The Ordway new era., 1922-05-19
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
western Newspaper Union New, s.ricsJ

| HueDlO.-blluutu ON thC qua sAS -
| was about to catch fly ball In base
ball game here, Floyd Agarbright, le
years old, was struck on the head ana
incurred fractured skull. Agarbright
was playing left field for the Central
| High School team.
Colorado Springs.-A deed for twen-
ty-one acres of land at Colorado
Springs has been given to the board OF
hospitals and homes of the Methodist
Episcopal church by citizens here as a
site for national hospital for tuber-
culosis.
| Loveland.-While blasting the river
| bank on the state highway half mile
south of LoveIand preparatory to
erecting cement abuuments for new
bridge over the Big Thompson river,
| Contra ctor Floyd Malcom unearthed
what physicians declare 10 be petri-
| fled human foot
Denver.-Members of the Colorado
| Public Utilities Commission recently
authorized the maintenance of and au-
| tomobile bus line over the Rainbow
route between Grand junction and
Montrose, Colo, on application of the
| company VI
Grand Junction.
Lafayette.-Onem man, a resident OF
Lafayette, is under arrest on suspicion
of having had part in the robbery of
the First National Bank, when four
bandits blew open the safe and vaults
and took loot valued at between S1b-
600 and $4,000. Frank Lamont, a
painter, was taken into custody.
Durango.-T. ]. Chandler, 81 years
old, with crippled foot, has estab-
lished a long distance walking record
that few younger sound men would
care TO attempt. With companion.
C. j. Munger, %, Chandler recently
reached Durango after 4s0-mile
jaunt from Silver City, New Mexico.
Durango.-Rod S. Day, Durango
publisher who recently shot and killed
William L. Wood, rival editor, has been
liberated from the La Plata county jail
on $4,000 bond. Day shot and killed
Wood in a street fight which began
over articles published in the TWO pa
pers concerning the eighteenth amend
ment.
Durango.-Twenty years effort to
obtain better transportation facilities
for Durango and southwestern Colo
RADIO have been rewarded. A western
syndicate has notified the railway
committee of the San Juan basin that
it had succeeded in financing $4,000
600 standard gauge outlet from Duran
go to Gallup, n. NJ, a distance of 100
miles.
Glenwood Springs.-The State Bank
ers' convention will be held at Glen
wood Springs June % and %. Presi-
dent Mccarthy of the First National
Bank is in charge of the entertainment
of the bankers, who will be treated roy
ally from arrival to departure. The
big Colorado hotel will be owned by
the delegates at this time, and every
thing from banquets to swims and mo-
tor trips is being planned.
Denver.-Reports received by the
State Immigration Department through
county assessors from approximately
5000 farmers indicate that farming op
erations are not far from normal In
Colorado this year and that the total
acreage under cultivation will be fully
as great as for last year, though earlier
reports had indicated that acreage
would be reduced materially. Appar-
emily the farms being operated will
have about the same average acreage
under cultivation as last year and
to the operating class to offset the
abandonment, which has apparently
been rather heavy in few small
areas.
Brush.-The Brush Commercial Club
Band will take part in the program in
Denver during Music Week. The band |
is one of the best small bands in the |
state and compares favorably with any |
eighteen-piece band anywhere.
Pueblo.-Through deal consum-
mated recently, the Vail Hotel Operat- |
ing Company passed into the hands of |
Charles Adams of Denver. Although |
the price involved was not made pub
lie, it is understood to have been 970-
600.
Eckley, Colo.-A force of men and
teams have started the construction Of !
a 15,oeo-volt electric pole line trans
lai mission system from EckIey to Yuma.
The new line viii insure electric cur.
rent from the municipal light plant at
Yuma for the lighting Of Eckley and
the operation Of It's water works. The
new system wifi cost $4,000.
Fort Logan.-Colorado's delegation
in Washington will he appealed to by
every merchant and manufacturer in
the state to exert every influence DOS
sible for the enlargement of Fort LO-
gan as a military center, according to
an announcement by the Colorado
Manufacturers and Merchants Associa-
ton in Denver.