The Ordway new era., 1915-03-05

| Rocky Ford has organized gun
club. a. ,s-.-.s s...-. luf.
A farmers institute will be held at
GunnisOn March 1917.
A swine growers association has
been formed at Hotchkiss.
The council OF the town Of GunnIson
has purchased $50 feet OF new fire
hose.
Many Denver business men paid a
| visit to the Cripple Creek mines last
| week. f rEH0w
Racing Will be one of the main at
fractions at the Larimer County Fair
| this year.
Fourteen fouble cars of fat lambs
were shipped from the three towns of
Ramah. Matrison and Rosolis.
The Bartholomew Lumber Com.
pany's mill on Cro1ho lake, near Oak
Creek, was badly damaged by fire. Z
Word was received in Denver OF
the death of Oscar Mayo, former dean
Of music of Denver university. at
Modesto, Cal.
The home OF Ernest McPeak, near
the Lafayette School House, was
visited by fire and some damage was
done to the interior OF the house.
AS part Of an extensive campaign
against hiRhgrading, two miners and
three assayers were arrested ut Grip.
pie Creek under highsrading charges.
President Wilson sent the name of
Samuel j. Burris to the United States
Senate for confirmation rs United
States marshal for the Colorado dis
trict.
A motor parade through Denver's
mountain parks will be held by the
members of the Denver Motor Club
and other owners OF automobiles on
March Z. . 49,.
Fifty dollars and costs was the
price which Elmer L. Watson of Den
yer paid in Police Court for the
privilege tf striking his wife on the
head.
The Social Order of the Beauceant.
an organi alton Of the wives OF the
Knights Iemplar. celebrated its twenty.
fifth anniversary at the Masonic
temple, il Denver.
one of thu. old original families of Sag
uache county, died at her home in
Saguachs after lingering Illness Of
several months duration.
James Adamson. the thrce-year-old
son OF Bar. and Mrs. Quincy Adamson
Of Denver. fell into tub Of boiling
water while playing In the kitchen.
and Nal hnd1v acaldad
The funeral of William P. Rice, who
was accidentally killed at tho plant
Of tke Arizona Copper Company. at
Clifton. Ariz.. was held in the lodge
room OF Ouray Lodge, No. 1872, b. p.
o. Il.
Recently thirty-five relatives and
friends gathered at the home of
Gee: Sc Clark near Midway to cele
brute the fiftieth anniversary of the
wedding OF his parents. Mr.. and Mrs
I Clsgk.
T. deserted frame shack in Colorado
Cit7. known as the first meeting place
OF Colorado's territorial Legislature In
Gill war days. caught fire recently
AID was badly charred before the
fl,mes were extinsuished.
Not only the Upper but also the
tipped Is liable, on conviction. to a $40
fine or thirty days in jail or both,
rI,der the bill by Representative Har-
ris of Denver, which is now on the
souse calendar for final passage.
The receipt Of q draft of $5O4, pay
aole to the city Of Leadville, from the
National Surety Company. for the de-
fscit OF the late city treasurer, Mrs
Olive Cation, ends the litigation be-
tween the city and the bonding com.
Tany.
A sequel to the recent International
I.roxy wedding in Denver which united
Miss Eugene Campbell OF Colorado
Springs and Pietcr Won Scholten OF
Holland. was completed in the elope-
nient and midnight marriage of Miss
Eleanor McFall. Miss Campbell's maid
OF honor, and William Bostic, motion
picture producer Of Salt Lake City.
Speaker Stewart Of the House sug
eested new legislative methods in an
address to the Colorado College men
at a dinner given in Cosset hall in
Colorado. Springs. He recommended a
system whereby the session is split
and bills can be introduced during the
period of adjournment. in order that
members may digest them before the
body reconvenes for action.
At Sterling a woman overheard O
week ago the conversation which re
suited in the robbery of the Farmers
State bank at Haxtun Thursday and
the killing of Assistant Cashier John
Brunke, according to District Attorney
Van Bradt's statement. She thought
1t was joke and never reported 1t to
anyone, Van Bradt says, until the
tragedy had become grim reality.
William Crass nnnhaw nf the late