The Ordway new era., 1916-04-14

May First Congressional Distrie.
Republican Convention at Coior"u'
Springs.
April 26-Annual Convention Western
Colorado l. o. o. F. at Grand juno
tion.
April 2s-May 6-Food show at Colo
May 2.-Republican State and Thira
and Fourth Congressional pistrie'
Convention Mt Pueblo.
May lS-pemocratic State ConHeh''o"
ut Colorado Springs, ,,o,
In Denver.
Denver.
The old Spaulding hotel at Colora'
DO Springs has been sold for Soo,ooo.
Ben b. Lindsey of the juvenile
Court was threatened with death IN
letter he received in his courtroom IN
Denver.
Two prisoners attempted to saw
their way out of the Denver jail IN
order to take part in an elopemeh'
previously planned.
The annual district convention OF
the knights of Pythias will be held
in Montrosc on Wednesday and
Thursday, June 7th and Sth.
Sydney w. Strut, known among
friends and associates in Denver fol
fifteen years as S. w. Clayton,
dropped dead in his rooms in the Den
yer Athletic Club.
One of the largest land transac.
tions Of the year was closed at Was-
kins. when Ernest A. Reeves sold
1850 acres of improved, non-irri-
gated land and 13o head of cattle to
George Adee of Iowa, for s75,1OO
Cyril Tuckfield of Denver was
named as principal for the nava!
academy at Annapolis by Senator
Charles. S. Thomas, under n recent
act authorizing an increase in the
number of cadets at the academy.
The aggregate number of building
permits issued by the city of Denver
during the first three months of 1916
exceeded the figures for the same pc
riod during 1915 by s500,000. accord
ing to the report of the city building
inspector for March.
Activities of the Rockefeller found.
alton in aiding the poor and unem
ployed during 1915. as well as its sup
port of non-affiliated organizations.
are set forth in a report made public
in New York. The relief funds pro-
vided included $99,9S4 given to the
Colorado state committee on unem-
ployment and relief.
Weddings and bad checks were fea.
lures in the experience of two men
who have been landed in Jail in Gree
ley and Idaho Springs as result OF
the activities of the Colorado Bank.
earth men who have been charged
with series of forgeries in various
sections of Colorado.
Monday, April II, will be red let
ter day in the annals of the members
of the Greeley lodge of knights OF
Pythias, for on that evening the
crack drill team of Denver Lodge No.
Al, numbering lis men, and accom-
panied by fifty or more other mem
bers of the lodge, will visit the Gree
ley lodge and give an exhibition of
the work of the team.
year mar
vested 100000 tons of sugar beets
at a gross selling figure of $10,417,000
This year, when the beet sugar indus
try in the United States is seriously
crippled by lack of German seed
these same farmers should harvest
more than 100000 tons of beets, and
sell them to the sugar companies fol
more than 100000.
Naming six women in as many
towns in almost as many states, AMI
limiting at several more women whose
names and whereabouts she does not
know. Mrs Ada M. Hollowell of Den
yer filed suit in the District Court for
divorce from George A. Hollowell
Mrs. Hollowell also charges that her
husband kidnapped her four children
while they were living in Fruita.
Miss Dorothy Merriweather was
overcome with emotion and forced to
leave the courtroom at the West Side
Court in Denver while waiting to
testify for the state in the case OF
DR.. Robert ]. Mason, charged with
conspiracy in performing the opera.
tion that caused the death of her sis.
ter, Miss Ruth Merriweather, in De
cember, 1914.
In three important decisions the
State Supreme Court declared in
substance: Col. James c. Bulger
must be hanged during the week II
May 81 for the killing of Lloyd F.
Nicodemus, May 6, 1914; the petition
for referendum vote on the civil
service law passed by the last gen
eral assembly is void. and the city
and county of Denver cannot compel
the State Insane Asylum authorities
to accept patients from Denver
county.
Death came to Joel Frederick Vale,
known nationally as lawyer, since