The Ordway new era., 1915-11-19

Trinidad fire boys will give their
annual New Years ball Dec. 81.
Robert Rockwell's barn on his
ranch near Maher was destroyed by
fire.
A case of scarlet fever was reported
At Berthoud, and the public schools
were temporarily closed.
City Engineer Goeder reported that
the Fort Collins filter plant buildings
are located on state lands.
Work is starting with a rush on the
new coal properties of Moore gulch.
fifteen miles west of Steamboat.
Howard Morton. is. of Grand juno
ton was run down, run over and left
badly injured by party OF unknown
motorists.
1t is stated at Alamosa that the
Mosca oil fields has been abandoned
by the Texas oil drillers-M. E. Layne
and assistants.
Anton |. Johnson of Wild Horse has
been appointed commissioner oi
Cheyenne county. He succeeds Charles
G. Fox. resigned.
The sugar market is undergoing n
furry. and has caused an advance in
prices unequalled since the start Of
the European war.
A westbound Manitou car struck
and killed 3-year-old Alice Boyd while
she was playing with group of child
rem at Colorado Springs.
The new Denver Union station wac
| formally dedicated when so members
! of the Chamber of Commerce lunched
In the Respondent dining room.
An hour after he boasted to friend
that he never had been i'll In his life
John Dulmaine. So. of Grand Junction
dropped dead at Cheyenne hotel.
The new state highway over Wolf
| creek pass into the San Louis valley
will be logged and published in the
| 1916 issue of the Automobile Blue
Book.
A streak of ore running sixty per
cent in tungsten has been struck on
the Argentine lode above the Tobin
mine in the famous Argentine district
at Georgetown.
An increased production continues
| from operations now carried on by
the company and lessees on the Pay
master and Commonwealth lodes In
/ East Argentine district.
Civil service examinations are to be
conducted in Denver December for
three federal positions in the new
postoffice, first and thirdclass steam
j enpipeer and electrician
Washington Aldridge. 20. charged
with nonsupport of his daughter. Eve
| lyn May, in charges preferred by Mrs
Viola Aldridge. his divorced wife. was
acquitted by a verdict of the jury IL
a Denver court
Go-to-church Sunday will be con-
tinued throughout the month of No.
celebrated instead of one, as had been
planned. according to announcement
by Denver ministers.
The biggest mining bonanza strucl
in Boulder county In many years, not
excepting even the recent rich discov
cries in tungsten. Is the lease OF
Tommy Mohr and J. A. Wasson on the
Alice mine at Jimtown
b. E. Bradley. former Denver news
paper man and for the past several
years general manager of the ST.
Louis Post-Dispatch, has purchased n
| ranch of LEO acres about thirty
miles west of Fort Collins.
A small gas explosion. occurring in
one of the back entries of the Tabas-
CO mine near Trinidad. rendered sew
eral men unconscious for short time
and caused Tom Dennison, pit boss
| Of the mine, to sustain a broken leg.
w. B. Slaughter. president of the
| defunct Mercantile National bank OF
| Pueblo. was denied permission by
| Federal Judge Lewis to examine the
accounts of the institution in prepar
ing defense to combat the charge oil
embezzlement.
| The Mesa county commissioners
have placed the road over Grand Mesa
to Alexander lakes on the list of SEQ
ondary roads of Mesa county. mean.
ing that the road will receive atten.
ticn next in Importance to the primary
roads. on which the state funds are
expended.
Lawrence A. Neville. in complaint
filed in the District Court at Fort Col.
lins. charges that his brother beat and
bruised him to the extent that 1t re.
quirei 800 worth of medical work to
patch up the injuries. His feelings and
earning capacity were damaged even
more. he alleges, and he asks $4,000
damages.
| Positive assurances that the Loyal
| Order of Moose will begin the con.
struction Of $2,o00,0OO sanitarium
near Denver within year have been
received by the Denver Chamber OF
Commerce. according to Secretary
Thorndyke Deland
Six crops of Colorado this year are
worth s29,S04 900. according to data