The Ordway new era., 1921-11-25
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
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ldenuueu at Brighton rs thbt OF Iotlp
ThIll. lahoring man, who had been
stopping in Denver. Coroner Jones has
decided that the man probably commit
led suicide. heing broke" and di,cour-
aged.
Denver will hsre direct highway
to the East by the opening of the l92.2
tourist season. IL the plans OF the Kan
sas City-Denver Airline Association
materiaIize. The proposed road will
cat the distance from Kansas City To
Denver from cal miles to approximate
ly 575 miles.
Pueblo refused 10 adopt the city
manager plan OF municipal govern
nent. voting it down by It majority Of
72S Unofficial tnhutation nf the vote
put it at a.T7S for the amendment aud
1896 against it. with the result that
Pueblo will continue under the present
form OF commission government.
Alpha Blk. - wears old, a student at
the State Teachers College AT Greeley
WAS held up on the campus by u man
OF apparently - years. Tile Young
man. who is from Seibert. handed over
80 cents. all he had. "AN, you're only
a kid said the holdup. disgustedly
and he handed back the half dollar.
Senator W. $. Kenyon of Iowa. is
coming TO Colorado. He will address
the Colorado Farmers Congress nj the
Agricultural College Dec. regarding
some Of ihc more important iegisla-
tion which he and hi> comrades of the
"Agrariau Bloc" are pushing in Con
sreSs for the benefit OF The farmers
and stoclmeu.
Automobile registration frc> collect
ed by the state motor vehicle depart
ment for the last ten months exceeded
those OF the entire twelve months or
1920 by more Than So, 900, according
10 data compiled by Carl :. Milliken,
secretary OF state. Tile total amount
of money collected to date is placed
at $500, ,755.43.
Forty thousand license number
plates for use in Denver next year on
automobiles of the passenger type
have just been received by Secretary
of State Milliken Tor distribution to
owners Dec 20. An additional 10000
plates which were received have been
shipped to the county clerks of Ell
Paso, Pueblo and Weld counties.
Denver probably will he officially
represented at tile meeting to be held
Dec. 8, at Riverside, Calf, by the
League OF the Southwest, when mat
ters relating to the Colorado river wa
ter rights will come up for discussion
AS the Colorado river obtains SO per
cent of its water in Colorado, the state
and city of Denver are vitally inter-
ested
The American State Bank at Gran
ada, Colo, was robbed by yeggmen
who dynamited the Voult and smashed
the safety deposit boxes therein. The
robbers got $500 in money belonging
10 the bank and an equal amount from
the safety deposit boxes which be-
longed TO customers. One hundred an.
thirty-five dollars of the money the
bank lost was in pennies. The rob-
bers overlooked several thousand dol
lars in cash and bonds at the rear of
the vault.
Weld county. Colorado, unclassified
half a century ago so far as its agri
cultural values were concerned, ranks
az the twenty-siXth county of the en-
tire United States in value OF crops
and live stock. according TO a federal
census report made public in Denver
In list of the fifty leading counties
of the nation. Weld holds this position
with total crop and live stock value
in 1919 of s23,203.4T5. It's crop value
alone was s21. los, 800, giving it rank
as the twenty-third county.
All Colorado is to he represented in
the Colorado Industrial Exposition and
Prosperity Carnival 10 be held Feb. 90
25 in the Auditorium at Denver Coop
GRAFTON Of 10000 women members of the
Colorado-Made Goods Club is assured
according to +. c. Dawson of the ex-
position committee. At least go ex-
hibit booths are expected. An overflow
structure may be needed.
Five soldiers from F'itzsimons Hos
pital in Denver escaped serious injury
when they were pinned beneath an
overturned automobile at Pomah cross
ing, five miles south of Castle Rock
The car was driven by Sergt. George
Beebe. Numerous accidents have oc-
cured lately at this point in the road.
A dangerous curve and lack of warn
ing signs are held responsible.
A glare of automobile lights caused
the death of william Hopkins, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. James Hopkins Of Pueb-
10, when the automobile in which he
and Marvin c. Woodward We're driv-
ing to Pueblo from Colorado Springs
ran into q small buggy driven by ii
prospectOr who was on his way to
breckenridge. at place three miles
north of Pueblo. Woodward was driy-
ing, but not injured.