The Ordway new era., 1916-01-07
COLORADO
I Estate NEWS
Western. Newspaper Union News servics.
uArrs FOR COMING EVENTS

Jan. l-S--toloIauo lNeHHti Ni"" 49,
Jan s-io-Sixteen,h anuua, show OF
Colorado Poultry Fanciers assoe'a-
Jan lTelg-MeetiuS colorado Retail
Grocers' and Butchers Association
at Pueblo. ,,
Colo. Good Roads Assn at Denver.
| Jan ls- s-22.-Western Live stock snow
Feb 1s-Mecting Republican state
Central Committee in Denver.
| Feb. l6-lS-Sports Carnival al Stea'h-
boat Springs. ,
Merchants' Associations Food anu
Industrial Exposition at Denver
Delta is to have a GOo-ton sugar fac
tory
The new Denver postoffice building
is now being occupied.
The Prohibition penalty law be-
came effective Jan. |.
Grand Junction is to have another
big elevator early the coming sea
son.
The railroads have made halliare
rate 'or the Western Stock Show at
Denver
The Denver Tourist Bureau has
opened its campaign 10 raise SI5,ooo
for advertising Colorado.
Boulder is planning the erection o.
| new building as an assembly hall
on the Chautauqua grounds.
The Womans Club of Denver held
special services New Years to cele-
brate Colorados first Dry" day,
Denver churches celebrated the
coming of the New Year and the pass
ing of Wet" Colorado Friday night.
The State College at Fort Collins
will invest S29,JOO of its s1SS.o00 Ag
gle endowment fund in state securi-
ties.
Temporary insanity, induced by /;
protracted attack of grip, is believed
to have led Alfred l. iarrow of Den
yer to end his life
San Juan county bids fair TO sool
become one of the largest producers
of tungsten ores in Colorado, anC
probably in the United States.
Mrs. Ella Monk Mayo. wife of Dud-
ley Mayo and an earlyday society
belle o. Denver, died at her residence
after an illness of ten months. which
resulted from a fall on the icy pave
ment.
After a two-day search for 15-year
old Dorothy Merrill of Sterling. who
left her home to go to Sunday school
it developed that she had eloped tc
Denver and was married. to Albert |.
McCulloh Of Fort Collins.
The body of an unidentified man
of about 20 years old was found in I;
haystack on the Copeland ranch, q
few miles north Of Globeville. He
apparently had frozen to death seek
ing shelter from the cold
Joseph Kuykendall, 80, first mayor
of Leadville, died at his home there |
Grippe. resulting from cold he con.
lracted several days ago, was pro
nounced by the attending physicians
is the cause of the death.
Cutting off his relatives with 81
each, among them two Denver heirs
George A. Grund, wealthy broker ol
Kansas City, Kan, left the bulk OF
his Sl5O,000 estate to his lifelong
friend, Henry McGrew, of that city.
The Public Utilities Commission
will issue orders compelling all pri-
Vate and public owned corporations
to install the same system OF book.
keeping in order that the business of
the companies may be gone over
quickly and without so much red
tape.
In the hope of proving that the bul
let which killed w II. Dickens al
Longmont on the night of Nov. 30 was
not fired from the gun which was
found at the home of R!enzi Dickens
members of the Dickens family EN-
ployed an expert crime investigator
| from Auburn, n. Y.
More than score of Denver mer
and women, among them Iaborers,
dressmakers and rooming-house keep
| ers, gave accommodation" notes to
John : Cusack, former cashier of the
First National Bank at Wellington,
which later involved Cusack in trans.
actions for which he is on trial in the
oHiteu states court at Denver on a
charge of embezzling $4,000 of the
institutions funds.
The suit of the State Board OF
| Egualiza ton, which seeks to compel
| Clair ) Pitcher, Denver county as.
sessor,sto raise Denver's valuation
| $55,0OO,OOO. will be fought In the Dis
trict Court on the ground that '.the
raises made by the Colorado Tax
Commission on the property involved
were made arbitrarily capriciously
and unlawfully and as matter of
guess and chance" according to the
answer filed in the case by the city
attorneys office.
How can get money at a reason.
able rate of interest to help me in
my faiming operations" and Where