts. This will enable
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