The Ordway new era., 1921-02-18
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
western Ne.s.psf uaiau Mos ssf'ies,

| ID. L. Ramey Is in jail in Pueoio'
charged with the murder OF fraheis
Dolan, IS years old. his brother-lh-ia"'
at the Ramey home.
The Colorado Supreme Court sci
aside the verdict of the Yuma county
District Court, which fixed sentence
at life imprisonment. and gave Artle
s. Mckee. convicted last April oil KILL
ing his wife. a new trial.
A proof of the excellent blood in the
swine herd at the Agricultural College
at Fort Collins Is the fact that IL won
fffty-four premiums on thlrty-hihe
head of swine exhibited at the recent
National Western Stock Show.
The National park service is plan
ming on spending some of its appropri'
alton this year on improving the ran
River road. according 10 letter from
Secretary of the Interior John Barton
PAYNE to +. z. Sommers of the Colo
RADIO State Highway Commission.
Mrs. T. NJ Harding, treasurer OF the
scholarship fund of the Colorado
Federation of Women's Clubs, has an
nounced that since the inauguration OF
this fund in 1902 355 Colorado girls
have been helped by this fund to secure
a normal or technical education.
The town of Eagle won the county
seat of Eagle county from Red Clitf
at the last election by 20s4 votes, ac-
cordins TO a decision handed down in
the District Court at Red Cliff by
Judge Cooper of Canon City, sitting
for Judge Bouk, who did not wish to
act in the case Red Cliff will appeal
the case to the Colorado Supreme
Court.
Inheritance taxes collected by the
state during January totaled SlI,O14.I6
including examinations and waivers
according to the report issued by AT
tnrney General Victor f. Keyes. Pre-
yious collections since Nov 80 last
when the last biennial period ended
were S16.6oo.01. This make a total OF
So. GAIT collected to date during the
present biennial period.
Plans and specifications have been
completed by the Denver Steel and
Iron Works for the construction of the
highest bridge in the world, it will be
a suspension foot and burro bridge
and will span the gateway to South
Boulder canon at Eldorado Springs.
on the Denver & Interurban railroad
The bridge will be erected by the FL
dorado Springs Resort Company.
Fourteen persons, mostly women and
girls, We're injured, two of them seri-
ously, when 200-foot section of the
east running track balcony, supporting
400 spectators of the East Side-South
Denver High school basketball game
in the North Denver high school gym
nasium, crashed fifteen feet to the
main floor below precipitating the sol
id mass of screaming humanity with it.
That the oil companies which added
cent TO the regular selling price of
gasoline to cover the state oil tax, act
ed Illegally and that they have no right
to the money collected as q tax was the
burden of a decision handed down by
Judge C. ]. Morley in Denver in suit
brought by Henry J., Arnold against
James Duce, state oil inspector, the
Altitude Oil Company and others.
Ernest Miller, alias Frank Forester
ranch worker around Henderson, at.
tempted to hold up Union Pacific train
No. 104 at Sandow station on the
night of Nov. l6. He, in company with
John LahIn, mystery man." sawed the
switch lock at the station and threw
the lever that hurled the Rock Island
passenger train into the ditch thai
night. This is the verdict of jury Ir
Denver.
Frank J. Davey, who was recently
arrested in Billings. Mont, on charge.
of bigamy made to Larimer county of
ficials by Lena Cassil Davey of Love
land, and who disappeared when re
leased temporarily by the sheriff
there, has been rearrested in Lancas
ter, Wis.
Colorado will be compelled to con
duct its fight against social disease,
single-handed for the next two years
according to telegram received from
Washington, by DR.. R. I. Drinkwater
secretary of the board of health. Fo
two years the government has con
, tributed to the state board on IDOL
lar-for-dollar" basis. During the bien
: nial period just ended Colorado ex
pended total of 81, 600 in this work
Births in Denver during 1920 e,
J. ceeded the number Of deaths by 35.
according to the official figures con
: piled by Miss Florence Leach, regis
; trar Of vital statistics. There wer
4,796 births in Denver during the yea,
l This Is the greatest number of birth
ever recorded in Denver in . lilo ~.
riod. The number of deaths was 4
4os. In 1919 there were $3.50 birth
and 3.741 deaths.
Examinations for the. end Of III
8 first semester in fbe 1q2n.,01 scho,aa.,