The Ordway new era., 1921-02-25
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
,wes,ern Newspaper unisn News Service

States than the city of Chicago.
Joseph NJ. Breetwor, 81, a pioneer
grocer of Pueblo, was found dying in
a neighber's yard in the rear of his
store from knife wound alleged TO
have been inflicted by an unidentified
negro bandit.
Taxpayers of La Junta will vote
April on the proposition of the pur-
chase of the city gas plant, at the re-
quest of directors of La Junta Indus
trial Association. The bonds viii
amount to $4,000
William Mcclellan, prominent Gree
ley farmer, will lose $16,5OO as the re-
suit of his dealings through the office
of w. C. Roberts, Greeley Investment
broker, who committed suicide in Gree
ley July 16, 1920
Mayor A. f. Bcthman and the city
council of Alamosa are inausurating a
drastic campaign to stamp out gam
bling and bootlegging in the city and
vicinity As n result. several bootleg
gers have been hailed into court and
given heavy fines.
Irving Lamar, 12-year-old son of
George Lamar, a farmer living east OF
Greeley, died of n gunshot wound ac-
cidentally inflicted by Il playmate. The
| boys were playing with an "unloaded
shotgun and discharged one of the bar
rels. The shot struck Lamar in the
! left side
Jack Parr overseas war veteran ana
well known in Durango, is believed 70
he the victim of pack of wolves on
| the Dawson trail in Alaska, according
to word received. A watch and chain
found near the bones Of man and six
dogs have been identified as the prop
erty of Jack Parr.
Appropriations for the maintenance
of forest service experimental stations
| in the state have been increased from
$4,000 to S11jO0o under the provi
sions of the agricultural bill, largely
through the efforts of Senator Law
renee C. Phipps, according 10 Il Wash
| iugton dispatch.
Glenn Stitt, alias Raymond Miller,
24 years old, formerly of Denver,
convict at the state reformatory in
Buena Vista, has confessed to Warden
| VI. p Capp that he robbed and muir
dered man unknown to him in a Ford
automobile near Henderson on the aft
ernoon of Sept. 20 last year.
Jack T. Logic, formerly of Denver.
head of the Gunnison Motor Company,
was fatally injured when he was
| crushed under the wheel of tractor
at lola, twelve miles from Gunnison.
Logic had been breaking the road at
lola and was in front of the hotel there
when the accident occurred.
Montrose county's road program is
| booming. Several citizens living along
| the Hogback road appeared before the
county commissioners, stating that the
| property owners had subscribed $500
TO gravel their road. This amount is
to be used in connection with the coun-
ty and federal aid appropriations.
Montrose will be the host to more
than 800 members of the FL Jebel tenn
| pie of Denver and other parts of the
state Saturday, June %, when the
Denver organization will hold cere-
monial session in Montrose at which
the Order of the Mystic Shrine will be
conferred upon large class.
| A petition TO raise the fares in Den
YER to 10 cents was filed in the United
States District Court by Ernest Stem
ger, receiver of the Denver street rail-
way The present fare is cents. Un-
less the company is permitted to in
crease its fares to 10 cents. it will be
unable to maintain service, Mr.. Stem
ger predicted.
County Judge George w. Dunn of
Littleton, sitting in the criminal divi-
| sion of the Denver County Court, de-
clared the zeal of police or other Of
ficers of the law cannot be permitted
| to override the sanctity of the home,
.and gave warning to officers that they
| cannot search legally any mans home
without a search warrant, properly
sworn to.
Anna Mudra, 15-year-old ranch girl,
| who shot and killed her mother in a
fit of anger will be tried in the Coun-
ty Court unless she or those who may
represent her insist that the hearing
take place in the District Court. The
deputy district attorney at Steamboat
the girl in the County Court, charging
her with murder.
Since the big rush for auto license
plates has subsidized it was announced
| by Secretary of State Milliken that
hereafter the motor vehicle depart
ment will be open from 0 a. m. to 8 80
p. m., as formerly. 1t was also said
that the force of inspectors employed
by the department has been enlarged
to six who will assist in apprehendins
tax dodgers and auto thieves.
J. Greetwoor, pioneer grocery man.
| was shot and killed in Pueblo by an