The Ordway new era., 1914-11-27
STATE NEWS
or INTEREST. TO AL
G o L o r A 20 O
PEOPLE
Western Newspaper Union News Service.


The tax levy in Lafayette is SO
mills.
Governor-elect Carlson has returned
to his home at Fort Collins.
sixty-eight shriner candidates were
initiated into the shrine at Ell Jebel
Temple in Denver.
John Freeze was convicted of slay-
ing his wife by Jury in the West
Side Court In Denver.
The Northern deanery of the Epis-
copsl churches Of Colorado held q two
day meeting at st. Peters church in
Denver.
Marcia Ann Gavitt. eight-year-old
stepdaughter Of Mrs. Marie Turner
Cooke Gavitt, Of Denver is heir to
I'll .000. 900.
Regular daily passenger service on
the Denver & Rio Grande railroad be-
tween Salida and Alamosa will be re-
sumed on Thanksgiving Day.
Charles Ferris. who submitted to an
operation for TRANSMISSION Of blood into
his veins. died at the County hospital
In Denver. He was suffering from
anaemia and >hookworm. y
Adeline Zimmerman, the 6-year-old
daughter of G. P. Zimmerman Of La
fayette,, was instantly killed near her
home when she fell under the wheels
of an automobile driven by r. L. Fink
Of Boulder.
1t is reported that E. H. McClenan-
han of Greeley will be appointed by
Governor-elect Carlson to the State
Public Utilities Commission, the most
sought for office at the disposal of the
newly elected executive.
The jury in the United States Dis
trict Court in Denver returned YER
dict of not guilty in the case of Frank
Ayers. accused Of cutting 1900 fence
posts on government land near Log
Cabin. I.arimer county.
Dora and Mary Regenbrecht, sisters.
aged seven and nine respectively, died
at their home In Aurora. Four others
OF the seven children surviving lie
very Ill. One child, the youngest OF
the family. is not expected to survive.
When responding to fire alarm in
Pueblo. Lieut.. Louis Brown Of motor
fire truck No. 8 was knocked from his
seat when the engine struck an OBJ
struction In the street. He was
thrown beneath the apparatus. suffer
ing compound fracture OF one OF his
legs and internal injuries.
Beet growers Of northern Colorado
received 44,016,000 for their crops.
The amounts are divided to the differ
ent towns in the district-Fort Collins,
$3.50. 900; Lovcland. $660,000; Greeley.
$3ss, eco. Windsor, e4l2.000: Eaton.
100000; Fort Morgan. $4,000. and
s90s. 900 at Longmont.
The state public utilities commits
sion, in an administrative ruling, made
1t specific that the commission will
mot consider in force or effect any
provision of the charter OF any city
operating under the twentieth amend
ment to the state constitution which
is in conflict with the public utilities
act and orders OF the commission.
For several weeks Jean Mignolet,
Belgian consul In Denver, has been
collecting money for relief fund for
the starving Belgian women and chill
dren. He has received more than $500
in cash and several other donations.
Thr oughout the state more than 5000
additional has been raised and will be
sent to Mignolet within few days.
A Jury in Judge Denison's division
of the District Court in Denver held
that the affections OF Albert w. Kross-
man are worth dollar. following a
hearing of the suit brought by his di-
vorced wife, Mrs. Susanna KrOssman,
in which she demanded $25,O00 from
Mrs. Addie Cannon of Hudson. The
jury deliberated nine hours to reach
the verdict. 30
The $4,000 appropriation made by
the Legislature In 1909 to pay part of
the cost Of the West Colfax viaduct in
Denver may be turned back into the
state general fund and cease to be
available for its original purpose un-
less the city meets certain require
ments before Nov. 80, according to
State Auditor Kenehan and State
Treasurer Leddy.
Harry Newton. known in Trinidad
as Harry Tennyson and in Laramie.
Wyo., as Harry Mcbride, was arrested
in Trinidad on q charge OF violating
the Mann act, according to word re-
,ceived by the Pueblo police. Newton
took his wife from Denver to Ration.
N. NJ, and there deserted her and
brought Anna Ford back to Trinidad,
1t Ia charged. Newton is wanted at
Pueblo on charge of forgery.
Although Longmont is proud of its
great agricultural productions. said
Milo G. Rice. in visit oothe State
Board OF Health, 1t is prouder still of
its babies. In the month of October
there were tbirty-three births reported
at Longmont and only seven deaths.
The records so far for November indi-
cate that during the present month