The Ordway new era., 1921-07-08
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

ty under bond to think over the mat
ter, John Ferrero, janitor at the home
for dependent children in Denver. gave
himself up to Sheriff Frank smith Oh
Fort Collins, declaring he was ready 10
begin serving a years sentence III the
state penitentiary, which was imposed
on him in the County Court at Fort
Collins a month ago If he refused TO
contribute $50 month to the supper.
of his wife and six children in Love
land. After he was sentenced he WAS
given thirty days in which TO consiuer
the matter, but he came back the day
his time for consideration expired and
said that he would go to the peniten-
tiary for life. officers stated, rather
than contribute n cent TO the support
of his wife.
In spite of damage caused by toous
the past month reports from county
assessors to the State immigration De
partment indicate that the acreage de-
voted to wheat this year is the largest
in the history of Colorado These re-
ports are about 50 per cent Completed
and indications are that wheat produc-
zion will break all Colorado records.
Nearly 100000 more acres have been
planted to winter wheat this year thah
ever before. However, there has been
a falling off in the acreage devoted 10
spring wheat. To date this year, 3lo,-
600 acres of spring wheat has been re-
ported. This compares with 335,OOO
acres in 1920.
The federal government has refused
toegrant an emergency appropriation
of S3,5OO,OOO for road reconstruction
work in Colorado and the State High
way Commission is left with only the
funds already granted for federal aid
projects with which to carry on the
enormous amount of repair work made
necessary by the recent floods. This
was the statement made in Colorado
Springs by Chas. B. Lansing of the
highway advisory board, after a series
of conferences with Mai. l.. d. Blau-
welt, state highway engineer.
The threatened invasion of Ell Paso
county by a grasshopper army moving
northwest from the southeastern cor
ner has been ayerted, according to j.
| C. Hale, county agent. The grasshop
pers descended on the county recently
and it was only through the hardest
sort of work that the pest was stopped
according to Hale, who declared that
farmers in the community worked day
and night in their efforts to head off
the grasshoppers. Poison bran and ar
| senic were used in the battle against
the insects.
1t cost the state of Colorado $4,000
| to pay the salaries of National Guards
men on duty in the Pueblo flood dis
| trict, according to pay roll figures
compiled in the office of Adjt. Gen.
| Patrick Hamrock. "Soucners for the
pay of guardsmen to the extent of $27.-
| 800 have already been drawn said
| Colonel Hammock in discussing the ex-
pense of guarding the flooded city,
land when the pay rolls for the last
contingent of troops are completed, the
total will run slightly over $2S,000."
An official statement from the Amer
ican Red Cross of the flood sufferers
in Pueblo has been given out. The to-
| tai number of families registered in
Pueblo district was given at 1,702 be-
sides 1888 homeless men, it states, and
| 600 houses We're listed as totally de-
| stroyed. The total number of persons
affected by the flood, according to the
statement, is $685.. The Red Cross re-
port for La Junta shows, according to
the statement. 1856 families registered,
representing 760 persons.
Colorado College receives 100000
by the terms of the will left by the
late Henry Roger Wolcott, one of
| Colorado's pioneer mining men. whose
estate totals more than 100000, ac-
cording to petition filed in the Coun-
ty Court in Denver
John p. Keith, D. & r. G. freight
conductor, was killed when his touring
car plunged over the embankment on
Eighth street, Pueblo, where the flood
of June 3 carried away the long bridge
spanning the stream
AS the Platte river has dropped
gradually from the highest flood stage
recorded since 1893 to normal flow
estimates OF the damage done by the
raging stream and its numerous tribu.
taries in Weld county have steadily
increased, rather than decreased
That the total loss from the
flood water in Weld alone is near
the S2,0OO,OOO mark is the consensus
of opinion of engineers, farmers, coun-
ty officials and railroad men who have
surveyed the situation from their own
points of view. Weld county's loss on
roads and bridges is somewhere be-
tween $150,000 and 100000.
Airplane patrol for the detection of
forest fires in the Pixies Peak region
around Colorado Springs, Colo, has
been permanently established. accord