The Ordway new era., 1914-05-08
COLORADO NEWS
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| Western Newspaper Union News service.
| DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.
May l2-14-State Council of Junior Or
der Of American Mechanics. at Colo
May i4-ismRace Meet. Durango
May 27-Log; Rolling Contest, WOW.
july july 4.ii.Mkaee 4f seMaee Mees. Psea; PseSlo. '
July s,Cherry Pie Day. ManzanoIa' p
o. Eiks at Denver.
July 22-2s.-cattlemen's Day. Gunni-
Aug 1s-21.-Prowers Co. Fair. Lamar.
Aug. 2s-Bent Co. Fair Las Animas
Aug. 27.-Santa Fe Trail Day. Las AMI
AHE AsI; 22..Farmers' Fair a. vr,sI rSwlerr Fair.
Sept 3.-watermelon Day. Rocky Ford
sept. 2-S;-Earmers' and stockmehs
sep9. paiTi imMofsSn huEtns!sn, Co Fair For. Nor
Sept. 1-!.-Larimer Co: Fair. Loveiand:
sePt; s-ll.-Crowley Co. Fa'r' eusA'
Sept s,I1;.Ghsysnne County Fair at
SEPT. pheYenns ye.nsusnr Msl'f Day. sugar city. .
SEPT: is-is-Linsoln isisLi County Fair at
ssP. Msss Ssun,S Rsnysa Fair and
Sept; 2a-25.-Western slope Fair. Mont
Sept. s2-25.-Montezuma County Fair
Sept. 2s-25.-Trinldad Fair. Trinidnd
Oct, 6-s-Colorado- New Mexico Fair at
isis;..;a.i ;a.. Grand Gran COUNCIL %Invst Of North
Denver is to be the host of the Colo
RADIO State Sunday School convention
June 16. II and IS.
Six men were wounded in the all
day battle in and around the Hecla
mine at Louisville.
Pneumonia caused the death Of the
Rev. John Fitzpatrick Of Omaha
while he was visiting in Denver.
| Four hundred members Of the Colo
RADIO Division OF the Travellers Pro-
tective Association Of America held
their annual reunion and banquet N
Denver.
public library for last year was $685.
$40 volumes, an increase Of 1892
over 1912. as shown by the annual IL
brary report.
A trio Of Denver pawnbrokers have
asked the police to look for John Kan
trane, a jewelry salesman, who disap-
peared after obtaining $500 worth OF
diamonds from them on consignment
The Denver city commissioners
have decided that no change will be
made in the office OF mayor until
June, 1916, and that all council ap-
pointments shall stand until that
time.
The Good Government League. an
organization to aid in settling the
Colorado coal strike. was the outcome
OF q secret melting held by forty Dem
yer women in the Young Mems
Christian Association building.
Miss Margery Werner Mary Cecilia
Reed and Joseph Werner Reed, daugh-
ter and son OF Werner 2. Reed Of Den
yer, were honored in Rome when, aft
er their confirmation. they were re-
ceived in private audience by the
pope.
| There were five or six vacancies In
the list of senators and representa-
tives when the special session of the
Legislature met Monday, as a result
of federal appointments made since
the Legislature was in regular ses-
| sion.
| Walter B. Fraser, appointed by
| Governor Ammons on January 26 last.
was declared state game and fish
commissioner by District Judge Deni-
| son in Denver when he decided the
| quo warranto proceedings instituted
on behalf of Fraser against James A..
Shinn, the former commissioner,
against Shinn.
| The railroad men of northern Colo
RADIO are making arrangements to
take up with the officials of the Cblo-
RADIO & Southern, Union Pacific and
other lines the question of their per-
sonal safety in the coal camps. Some
are now out of service because they
refused to endanger their lives and
haul troop trains.
Rainfall in Denver last month, to.
| falling 3.75 inches, was greater than in
| forty Of the last forty-three Aprils.
The only Aprils with greater pre-
cipitation were in 1885, when 4.94
inches was measured; in 1900, when
the total for the month was s.24
inches, and in 1905, when the meas
| urement was 4.95 inches. The aver.
age for April for forty-three years has
been only 2.17 inches, the excess in
the month just ended having been.1.5s
inches.
That developments in the Mexican
situation Indicate inevitable war with
the United States, is the opinion of
Alphonse P. Ardourel, representative
in the Nineteenth General Assembly,
who has just returned from the rebel
lion-stricken country to attend the ex-
ira legislative session. Conditions in
Mexico, he declares, are beyond the
control Of any of the factions. and
chaos exists everywhere. in the gen.
aral fa1rrnoil that nrayaila he con sid.