The Ordway new era., 1915-08-13


Aug. si-sept. 2.-orand Lodge. K. of p.
Sept. O-Ii.NFaii Festivai at FIagler.
Sept. 27.Oct. S.-Mssting international
Oct. z a-s'HFair sf%ins aSd GG'fns Raes Meeting x a.
Denver. Ht' .r
Suit for $1O,250 was filed by James
yer against the Victor-American Fuel
Company.
The county commissioners at Grand
Junction changed the date of the COM
ing drainage district election from
Aug. 10 to Aug. "a.
One. and probably two more grain
elevators, Will be erected in Sterling
at an early date. If plans now in con-
temptation are carried out.
Twenty-nine enlistments for service
in the United States navy during July
makes the report for the Denver sta
tion unusually large for midsummer.
Secretary of State John e. Ramer
rejected the petition to refer to the
general election in 1916 the medical
bill passed by the General Assembly
last winter.
A $25.000,000 contract for rifles will
be let among Denver's manufacturers.
provided local institutions can handle
such an enormous order according to
Charles Rohde.
Lillian May Matthews OF Denver, who
is suing John E. Matthews for divorce
and $4,000 alimony, must wait until
her suit is tried on Its merits before
she gets any alimony.
A full company of National guards
men for Canon City was practically
assured as the result OF a mass meet
ing held there. at which Governor
Carlson was the principal speaker
Mrs. Florence Hawkins of Lafayette,
Ind, has written Mayor w. H. Sharp
ley to ask help In finding her son.
Howard Mallory. who wrote her regu-
larly from Denver until one month
ago.
Work of remodeling the old federal
building will be begun the first of the
year, It was announced in Denver,
with the definite assurance that the
new building will be ready for occu-
pancy Nov. 1s.
Civil War and former editor OF the
Colorado Herold. a German newspaper
OF Denver. died at his hosle, 50+s
Tennyson street, of hardening OF the
arteries.
Colorado silver mines will be among
the first to benefit from purchases OF
j, ,125.0o0 ounces Of silver. which, ac-
cording to dispatches from Washing
ton. are being made by the United
States government.
United States Senator Charles s.
Thomas will go to Boston and Wash
ington. His visit East, the senator
explained. is on legal business only
and not due to any possibility OF
call OF Congress In extraordinary ses-
sion.
Seven and half million dollars
will be spent in this state during the
100 days of the tourist season. chiefly
by eastern visitors, according to fig
ures Just compiled, by Harry N Bur-
hans, secretary-treasurer of the Tour
ist Bureau of the Denver Convention
Association.
Reneging on his promise to marry
for the reason that he had but $4,000.
1t is alleged, Fritz Rethmeier, mer-
chant of Mesita. failed to keep his
promise to make Mrs. Alice. NJ. Redd
Of Denver his wife. and the latter has
filed suit in Costilla county for $lO,-
900 damages for breach of promise
At Cripple Creek employees of the
Portland Gold Mining and Milling
Company voted upon proposition to
provide system OF cooperative pro-
lection. which. It Is believed. will re-
suit in placing the hospital system OF
the Cripple Creek district on a par
with Nthat of mining camps such as
Butte and Calumet.
Should death end the spectacular
career of Richard Won Millar, who lies
at the Denver County hospital suffer-
ing with a fractured skull as a result
of his leap from the rear of fast
train as he was being brought back to
Denver prisoner. the news will
reach and stab the heart of Countess
Won Millar. his mother, in Berlin.
Germany.
Miss Irene Scotland, for some time
connected with various loan com.
panies of which ]. l.. Wyatt, under in.
dictment in Texas on the charge of
using the mails to defraud. is the head.
was given Judgment against Wyatt
Tor $50 by T. Denver Justice of the
peace. The judgment was for wages
and expenses incurred while running q
branch office In Chicago.
Within a short distance OF the ranch
house on the farm owned by Mrs
Charles Hallack, near Edgewater.
Julius Luond, 13 years old, was
drowned in a small lake.
Peter Ruddy, 33. Rock creek ranch
er. may die as the result OF injuries
received when his automobile and one
carrying Joe and Peter Gersick collid
ed head.on on the Santa Fe trail on st