The Ordway new era., 1921-02-18
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

~, .nd tho remedy should be prompt
avs Nfr Norlin. Shortages OF cia>S
rooms teachers and equipment are W.
al, rcd to he so dire that immediate re-
lief is necessary. "The popui"'w"
served by the university has vir'"'ii's
doubled in two years, says ihe repo,''
..whiIe the purchasing power oil the
university has steadily declined as
prices have steadily mounted
A., ,ncr,can Legion monument. In
honor of the soldiers who dleu anu
were killed during the late war; WIZ pe
constructed in City park at Bueha ''s
tn. according 10 an anhouh'e'''''.
made by city officials. The monument
win he an imposing structure OF ce-
mont. cobblestone and light granite
from 81 local quarry and Will be seven
and one-half feet high. ON one sue VI
tbe monument will be the roster ot 'he
American Legion post and on the OPP
posite side will be the names oil tie
boys who died.
objection to the action of the secre-
tarv of rhe interior and the feuerai
government in seeking TO exercise eA-
elusive control over roads running III
and out of the Rocky Mountain Ma
rional park, is made on behalf oil the
state of Colorado in brief when llas
lust been filed in the United States
Circuit Court of Appeals at ST. LOUIS
by Attorney General Victor Il. heyes
and Assistant Attorney General For
rest c. Northcutt.
In an effort To solve the problem OF
obtaining reliable and efficient farm
help in the San Luis valley, former
Governor Carlson of Colorado will be
sent to New York by the San Luis val
ley Realty Board, with the view of in
ducing a colony of Swedes or other
! Scandinavian emigrants to locate in
| this section.
There was but one fire in the nation
nj forests in Colorado during 1920 1t
burned an area of more than ten acres,
according TO the statement of John Nc
| Lean, who is in charge of forest pro-
! lection in Colorado. Fifteen years
ago the mountains were ablaze night
ly," said Mclean. "Now Il fire is a
rare sight.
A total of 46l persons were commit
| ted TO the state reformatory during the
/ past two years according to a report
made to the governor by Warden NJ. T..
| Capp. 1t shows that the average popu-
| lation of the Buena Vista institution
| during 1919 was 14l and 165 during
/ . "A
preceding period.
Pioneering in the placing of its
working men in the steel mills on an
actual eight-hour basis, the Colorado
Fuel and Iron Company found the wis
| dom of its course justified in record
production at the big plant in Pueblo
last month, it was announced at the
general offices of the company at
Pueblo.
New records for the collection of
automobile license taxes was estab-
| lished during the month of January
according to a statement made by Carl
Menser, automobile supervisor in the
secretary of states office. Fees from
this source totaled S130,59551 the first
month of 1921, as against S104,37S.3.
for the same period last year.
Road and bridge construction
amounting to $262,S12 are forecast fol
Colorado in a series of five projec
statements submitted Monday by tn,
State Highway Commission to the fed
eral public roads bureau.
George Ketner, employed by Trim
idad drug store, plunged to the con
crete sidewalk from the second stor,
of rooming house and sustained :
fracture of the skull, which may re
suit in his death.
Elaborate preparations are beini
made by members of the knights O
Pythias for the annual convention o
the Knights of Pythias Association o
Northeast Colorado, which is to b
held in Sterling.
Federal aid to the extent of S154
S3454 has been granted to the Colorad
State Highway Commission by Dis
trict Engineer ]. S. Bright of tn
United States bureau of public road
I for the construction and improvement
of fifteen and six-tenths miles of higt
way and earth-graded road and tn
construction of a bridge in Coneio
county over Alamosa creek, at a tots
estimated cost of $S18,203.95.
The Supreme Court vacated an o.
der of the State Public Utilities Con
, mission, which had reduced rates {
the Mountain States Telephone an
Telegraph Company in Fort Collin
and held that the latter city, as a
other home rule" cities, has undiyi,
ed rate regulating powers under IL
recent ruling of the United States s.
preme Court upholding Colorado d
J, cision.
Postoffice inspectors in Denver Al
+ Investigating. the mysterious robbery