The Ordway new era., 1921-12-09
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

and Commercial Association OF Denver
voted to conduct a campaign TO r'uss
a fund for the purchase OF STOCK Oh
the Live Stock Finance Corporation
so that organization could function
and borrow money from the wa"
Finance Corporation to be. ioaheu W
live stock men and save that industry
in Colorado. The board was asked 10
raise n fund of 100000 but the board
did not name any sum that should De
raised. 1t plans to raise all that IL
can, and named n committee that rep
resents all the various business eie
ments of Denver 10 conduct the cam
paign.
Three bandits entered the Parker
State Bank at Parker. locked the
vounr woman clerk in the vault ana
gathered up what cash was in sight,
believed to have been between S2,ooo
or $1,000. Miss Elizabeth Shultz, the
clerk. was alone in the large business
room of the bank just at closing tiine'
g o'clock in the afternoon, when the
three men drove up in an automobile.
They all entered the bank, and one
confronted Miss Shultz with the COM
mand that she keep silent, while the
others hastily drew down the curtains,
as though the bank was closed.
The first two Colorado road projects
under the new federal highways act,
for which Congress recently passed
S75OOO,O00 appropriation, have been
submitted by the State Highway Com
IEs Rttrn
aggregating a total estimated cost of
S215.9i4. The first proposes the con-
struction of eleven and three-quarters
miles of highway between Lake George
and Hartsel, gravel surfaced. The sec
ond proposes the Improvement OF the
highway between Canon City and Flo
renee, in Fremont county, also with a
gravel surface.
Two sets of doors in the vault of
the Hillrose Bank at Hillrose, ten
miles northeast of Brush, were blown
off by bank robbers. The robbers were
able to gain access to the vault, but
the funds of the bank were in small
safe inside the vault and they evident
ly were frightened away before blow
ing this open. X. A Towne, cashier of
the bank. said that this small safe con-
tanned about $4,000 of the banks
funds, but that so far no money or pa
pers had been missed.
Since w. f. Allewelt took up his
work as director of the state market
ing division, in July, up to Nov. IS, to-
tai of 1920 inspections of vegetables
irp NJ. ya-
port presented to the State Board of
meeting at Fit. Collins. From
Oct IS to Nov. 10 there were 1922 in
spections, he reported. Up until the
middle of November, Mr.. Allewelt re-
ported, he had forty-four inspectors in
the field.
F. r. Laune of Loveland, who was
ago during the progress of a family
quarrel, and whose life was at one
time despaired of, has so far re-
covered as to be able to be around the
streets again. The bullet that is
lodged against his spine was not re-
moved. His son is under $4,000 bonds
on a charge of assault with intent to
commit murder, but the father says he
will not prosecute.
The War Finance Corporation an
nounced fifty-six government loans,
amounting to S2,O73,0OO. for agricul-
tural and live stock purposes. Among
the loans were: Wyoming, $436O00 !;
Iowa, $4,000; Nebraska, $95,000 !;
Oregon, $4,000; Colorado, SAL, 900 !;
Montana, S232, 900; Kansas, $4,000.
A charred body, identified by the au-
thorities as that of James Williams, II
years old, negro, veteran of the Civil
War, and a member of the G. A. R.,
was found by firemen who responded
to an alarm at the aged mans home at
Pueblo. The cause of the fire, which
did $500 damage, is unknown.
Mrs. Celeste Hicks, S3 years old, a
pioneer of upper Bear creek and wild
ow of the late Daniel Hicks, who made
the Hicks ranch famous to sportsmen
and tourists, is dead at Morrison.
A cloud of mystery surrounds the
discovery of the body of Ray Thomas
on California mesa, near Olathe, In
the bed of a stream underneath high
nume. Coroner Schermerhorn at first
stated there was no need for an in
quest, but rumors that foul play haG
been committed continued SO persist
emily that he and Sheriff Dorsey Wis
tied the neighborhood. AS a result
Sheriff Dorsey says that there are in
dications that Thomas was killed anC
thrown from the flume into the stream
The 157th infantry, Colorado Nation
al Guard, and all officers of the regi
mental staff have been given full ant
complete federal recognition by tn,
War Department, according to wor,
received in Denver by Maj. A. l.. Har