The Ordway new era., 1912-02-16
"A Little News from the Four Quarters

BESIDES ltS Two saloons, SWlnk claim!
fame as mule center.
London authorities state that glove.
are no longer fashionable with even
Ing dress.
Grand Junction is to erect a build.
ing to house permanent exposition
of its resources.
The Denver Patriotic league has al
ready begun its campaign for a "sane
and safe" Fourth of July.
Francisco Espor of Florence. the
oldest man In Colorado, died on the
9th inst. at the extreme age of 1l2
years.
Mrs II. W. Taft, sister-in.law OF the
president, has abjured the Episcopa.
liam faith and Joined the Catholic
church.
Work on double tracking the entire
Rio Grande system will begin early In
the spring and probably be finished
some time In 1915.
Governor Mcdonald of New Mexico
has announced that II necessary he
will call out the state troops to pre-
vent the proposed Johnson-Flynn
prize fight.
On the Sth inst. commercial bar
silver advanced to 5ss, the highest
price since November. 1907. The new
Chinese republic and India are the
principal buyers.
Miss Frances de Lour OF Denver
has married Yoshi Hachiya, Il Jap
ship in the restaurant business for
the past two years.
Mrs. CorfeId Of Lincolnshire, Eng
land. recently attended a theatrical
performance in London, accompanied
by her twenty-five sons. four Of them
wearing the uniform OF the British
army.
Dorothy Coates, a negress OF SpO.
kane, Wash has been summoned for
jury duty In the superior court there,
the first instance OF its kind on record
able property.
The state has died its brief In the
supreme Court In the case to test the
legality Of the law requiring druggists
to pay astate tax OF s25 year for dis.
pensing liquors for any purpose what
ever, whether in dry Or wet territory.
Mrs. Minnie Ward Patterson has
been called to the pastorate OF the
Hillside Congregational church In
Colorado Springs, made vacant by the
resignation OF her son. Rev. G. L.
Patterson. Nothing like keeping IL
In the family.
While Colorado has been enjoying
moderate weather and sunshine, the
has been play ing around
zero out east. Saturday Il was 10 be.
low at Pittsburg, . belowin New York
and a man In Chicago was frozen to
death on the sidewalk.
Peter J. LaiIey OF Georgetown, un.
der sentence Of from twelve to four.
teen wears In the pen. locked Under.
sheriff Thomas Cunningham In n cell
and rcmarking, Goodbye, Cunny,
I've been here long enough" made his
escape. He was recapturcd four days
later while asleep In deserted cabin.
Several hundred prominent men OF
the country gathered in n national
conference In Chicago to give evidence
OF the Roosevelt sentiment, which
they claim Is evidenced In every state,
and to launch campaign for the
strenuous ones nomination. Inanswcr
to the query, "will Roosevelt run?'
we would like tn PROFOUND that old
cOnundrum. "Will "a duck swim?"
The state OF Washington Is to go
Colorado one better on the convict
road working system. Men employed
on this work, II single. are to receive
so cents day, the money to be held
in trust for them by the state until
they are released. Married men with
one child are to receive IS cents and
those with larger families proportion
ate amounts, the money to go to the
mems families.