The Ordway new era., 1914-04-03
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Newspaper Union News Service

DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.
April 9.-General Irrigation Conference
May is-iiGstate Council of Junior Or
rado Springs.
July 13-l4.-Grand Lodge Session. y
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1si5@Ins, Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver.
The labor unions Of Colorado are op-
posed to the incorporation of unions.
Louis Smell. eighteen years old. is In
Jail at Colorado Springs facing a
charge OF assault with intent to muir
der his father.
The State Industrial School and the
East Denver High School baseball
teams split even In a practice game
double header at Golden.
The City Council has ordered the
chief of police to serve notice on all
undesirable women that they must
leave Rocky Ford at once.
Governor Ammons has named w. H.
Kistler, Mrs. Katherine Williamson
and Mrs. Hattie E. Slothower as mem
bers OF the State Wage Board.
William Booth. seventy. who had
been employed as a mine watchman.
was found dead in his cabin in Cripple
Creek. Death was due to apoplexy.
In the Court of Justice of the Peace
George l.. Seitz at Pueblo LIE Roy l..
Mansell of Denver pleaded not guilty
to a charge of abducting Miss Lucinda
Etter eighteen Of Denver
Steps for going ahead with the i'm
provements at the Denver Union de-
pot have at last been taken. This
means the expenditure at an early
date Of $4,00O,00O in Denver.
Eight of the twelve governors com
posing the Western Association OF
Governors have definitely accepted
the invitation of Governor Ammons to
attend the irrigation conference April
and 8.
Archibald J. Van Doren. pioneer
,of Colorado. and one OF the best known
mining men In the state, died at his
home in Denver. Van Doren came
to Denver In 1859 and located in Cen
trail City.
Seven strikers, driven away from
the Forbes tent colony recently, are
charged with the murder Of Neil
Smith, non-union miner, informa-
tion was filed and bail Of ten thou
sand fixed In each case. They all went
to jail. aI
The Denver Chamber OF Commerce
notified all architects in the state OF
the opening Of competition In plans
Tor, the Colorado building at the Pana-
ma-Pacific exposition. to be con-
structed at an approximate cost OF
$4,000.
Thousands of tourists will be al
lowed to stop over in Denver and Colo
RADIO on their way to and from the
Panama Pacific Exposition under a
ruling On passenger rates made at San
francisco by the Transcontinental
Passenger Association.
The CastIewood Irrigation district.
one of the largest and most fertile OF
the irrigation properties surrounding
Denver. will be completely refinanced
and enlarged along broad lines. ac-
eording to plans announced by Of
ficers Of the district.
Governor J. F. A. Strong OF Alaska
will attend the meeting of the West
ern governors in Denver April and
and the irrigation conference which
will be held here April 9. 10 and IL,
according to letter received from
him by Governor Ammons.
Hurled under an engine when the
automobile in which she was riding
was struck by freight train, Mrs. lie.
,ntine Marion Scherrer Of Denver,
wife OF Jacob scherrer. former Colo
RADIO cattle king, and member Of one
Of the oldest families in Denver, was
killed at San Pedro, Calf.
Full restitution of the $4,000 short
age charged against w. G. Good, agent
for tire manufacturing company OF
Akron. O., who disappeared from Den
yer several weeks ago, has been made
cution by the company has been
dropped and the warrant charging him
with embezzlement withdrawn.
The executive committee of the Dem
yer Business Mems Association re-
piled to the refusal Of the Mountain
States Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany to accept its rate ultimatum by
voting to initiate Immediately the or
dinance which, II carried. will give the
city substantially the telephone tolls
set forth in the original Brown tele-
phone bill.
Mary Jane Pease, the two weeks old
baby found on the doorstep Of George
w. Gano's residence in Denver last
week, was taken in charge by her
grandfather, Frank B. Smith. of Cen.
trail City, Neb. He took the infant
home to the parents. who had aban-
doned her. His daughter and her hus.
band are now anxious to secure the