The Ordway new era., 1914-03-13
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DATES ron COMING EVENTS.
July 13.lA.-Grand Lodge Session.
april s.-Generai Irrigation Conference
Sept, TGcoiorado State Fair at Pu-
lsis.-Last Grand Council of North
american Indians at Denver
Capt. r. A. Kincaid was elected ex-
alted ruler of the Denver lodge OF
Eiks at the annual election
Governor Ammons attended the
farmers institute at Hugo. The use
of silos was one of the principal mat
tiers considered.
| The date for the spring meeting OF
the State Association of County Super.
intendents of schools will probably be
fixed for April Is by President ]. II.
Schneider.
Stanley D. Burno. for the past three
years chief OF police of Colorado
Springs. has resigned to take the
management OF large ranch at
kremmling.
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Press club. consisting of a suite of ten
rooms in the Denham Theater build,
ing. Formally were opened with
house warming.
Within twelve hours after P. J.
Reiner, twenty-one years old. had en-
tered and robbed a general merchan-
disc store at Brighton. he was arrested.
tried and convicted and sentenced.
The Oldest man in the West and one
Of the Oldest men in the world is dead
in Denver William Taylor. los years
Civil wars, died at his home, 1165
Downing street.
| William II. Harris. newspaper COR
| respondent and police magistrate OF
Cripple Creek. was elected chairman
| of the Democratic county central COM
mittee. to succeed Postmaster Huse
Taylor. resigned.
Charges that union men tried to an
noy the miLe guards in the coal fields
were made at the congressional hear
| ing at the capitol by Arthur Langow-
ski. young miner who was In the
Ludlow tent colony.
Burglars who used a truck to haul
away $1,000 worth of loot at Pueblo.
| raided the general store of J. ". Heath
& Co, at Stone City, eighteen miles
| from Pueblo. At least two big truck
loads OF plunder was secured.
The release Of c. J. Darris and VIII
liam Jones who are accused of the
murder Of Noah Beeghley at Superior.
was ordered by District Judge Robert
g. Strong OF Boulder upon the furnish
ing Of bonds. $4,000 for Darris and S.
600 for Jones' =,
}--The annual report OF. the Califofnh
Wine Growers Association shows.
earnings Of over $500. 900 last year.
Colorado has great tracts suitable for
vineyards. and the report should en-
courage farmers to start the industry
\ In this state.
| A Denver-Greeley passenger train
left the Union depot in Denver over
the Colorado & Southern railroad.
drawn by the first standard guage oil
Burning engine ever sent out of the
Denver yards The engine formerly
burned coal and was converted into an
oil burner at the Denver shops.
Daniel D. Ferguson. one Of the best
known and wealthiest pioneer cattle
men of the White River valley, died in
Los Angeles, Cal. of heart trouble
Ferguson came to Meeker about TWEEN
ty-eight years ago and located at what
Is now known as Thornburg. The
body will be brought to Craig for In
terment.
The right of the State Tax Commis-
sion to order an increase in the assess
| ment Of the different counties of Colo
RADIO will be decided by the Supreme
| Court of the United States. The case
brought by the Bi-Metallic Investment
Company against the State Board of
Equalization will be appealed to the
highest court of the land.
That Morris Williams, well-to-do
ranchman of Watervale, was murdered
on his ranch, sixty miles east of Trini-
dad, on or about Feb. Is and his body
was dragged on sled over the snow
drifts to canon three miles east of
there, where it was thrown over a
cliff, and then taken to cave and
burned, are the developments of the
Investigation made by Coroner B. B.
Sipe
Is Montrose to become the center
OF mining excitement? is the cues
ton asked by many. Recently there
has been constant stream of people
going to and from the new gold dis.
coyery in Happy canon, seven miles
west Of Montrose. For three months
l. W. Hotel has been working on
gold claim that he discovered there
and from time to time has had ASSAYS
showing rich in the precious metal
One OF these assays ran $4,000. De-
! hoc