The Ordway new era., 1921-02-11
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
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nopv and driving home his father
qa,vs when the accident occurred
County Treasurer 4. H Horton has
received from the state petroleum TAX
fund the sum of Ss-2Ii32. FL Paso
eounty's share Of that tax. apportioned
on tb. basis of the number of miles ot
state road within the county borders
The negro population Of Denver in
1920 was announced by the census bu-
reau as 6.0S5. an Increase Of $50. or IL
per cent The white population was
2ia, So. an Increase of 42,5sl, or ~"
per cent. and all others I5i.
Claude b. KenseIl, Midland Ter
minal swltchman. was killed instantly
at Colorado Springs when he lost ms
footing while making switch and
freight car passed over his body. Ken
sell was making the last switch of the
night when the accident occurred He
Is survived by widow.
Among the chief needs which will be
discussed at the annual meeting Of the
Grand Junction Chamber of Commerce
in February. the need of advertising
western Colorado's wonderland to the
world will receive great attention
plan will be discussed for an adyertis-
ing campaign which will virtually in
troduce to new fields the possibilities
of that part OF Colorado.
Losing his hold on a small hand AK
with which he was chopping limbs
from tree in his orchard, Ed. 7.
Matthews, well known fruit grower of
the Holland section west of Grand
Junction. nearly severed his left leg
Just above the ankle The blade cut
deeply into the limb. He was rushed
TO n local hospital and was very veal;
from loss of blood when he received
first aid. He will recover and may not
lose the foot
Mrs. Bertha VI. Dickey, who entered
a desert claim on land six miles from
Cimarron a year ago and whom the
government has tried to dispOssess up
on the claim that the land was too
rough for cultivation and therefore
should be re-designated as grazing
land. won in contest case heard in
the Montrose land office after she had
proved by several witnesses that ,he
land was actually in cultivation, hav-
ing been pl0wed with a tractor last
fall
Uncle Sam paid the Colorado State
Highway Department approximately
1852, ,122.IS as the government share
of the constructed federal aid road
work in the state during 1920, accord
ing to District Engineer j. S. Bright
of the United States Bureau of Public
Roads. This money represents the
federal payments on forty-seven pro-
jects under construction or Completed
through the state" Bright said 'Twen-
ty-two separate projects We're COM
pleted during the year at a total esti-
the federal government was requested
TO pay $410,96I.36."
When the Western Pacific interests,
holding a Judgment of approximately
3S,rO0,0O0 against the Denver 4 Rio
| Grande railroad, purchased rhas road
for the 4lpset price of S5,O0O,00G with
out the opposition of the contestine
bidder on Nov. 80, they received assets
far in excess of the bid made, accord
ing TO affidavits prepared by Charles
f. Carnine, attorney for the interyen
| ing stockholders, and forwarded to st
Louis. The documents, together Will
affidavits as to the earning power o.
the Denver & Rio Grande, will be pre-
sented as part of the case of the in
tervening stockholders, who are en-
deihoring to have the recent sale Sc
aside.
Declaring that the huy growers O
northeast Colorado adjacent to Ster
ling have been driven out of the Kan
sas City market by the methods use,
by Kansas City commission men 4,
grading and handling the produc. an,
by excessive freight rates, the ROtar,
and Lions clubs and the Chamber O
Commerce of Sterling have sough, th,
assistance of the State Public Utilitie
Commission for relief.
Charles 7. Stockton, furniture deaI
er of Bristol for number of wears 1
dead, and four other persons are I,
the hospital suffering serious ipjurie
as the result of an accident which O,
CURED six miles between Bristol an
Holly. The injured are Joseph Zel
lars, who is suffering from broke
reg; q. X. Hite, badly bruised, an
Henry Thompson and Ernest Burke 50
verely bruised about the face an
body. Stockton, cellars, Thompso
and Burke, all of Bristol, were o
route home from Holly when the m,
chine In which they were riding col
iided with horse and buggy bein
driven by G. II. Hite, who is wei
known Prowers county farmer. 1t
SAID binding snow storm was tn
cause OF the accident.
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