The Ordway new era., 1915-06-18


Rocky Ford is to have new $685.
900 school building.
The south wing OF the new Denver
lnion depot will be opened to the pub
lie June 81.
Colorado Day, Aug. l, will be OBJ
served on a bigger and broader plan
han ever before.
Five hundred and eighty-four pupils
graduated from Denver's high schools
with appropriate exercises.
]. B. McKennan has been named
general manager of the c. F. & !. co.
with headquarters at Pueblo.
Sterling and Logan county had the
most severe hail storm Thursday that
has visited that section in years.
Ground will be broken in few days
for the new state oil laboratory at the
University of Colorado at Boulder.
La Junta welcomed 1000 visitors at
the state G. A. r. encampment on the
fiftieth anniversary OF the wars end.
Five buffaloes were transported
from the Denver City park to the new
pens on Genesee mountain, in the
mountain parks. s.
At meeting of the State Auditing
Board the State Industrial Commits
sion was authorized to employ an actu-
ary at salary Of $1,000.
]. U. Vigil, for the past two years
postmaster of Trinidad, and for more
than twenty-five years a leader OF the
Democratic party in Las Animas coun.
ty. died OF pneumonia.
Gov. Carlson and District Judges
CRANKY Hillyer and A. w. McHendrie
were the guests Of honor at the annual
banquet OF the Las Animas County Bar
Assoc eiation at Trinidad.
The discovery of what is believed to
be platinum in ore taken from the
Sueno de Orc mine in the La Platas,
has aroused intense interest among
mining men at Durango.
Mrs. Alice Harrison Of Denver has
passed the century mark in years and,
while she is OF an optimistic turn of
mind. she told friends that she lived
lust twenty years too long.
Government lands amounting to
800 acres originally Withdrawn from
entry on account of reservoir site, are
now subject to settlement. The land
is located in Las Animas county.
Leslie E. Hubbard, state inheri-
tance tax appraiser. has begun action
TO obtain an Inheritance tax upon the
estate of Ashton Potter, Colorado
Springs society leader, who died last
August.
Delay in the cutting of the first
crop of alfalfa and the planting OF
corn in many parts OF the state was
the result of the cold. wet spell last
week. according to the United States
weather and crop report for Colorado.
An effort will be made by the Civil
Service Reform Association of Den
yer to refer the civil service bill
passed by the Twentieth General As
sembly, which. unless tied up in
court, will 60 into effect July 10.
Nine hours constituted the period of
Jury deliberation which resulted in the
acquittal OF Mrs. Berta Wright in the
West Side Court in Denver on a
charge of having deliberately slain her
husband. John A. Wright. on April IS.
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Discouraged and despondent be-
cause his wife would not become re-
conciled to him after five months
separation, Kenneth NJ. Hegg. twenty
two, killed himself by swallowing
cyanide in his wife's apartment in
Den:er.
Joseph W. Boyd. wealthy mining
man and banker took the stand in de-
fense OF Nello May Boyd to set aside
the decree of divorce obtained by
Boyd at Littleton Sept. Z. 1911. Mrs.
Boyd charges that her signature was
forged to the acceptance of the sum
mons and waiver of appearance al
the trial of the divorce case.
The Craftsmanship OF the board OF
engineers in charge of work on the new
addition of the Denver Union station,
left vacant by Nthe death of H. w.
Cowan. viii be filled by Cowan's life
time friend. ], G. Gwyn, chief engineer
Of the Denver & Rio Grande railroad.
Eighty-five prominent business men
of the Trinidad Chamber of Commerce
met for the first time since the strike
in booster session ito get their feet
| under the table and try to harmonic
all factions in the booster spirit and
to forget the past" according to Pres
fdent A. L. Branson Of the chamber.