The Ordway new era., 1920-10-01
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
Hugo. Colo.-The Lincoln County Fair
will be held at Hugo. Sept. 1890.
Oct. 1-2.

VIII De heio at hugo, sept zS-SV'
Alfred Law has sold his 160-acre
farm adjoining the town of Severance.
twelve miles northwest of Greeley, to
Walter Karr and A. ]. Smlllle, both of
Eaton, for $4,000.
John Ward, 60. who was accidentally
shot in the leg by Dave Roberts, while
on hunting trip near Hooper, Colo,
Sept. 16. died in hospital at Alamosa.
He was Republican politician and an
old-time resident of Cripple Creek.
Denying motion for new trial,
Judge George ii. Bradfleld, in District
| Court at Greeley. sentenced Alex Mill
Ter, deaf mute, convicted of killing
Adam Shank, his wife and four chill
dren at Gilcrest, Dec. 2l, 1910, to life
Imprisonment.
Duncan Harrison, son OF Mr.. and
Mrs. l.. B. Harrison of Golden, was
seriously injured at the annual School
of Mines freshman and sophomore
rush at Golden. Harrison received
blow on the head, which knocked him
unconscious.
Mrs. Antoine Trunde, 81 years old,
was fatally Injured at Yuma, when she
was struck by motor car driven by
commercial traveller. Mrs. Trunde was
| crossing the street near her home at
| the time of the accident. She died four
hours later.
l.. A. Gent, n pioneer rnnchman of
the Maybell neighborhood. killed him,
self by putting soft-nosed bullet from
25-35 hiEh-power rifle through his
brain. Mr.. Gent, who was one of the
best-known ranchers in that country,
had been Respondent for some time.
The Denver & Rio Grande railroad
passenger and freight depot at wal
senburg burned to the ground from
fire of unknown origin which broke
out in the freight room. The loss is
estimated to be $1,000 exclusive of
| freight stored in the building. Three
men were In the building at the time.
but escaped and saved the railroads
records.
Elmer Benson and c. A. Piers were
held up on the main street of Golden.
by two highwaymen. who demanded
their money or their lives. One rob-
ber shot at Benson and the bullet
tained a small amount of cash and
| watch from the two boys. This is the
first holdup that has been chron!cled
In Golden since the early days.
Eighty-six lodges of the Brotherhood
of Railroad Trainmen have been ex-
PEELED for participating In the unau-
thoriZed strike of switchmen last
| spring, w. G. Lee, president, an
nounced at Cleveland, to members of
| the brotherhood's board of directors.
Mr. Lee said that the brotherhood and
the Switchmen's Union of North Amer
lea were not considering any merger.
Increase in the output of coal over.
the state is shown in the monthly re-
port filed by james Dalrymple, state
coal mine inspector During August
1887 men We're employed in the
mines. the report says. Las Animas
county headed the list for the month
with an output of 361, ,193 tons. Routt
county again showed great decrease
in the output, mining only $1,000 tons
Getting out of control on steep in
cline at Baxter pass, near Atchee,
Colo, new Shay locomotive of the
| Uintah railway. backed 200 feet down
the per cent grade, plunged from the
rails and rolled 100 feet into the gulch
along the track Members Of the To-
comotive's crew, which was on the first
trip over this route and unattached to
any cars, saved their lives by leaping
from the cab as the engine began its
| descent
| OF the S36,00O,000 worth of tires ex-
ported from the United States in the
eleven months ending with May, 1920.
50, 333, ,333 worth went TO France, ST.
100000 worth went to Great Britain,
S2,O0O000 worth went to Cuba, and
about $4,000,000 worth went to South
America.
Principal Rutledge OF the local
schools has announced that a four-year
course In agriculture has been estab.
llshed in the Olathe high school, with
federal aid under the Smith Hughes
act This course will be under the di-
rection of Prof Ralph Wilson, who has
mad several years of actual farming
experience.
Fred Smith, 30, healthseeher from
Des Mones, Iowa, who has lived in
Colorado Springs several years, died OF
heart disease following near coli,
sion between two automobiles three
miles north OF Palmer Lake on the
Colorado Springs-Denver road The
automobile in which Smith was riding
turned into ditch to avoid hitting
racing car which skidded into ditch
on the opposite side Of the road and
was wrecked. The near collision is be-
lieved to have brought on the stroke of
heart disease which killed Smith.
After holding long distance tele-