The Ordway new era., 1921-03-18
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
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Montezuma county, Colo.
A. O. Kelso, well known Morgan
county farmer, is dead, following a
lingering Illness of about two years.
Mr.. Kelso has lived in that vicinity for
nine years.
Alamosa taxpayers will vote at the
April city election on the issuance of
$4,000 city bonds to be loaned to the
school district for the purpose of fin
iShing the Alamos;, High school.
The postoffice ut Springfield, fifty
miles south of Lamar and county seat
of Baca county, was looted by robbers,
who escaped in an automobile. 1t is
estimated that the robbers got $500 in
cash and approximately 500 worth of
stamps.
Another rich strike is reported at
the Vindicator mine at Victor. At the
! twentieth level and mt depth close to
1000 feet the company is reported to
have found an extension of the old Lily
vein, which in former years has pro-
duced extraordinary rich bonanza
values
The mutilated body of man, skull
crushed, rope around his neck, throat
cut and many slasheS on his body, was
found in a cabin three miles from
Graneros, Colo, and thirty-two miles
south of Pueblo. The only means of
identification may lie in ring on a
finger. with the letters &c S \ '15.'
Howard Rigsby, the 13-year old son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Vechel Rigsby, lost
the thumb of his left hand as the re-
suit of the explosion of dynamite cap
with which he was playing at Sterling.
Young Rigsby was trying to reduce the
size of the cap to use it in Il pistol
when it exploded.
State Inheritance tax collections dur
ing the first quarter of the current
fiscal year amounted to SOC, ,S30.O4, ac-
| cOrding to the semi-nonthly report of
Attorney General Keyes. OF this sum
S12,094.13 was collected during the last
half of February Twenty-three es-
tates paid inheritance tax during the
last two weeks.
In an effort TO emphasize the need
for prevention, detection and suppress
sion of forest fires in Colorado and
other states of the mountain districts,
the Forestry Department of the gov
ernment will distribute $4,000 signs,
buttons and stickers this year, accord
| ing to Evan w. Kelly, national forest
| inspector of Washington, ID. Q.
James w. Burns, 50, was smothered
to death in an alley while digging
| ditch at the rear of his home in Pu-
eblo. He was in the employ of d. e.
Burke, plumber. AS he stopped to lift
a shovel of earth the ground back of
him caved in, crushing and smothering
him before William Pratt, a fellow
worker, could aid him.
Homesteaders purchased at public
auction 5000 acres of state school
lands, according to John F. Vivian,
register of the land board. This was
| the first auction held by the board
since Jan. u. Total receipts from the
sale was SSS,5IO, an average of S15.S1
| per acre, which records of the land Of
flee show to be higher than the gen.
eral average price of previous sales.
A report issued by Earl Wilson,
| state insurance commissioner, shows
that the insurance department has
| earned S305,000 during the month of
February. This represents . per cent
tax on all premiums issued by the 1855
companies operating in the state. 1t is
expected receipts of this department
will reach 100000 in 1921. This is
the largest sum ever colleGed in in
surance tax.
Albert Estrada, %. laborer, was
shot at Pueblo and died in a hospital
there. The killing is said to have been
| the outcome of an argument started in
a pool game. No arrests have been
| made.
Following conference with several
citioens, Governor Shoup announced he
| would ask the Senate finance and
House appropriations committee to in
clude in the long appropriation bill
$4,000 with which to buy silver serv-
ice for the new superdreadnaught
Colorado, which Mrs. Max Melville, the
daughter of United States Senator
| Samuel D. Nicholson, will christen at
the shipyards at Camden, N. j.,
March %.
| Following numerous complaints of
moonshine stills operating night and
day and general "open territory"
supplying hundreds with Illicit wet
goods in southwestern Colorado and
northwest New Mexico, nearly dozen
United States federal internal revenue
officers. assisted by Sheriff George
Rowe and his deputies, of La Plata
county, seized eight separate and elab-
forate stills in operation and arrested
ten men.
Great interest centers around the
announcements of the 1921 program of