The Ordway new era., 1913-10-10
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Newspaper Union New. Service.

Oct 30-Nov. 1.-Colorado Kennel Club
Noy. s-s;-Thirteenth Annual Conyen-
| tfon of Rocky Mountain Hotel Mems
Jan. .l2-I5.-Coiorado Poultry Fanciers'
Jan. 1s-24.-NationaI Western Stock
Show at Denver.
lsiS;mL,ast l,as Gran Grand c9uTei, ninv Of North
Governor Ammons in an official
proclamation has designated October
9 as Fire Day"
Joseph Smith. John Musick and
John Jackaway. inmate of the state re-
formatory at Buena Vista. have es-
capped.
The first car of honey to be shipped
out of Montrose county this year left
Montrose for Ohio, netting the bee
men $1,000.
Mrs. Charlotte Horton De Harport,
seventy.six years old, pioneer resi-
Humboldt street.
| Colorado alfalfa, because of the
drought in other parts of the United
States, is being shipped to the four
corners of the country.
The Manitou Mineral Springs prop
erty has been purchased by syndi-
cate from the General William J.
Palmer estate for $25O,O0O.
With roar that was heard for miles.
500 pounds OF giant blasting powder
exploded in subsidiary power house
thirty miles north of Trinidad.
George Hilver, the assistant car
foreman who was crushed beneath 4
freight car in the railroad yards at
Alamosa, died at the Red Cross hos
pital.
September was 4 very good month
for gold production in the Crisple
Creek district as the first thirty days
Of fall show an output exceeding ST.
250,000.
Frank E. Kimball. sixty-five years
old. and in point OF service one of the
Oldest mail carriers in the country.
died at his home in Denver after an
illness Of two days.
Colorado and Denver lead the Unit
ed States in the proportion of deposits
of their national banks carried as re-
serves. according to the report of the
United States treasury.
Following q volley of rifle shots. a
bomb made Of a lead pipe loaded with
dynamite exploded at the corner OF
the Bulgarian boarding house at the
Mitchell mine at Lafayette. ksr
Married Mt fourteen. a mother at fiji
teen and divorced at sixteen, is the
brief history Of the domestic Ife o:
Mrs. Geraldine Kulp. whose divorce
was granted by Judge Allen In Dem
yer.
A contract has been awarded by the
district forester to F. ]. Kamm Of New
Castle for the removal Of half mil
lion feet of Engelmann spruce and AL
pine fir from the White River Nation
al forest.
The board OF county commissioners
of Teller county announced that the
assigning of wages by county en-
ployes must cease in the future and
that any man assigning his check
would be dismissed.
Vest pocket soup slugs. coffee cap
sules, tea and milk tablets. from the
unique commissary of party OF
Colorado Springs newspapermen who
departed on an automobile trip to the
Yellowstone park.
A war of words. or battle between
BARRIERS, has been started in the
Cripple Creek district as the result OF
an announcement that the BARRIERS Of
Victor would hereafter charge half
dollar for hair cuts, q raise in price
Of fifteen cents.
The State Supreme Court has no
right to decide finally as to the validi-
ty OF the amendment to the charter of
| Denver creating commission form Of
government, according to Gilbert A.
Walker. district attorney OF the Elev.
enth judicial district.
A bundle OF love letters, most OF
them unprintable, written to Marie
Kane, eighteen. by c. W. Kane, her
stepfather, is held by Denver postof-
flee authorities. Kane and the girl
were arrested by Postoffice Inspector
r. E. Nelson on Information furnished
by Humane Officers Ransom and
David. According to the postoffice in
spector, Kane brought his stepdaugh-
ter to Denver from Flanders. Wyo.
The strike OF coal miners in Colo.
RADIO will cost the United Mine Work.
ers of America at the rate of $4,000, 900
annually. The first week brought an
expenditure of $4,000. On this basis,
for nfty.two weeks In the year, the
cost would be $I,924,00O The off.
GERS of the organization say the ex.
pense will increase sufficiently to
bring the rate up to $4,000 900 and per.
haps more than that.
The devotion of Miss Sophia Hon.
necke to her widowed mother during
thirty years following the death of her
father was rewarded when two broth.