The Ordway new era., 1913-12-12
COLORADO NEWS
GATHERED FROM
All Parts of the State

I
| Dates for Coming Isvents.
| Dec. 29-Mid- Winter Exposition at
Jan is-15.-colorado Poultry Fanclers'
jan st,@as.ionai alton + W.ss:lh Wsnh stock
T. Show at Denver Good
Roads Assn at Colorado Springs,
July Is-i4;nGrand Lodge Session. B. p.
Jan I5.-Annual Meeting Colorado
Farmers Congress at Agricultural Col
isit:-Last Grand Council Of North
American Indians At Denver.
The fourth annual convention of the
Colorado Good Roads Association will
be held at Colorado Springs, Jan. Is
and 16.
The Ruxton hotel at Manitou was
sold to w. X. Greene. q Pueblo banker
The consideration is said to have been
$4,000.
Conyicts Willis and Monroe, who es.
capped from the state reformatory at
Buena Vista. were captured and taken
back to the institution.
Colorado Republicans will launch
the 1914 campaign at a banquet to be
held at Ell Jebel Temple on Lincoln's
birthday. February 12.
Weighed down by tons of snow, the
roofs of nine buildings in Denver col
lapsed Friday. resulting in a property
loss estimated at about $500
Increased activity has been occa-
stoned at the Denver mint owing to
the increased demand for new gold
and silver coins for Christmas pres
ents.
Two men were injured seriously in
collapse Of three one-story build
ings on South Pearl street in Denver.
caused by the heavy weight of snow
on the roofs.
The body of John Hayes. q well.
known school teacher, was found In
hic homestead cabin on Hannah Creek
his heart.
The Pueblo City Federation of
Women's Clubs has received con-
signment OF $4,000 Red Cross seals.
and 1t is expected that all will be sold
before Christmas.
Fruit growers of Colorado Jared far
better than did the fruit, sections OF
the northwest. according to the re-
turns being sent out by the Grand
Junction association.
The Great Western Mall Order house
closed a deal acquiring the coal prop
critics OF the American Fuel Company.
located in northern Colorado and ral-
ued at about s2.10O.000.
The Denver coal operators an.
nounced cut in the price Of Ignite
coal from $3.50 retail on first grade
to st.75 per ton. and from $4JsAper
ton on second grade to $a.25 per ton.
With plentiful supply of coal in
Denver for all uses until the railroads
can resume shipments. Denver suf-
fered Friday from coal famine be-
cause the storm made all streets i'm
passable.
Suit to force the Mountain States
comply with the terms OF the Brown
ordinance was filed in the Denver Dis
trict Court by the Interstate Business
Exchange.
A movement has been started to
have President Wilson appoint a rep
resentative of the intermountain states
on the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion in the place of w. A. Marble.who
recently died.
Plans under which the committee
now is operating indicate that the
Mid-winter exposition. to be held in
Pueblo. beginning Dec. 20. will be one
Of the biggest things of the kind ever
attempted In that section.
Railroad traffic in Colorado was tied
up as the result OF the snowstorm that
swept the state Thursday. More than
twenty trains were stranded on the
various lines about Denver. All freight
service was practically abandoned aft
er noon. ..-
Denver and Colorado were in the
grasp of the worst snowstorm the
state has experienced for many years
last week All records for snowfall
and precipitation were broken. Train
service, passenger and freight. in and
out Of Denver was abandoned by all
railroads and many trains were stalled
in the drifts.
When rescuing crews working In
the Golden Cycle mine slide at Vic.
tor broke through ten feet of solid
rock into the raise where Frank M.
Woods, Jr., Samuel Sorenson and
Patrick Kevany. were working when
the slide started several days ago. all
hope of finding the bodies Of the
three miners was abandoned.
When death claimed John Mclean,
seventy-two, lawyer, civil engineer,
TRAINER. scout and hermit, in Pu.
eblo hospital, there came an end to
feud Of dozen years duration which
had existed between himself and
the members Of the II. Metcalf family
over irrigation water. that resulted in
one almost fatal shooting affray and
term In the penitentiary for Mclean.