The Ordway new era., 1922-12-01
CRISP
COLORADO
NEWS

of his automobile are believed to have
caused the death of William Herman
Hall, who was found dead in private
I garage.
Denver.-Dr. Heber X. Harper. until
recently of the faculty and admins
trative department of the Boston Unit
versity, has assumed his new dulles US
chancellor of the University of Den
yer.
Denver.-AS climax TO Denver's s
biggest and best flower show, two hun
dred Colorado florists formed n state
wide organization that Will be known
us the Colorado State Flower Associa-
ton.
Denver-Acting on the request OF
the National Bureau of Education, the
American Legion and the National Ed
ucational Association, Governor Shoup
has set aside the week beginning Dec.
us American Education Week.
Denyer.-There will be an approx
mate increase of 2.19l 600 bushels in
the Colorado corn crop this year over
that OF last year, according to the re-
| port of W. W. Putnam, statistician of
the United States bureau OF asricui-
tural economics.
Denver.-There were sixteen more
! deaths us II result OF automobile acci-
dents in Denver in the first ten
months OF 1872 than during the entire
year of 1921, statistics prepared by
Police Sergt. Henry Reno, police de
partment statisucian. show.
Denver-Eyery miner employed by
the Juanita Coal X Coke Company at
Bowie has gone on strike, according
10 an official notification received by
the State Industrial Commission from
the company's officers ut Pueblo. I'm
official reports to the commission said
the men had gone Out to force recog-
milton OF the union.
Denycr.-James ". Humill, assistant |
10 Z. Il. McClenahan. prohibition en-
furcement officer for Colorado, has .
been relieved of duties in the Colorado
prohibition enforcement department,
under general orders from the Wash
ington headquarters to eliminate as
sistants of this rank in states west of
the Mississippi river as Il matter of
economy
Denver.-The Denver * Rio Grande
Western railroad will spend SD, ,26S,-
30 on improvements within the next
three years. OF this sum $16,T00,ooO
will have been spent by Jan. l, 1921.
This was announced by Special Mas
ter Cass L. Harrington upon submis-
sion of his report to the United States
District Court recommending the i'm
mo lot Of
improvements. The expenditures will
be made under the direction of the
court.
Colorado Springs. COLI oradO
Springs is going into the municipal ad-
vertising business. The City Council
has passed levy of sixteenths of
mill, to raise $4,000 for city adver
Using in 1923. AT the same time a
proposal was made for municipal and
county gasoline tax in addition to the
state tax of l cent a gallon. the pro
ceeds to be used in street and road
improvement funds. The city has
100000 paving plant available for a
municipal program.
Pueblo.-Mrs. NJ. c. Mccall was
shot and painfully wounded by Pueblo |
police officers when the automobile |
she was riding in failed to halt when
the officers commanded 1t to. The
police were searching for four ban
dts, said to have robbed a jewelry
store in Canon City, and were stop
ping all the automobiles coming into
Pueblo from the west. L. L. Duffield
was driving the automobile, and when
the officers ordered the car to stop
he put on more speed and the officers
opened fire.
Denver.-The area of patented land
In Colorado this year is 1892, ,022
acres, compared with 30,S67 ,235 acres
| last year, according to data compiled
| by the State immigration Department
| from the records of the State Tax
| Commission and from other sources
| This Is 1882 per cent of the total
area of the state.
Trinidad-Joe McGonigal, convicted
slayer of Wilbur Ferguson, a State
School of Mines student, and Ella
Conters, at the boarding house at the
Royal mine on June l, has been SEN
fenced to be hanged during the week
beginning Feb. 1S. McGonigal was
tried and found guilty of murder IN
the first degree on Oct 13 last. The
| jury recommended the death penalty
Pueblo.-A whisky manufacturing
plant rivaling any Tennessee moon
sinners den. two fifty-gallon stills. COO
gallons of mash and fifty gallons OF
whisky almost as good as before pro
hibition bonded brand, were found In
raid made in a mountain glen near
Rye, Colo, by Federal Prohibition