The Ordway new era., 1921-05-27
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
western Se.sp.psr unioa N,,s serios1

George Gilmore. a rancher re1d'nS
on the Lower Florida. apout ten mites
from Durango, has on display freak
in the nature of a two-headed CALI.
| The calf was born dead.
Alamosa established a city mail de-
livery on May II. The requirements
of the postoffice department in the
matter of numbering houses and put
| ting up mail recepJacisS have been
complied with.
City Engineer Bioe announced thAt
the cost OF the new pavinS in isnas-
mont will be SlUn,Ga4-1i- The uupsvsi
section of Main strssc and ssVeTsl
blocks in the residence section are in
cluded in the district
The state convention q the Colo
RADIO Christian ehurvhes viii be held
in Colorado Springs May sith, 18th
and a6th. Arrangements are being
made 10 take care OF several hundred
delegates and visitors.
David Bradley. son OF a Pueblo 10
liceman. waS shot thru the right arm
and Joe Peadon incurred 4 lacerated
right eye in Il fight at the Jockey club,
a readhouse near Pueblo operated by
Ben Francisco. alias The Frog" Fran
cisco. it is said. attempted to stop the
fight between Bradley and Peadon and
shot Bradley thru the arm.
il. CoekrilI and wife of Eureka
New, drove over 1.o00 miles in their
car 10 reach Grand Junction in order
that a shoemaker, who specializes in
making shoes for people who cannot
wear normal shoes, might make a pair
for Mrs. Cockrill. \ week in the val
ley and the trip and shoes together
cost approximately $50.
Mrs. F. w. Egan. policewoman. has
been removed by Mayor Harris of
Colorado Springs following two other
ten-day suspensions by the chief OF
police. The only reason assigned is
for the good of the force" and it is
stated that the reasons will not be
made public unless she compels the
mayor TO do so.
Prospects for one of the heaviest
Yields of sugar beets ever known in
the Berthoud district are brighter now
than any season for many years, ac-
cording TO reports of the field men OF
the Great Western Sugar Company.
who say most of the beets are up with
the best stand in years, and blocking
and thinning has begun in earnest.
Mining shows a steady gain in the
Cripple Creek district, with number
of leasers engaging in new work. Sur
face water, the result of recent storms,
is causing some trouble. This, how
ever, is of q temporary nature. Quite
a number of former residents are re-
turning to the district TO engage in
mining or in business ventures.
Russell and Reason Stout, boys who
assisted Theodore Knight in the res
cue of the aged insane man known as
william The Prophet" during the
great storm here in April, We're pre-
sented with watches by the Colorado
Springs Rotary Club. The Stout boys
live on the Cheyenne Valley ranch.
where William was taken after being
found in the marooned automobile.
Accused of forging the name of II.
A Johnson, vice president of the Buck.
ingham State bank, to checks totallins
S35 600, Rudolph A. NOrdell, cashier
of that institution, which closed its
doors December 20, 1920, has been ar.
rested at Greeley and lodged in the
county Jail there The alleged forger
les are said TO have been started by
Nordell June 8, 1918, when a check
for $4,000 is said to have gone through
District Attorney Louis B. Reed de-
clared that more than thirty of the
alleged forgeries are in the hands OF
authorities.
A $4,000 addition will be made to
| the Seibert school building, four rural
| schools included in District No. 81. will
| be consolidated, the Nd school build
| ings will be sold to raise money to buy
motor buses and the school placed iu
| the accredited class, following the de.
cision of mass meeting held in Sci.
| bert A bond election will be called
soon.
| The United Gold Mines Company is
prospecting with a diamond drill In
the Trail claim at Victor, some ouG
feet below where the. Anderson BeIr
kleman lease ceased operations. About
ninety feet has been explored at an
angle of As degrees, the drill core test.
ing from s12 to S1S per ton in gold
The indications are excellent for q
large body Of high grade ore.
| Plans have been completed by VII.
liam w. Stickney, architect for the hos
pital to be built by the state for the
use of the inmates of the reformatory
selves will construct the building and
will make the cement blocks to be used
in 1t. 1t will be one story and base
ment, with a ward to contain twenty.
five beds, two private wards and one