The Ordway new era., 1921-03-25
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
lwe,,,ru Newspaper uaion Ss- service,

A fire destroyed the Berthoud Aiiai-
fa Milling and Feeding Companys eie-
vator ut BerthOud. Damage 10 ''e
plapt is estimated at $4,000.
Yuma has voted an additional So-'
600 school bond issue TO complete tile
new high school building. Inc Note
resulted IS TO D for the bond issue.
An unusually high wind, which fol-
lowed a narrow path like tornado
damaged numerous buildings on DIXON
Heights, five miles from Colorauo
Springs.
Twenty-four dollars head should be
the maximum assessment ON cattle, ac-
corling to resolution passed NJ
meeting of the Uncompahgre valley
| Cattle and Horse Growers Assocla-
ton held in Montrose.
Attorney John L. Stivers of Mont
rose Colo, has been appointed receiv-
er for the Colorado Nanadium Com
pany of Montrose by order of Federal
Judge Robert L. Lewis on petition
| filed by w. l.. Smith, New Jersey
stockholder and creditor of the COM
pany.
Over 100000 will be loaned TO the
farmers of Colorado within the next
eighteen months under the federal
farm loan act which has just been held
constitutional by the United States
Supreme Court, according TO estimates
of those in close touch with the situa-
ton.
The Americanization school at
Montrose closed this week with the
largest enrolment of any similar in
| stitution in the state. The school
| started out the first night with two
pupils and grew TO total registration
! of slxty-six, including forty-four Mexi-
cans. seventeen Russians, three
: Italians and two Frenchmen.
Jack Reed of Red cliff was found
| dead in bed with Il bullet in his head,
and Mrs. Jack Nye, suffering from 1
wound in her side, was picked up in
the yard. The woman said that Reed
had shot her and then turned the re-
volver on himself. She is being held
for investigation by the authorities ut
/, Red Cliff.
J Fully half of the grain crops in Colo
RADIO last year are still on the farms,
according to official estimates released
| by the United States Bureau of Crop
Estimates. Fifty-four per cent of the
corn crop is still in the granaries, as
compared with 80 per cent last year,
and 2S per cent of the wheat crop, as
compared with Is per cent last year.
The Weld county grand jury at
Greeley returned five indictments
against Elvin ID. Lockard, bookkeeper
and confidential secretary to William
c. Roberts, owner of the Roberts Loan
and Investment Company, who com
mitted suicide last July when threat
ened with exposure of embezzling and
swindling operations involving $3.50,
600.
McPhee & McGinnity, Denver lum
ber merchants, suffered loss of $50,
600 when fire destroyed planning mil
and box factory of the New Mexico
Lumber Company at Ell Vado, n. NJ
The loss was covered entirely by in
surance. Two buildings, 100000 frui
boxes and much raw lumber were con
sumed. Reconstruction will begin a
once.
Shippers all over the San Luis Va
ley and the southern part Of Colorad
and northern part Of New Mexico ar
much encouraged over the report tina
the New Mexican Central railroad ha
purchased the narrow-gauge Santa F
branch of the Denver & Rio Grand
! railroad. This branch runs froI
Santa Fe to Antonito, in the lower en-
of the San Luis valley.
The fourth annual Colorado stat
basketball tournament passed into hi
tory with the Greeley Wildcats as III
disputed champions. The Greele
team was by far the class of the tou
nament, and won all games easily.
An increase of 81 an acre is show
in the sale price of public lands
Colorado during the biennial peric
ending Nov 80, 1920, according to Il
, report of the State Land Board no
$ being compiled by the State Immigr
tion Department for the Colorado We,
: book. This report shows that an ave
age of S21.3S per acre was paid |
homesteaders. This is $11 more tht
was paid during the period ending
1915.
), Charles c. Clinton, convicted of G
tempting to murder police office
was sentenced in Colorado Springs
term of twelve to fourteen years
hard labor in the penitentiary
Canon City. Clinton was one of Il
participants In gun battle last Oct
ber, day after the robbery of the 1
bert County Bank, In which two polio
: men and three alleged bandits to-