The Ordway new era., 1916-01-14
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
,e.tern Newspaper Union New. Service.
p.rs, ron COMING EVENTS.

Jan ls.-Sixth Annual Convention OF
Colo. Good Roads Assn at Denver;
RADIO Division Tike's Peak -ocean,to-
Ocean Highway Association. at Den
Jan. l6 70 Western Live Stock Show
Feb. 11.is.Anmual convention Colo.
RADIO Metal Mining Association at
Feb, ia-AfeetIng Republican state
Central Committee in Denver.
Feb. I6-lS-Sports Carnival at steam
March s6-Nprii 2-Cotorn Retail
Merchants Associations Food ana
lndustrial Exposition at Denver.
II is said Colorado produces eighty
per cent oil the tungsten in the United
States.
Boulder WAS selected for the next
show of the Northern Colorado Poul-
try Association.
colorado Springs was visited by a
terrific windstorm, and destruction to
farm property was reported.
Four generations were present at
the christmas dinner given by Mr..
and Mrs. A - McQuown at Eaton.
Tie Rev. Phillip Schmidt, pastor at
will be forced to defend his
in the District Court at
Fort Collins.
Erf.e Thomas, % years old. was the
first woman to be arrested in Denver
for irtoxication since the dry law
went into effect.
Thirty-two arrests have been made
in Las Animas county for alleged vio-
lation of the Colorado prohibition law
since the law became effective. Jan. l.
Peter Miller. G2, a mechanic and
pioneer of Colorado Springs, was run
down by an auto and died an hour
later from his injuries at a hospital.
How would you like to own q herd
of COWS like one in Montrose county
which gave birth to five calves in a
year-triplets last January and twins
in December?
Gateway. mining town southeast
OF Grand Junction. was cut off. by
heavy snowstorm, from outside com.
and food and coal sup
plies were reported short.
A silent search. conducted several
months by his wife, Mrs. Anna Floyd,
owner OF n ranch in Arapahoe county.
resulted in the arrest of ~ A. Floyd,
&c years old. on a charge of bigamy.
Bulkeley Wells. president, and NJ b.
Tomblin, secretary, have issued call
for the third annual convention OF the
Colorado Metal Mining Association,
TO be held in Denver on Feb. IL and
IL.
Following an attack of grip, Col. T.
treasurer of Larimer county and mem.
Jer OF the Republican State Executive
Committee, died in his home at Fort
Collins.
The annual congress of the Saliva.
tion Army of the western states
opened in Denver with Commissioner
Thomas Estill, commander of the or.
in twenty-siX western
states. presiding.
Dispatches from London indicated
that Edward Rose, former Denver
youth who took passage on the Per.
sia, which was torpedoed near the Is.
land of Crete. may have pershed
when the liner went down.
An inheritance tax of s93 3,O5S.OS was
paid to the state upon the estate OF
Dennis Sullivan, Denver millionaire
banker, who died last October. 1t was
paid to Leslie f. Hubbard, state in.
heritance tax appraiser. after he had
fixed valuation of s1.423,O72.
A White Orpington hen belonging to
J. B. Carruthers of Colorado Springs
was adjudged one of the finest in
by c. p. Van Wrinkle. Judge
at the exhibition given by the Colo
rado Poultry Fanciers' Association at
the Auditorium in Denver.
Secretary Redfield, head of the Ma.
tional Department of Commerce. has
invited Secretary Thorndike Deland
of the Denver Chamber OF Commerce
to attend q two-day conference of com.
mercisI secretaries of Chambers OF
Commerce in all of the larger cities
of the country in Washington Feb. 4.
The addition of six sections of land
to the Rocky Mountain National Park
is provided for in a bill introduced in
Congress by Congressman Timber
lake, the sections include Gem lake.
Deer mountain and the Twin Sisters
district The bill also asks an appro.
priation of $so.oOO to improve and
maintain the park.
The bank clearings in Colorado
Springs for the year 1915 showed an
increase of $3,166.441.14 over those for
the year 1914, according to figures Civ.
en- out by George L. Nolte, secretary
of the Colorado Springs Clearing
House Association. The total for last
year was $36,232 ,59773, as compared
with total of $32,466, 1859 in 1914.
Thirty-fiye Japanese men residing
in Denvpr loft for lana, a., ,.a. L.