The Ordway new era., 1920-10-08
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

ater, valued at S55,OO0. The building
WIS Insured for 5000, according 10
information available 1t was owned
by 4. II. Hall Of Denver.
one of the biggest and richest
strikes in the history Of the old Mary
Murphy mine near St Elmo, is report
ed by men working ON the property.
A vein Of ore eight feet wide and
very rich in silver had been uncoy-
cred.
Elmer S. Prnther, proprietor Of the
Yuma ice plant, was badly burned
about the arms and face when gas
engine exploded, nearly burning down
the ice plant. NIr. Prather was In
Jured n year ago at the Washington
county fair at Akron in the auto races
and has not entirely recovered
Fred L. Hager, registrar of the Uni
versity OF Colorado, and one Of the
best known and popular residents OF
Boulder, has been commissioned cap
tain In the quartermaster's department
of the United States army, and Will re-
port at Fort Logan for duty next
month Mr.. Hagcr Will ask for assign
mcnt with the army of occupation N
Germany.
A large crowd was in attendance at
the second tri-county potato bake,
which was held three miles south of
Eastonyille. Tons of huge red and
white potatoes were baked in special
ly constructed ovens, which were In
stalled in the Frank Evans pine grove,
while several steers We're barbecued.
Potato growers from all over the state
were in attendance.
Willie Smith, 10, son Of Robert
Smith, rancher living five miles north
of Greeley was drowned while duck
hunting nj Boyd lake Smith was alone
In the center Of the lake In a canvas
canoe. Howard Sanders. IL years old,
who was on the shore. saw him stand
up In the boat and fire at flock
OF ducks with the shot the frail
cnnoe cnpsized and the youth disap-
peared in the water
A lone bandit, giving his name as
clifford Riley, 10 years old, wearing
"A mask and armed with a big nickel
plated revolver held up and robbed
a score Of persons on westbound Santa
Fe passenger train No. 8. When ar
rested at La Junta, where he leaped
Alslih AlAO tii' ~ mo VI N~A't'A'N9
Stewart, special agent for the Santa
Fe, Riley said his name was John
Morgan.
The Denver & Rio Grande railroad
has been ordered sold to satisfy judg-
ment rendered In favor of the Equi-
table Trust company Of New York
amounting to more than S36,00O,000
The final hearing was held in Denver
before Judge Walter H. Sanborn of the
United States Circuit Court of Appeals,
who gave the decree in absence of
United States District Judge Robert t.
Lewis
Fifty thousand dollars worth of
whltefacc Herefords were shipped out
of MOntrose In one day. This was the
first big shipment this year and in
cluded 600 head of cattle, which were
shipped to the Kansas City market us
feeders. The animals were In splen-
did condition. The GOO head. which
were fed on the range between Natu-
rita and Nucla, wre driven over the
hills to Montrose and loaded there.
Two men whose names were not
taken when they hired taxi cab from
J. A. Slaton at Grand Junction, to take
them to Mack, twenty miles west of
that city, stopped Slaton, the driver,
after twelve miles of their journey had
been covered, thrust revolvers against
his body and then stole his automobile
and the money on his person, amount
ing to several dollars.
The sum of So,o7G.ss was paid to DR..
". X. Argo, superintendent of the
Colorado School for the Deaf and
Blind, as a bequcst from the estate
of Maggie j. Williams of Fort Collins.
Miss Williams suffered from defec-
tive vision most of her life. When
she died, more than year ago, she
left her estate for the deaf and blind
school,
The Union Congregational church OF
Montrose, received the largest dona
fion this week which has ever been
made to n local church, which came
when G. II. Nye, local philanthropisi
aud flnancIer, decided over to the
church the large Nye store building In
that city This building is valued al
$4,000 at the minimum and will be q
source OF great revenue to the church
Railroad men at Montrose declare
there never has been time in the
history of rallroading on the third dl
vision Of the Denver & Rio Grande
that there has been such a business
as is now flowing out OF Montrose
Delta, Hotchklss. Olathe and othei
western slope towns. 1t Is almost i'm
possible now to procure sufficlen
train crews TO man the loaded train!
that are standing On the sldetracks.
pacruitino offjces for tho CoIorn Il,