The Ordway new era., 1921-10-21
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

the market tlllS S'he'i' wv =
est drive was completed when =. D.
Mccoy, William Henry and U. Z. Au-
groqe of Grand county arrived In Den
ver with ls2 head of cattle from Radi-
nm Colo. n distance of 135 miles. The
cattle were quartered Mt the Union
stockvards and were pronounced ny
local traders to he in the finest conui-
tion after their long trip on the road
which consumed ten days.
A contract for 1000 yards of car
pets has been let by the State Board
of Capitol Managers to the Daniels "
Fisher Stores Company. About 2''op
wards of the carpet will be laid In the
new state office building. The carpet
is of special design and bears the seal
of Colorado woven into the nap. 1t is
brown in color which was adopted by
the members OF the board for all the
offices Of the state capitol building.
Future requirements OF carpet in the
state buildings will he made under the
contract made with the local store. The
total cost of the carpets is about $751;
600.
| A coroner's jury decided that the
| death of James Glasgow, prospector,
whose body was found in the Sangre
| de Cristo forest reserve, was due to
an accident. Glasgow disappeared
| September 80, and his body was found
| by bloodhounds after several parties
OF searchers had failed, Glasgow was
shot Just above the heart, the bullet
being from his own rifle, which was
evidently discharged when the pros
| pector fell over log. The blood
hounds were brought from Colorado
| Springs by Otto Quillnn, sheriff, and
easily picked up trail nine days old.
"The longevity of man has been no.
| ticeably increased during the past few
years In all countries" declared DIR.
W. w. Grant of Denver, recognized
authority on cancer, in an address be
fore nearly 1000 Pueblo people at the
| municipal auditorium. This longevity
is increasing more noticeabIy amCug
women than men," he added, and stat
ed further that the mortality rate had
been reduced considerably in every
dlsense with the exception of cancer,
of which statistics show three times as
many women die as men.
Sheriff Erne A. Morse of Morgan
county received postal card from
Woody Rogers, Georgia convict, who
escaped from officers while being TAX
en- from Fort Morgan to Georgia. Rog-
ers was arrested at Fort Morgan sew
eral weeks ago on charges of forgery.
1t was then learned that he had es-
capped from the Georgia penitentIary,
where he had been serving n life SEN
tence for murder. Rogers sent greet
lngs' TO Sheriff Morse.
His desire to see his wife and four
months-old baby, which was born
Willie he was in prison, led Charles
| w. Dunbar to escape from the road
camp at Cedar Creek, Colo, June IL,
lie told officers who arrested him at
his wife's home at Lincoln, Neb., two
hours after he had Joined his family.
Dunbar said he roamed around the
country four months in an effort to
throw officials off his trail. He was
serving five years for forgery.
With the completion of repairs on
the large fire truck which has been
out of commission for some time
| Grand Junction has three auto fire
trucks and one of them is the most
modern machine known-a pumpe1
with capacity for $50 gallons per min.
ute and costing S12,950. The city
plans to sell the smaller truck to
Fruita.
John Williams, "a years old, pioneer
miner and prospector, was found dead
In his cabin on the outskirts of Silver
ton. He came TO the Triangle country
IN 1880 and was known as Johnny Be
hind the Rock" He had been In moo,
health for several months, and few
days ago suffered a severe fall on tbs
| streets.
Gladys Warren, years old, was ia.
tally burned at her home in Colorado
Springs when her clothing caught fire
from some unknown cause. Mamie. an
elder sister, seized Gladys, who ran in.
10 the yard, carried her back into the
mousse and plunged her into a tub OF
water. Gladys, however, had inhaled
the flame and died later.
The shale men of Mesa county have
received an urgent invitation to attend
the American mining congress to be
held In Chicago, Oct. II to 90. There
VIII be shale oil conference at tb,
congress and there will probably bs
quite a few attending from Grand
county.
The Atlas mine and mill, ten mile,
west Oh ouray, are running at about
capacity now with ninety men at work
The recent addition to twenty.tor
hitter press has made the mill more Of
ficlent. The Atlas has the biggest m,
roll OF any mine in ouray county.