The Ordway new era., 1922-04-07
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union Nov, Service, /,

filed with Secretary of State Milliken
at Denver
Monte Vista.-The charter for a
commission form of government here
has been adopted. Little interest was
taken in the election, the vote being
small. 43 TO 81.
Yuma.-Fire of undetermined origin
which for a time threatened several
Main street business houses, was
brought under control here after do
ing 5000 damage to the Allen butch
er shop.
Trinidad-The last of the remain
ing bodies of seventeen victims who
were caught in the explosion in Sopris
mine No of the Colorado Fuel and
Iron Company, near here. have been
removed.
De Beque.-A study of the oil shale
seams of the Grand Valley-De Beque
fields northwest of De Beque. Colo,
was made by party of prominent geo
logiSts and business men from Denver
recently.
Denver-Stocks of grain on ColOra-
10 farms the first day of this monu
were nearly 100000 bushels less
than a year ago, according To the re-
port released by the federal-state crop
reporting service.
Lamar.-Dan Ransom, Il rancher re-
siding fourteen miles north of Lamar,
and companion named Vernon, were
drowned when boat in which they
were fishing on upper Queen Lake cap
sized in a strong wind.
Brighton.-Col. P. ]. Hamrock, ad-
jutant general of Colorado, and Act
ing Gov Earl Cooley are guests of
honor at the formal opening of the
new national guard armory here. The
Brighton armory is the first of sew
eral being built in different parts of
the state TO be completed.
Fort Collins.-S. Price Bills, 60
years old, a teamster, is dead, and Bob
Nichols 80, another teamster, is under
arrest, following a quarrel in a gravel
pit on the Sam Clammer farm near
Fort Collins. The two men are broth
ers-in-law. and We're in the gravel pit
alone when a quarrel started.
Denver,-Co-operation of all the out
standing organizations of the state has
been enlisted by the Colorado Sunday
School Association for a nationwide
children's week, which will be OBJ
served here April 80 to May :. A two
fold program is being planned for the
state, which will include community
and local church features.
Denver.-Colorado materials are to
be used by Colorado contractor in
the construction of the Denver branch
of the Federal Reserve Bank building
which is to be designed by Denver
architect, according to the announce
ment of John C. Mitchell, president of
the Denver National bank and director
of the Federal Reserve bank.
Craig.-Plans have been completed
by the Union Pacific railroad to con-
struct q branch railroad from VAN
suffer, Wyo., TO this city, present
Western terminal of the Denver &
Salt Lake (MoffaD road, according to
reliable reports here, and actual build.
ing operations are expected to start
April 20, or soon thereafter.
Greeley.-Marguerite Gatchell, 49,
year-old pupil of the Kiowa school in
southeastern Weld county, is the cham
pion speller of Weld county. In the
annual spelling contest held in Gree
ley Marguerite won the written spell
ing contest in competition with forty
other contestants and in the oral con-
test she outspelled forty-nine other
competitors coming from all parts OF
the county
Denver.-Great interest already is
Colorado over the Third Annual State
Spelling Contest and the Second An
nual Oratorical Contest which are to
be held at the state house on April 4.
Fort Collins.-Jacob Mccartney,
foreman of Ed Monroe's No-Bar
ranch, on Rabbit creek, seven miles
northwest of Livermore, is in a critical
condition at the local hospital with a
bullet wound in his back, as a result
of a quarrel over pasturing of sheep
in a cattle field. Ed Farnsworth,
sheepherder for A. ]. Morrison, presi-
dent of the Morrison Sheep Company,
is being held in the Larimer county
Jail in connection with the shooting.
Denver.-Purchase of 100000 worth
of Liberty bonds paying Az per cent
interest will be made by State Treas
urer Stong in compliance with a court
order upholding the position taken by
the Colorado Industrial Commission
and later sustained by the Supreme
Court. This purchase will mark the
climax of a suit filed by the commits
sion several months ago, following the
repeated refusal of Mr.. Stong to buy
the federal bondsf or the commission.
Pueblo-The Pueblo South Side
Welfare Association has taken action
opposing the proposed flood conserv.