The Ordway new era., 1922-04-21
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
lwes,,,. N..spaper Union New. Service

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Salvation Army drive for funds here.
Pueblo.-One man is dead, one is
dying and three are seriously wounded
ns the result Of series of shooting
and stabbing affrays among MeNicans
and negroes here.
Sterling-With snowfall reported
IN all sides, Sterling experienced
sand storm without precipitation The
wind was estimated to be blowing
around forty-five miles an hour.
Grand Junction.-NIiss Harriet Nor
thrup was seriously injured when she
fell thirty-five feet down precipice
while trying to rescue n school girl
companion, Miss Luthera Wakefield.
Denyer.-The special session of the
State Legislature for the purpose of
considering the AIoffat tunnel bill and
Pueblo flood relief measures has been
postponed until April II as the proba-
ble date.
Florence.-With an advance of $3.50
a 100 pounds in the price of zinc the
River Smelling and Refining Company
will reopen its Florence plant at once,
much to the benefit of the zinc-produc-
ing miners.
Boulder.-High school girls from all
parts of Colorado We're guests of the
Women's Athletic Association of the
University of Colorado at the second
annual conference for the promotion of
sane athletics.
Loveland-Tourists visiting Love
land and Estes Park this season will
have a modern free camp ground near
the half Way place in Loveland canon,
in addition to the camp grounds in the
city park here.
Rocky Ford - Three elementary
schools and the Junior and Senior high
schools of Rocky Ford have established
the thrift plan as recommended by the
thrift committee of the Colorado Par
ent-Teacher Association.
Red CHff.-Wage reductions varying
from % TO 80 cents daily have been
proposed by the Empire Zinc Company
for more than III employees at Gilman,
Colo, according to a thirty-ddy notice
served on the State Industrial Commits
sion at Denver.
Mancos-A posse of citizens secured
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dynamite explosion which wrecked
portion of the ranch home of
George w. Skoog, near here, and
caused injuries to two members of the
Skoog family. The explosion occurred
while the family slept.
Denver.-Governor Shoups procla-
nation, calling the State Legislature
| into extra session to consider construc-
ton of the Moffat tunnel and the or
ganization of conservancy districts for
the prevention of floods, was sent to
every member of the General Assem-
bly, This extra session will convene
April Is at noon.
Denver-More than 200 delegates OF
the American Railway Development
Association are expected to gather at
the Brown Palace hotel here May 1C
for their fourteenth annual convention
The convention will be in session for
three days, and, according to Earl G.
| Reed, chairman of the committee on
hotels and arrangements, an attractive
program has already been arranged.
Akron-Akron was recently visited
with q terrific gale and snow storm
the wind varying from thirty to forty
| miles an hour About six inches OF
snow fell, but on account of the rain
and snow which preceded a terrible
dirt storm, the snow was mixed with
dirt, and everything is plastered with
mud, owing to the fact that the tenn
perature was very little below freez
Ing. Live stock did not suffer much.
Greeley-The Greeley high school
basket ball team was defeated by Wat
seka, ILL.,, team, score 80 to %, in the
first game of the series for national
high school honors at Chicago.
Trinidad-The coroners jury con
Guiding an inquest in the disaster al
the Sopris No. mine of the Colorado
Fuel and Iron Company, wrecked by ar
explosion on March "a last with
death toll of seventeen, returned yer
dict here finding that the seventeen
men came to their deaths from the eff
fects of gas and dust explosion anG
that from the evidence this explosive
mixture was set off by a spark or arc
from the power service of the mine.
Greeley.-weld, leading agricultural
county of Colorado, and found by the
federal census bureau to rank among
the first forty counties of the United
States in agricultural wealth in 1920
holds first rank among the counties Of
the state in value of crops produced iI
1921. according to compilations jus
finished by the State immigration DE
partment for publication In the Colo
RADIO year book. Crops grown in Welt
county were worth more than twice Al.
much as those grown in any othei
county.
Denver.-Beet growers of Colorado