The Ordway new era., 1915-10-22
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

Inc Denver traue eNcuTSlOulsls
were entertained at Sterling.
Six persons were hurt in accidents
IN one day at Loveland.
The funeral OF Thos A. Cosgrlff.
wealthy Denver banker, was held Sat
lrday.
Forty.six homesteaders claimed
ands at the Pueblo office In one day.
breaking all records.
Mrs. Elizabeth Hennes, 81, of Gree
'ey, prominent in women's club cir
lies. died at Boulder.
The funeral of Father Michael P.
Casey of Pueblo was held from the
Cathedral of the Immaculate Concep-
Ion in Denver.
Walter r. Crippen, A, a native Of
Golden, died at the home OF his sister,
Mrs. o. N. Henry, in Denver after
protracted illness.
Stock raising is to be made practi-
cnl as well ls educational feature OF
.he Myron Stratton Home for the Poor
At Colorado Springs.
George Lyman, SO. veteran OF the
Civil War, who marched with Sher-
man to the sea. died at his home in
Denver after long illness.
William G. McAdoo, secretary of
the treasury, and his wife, daughter
Of. President Wilson's and a party of
five, were In Denver Saturday.
Mrs. Loula Lowell. president of the
Colorado Daughters of the Confeder-
acy, was unanimously reelected to
that office at the Denver meeting.
Between $4,000 and $4,000 was
stolen from the La Jara State Bank
when robbers blew the safe and es-
capped by a stolen horse and buggy.
The weekly luncheon of the Cham
Der of Commerce. Denver. was nota-
ble for brief but vigorous boost ad-
iress by Gov. Frank B. Willis of Ohio.
Negotiations looking toward the
purchase of the plant of the Denver
Union Water Company by the city and
county of Denver have been started.
W. B. and Coney c. Slaughter were
indicted on ninety-seven counts by
the federal grand jury for wrecking
the Mercantile National Bank at Pu.
sblo.
Securing enough labor for the farm
srs of the Greeley district Is becom-
ing serious problem. and just now
there Is decided shortage OF help of
all kinds.
A reception honoring Frank G..
Goudy, recently elected deputy grand
sire OF the sovereign grand lodge of
Odd Fellows. was given at Odd Eel
lows hall.
The old cattle from the 10000 acre
ranch of the Wooten Land & Develop
ment Company will be sold by George
W. Bowen. receiver. by permission of
Federal Judge Riner.
The two men under arrest at Ala
mosa charged with robbing the La
lara State bank, refuse to say one
word regarding that crime or about
themselves.
Prosperity week" Is to be cele.
brated the last day OF November and
the first few days Of December at the
Auditorium in Denver by an electric
show and Colorado home Industrial
exposition.
The high schools OF Canon City and
South Canon have been dismissed to
give the students an opportunity of
assisting the ranchers In gathering
their apple crop. which is one of the
largest in recent years.
Mrs. Daisy McLaurin Stevens. presi-
dent general, and sixty-five Daughters
Of the Confederacy were In Denver.
guests Of the local chapters. for day.
en- route to San Francisco for the gem
eral convention OF the organization.
]. C. Roberts, for several years Dem
yer representative OF the United
States Bureau of Mines, has resigned
to become the first professor of the
DR.. Joseph A. Holmes chair of safety
engineering at the Colorado State
School of Mines at Golden.
Swinging around half-circle 100
miles in length which took in parts
Of three counties-Logan, Phillips and
5edgwick-the Denver trade makers
excursion found rich fields of wheat,
great tracts of corn bending with
yrain-loaded ears just touched by
autumn frosts, alfalfa fields that gave
evidence of ample yield, and in occa-
sional instances promising young or.
chards, according to q Julesburg re-
port.
According to dispatch from Wash
ington, Mrs. L. e. Eberley, sister of
the late Admiral Fighting Bob" Ev-
ans, has inherited fortune left by
her sister, the late Mrs. James Steven
son. of Washington, D. c. Although
Mrs. Eberley was apprised some time
ago that her sister had willed her es.
tate to her, three other sisters have
been contesting the will and the Den
yer woman doubts If the estate will
yield her a fortune"
Mother Pancratia, founder and head
of the Loretto Heights academy, died
at st. Joseph's hospital in Denver as