The Ordway new era., 1922-12-08
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

COMPANY has begun to put Its tlc-
tories in shape to handle beet crop
next year that is expected 10 eAeeeu
in tonnage anything II has ever hau
offered by the farmers. Factories II.
Eaton, Greeley, Windsor, Brighton ana
Lowell. Wyo, have been shut uoWh'
and men are already Mt work prepar.
ing them for the big business eNpe''eu
In 1923. Plants nt Fort Collins. Love
land Longmont and Billings Will close
in the near future. Those at Sterlihg'
Brush. Fort Morgan and at four points
In Nebraska Will continue their opera
tions until the beets are all Sliced anu
| then they, too. will be put IN cohu''
ton. All of the Great Western rae
| tories have been run on scale OF
about two-thlrds of the production III
| 1921
Denyer.-Colorado Is assured import
| ant rights under the seven states COM
pact. apportioning the waters OF the
Colorado rive, which was signed IN
Santa Fe. \. NJ The rights guaran-
feed by the treaty include: Participa-
tiou with " yoming, Utah and Nevada
In use of 100000 acre-feet of the riv-
er waters. Protection of all water
rights now c-lsting in the Colorado
river and its tributaries The right OF
removal of tn. water from the basin
of the Colorado river Ample supply
of water for Denver from the river or
its tributaries. Use of water of the riv-
er or tributari IS for domestic, aSricul-
tural, municipal or Industrial purposes.
but not to generate power.
Fort CoIlins.-A municipal recrea-
ton area has just been set apart for
the city of Fort Collins by the U. 5.
forest service on the Upper Poudre
river, embracing an area of forty
acres While this still remains part
OF the Colorado National Forest. 1t Is
reserved and dedicated to the purposes
of recreation area for the city, upon
which will be placed Improvements
costing In the neighborhood of $4,000.
1t is the plan of Fort Collins TO de-
velop this into an ideal mountain play
ground.
Golden.-FOur dynamite blasts in
rapid succession at daylight rocked the
town OF Golden and told students Of
the Colorado School of Mines that an
attempt had been made to wreck the
huge M high on the side of Mount
Zion. The blast was heard for miles
and Il few minutes afterward the
Mines campus was one of warlike ap-
pearance. Automobiles were dis
patched to every road in the belief
that students of rival school could
be headed off. The perpetrators of
the dynamltlng have not been found.
Denver-A decrease of 40 per cent
IN the annual cutting of lumber in
Colorado is revealed in the figures for
1921 given out by the United States
of Commerce. The report
shows that 64,S64 900 feet of lumber
were cut in 1919; 67.S47 900 in 1920,
and Al, ,076,000 IL 1921. OF the total cut
for the last year more than 22,0OO,0Ou
feet were of the yellow western pine
tree, S.6S0,000 feet of yellow spruce, u
41S,00O of Lodgepole pine, and 3,343,-
900 of all other types of trees.
Brighton. = Threats of violence
against John Jones and Fred Murchi-
son, negroes who have confessed to the
brutal murder of George e. Miller,
white, at a lonely spot on the outskirts
of Denver, were made by citizens of
Brighton following an inquest held in
Retreat Park over Miller's body. AS
a result of the threats 1t was decided
to keep the two negroes In the Denver
jail pending their trial, rather than
move them to Brighton, where less
protection could be afforded.
Walsenburg.-L. Mitchell, engineer,
incurred fracture of the left leg, and
Roy Mcdonald, fireman, incurred
broken right leg when a Denver & Rio
Grande Western freight train was de-
rallied as it was entering siding here.
Two tank cars and seven sheep cars
were derailed, and 300 sheep were
killed. Damage to the railroad will
total 5000, and to the owners of the
sheep, $1,000.
Fort Collins.-Wallard Balzell and
Walter Balzell, brothers, living near
Cherokee park, are under arrest
charged with having killed two does,
one buck and two beavers. Deputy
Game Warden Joe Gray made the ar
rests. He states that the brothers
have admitted killing the animals as
charged.
Fort Collins.-The largest amount
expended by any Larimer county can
didate in the recent election campaign,
as far as the reports have been re-
ceived, was spent by the only Repub-
lican to be defeated at the polls. Fred
w. Harris, candidate for sheriff, re-
ports expenditures of $331.9O.
Denver.-Frederick Patterson John
son, widely known stockman and pub