The Ordway new era., 1915-08-20
COLORADO
STATE NEW S
wo.tern Newspaper Union New, Service.
COMING EVENTS.

Aug. ~ Sept. s--0rand Lodge. X. of p.
Aug .S Ssi-sep,; a.-Mclon Festival at
sept. iG.Ii. Fall Festival at Flaglcr..
sept. MORGAN County Frontier
Sept. sI.oc, s-M..t,nr international
oct s'"raips is%irs and S'fns.; R.es Meeting II a.
Oct. is..odd Fellows Animal state
salida Is planning a chautauqua
meeting for 1916.
Plattevilles Pickle Day celebration
was a success.
Thirteen couples were divorced in
Denver on Friday. the 18th.
La Porte avenue In Fort Collins Is
o be paved at cost OF $5,525.95.
John Moore. &c, dropped dead at his
home. three miles east OF Grand juno
tion OF heart failure.
Albert Brewster. a prominent min
ng man OF Cripple Creek. died in Dem
yer following a nervous collapse.
Waunita held four.day celebration
when It's new buildings were dedicated
by the Gunnison Chamber OF Com
|
merce.
Fred Peterson. 53 years old. was
iound dead on the pavement within
\ block OF his home at Pueblo by u
lewsboy.
Miss Eta Thomas, %, daughter oi
Charles Thomas. residing west of Fort
Collins, has disappeared. 1t Is believed
she has eloped.
The total school population Of Boul-
Ter county this year is S,623. as
,gainst $3.50 in 1914, s.O44 in 1918
and S,40s In 1912.
News of the marriage Of Charles j.
Clayton. millionaire stockman OF Den.
yer, and Mrs. Lillian Beck McManus
was received in Denver.
Harry Martin. who was injured In
III accident at the Cokedale mine at
Trinidad. died at the San Rafael hos
pital from his injuries. He was 43
years old and leaves . mother and
two brothers in Wales. ~
Smashing plate glass window with
brick. two robbers looted the win
| dow of the jewelry and curio store
conducted at All Seventeenth street
Denver The men escaped with $500
worth of jewelry in sack.
The United States Civil Service
Commission announces that an exam
nation for the position of forest and
iield clerk to fill vacancies in the for
est service and other services will be
held in Denver on Sept. IL.
AT Fort Collins the. city commits
sioners donated to the racing associa-
tion the use of Prospect park during
the last week in August, when the
race meet will be held. and Lamb Day
will be celebrated Aug. 26.
John r. Davidson. secretary of the
State Auditing Board and the State
Board Of Equalization. submitted his
resignation at meeting of the first
named body. A. B. McGaffey was ap
pointed to succeed him Sept. /.
Preparations have been completed
for the Morgan county Frontier days
and harvest festival to be held Sept.
"a. Is. 16 and II. The program CON
tains twenty-five events each day and
$4,000 will be awarded in prizes.
Walter w. Davis. general manager
OF the Yak Mining, Milling and Tunne
Company. the largest operating con
cern in the LeadvilIe district, has JUS
concluded 100000 bond and lease
on the Alladin group of claims in tht
s.x-metal camp.
Crushed to death beneath the
wreck of his automobile, Homer H.
Hagan. former Grand Junction man,
who married Miss Lottie Hibbs sew.
eral years ago, was a victim of an un
safe bridge on the road from Glen
wood Springs south towards Carbon
dale, on road not much used.
To evade recent order of the STATE
Public Utilities Commission that rail
roads must provide seats for all pas
ride free OF charge in Pullman cars
several roads have issued orders t.
conductors not to take more passen
gers than can be seated. ~
George Lord, who with George AS
mussen, posed as one of the "twiI
bandits and held up six persons OF
Capitol hill and In East Denver befor,
his career as an outlaw was termi
mated by Patrolman Cook, was sen
fenced to from seven to ten years il
the state penitentiary by Judge PER-,
in the West Side Criminal Court IL
Denver
The latest railroad story comes
from Telluride. and is to the effect
that party started from there for
Placerville and thence down the
| Miguel cahon to Paradox, thence
down the Dolores to Grand Junction.
They are to look over the ground and
make a reconnaissance for a standard
gauge line from Piacerville to White
water.
| Four inches of the shinbone of the
right leg. transplanted to his spine. re-
| nlacinR q niece of euual size thaf had