The Ordway new era., 1920-04-23
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.


Gus condition as the result OF a bullet
wound received In his right leg and
the loss of blood. Charles Rnuber,
well-known rancher living In the west
ern part of Fremont county, is in jail
at the same place charged with the
shooting. The battle is said to have
resulted from an alteration over cat
tie belonging to Hopper, who main
tanned that Rauber. who was being
paid by him to feed them, wns not
obeying an agreement they had made.
Greeley has 1929 residents. accord
ing to the unofficial census completed
by local publishing company, which
is preparing city directory. The un-
official census was taken with n great
deal of care and its figures tally close
ly with estimates of the city officials,
based on number of water users, and
also with statistics showing the in
crease in housing facilities. The count
taken for the city directory in April,
1918. showed 1927 people. The Off
cial 1920 census count on Greeley has
not been published as yet.
In fit of insane Jealousy prompted
by the estrangement of Il woman's af-
fections from himself to a 19-year-old
boy, Henry Ritter, 50, shot and killed
Mrs. Bessie Rails, 2S, dlvorcee and
reputed heir to an immense fortune,
in Denver. As the woman fell to the
floor dead, Ritter turned and fired one
shot at her alleged sweetheart, Earl
Brown The bullet went wide, and Rit-
ter then trained the pistol on himself
and dropped to bed with a bullet
through his heart.
Every employe of the Ont West
Printing Company received amounts
ranging from 500 to $1,000 from the
estate OF Charles b. Ferrin, president
of the company, who recently died at
Colorado Springs In the will which
was read the Salvation Army, the Y.
NJ. C. A. and the Y. w. C. A. are named
as residuary legatees. These three or
ganizations will share equally between
$4,000 and 100000, the residue of an
estate valued at from 100000 to S125,-
600.
Ray Sherman, student at the Uni
versity of Colorado and son of G. X.
Sherman, n banker and mining man
of Boulder, is dead; Harold Muth,
companion, lies seriously injured ut
the county hospital in Denver, while
John Evans, Harold Aitken and Bea-
trice Williams, college chums of the
two men, sustained minor injuries as
a result of collision between their
automobile and machine driven by
John Musser at East Seventeenth ave
nue. and Franklin street, in Denver.
An auction sale of 1896 acres of
state school land. which was held in
the House of Representatives at the
capitol by the State Board Of Land
Commissioners, netted $125, ,22962. The
average sale price per acre was S2099,
and the land is located in Alnmosa,
Bent, Clear Creek, Jefferson, Conejos,
EIbert, FL Paso, Larimer, Lincoln, Lo-
gan, Montezuma, Rio Grande, Routt,
Washington and Yuma counties.
Twenty-Five landowners of the Gree
ley-Poudre Irrigation district, including
members of the Greeley-P -Poudre board.
have tnken physical possession Of the
Cobb lake inlet canal. Men who were
engaged with scrnpers and other i'm
plements on the embnnkments of the
canal have been ordered off the prop
erty and have been warned against
further trespassing, according to re-
ports from Greeley.
John Rack, farmer, charged with
manufacturing liquor on his ranch,
eighteen miles south Of Fort Morgan,
WAS convicted in District Court and
sentenced to serve six months In the
county Jail and to pay the costs of the
trial. Rack pleaded guilty after twen-
ty-five witnesses had been heard. The
trial of Alexander Burghard, who was
arrested with Rack, will be held soon.
A new broad gauge railroad is being
built by the United States Portland
Cement Company at Concrete, just
east of Florence. The line will tap an
enormous deposit of limestone on Bea-
yer creek. Work is progressing rapid
ly under the direction of James Spry-
ker of Denver, who has contract for
the entire line. The new quarries to
be tapped will be ready for operation
by May /, when it is hoped to have the
road completed.
Announcement has been made by
President G. A. Duniway Of Colorado
College that tuition at the college next
year will be $120 year, an increase
of $40 year. Increases In salaries
of professors is responsible for the
boost, he said 1t is estimated that
the increase will add $4,000 a year to
the college funds.
The repeal of the compulsory vac
cination law was advocated by n reso-
luton passed by the Mothers Congress