The Ordway new era., 1920-12-10
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

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fringement of the game laws was de-
tected in the Colorado national forest,
near Fort Collins. Surveyors turned
their far-seeing instrument on party
of hunters who were several miles dis
tant They saw n deer being strapped
across the saddle of one of the horses.
For two days the hunting party was
tracked Eventually one of the party
was located and a search warrant was
obtained. An investigation revealed a
saddle with deer hair and specks OF
blood clinging to it. In Fort Collins,
before Justice Sarchet, Charles Thorn
as, rancher, made vicarious sacrl-
flee of S12O. Though denying his guilt
of participating in the killing of the
deer, Thomas pleaded guilty and paid
Il fine OF 500 and $50 costs.
Declaring that the economic loss to
the state of Colorado from the raw
ages OF tuberculosis approximates
S16,000.o00 annually. and about 2,03O
persons died of this disease in the
state last year, Acting Governor
George Stephan has issued procla-
nation, naming Sunday. Dec. 8, as
tuberculosis Sunday. The proclama-
ton calls upon the people of the state
to support the Colorado Tuberculosis
Association in fighting the white
plague by purchasing Christmas seals
and aiding the association in every
way possible during the campaign for
funds, Dec. 1 to 10.
William Coss. son of !. +. Coss,
newspaper publisher of Walsenburg,
will recover. following an attack on
the Interchangeable road by five,
highwaymen. who beat him into in
sensiblity, and stole his new touring
car which he had Just purchased in
Pueblo. -Four men have been arrested
and charged with the assault. They
are said to have confessed to the sher-
iff. They are Raymond Chase, Gary,
Ind; Wesley Wentworth, Denver;
Ralph O'Leary, Boston, and George
Cooksley of England
The National Farm Congress, an or
ganization of 5000 farmers of the
country, will meet in Colorado in 1921,
according to J. ]. Gauld, superintend-
ent of the Myron Stratton Home farms
ut Colorado Springs, who represented
the state at the convention at Colum-
bus, Ohio. There will be more than
1000 delegates to the convention,
which will be held either in Denver or
Colorado Springs, Gauld stated. The
decision will be made next spring by
the executive committee.
The average of yields per acre this
year of all crops combined, duly
weighed, compared with their yields
r.. H. ~, IL y., I
per cent, and in the United States is
1863 per cent. The production index
for the United States is about 80 per
cent more than last years aggregate
production and 6.S per cent more than
the average of the preceding five
years, 1914-1S.
Retail meat prices in Denver will
fluctuate with the wholesale cost of
meat in the future, according to an
nouncements made by Denver meat
dealers following meeting of the Den
yer Retail Grocers and Meat Dealers
Association. 1t was decided at the
meeting that hereafter reductions on
the retail market would be made ac-
cording to reductions on the wholesale
market.
The voters of Mesa county have bal
loted in favor of the S150,OOO bond is
sue which will give Mesa county
S25O,O00 courthouse. The sinking
fund which the county has been laying
by for years will make up the balance
of the amount needed to erect one of
the finest courthouses in the state.
The new structure will probably be
ready for occupancy in two years.
A dividend of 100000, half of the
original investment of the stockhold-
ers of the Midland Terminal Railway
Company, has been awarded and paid,
according to announcement by A. Il.
Carlton, president and receiver of the
company Notices of the dividend and
checks in payment were mailed.
President Newton c. Dougherty of
the Colorado Farmers Congress has
announced that the sessions of this
years Congress have been postponed
until later in the year and that the
new date will be announced as soon as
it is definitely known.
Frank NJ. Draper, former principal
of the public school at Wray, Colo,
has been exonerated of n charge of
misconduct in hearing before the
State Board of Education. 1t had been
alleged the principal had put his arm
around the waist of pupil.
The Vanadium Corporation of Amer
lea, operating vanadium and tungsten
mines in Colorado, has announced the
complete shutdown of all its works at
Vanadium, Fall Creek and Placerville,
between ten and eighteen miles west
of Telluride.
campaign to raise $4,000 to be