The Ordway new era., 1916-08-25
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.

sept s-s-BcGIGeF SouhS
b Sept s-s-Frontier Days celebration
Sent. liEMeetias Midland Trail ASST n
sept l5-ls-FIarvcst Festival at Num-
sept Is sS-State Fair at Pueblo: Is
sept sf-.s-Stste Convention b L. o, e
sept sS-Se~Third Annual P!ae RLySr
Valley and southern Ute lnd'ah "''
Jan, cO-S7EAnuual Western stock
show a, Denver
John Hartman, Al, railway con
ductor. was killed in IN auto accident
al Pueblo.
Civil War veteran Nelson H.
Parker, 50 years old, died at his nome
n Denver.
Jewelry 10 the value OF s240 was
stolen BY burglars who entered the
home OF Mrs. Ella ACkrtdge in Den
yer.
Many unique attractions have been
arranged for the silver anniversary
Arkansas valley fair at Rock Ford
Sept, l7-24.
Plans have been concluded for the
reorganization of the Colorado ule
/ Marble Company and the termination
OF the Teceivership.
GLADYS Welborne. Il. OF Denver
| committed suicide because her mother
refused permission for her 10 marry
Lieut.. John Street, OF the National
Guard
Geo. Holmden who threatened TO
kill Buel. at Byers, was sentenced to
to leave the state, sentence was sus-
pended.
A contract for two miles of the
Fall River road running through the
Rocky Mountain National Park was
let for slO,SOO Work will begin im-
mediately.
The Pixies Peak region is ~ be
made famous in a series OF poetic
jingles from the pen OF Walt Mason
the famous Uncle Walt" of EN-.
poria. Kans.
Pueblo has put aside its own ambi-
tion TO secure one of the twelve farm
loan banks, and has offered to aid
Denver in securing the coveted finan-
cal institution.
The city of Denver had cash bal
ance of s557 10000 June 80, accord
ing to the report OF City Auditor
Markey, for the first six months OF
the calendar year.
Mike Bargues, 81, was shot in the
stomach and fatally wounded by
Sadie Lawson, with whom, the po-
lice say, he had been living at 1909
Elm street, in Pueblo.
Denver will send delegation of 200
representative business and profes-
sional men to the meeting of the
Knights of Pythias grand lodge of the
domain of Colorado at Greeley.
The net operating profit of the Ray
Consolidated Copper Company, in
which Colorado Springs men are
heavily interested, during the second
quarter of the year was s3,22G,749.2S.
The first farm loan bank to be or
ganized in the west under the new
federal rural credits act, which be.
came effective last month, was M
nounced by a group Of Denver bank.
ers lhd financiers.
Mrs. Florence Bayard Hilles Cf
Delaware, national organizer for tbs
Congressional union, arrived in Den.
yer TO begin a two weeks campaign
t. organize the Woman's party for
the First District
Charges of statutory nature were
sized by the district attorney in Den
yer against Lieut. Jack Street of A
| uoCT. Colorado National guard, in
| connection with the suicide of II
year-old Gladys Welborn.
| A movement to obtain for Colo.
redo the proposed government nitrate
plant, for which Congress recently
authorized s20,OOO,OOO, was inaugur-
ated by the coal operators of Denver
and by the Civic Association.
A wide range of labor topics are
| dealt with in the annual report of
John McLennan, president Of the
Colorado State Federation of Labor.
submitted to the convention of the
federation at Colorado Springs.
Returns from all sections of Colo
iadn on the present crop conditions,
just on the eve of the big harvest,
leave little doubt that the state has
right to rejoice on the showing
which has been made and to look for.
ward to increased prosperity as re,
suit of the abundance of the yield.
Increased values of the products oi
s21 mines in Colorado during 1915, as
shown in the records compiled by
Charles w. Henderson of the United
States Geological Survey, include ev
cry metal except silver, with a tota
increase in value Of $s,966,571 ovel
the total value Of mine products O
the preceding year.
Ellsworth Kolb. the Utah photog
rapher and explorer Of the Crane