The Ordway new era., 1915-03-19
STATE NEWS
OF INTEREST TO ALL
G, % L o r A D o
PEOPLE
ws.tarn Newspaper Union :vew. service.


The Hecla mine case at Boulder has
been set for March 19.
Warwick M. Downing is now presi-
dent Of the Ell Paso Consolidated Gold
Mining Company.
Sabin's tax rebat;ng bill was killed
on second reading in the lower House
OF the Legislature.
Colorado University OF Boulder took
four firsts in the annual indoor track
meet held In Denver.
IN the Senate the bill abolishins
the board OF capitol managers was
killed by vote Of 10 to IA.
An estate valued at 100000 was
left by the late Lloyd P. Appelman,
Denver insurance and loan man.
A committee of Denver Germans
raised over $4,000 for the relief Of the
widows and orphans of German SOL
diers who have fallen in the European
wax.
In suit in equity. filed In the Uni
ted States District Court In Denver.
the government seeks to recover the
title to 800 acres of coal land In
Routt county. valued at 100000.
Olney springs water. which was
p!ped into ordway about two years
ago. is to be piped over the city, as
many property owners are desirous OF
putting 1t into their residences for
domestic use.
1t is now proposed by a certain
group to SO modify the charter of
Colorado Springs that commissioner
for the city will not have to give air
his time to the position but may en-
gage in other business.
The basketball team of Colorado
College won its first game from the
University of Colorado team in Boul-
der. The score was 80 to 81 and the
game was closely contested. This
game ended the season for the uni
versity.
John Kendrick Bangs, the noted
author and humorist, will be the
speaker before a meeting of the
Winter Night Club to be held at Colo
RADIO Springs on the evening of March
26. He will lecture on "Salubrities 1
Have Met"
Five-acre summer homesteads in
Colorado available for periods of thirty
years may be procured from the secre-
tary of agriculture as the result of SEN
ator John F. Shafroth's amendment to
the agricultural appropriation bill re-
Gently passed by both branches Of Con-
gress. -u' $50 is+f
Mrs. Margaret Berwick Anderson,
eighty-five years old, resident Of
Colorado since 1881, prominent in the
relief wo<k in che ACiyil war, and
organizer of several relief corps OF
the g. A. R. In Colorado, died at the
home OF her daughter, Mrs. Orin s.
Moore, in Denver. T
With recent development on the
famous Little Jonny." which has paid
$15.000,000 In dividends, the trend OF
the ore shoot in southwesterly di
rection shows that 1t will pass through
the Antioch territory. and Leadville
men who have lease on this ground
will shortly start to drive directly to-
wards the ore shoot.
Members of the Twentieth General
Assembly were presented with a num-
Der Of pointed suggestions in the
enactment of laws as guests of the
Elks' Club in Denver. 1t was "a spe-
cial session Of the Legislature" frolic
Of the Elks, in which number OF
tricks of the profession" were ex.
posed and Recommendations of mo-
ment offered.
Now that flotation has displaced
cyanide at the center of the metallur-
exip OF for. ntyfn
per cent of the metallic values in mill
tailings, dump material and low-grade
ores where but 40 to co per cent have
been saved by other methods 1T is
proper and timely to call attention to
the fact that this simple, useful and
growing invention is credited to
Denver school teacher, Miss Carrie ].
Everson.
Colorado is the nations Mountain
State" having thirty,seven peaks
above $4,000 feet; Switzerland has
but eight. Colorado has 1876 peaks
about 10000 feet; Switzerland less
RADIOS peaks are accessible for climb
ing six months in the year. Auto
roads through the Mountain Parks
District are being brought to perfec-
tion and the principal points of inter-
est may be reached comfortably by
steam railway, trolly and auto.
Lying face downward in two inches
of mud. her face pillowed on her arm,
her black curls tangled and matted,
Mary Elizabeth Voolfolk, the sixteen
year-old schoolgirl who disappeared
from her home in Denver, was found
unconscious by the side of road
three and one-half miles east of
Derby, by r. P. Owens Of Denver.
Fears that both the girl and her
mother. Mrs. Nellie Hayden. may be
permanently affected mentally from