The Ordway new era., 1914-01-09
STATE NEWS
or INTEREST TO ALL
G q 1 O r A . o
PEOPLE
N.-.pap.r Union New. Service.

Jan. io.-Farmers' Short Course at Fl.
A..n al coiersdas sprinss @ u
Jan. l5:--Annual Meeting Colo. Farm
srs, Congress al Agricultural Col
Jan. IS-is.-Meeting Mountain Division
Colorado. to, the-Gulf Highway Asso-
Jan; l7.-Meeting Colorado Association
OF Commercial Executives at Colo
| Jan. so-xnnual banquet Colorado
5aS nef ss@sa;ionsi sSi'e'S &e.,efa a stoct
July is.it.DGrani Lodge Session. b.
+. O. Elks at Denver. 49,
Sept, colorado State Fair At Pu-
1si5.-Last Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver
More than 81 900 900 was expended
for public improvements in Denver in
1913.
Denver will lose thirty-five saloons.
according to the estimate of Deputy
Excise Commissioner Graves. in 1914.
Grand Junction Elks gave turkey
banquet New Years for 300 poor
children at their newly dedicated
home.
Lafayette Wiles. fifty-five years old,
died in Longmont from starvation. a
means which he adopted for ending
his life.
The receipts from all sources at
the Colorado Springs postoffice for
the year 1918 total $3,399.74 more than
In 1912.
Denver's first resident brought by
the stork in 1914 is an eight-pound
Japanese baby boy. the son of Mr.. and
Mrs. kakurota Hada.
The farmers short course. which is
given every winter by the State Agri-
cultural college. will be held during
the week beginning Monday. Jan. II.
Mrs. John NJ. Graham OF Denver
cousin of President Woodrow Wilson.
incurred broken ankle and other
minor injuries from fall on an Icy
sidewalk
Mrs. Ada Longs life was saved by
her son at Fort Collins when she faint
ell and fell face downward on a hot
kitchen stove. Mrs. Long, who Is six
ty-two. was severely burned.
Colorado in moving pictures and
slides will he presented as never be-
fore at the state Industrial exhibit to
be made at the Chamber OF Commerce
In Denvetr during stock show week,
Jan. 10 to "a.
The United States mint in Denver.
the most modern and best equipped
in the country, in all probability will
figure as an important factor in
bringing one of the federal reserve
banks to Denver.
Extraordinary preparations are be-
ing made by Western railroads to
handle the. crowds that will copeA3e
Denver for the ninth annual National
Western Stock show to be held in
Denver Jan 10 to "a.
Charles Lake, sixty years old. q
former locomotive engineer. who is
said to have run the first passenger
way. was found dead in an old skating
rink building at Victor.
In letter received by Deputy Coro-
ner Bostwick Of Denver, Mrs. Laura
]. Bone. mother Of Mrs. Loula Edler,
who killed Frank Gregory in the Rial
to hotel and then committed suicide.
asks for details of the tragedy.
1t was announced at Fruita that
the Denver & Rio Grande would start
work on new $4,000 depot at once.
The OLD frame station burned about
six months ago. and since then the
road has been using small shed for
station.
Albert L. Haskin, 4375 Benton street,
Berkeley, was found dead In his home
by his wife when she returned from
downtown. She had left him with the
children, but the Oldest boy was sick
and unable to go for doctor fer his
father.
A thorough search of Pueblo con-
Quoted by the parents OF the girl, has
indicated that Mrs. Helen Stoddard
Gottlieb and her husband, with whom
she fled. have left the city and are
| speeding to New York, the home of the
yiolinist bridegroom.
Greeley's death rate for the year
1913 was IL per cent, while her birth
rate was but 65e per cent. based ON a
population of 5000 for the city, ac-
| ccrding to reports from the office Of
City Clerk Hotchkiss. There were
sixty-one births and ia deaths.
The woman known in Denver as
| Mrs. Lulu Elder, who shot and killed
Frank 8. Gregory in a hotel in Denver
and then sent bullet through her
| own brain, was really Mrs. Lola Pack
EFT, heiress to $4,000. the existence Of
which she did not know, according to
attorneys and friends at Las Animas
| With TOO birds that were said to be
twenty-five per cent better in quality
than ever before shown at a poultry
show In Greeley A. A. Peters of Den.
yer Won the $50 gold medal offered
by the American Poultry Association
for the best bird OF any breed on ex-
kitition by member of the associa-
| ton with his White Rock cOckore1