The Ordway new era., 1915-12-17
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
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DATES tOR COMING EVENTS.

Jan. 3-10-SiNtcenth annual show OF
Colorado Poultry Fanciors' Associa-
ian. i7-io.-M Meeting colorado Retail
Gr"ccrs' and Butchers Association
Ian. 16-.a. Western Live Stock Show
at Denver.
Aiarch 90 April &C Colorano Hraaii
Merchants Associations Food ana
Industrial Exposition ut Denver.
The Fort Collins milk condensary
is In operation. .E
The new elevator at Craig is N
running order.
National Prohibition Day was OBJ
served Sunday.
The secretary of state has received
1000 tags for autos for 1916.
Harry c. Davis was elected presi-
The bandit wko robbed the Manitou
bank of $4,000 seems to have made
good his escape.
Denver business men have gnarah.
teed 10000 for the Western Stock
Show in January
Over 100000 acres of Colorado land
has been designated as being under
the 320-acre homestead law.
The tenth annual convention of the
Delta County Livestock Association
will be held in Delta Dec. 80.
BY VIII drawn three years ago,
Mrs. w. II. Dickens was given the en-
tire fortune of the murdered Long.
mont banker.
Oscar Cooks appeal for rehearing
was denied by the Supreme Court,
and he is to be executed during the
week of Feb, .
Orchard Park Baptist church folks
at Pueblo are to be prohibited from
selling or giving away intoxicating
liquors OH the church site"
: Francis F. Roberts. once widely
known as an inventor and railroad
builder, died at the home of his daugh
ter in Denver, at the age of 81.
The body of Charles Anderson. 81
years old. prospector of the early
days, was found at the bottom OF
200-foot precipice three miles from
Ouray
Frank b. Ahrold, who committed
and dangerously wounding Mrs. C G.
Grenshaw. leaves wife and three
children in Denver.
A man named Owen. In jail at
Bisbec. Ariz.. is charged with being
the man who killed Editor Robert G.
Mitchell. OF Walsenburg, last Septem.
ber.
Informations were filed in the Dis
trict Court at Boulder by District At
torney w. Il. Fleming formally charg
ing Renzie Dickens with the murder
OF his father. w. Fl. Dickens. at Long
mont, Nov. 80.
Rabbits OF all sizes and descrip.
tions, numbering 700. were distribut-
ed to the poor in Denver from the
Salvation Army hall The gifts were
presented to Lieut.. Col. J. w. Cousins
by George A. Pughe of Craig.
Occupancy of Denver's new federal
building by the Postoffice Department
and many other branches of the gov.
ernment by Jan. has been assured
the officials, according to an an.
nouncement made from Washington.
Oscar Cook, sentenced to death for
the murdero of Patrolman William Nc
Pherson and A. J. Lloyd in Valverde
saloon four years ago, was taken from
the Denver county jail to Canon City.
Execution has been set for some time
in the week OF Feb. 20.
Thomas B. Stearns, president of
the Denver Chamber of Commerce,
Ian hot T.,
has received he was firmly of the
opinion that munitions plant and
an army training school would be
authorized by congress and that Colo
RADIO will get them both.
The double escape from death oil
William C. Ramsey OF Fairview ranch
who was taken to Denver and placed
in hospital, is the most remarkable
adventure that has been reported SC
far from the mountains this winter
Both of Ramsey's feet were frozen
and while he was crawling along
trail after the accident he was mis-
taken by friend for a bear and came
near being shot.
The marital status of Mrs. Caroline
Palmer Travis Davis. who is 12 years
old, was finally fixed by Judge PEI ~
of the District Court in Denver by
the granting of a decree annuling the
marriage OF Mrs. Davis to Henry r.
Travis, which took place at Ironton,
Wis. in 1865. Mrs. Davis had thought
that Travis vas dead for nearly fifty
years. had remarked again, been di-
rorced. and then suddenly discovered
that Travis wes still living.
Paris Hargis. postmaster at Harsis-
Vile, Colo. and his wife, Nora Hargis,
were found not guilty by the jury in
the Federal District Court in Denver
Hargis was charged with embezzle-
ment and his wife with opening mail
matter addressed to other people.