The Ordway new era., 1915-07-23
STATE NEWS
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COMING EVENTS.
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COMING EVENTS.
Aug. 12-14.-Frontier Days and Wild
West Features at Grand Junction.
Aug. 13.--Pickle Day Mt Plattevilie:
Aug. 81 Sept. 2.--Grand Lodge. K Of r..
Any a. GSio5ado E ESp5ink., k,,v., :, r,.x,.-
sept. 77-Oct. 8-MsetinE International
Dry Farming Congress At Denver
ocf. 2-s.-Fair and Race Meeting AT
The Denver Elks' drill team won
irst prize at Los Angeles.
Moses Hoover has been named wa
:er commissioner to succeed James
". Platt In the Boulder district.
The sheep owners in Colorado will
.ealize upwards Of $1.000,0O0 in In
,reased prices for wool on account OF
he European war
The State Supreme Court must de,
eide the legality of the referendum Pc
tition ON the prohibition-pepalty bill
passed by the last Legislature
Judge Rothgerber Of Denver al
owed claim Of 500 by J. ]. O'Brien
against the estate of the late Mrs. e.
en- McClelland of Denver.
While attending to his extensive
gypsum ore deposits in Utah. Edward
B. Priest Of Denver received news
hat he was sole heir to a 100000
estate In Canada.
According to word from Glenwood
Springs, Frank La Vote OF Grand
Junction. committed suicide by leap
ing from the railing Of the viaduct
bridge over the Grand River at Glen
wood.
Chief of Police Glenn s. Duffield oi
Denver issued an order to the cap
tains Of police, instructing them to
close every place Of commercialized
vice In the city within forty-eight
hours. .E
The Denver Trades and Labor As
sembly voted to send three delegates
10 the convention Of the State Fedora
tion Of Labor. II 1t is held in Denver.
and two delegates. II 1t is held in
Salida. -.
While other counties were rushed
with suits as, the old divorce law was
expiring and the six months statute
going into effect. only one case was
filed in the County Court at Colorado
Springs. % b
That the cost Of compensation in.
curance to the operators will add at
least 25 cents per ton to the cost Of
coal to the consumer next winter il
the prediction made by Colorado
Springs coal producers.
The United states War Department
has granted the Colorado Nationa'
Guard sixty days in which to meet
conditions which will allow the state
to retain the valuable field guns ane
equipment rufiished guard Batteries
A and B.
Sometime during the week begin.
ming Oct. 81 Col. James G. Bulger
must go to the gallots in the death
house at Canon City and there for
felt his life for the staying Of Lloyd
F. Nicodemus at the Savoy hotel on
May Z, 1914.
Denver is to become the center o.
a new and untried industry In tn
United States. consisting OF refinery
for Transforming coal into valuable
and useful biproducts. including
cheap substitute for gasoline and prob
ably new high explosive.
In the trial of jefferson A. Whit
man, q former negro policeman O.,
Denver, on the charge of marrying
last May, white woman contrary te
the statutes Of Colorado, Magistrate
Rice thinks there has been uncovered
secret organization whose purpose
is the alleged settlement of the race
problem by the intermarriage of the
races.
Ruling that the age OF persons con
tracing a marriage Is not material &c
long as they are competent under tht
common law to contract such mar
riage. Justice Of the Peace Henry
Bray OF Denver discharged James ]
Cannon on the charge OF perjury pre-
ferred against him for making affida
Wit when securing a marriage license
that Miss Esker Frank, 16 years old
was more than Is years old.
John R. Lawson OF the International
board Of United Mine Workers OF
America, convicted on May 3 of the
murder Of Deputy Sheriff John MIN
mo near Ludlow on Oct. 90. 1913, was
denied a new trial by Judge CRANKY
Hillyer In the District Court at Trini.
dad. The labor leader was forthwith
sentenced to imprisonment at hard la.
Dor for life in the state penitentiary.
Secretary Callbreath has sent out
the official call for the annual ses.
ri0p ~ tho Ap,orIrap Ngfpfuu Coo-s
sress, which held its first interna.
tional meeting in Denver at the
broadway theatre in 1897. when the
silver question was rampant at 16 to
/. Professor Kirby's article on con.
centration--at that time new-in Colo
rado-was the feature Of the 1897
session. This years meeting Is
called in San Francisco beginning
Sept. 20. H,,'