The Ordway new era., 1916-01-21

Jan. ls Western Live stock Show
at Denver.
RADIO Metal Mining Association. AT
Feb. I2-Meeting Republican state
Central Committee in Denver.
Feb. 16-ls-Sports Carnival at steain-
March 2d.Aprii 2.-Coiorad lido Retail
Merchants Association Food aho
Industrial Exposition at Denver.
Clarence Darrow delivered lecture
in Denver on the singletax question:
Citizens of Durango voted $175,ooo
bonds TO build a new high schoti
building.
Delta county farmers are securing
large number OF Holstein COWS from
Wisconsin.
Much interest is being manifested
in the good roads meeting at Denver
Jan. 1920.
Russell o. Boles, who was par
ioned, has been released from the
Canon City penitentiary.
Congressman Hilliard explained his
tunnel bill at "A Chamber of Cops-
merce luncheon in Denver.
Transfer companies report three
families coming into Denver TO one
going out since Jan. l.
II. w. Atkinson, government travel
ing auditor, was in Denver to audit
the books of the collector of internal
revenue.
The Stock Show at the Denver
Union stock Yards is attracting larg
crowds, and the entries are amoEs
The best ever made.
The Intermountain Congress OF the
salvation Army closed three-day
meeting in Denver with a consecra-
ton service at headquarters.
Miss Edith Wharton, 81 years old,
comely California girl, is near death
in the Denver county hospital as a
result of an effort to end her life
with poison.
Olof E. Lindstrom, brother OF
Marie and Olga Liudstrom and Mrs.
c. r. Ericsson of Denver. was frozen
to death while hunting near Deer
River, MINI.
1t is announced that the Rio Grande
Southern railroad has decided to re-
duce the freight rates on ore ship
ments from the Bear Creek section to
the Utah smelters.
The State Public Utilities Commis-
sion heard evidence upon complaint
made by the town council of Arvada
against the rates and services of the
Arvada Electric Light Company.
E. p. Taylor will be the new county
agriculturist at c salary Of approxi-
mately $500 year, if he accepts the
offer of the county commissioners de-
cided upon at Grand Junction.
Senator Shafroth has introduced a
bill in Congress which has for its pur
poses prohibiting the railroads from
charging higher rates for short haul
than long haul over the same line
in the same direction.
Senator John f. Shafroths bill, in.
troduced in the National Senate, pro.
viding for the establishment of mill
tary training school at Fort Logan,
has met with the hearty approval OF
prominent Denver business men.
The Senate has confirmed these
Colorado postmasters: Agnes H. Az
ford. Castle Rock; Thomas J. Cancel
lor. Brighton: Duncan Lamont, Colo
rado City; Walter E. Rogers, Ber-
thoud, and Rhoda J. Yersin, Burling-
ton.
Frederick Huet, 80, friend of Gus
tave DOre, as well as classmate Of
that famed artist in the Government
School of Arts at Paris, France, and
noted artist himself previous to
1865, died at the county poor house al.
Empire.
One Colorado man was identified
among the list of dead following the
massacre of seventeen Americans by
Villa bandits near Chihuahua City,
and the names of two others are
thought to be those of mining men
who have made their homes in this
state
$4,000 verdict was given by a
jury in Judge Aliens court in Denver
in favor of Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence A.
Spencer against Julius Brand.
charged with running down with his
automobile and killing Anna Dell
Spencer the 1o-year-old daughter Of
the plaintiffs.
Masked and heavily armed, two
youths appearing to be not older than
IL or 10 years, entered drugstore at
III South Broadway, in Denver. and
holding the proprietor at bay with
their revolvers, rifled easks drawer
as a dozen or more pedestrians
passed the place. They then es-
capped
The loss Of two brothers in the