The Ordway new era., 1914-01-30
WEEKS EVENTS
COLORADO


DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.
r: 9. Eiks at Denver.
Sept; 7.-coiorado State Fair at Pu-
1sIS-Last Grand Council OF North
American Indians at Denver.
Karl Johansson committed suicide
at Pueblo.
John Trevillion and Arthur Herberg.
Georgetown miners employed at the
Capital mine. fell GOO feet to instant
death.
There is said to be movement on
foot again to build an electric railroad
between Colorado Springs. Denver and
Pueblo. fs.ia.s a
A.. P. Anderson was elected presi.
dent of the railroad commission, and
s. 8. Kendall, secretary. This is the
first organization under the new law.
John wolfer. fifty-four, pioneer
ranchman, died at the University hos
pital in Boulder from injuries received
last summer on his ranch near Louis
vile.
Five thousand employees of the Cello
rado Fuel & Iron Company's steel
plant at Pueblo are to be vaccinated
because OF the discovery of one case
OF smallpox in one of the mills
Never before have there been as
many entries in the poultry exhibit at
the livestock show as this year. The
classes were well filled and many
showings OF high bred fowls made.
Governor Ammons was the guest OF
honor at the Denver horse chow Thurs
day. A record-breaking crowd filled
every seat in the stadium at the stock
yards. and packed the standing room
Luke Grant. special agent OF the re
cently-oreated federal commission on
Industrial relations, was In Denver tc
investigate strike conditions in the
coal fields Of southern Colorado.
Charles Obey OF Fort Collins. a pri
vate OF Company F., First regiment
Colorado National Guard, was acquit
ted at Trinidad Of the charge of muir
dering John German. strike breaker
A lead:silver mine in Mexico. the
product of which. for time. was util
lied by General Carranza's army fol
bullets, is part OF the estate left by
George r. Nelson of Kansas City and
Denver.
Miss cecil Desmond, twenty-five. .
steno9rapher was probably fatally in
jured when she fell from the second
floor to the basement In the elevator
shaft Of the Tabor Opera House bloch
in Denver.
Dan Williams was indicted for muir
der as result Of the grand jury in
vestigation at Central City Of the find
Ing Of the mummified bodies OF three
babies in tho attic OF , house in sBlael
Hawk. Sept. Is.
The fourth annual old-time cowboys
reunion in Denver was reminiscent Of
the days OF the trail blazers, heavy
with the smoke Of the chuck wagon
fire and filled with romantic tales Of
the early cowpuncher.
Either Gov. Hiram johnson Of Cali
fornia or ex-senator Albert Beveridgs
Of Indiana will be the speaker at the
Washington Day banquet Of the Pro
gressives Of the Western Slope to be
held in Grand Junction.
Buyers from Illinois, Iowa, Missouri
Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota and
other central and Middle Western
states were the principal bidders al
the auction sale of feeder cattle Al
the stock show in Denver.
The first prize winner among single
entry fat steers at the Denver Stock
Show, a shorthorn steer from the Colo
RADIO Agricultural College. weighed l..
060 pounds. and sold for $3.50 pei
hundred, or S2.25 per hundred better
than the champion carloads.
Alice Stanley, alias Alice Morgan. a
Roumanian gypsy, was arrested at Fort
Collins at the request of F. s. Wood
ruff. a Tulso. Okla. officer, who says
she belongs to the Stanley gang OF
gypsies arrested at Colorado Springs
to be taken back to Oklahoma
Thomas M. Howell, district deputy
of the order of Moose, returned to
Denver from visit to the lodges Of
the order in southern Colorado. He
states that the agricultural and metal
mining prospects are better than al
any time within his memory.
Brooding over financial reverses, the
loss of his-position as fireman for a
market company and the approaching
motherhood of his wife, John T. Tay-
lor. formerly of Denver and son of
Zachary M. Taylor of 2975 Chase
street. Denver, shot and killed his wife
and two stepchifdren, Homer, aged
five, and Jessie. aged two years and
then committed suicide.
In her will, which was filed for pro
bate in the County Court in Denver,
the late Mrs. Christina Evans left ST.
500 to her dog, Daisy" To each OF
her nephews and nieces she left $4,000
cash, only $500 more than she left for
the dog, which she placed in the care
OF friend. Mrs. Celia oster. At the
death of the dog the remainder will