The Ordway new era., 1916-03-17

H.sehsns.9 ha19. A::oef.s,es: G,es:. Food f'.a ana
April isMpem mosSratic Stat. convsn,ion
at Pueblo.
Mi 't G0nSrsssona c0lsfsSo DIsfsisa
Springs.
May 2.-Republican State and Third
and cndvd Eonrth Congregational District
| May 1s-Democratic State Convention
at Colorado Springs.
Aug. 8-Democratic state Assembly at
Denver.
Longmont cattle feeders are getting
top prices for their stock.
Weld county potato growers have
Joined the State Association.
The date for the 1917 annual West
ern Livestock Show will be Jan.
2G-24.
Ex-Governor E. M. Ammons was re-
elected president OF the Western
| Stock Show Association.
1t is stated that Mesa county cattle.
men will oppose the submission of the
proposed herd law to vote in No
vember.
| Thos B. Mitchell, rs, pioneer
Washington county farmer and promi-
nent G. A. Il. man, died at his home
at Akron.
| There will be more than forty-five
| classifications of business groups in
the new Denver Civic and Commercial
| Association.
meeting of representative negroes
| of the United States is to be held in
Denver next June to protest against
the treatment of the race in this coun.
try.
Clarence H. Olmsted, president oi
the Olmsted Investment Company and
a resident of Denver for forty years,
was found dead in his office in
Denver.
| A loss of $4,000 was sustained by
the Colorado Alfalfa Meal Company OF
Niwot. when fire destroyed its $25..
| 900 mill, and machinery and stock
valued at $25,oOO.
Henry NJ. Blackmer was chosen
Company at meeting of the directors
in Denver. following their selection
by the stockholders.
In a collision with an automobile
driven by Arthur w. Fawbush, car
penter of Denver, Ezra Cooper, is.
suffered fractures Of both legs and
several deep scalp wounds.
| George w. Bixler was named chair
man of the fourth annual Cleanup
ard-paint" campaign, to be conducted
with the hope of making Denver
thoroughly spotless town.
An Ismont report states that Il
terrific windstorm swept down the
Platte Caiion destroying some Of the
finest timber of the Pike National Re.
serve, and doing great damage to pri-
vate property.
With the arrest of eleven persons
eight of whom are youths II and l,
years old, Denver police assert the.
have cleared up scores of automobile
| tool and metal thefts committed with
in the last year and have recovere1
loot valued at several hundred dol
lars.
The Denver Charter League fileo
petitions containing 9,S4S names, call
ing upon the city commissioners tc
order a special election on the pro
| posed charter amendment seeking tC
abolish the commission form of gov
ernment and substituting the mayor
| system.
Confirmation of the report tina,
| Charles Dewitt Miller, an American
| engineer, had been killed in the Villa
raid ON Columbus. N. NJ, was received
| in Denver by the young mans father
r. ]. Miller, from an older son, John
of Las Cruces, N. M, who went to
Columbus to verify the report.
One of the largest awards ever
given by Colorado courts to an in,
jured workman for loss of an arm
was sustained by the State Supreme
Court when it upheld the judgment of
the Denver District Court granting
$4,000 damages to Fred Klankman
against coffee and spice company.
Out of 450 elk shipped from Yellow
stone National Park this winter, Colo
RADIO secured 100 head. Fifty of these
were purchased by the syndicate of
capitalists who built the automobile
road up Pixies Peak. and have been
turned at liberty near that road, to
serve as an added attraction to tour
lists.
"A. M. Forbes, "a years old, formerly
Of Denver. told at Cripple Creek that
ha had ronrcaoufed htmaalf m no thatr