The Ordway new era., 1922-11-17
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

| reservation
." 's now handled by another road
=" GALLUP, N. H., and then trucked in
,"e Denver & Rio Grande Western
poposes to lay third rail IN its Far.
"ihston branch from Durango to Far
nihs.oh' distance of sixty miles. Au-
"ehic reports to this effect leaked
out ioiiowlng trip of inspection of the
branch line and the new oil fields nv
the railroad officials. This would elm.
mate one transfer of freight in Duran
20 by permitting narrow gauge cars be-
ing hauied clear to Pennington. AT
present the branch from Durango TO
farfnlngton is standard gauge. and nil
railroad shipments for that section
must be transferred here from narrow
10 standard gauge cars The standard
gauge engines are equipped with two
couplers so they can be attached to
Doth standard and narrow gauge cars
Inc thlrd rail would be laid between
the two standard gauge rails at the
proper distance.
Denver-Four hundred and thirty
Tour Colorado settlers will come into
possession of 96,330 acres of land in
eight districts of the state through an
order entered at Washington, d. c., ac-
cording to NJ. ID. McEniry, chief of the
| Denver field division of the general
| land office. The settlers, McEniry
said, applied long ago for the lands
and have been awaiting the designa-
tion to make regular filings. As they
| have priority no new filings will be re-
| ceived for any of the tracts. The land
is divided into homesteads of $40 acres
each, and the tracts are scattered
| through the state in the Del Norte,
Denver, Durango, Lamar, Leadville,
Montrose, Pueblo and Sterling land Of
| flee districts. while timber is to be
| found on much of the land, it is not of
| merchantable quality" McEniry said.
"There is no know source of water
supply and the lands are chiefly valu-
able for grazing and the raising of for
| age crops"
Colorado Springs.-Negotiatio for
the sale of the Garden City Company,
a Colorado Springs-owned sugar beet
concern with extensive holdings at
Garden City, Kan, TO Lock Davidson,
wealthy Wichita banker, have virtu-
ally been completed, according to an
announcement of directors of the COM
pany Mr.. Davidson left Colorado
Springs recently, planning to stop in
Garden City where he would make ar
rangemcnts for the formal transfer of
the property. The sale involves APP
proximately S5,O00,000, and includes
the transfer of the sugar plant at Gar
den City, which is one of the best
equipped in the United States, and
10000 acres of adjoining land, all
planted to sugar beets each year.
Boulder-Kenneth A. Kennedy of
Denver was elected president; A. A.
Paddock, vice president, and Ralph
Crosman, secretary, of the General
Alumni Association of the University
of Colorado at the annual meeting in
Boulder in connection with homecom-
ing day. Mr.. Kennedy was the princi-
pal orator at the alumni banquet. c.
Field Clay, Denver attorney, was pre-
sented with the annual &C" fob, award
ed by the athletic board for services to
the university.
Sterling.-Guy Bray, "a years old, of
Merino, Colo, who was charged with
the murder of Deputy Sheriff b. D..
Wilson at Merino on the night of May
%, slashed his throat in the county
Jail at Sterling and died almost instant
ly. Bray had made it a practice to
shave and cut the hair of other prison
| ers in the Jail and asked for u razor
| for his customary work. He locked
| two other prisoners in the cage of the
| iail and went to the bathroom to per-
| form his act of suicide.
Denyer-Illicit whisky manufactur-
ers are turning to cheap grade of
glucose in place of using sugar, in an
attempt to cut down the cost OF manu-
facture so that profits from the sale
| of ..white lightning" may be doubled,
H. III. McClenahan. United States pro-
bibition director for Colorado, declared
IL few days ago.
PuebIo-City officials and directors
| of the Pueblo Rescue Mission are puz-
zled over the disappearance Of BOD
| Norman, Superintendent of the mis-
sion and city welfare director Nor
man has not been seen for several days
and ii is said left the mission without
any word concerning his departure or
return.
Trinidad.-Struck by Colorado "
Southern locomotive at the brickyard
crossing on the edge of Trinidad, Hen
nv Hildebrandt, manual training in
structor ut the Primero, Colo. school,
was instantly killed and q. g. Reeves,
stable boss ut the Colorado Fuel and
Iron Company mine, and ms son. sam
Reeves, were injured.
Colorado Springs.-The largest and
most representative exhibit of high