The Ordway new era., 1921-04-29
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
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district of Colorado.
Charlotte Epping. years Old was
burned to death when small chickeh
coop in the rear yard in Denver in
which she was playing caught fire
from lighted matches in the hands OF
her 6-year-old brother, Anthony Ep-
ping, Jr.
Delegates from towns on the Union
Pacific from Denver TO the Kansas
state line and on the Rock Island from
Colorado Springs to the Kansas bound
ary. met at Limon to perfect the or
rnniZation of an Eastern Colorado
Chamber of Commerce
Baptists of Longmont will start work
on a new $4,000 church building with
in the next thirty days, according to
announcement made by the building
committee. \ campaign for the raising
of n building fund has resulted in the
subscribing of total of S3t 800.
Only one beet sugar factory of the
Holly Sugar Corporation system ON the
western slope will operate during 1921
according to present beet acreage,
Supt. w. II. Draper of the Delta fac
tory has stated. He reported that =
900 acres had been signed up in Delta
county and less than 1,50O in Montrose
county.
Strenuous objection has been made
before the Colorado Utilities Commis-
sion by citizens of the Clear Creek
mining district to a proposed reduction
in passenger service ON the Colorado
& Southern railroad The railroad pc
>titioned the commission for permission
to reduce passenger service to one
train a day.
That the sllver-gold producers are
returning TO high favor is shown by
rhe last report of the Tonopah Mining
Company, which owns and operates the
dredge placers at Breckenridge. This
company, according 10 report from the
Philadelphia office, has declared Il
dividend of ) per cent on the outstand-
ing 100000 shares of stock.
Vern Smith, 10, his brother and
their brother-ln-law, Russell Hill, 30,
have been arrested in Rocky Ford,
charged with having taken from the
mail box in the Elcapital hotel, two
checks totaling more than $500 which
had been placed there for mailing by
H. B. Warner and c. w. Johnson,
statesmen of the VI. ]. OFallon Sup
ply Company, Denver.
With characteristic Western energy
and promptness, complete recovery
has been made throughout Colorado
from the ravages wrought by the re-
cent storm, and virtually normal con-
ditions now prevail. With the excep-
tion of some damage still unrepaired
affecting telephone and telegraph
service, service facilities are unim-
paired.
John II. Thatcher of Pueblo, recent
ly appointed to the Colorado State
Fair Commission by Governor Shoup,
has been elected president. Sites were
chosen for the new $4,000 cattle and
horse building and the $4,000 poultry
building to be erected. Both will be
constructed of brick and hollow tile
and located west of the state building
on land recently acquired.
The first American silver dollars
ever manufactured in Denver are now
being coined at the United States mint
following receipt of more than 1,OOO,-
900 ounces of silver in small amounts
extending over a period of more than
thirty days, from the leading mining
camps of the West. Coins Of this de-
nomination were last stamped by the
Philadelphia mint in 1904, until their
resumption at that place last month.
officials said.
1. n. Pepper, a farmer near Mont.
rose, planted surprise for sneak
thieves at one of his tenant houses
this week in the form of shotgun in
geniously fixed to the door so that
when the door was opened the gun
would shoot rock salt at the intruders.
The following morning Mr.. Pepper was
surprised when he found the door
open and that the house had been
ransacked, without any apparent in
jury have been inflicted upon the rob-
bers. The gun had been discharged.
blowing hole through the door.
Probably the greatest silver strike
recorded in the Aspen district since
the boom days was discovered in the
Hope mine, according to L. A. w.
Brown, Espen banker. The strike dis
closed three-inch vein assaylng 2.lOO
ounces of silver and u twelve-inch
streak assaying 100 ounces. As a re-
suit of the discovery old trunks and
bureau drawers are being searched for
stock In the Hope mine which had been
laid away as probably valueIess. Ex.
citement is running high and the once
famous camp is taking on new life and
business is reviving as the result of
the discovery.
The Telluride public and high