The Ordway new era., 1915-03-26
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union news Service!
COMING EVENTS.
Sept. 27-oct. S.--AIeetlnE international
Dry Farming Congress at Denver

iyal In mining.
Boulder was selected for the 1910
meeting of the ID. A. r. (
The farmers institute ut Limon was
success In every way.
Leno, the twoyear-oid son of Mrs
Christina Zanpedre, widow, of Gu
ray, was horribly burned and died In
great agony.
The Denver police have been asked
to find Michael Bass. Fl, who disap
peared from his home In Toronto,
Canada. In September, 1911.
The home of Mr.. and Mrs. G. A.
Wright. residing on the old Long
place. California Mesa. two miles west
Of Delta, was destroyed by fire.
Mayor Thompson of Aurora has be-
gun n campaign to secure much
needed improvements on the Colfax
avenue road through that city to
Denver. t#
Mrs. Mary Alice McMann. 65. widow
Of Robert ii. McMann. former Denver
banker. died at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. John II. Thatcher In
Pueblo.
Judge II. McGarry of Colorado
Springs was formally chosen president
at meeting of the new directors OF
the, Ell Paso Consolidated Gold Mining
Company.
Ora Phillips. former chief Of the
Grand Junction Fire Department, con
victed OF running disorderly house
and sentenced to six months in the
county Jail. escaped from the jail.
The Denver. Boulder & Western
railroad has announced an increase oI
20 per cent In freight and passenger
rates on its line to Eldora and Ward
Tourist rates will not be affected.
s. N. Nye. 70. pioneer theatrica
man and manager of the opera house
at Colorado Springs from the time 1,
was built In the early sos until yeai
ago, died In his home In that city re
Gently.
John Knox, arrested five weeks age
for shooting Harry Millington,
neighbor at Stove Prairie, was fount
guilty Of assault to murder at For,
Collins after one of the speedlesi
trials on record.
General Carranza. leader OF one
the revolutionist factions in Mexico
has ordered the printing of more thar
S4.0D0.0O0 worth OF currency from
Denver company through his persona
representative. Salvador Catano.
An innovation in the shoe shinin,
business has taken its stand in Den
yer. and a modest sign, "Madsei
Shoe Shining Parlor." hanging abov,
the doorway Of shop at GIT Eigh
teenth street, Is the announcement
1t is operated entirely by girls.
A shawl ingeniously twisted into
rope and assembled like hangman'i
moose, was employed by Miss Maudt
Warner. pretty Aspen woman. in al
unsuccessful effort to end her life b,
strangulation in Denver. She wa,
found unconscious by Earl Gibson, al
Aspen man. with whom she had quar-
relied.
Charles r. McLain of Canon City
and Charles E. Herr Of Durango, mem
bers OF the state highway commission
may be removed from the board be
cause OF alleged activity against the
oohSAhoi mSdouieS "
board Of capitol managers and the
half-mill levy for the support Of the
board.
Leonard Imboden, who with ]. A
Hill served five years in the peniten
tiary at Canon City on the charge OF
wrecking the Denver Savings Bank,
mas returned to Denver with the In.
tention. 1t is declared. Of winding up
the business Of repaying the loss sus.
tanned by the depositors of that In.
stitution.
A strike which promises to parallel
in richness the famous discovery re.
Gently made in the Cresson mine at
Cripple Creek, was reported to have
been made In the Pro Patria tunnel,
two miles from Rico, on Newman hill.
vein Of ore running 10000 in gold
to the ton and showing width of
from eight to ten inches has been un.
covered, say reports from the district.
The following Colorado postmasters
have been appointed: Chivington, XII.
owa county, Mrs. Edith M. Cowles, to
succeed A. A. Austin, resigned: Yel-
low Jacket. Montezuma county, Mrs.
Matte Ia Banter to succeed c. w.
Marriott, resigned: commissions have
Just been issued to Orlando NJ White
at Matheson and lrma Taylor at Red
Mesa
Commenting the members of the
House OF Representatives for their
action in purging their membership.
the first time on record that ma.
jority has expelled member OF its
own party, Governor Carlson delivered
in person n message to the Twentieth
General Assembly and urged speedy
accomplishment of the pledges of the
Assembly and the administration.
The big Fourth Street viaduct span.
ming the Arkansas river and the Den
YER 4 Rio Grande and the Santa Fe
railroad tracks at Canon City, which