The Ordway new era., 1921-12-09
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
twe.,eru Ssrp,per Union News Service.

Mrs. Hilda Walters, schooi 'e"e"e
| ,t Griffith, near Durango, VINO was
struck by a motorcycle and hurled
| .hirty feet, is dead from the injuries
sustained. She is survived by four
small children.
| Distinguished service medals have
| ,een presented by the Mountain States
Telephone and Telegraph Company TO
employees of the company who rem
jered valiant service during, ana I'M
nediately following, the Pueblo Hood.
The Jury which listened to tesu-
mony in the trial of G. l.. Lone, Jr,
and Wilson Avery, residents of Texas,
who were arrested last April on
charge of having held up the bank Mt
Aguiar, Colo, and TO have obtained
In that robbery S1,070, returned a ver-
dict of not guilty at Lamar.
Direct information has been filed
against John Book in connection with
the death of 2-year-old Lorraine Segar
at Rush, Colo. A coroner's jury held
Book responsible for the baby's death.
Book is said to have beaten ana
choked the baby, left in his care by its
mother, Nevada teacher.
A woman about 80 years old who
came to Colorado Springs from Los
Angeles, Calf, and registered us So
phia Craven, committed suicide by
drowning herself in the lake at the
Broadmoor hotel. A note found in the
woman's handbag stated that she was
suffering from tuberculosis and that
she decided to end her suffering by
drowning.
A pledge to refuse to assist in future
wars has been taken Jointly by Mrs.
Julia McCudden, the British war moth
er delegate at the burial of Americas
unknown soldier, and Mrs. r. Ernest
Digney of White Plains, N. Y, official
war mother. This became known at n
luncheon rendered Mrs. McCudden by
the New York state chapter of Amer
lean War Mothers.
The Farmers Alfalfa Milling Com
pany of Brighton charges that care
lessness on the part of employees OF
the Union Pacific Railroad Company
caused the destruction by fire of its
Brighton plant Oct. II, 1921, in suit
filed in the Federal Court. The peti.
tion states that sparks from a loco
motive started the blaze. The com.
pany asks S1s.935.77 damages.
Notice of wage cuts effective in
thirty days have been filed with the
State Industrial Commission by the
Pueblo Master Plumbers Association
and the Roberts Mining and Machin
cry Company at Pueblo. The Pueblo
association consists of eight concerns.
The wage cuts are to affect the wages
of nine plumbers and steamfitters OF
Pueblo and all employees of the Den
yer concern.
Ed Wagner, a rancher near Sunny
side, twenty miles south of Durango,
was shot and killed instantly by Luke
Busser, 55 years old. Meager informa.
ton obtained on the shooting reported
that the two revived an old racial
quarrel. Wagner was of German par.
entage. Busser is native of Alsace.
Lorraine. They had argued in times
past on the question of governmental
control of Alsace-Lorraine.
| Frank Fortuna, held in the Huer.
fano county Jail at Walsenburg on q
charge of burglary, escaped by dig.
ging hole through the ceiling over
the cell house and making his way to
the roof and dropping to the ground
Fortuna was arrested following the
robbery of the store of the Huerfano
Trading Company at Camp Shumway
A shotgun, cigarettes and quantity
Of stamps were taken. The store also
is the camp postoffice.
The estate of Charles #. Cow, oil
investor, who died in October, is ap
praised at $4,000 in an application
for letters of administration filed In
the Denver County Court.
Marooned on sand bar with grind
ing ice and roaring water swirlinl
about them, Manager ]. Crane ant
John Atkins of the New Hidden Treas
ure mine near Lake City had narrow
escape from death when the ice gorg,
broke in Henson creek and came dowr
upon them. Crane was carried head
long through great iron pipe man,
feet long, and out the other end ont,
the rocks below. He was terribl,
bruised and cut on the head and body
Workmen rescued Atkins with rome
from above.
Sixty thousand dollars is now avail
able to assist State Treasurer Stong ii
re-establishing the credit of the state
: which has been stamping all warrant
mo funds" The State Land Board
through Register George Stephan an,
the State Industrial Commission
through Commissioners Hits and ReIl
ly, put $4,000 each at the disposal o
: Treasurer Stong to purchase Interest
: bearing salary warrants of stnte EN-
pioyes and warrants issued to cove
their travelling expenses.
Plans arp hnjno Iofd f,,, a..