The Ordway new era., 1916-08-18
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.

Sept. 5-s-Boulder County Fair
Sept. s.s-Fron,ier Days celebration
Sept. iiEMeeting Midland Trail Assn
Sept. I5-I6-harvest Festival at Num-
Sept. ls-23-State Fair at iuen9; a f
sept, ?7:s-siate Convention D.
Jan sO-a7-Anuual Western n S'oNN
Show at Denver.
Fire did abou, $1,000 damage at
Golden.
Battery B at Golden is proud oil lu
evenly matched horses.
Miss Elsie Green of Denver Will 60
TO China as missionary
The Major ranch near Paonia may
become summer home for mus''
clans.
President Wilson is expected 10
speak at Denver on his proposed trip
TO the coast.
DR.. l. D. PEBBLES must face charge
OF murder for the death OF Mrs. Anna
Ross OF Denver.
The La Porte and Fort Collins w.
c. T L. had joint Christian citizeh'
shin picnic at Lindenmeier lake, near
Fort Collins.
Troop A OF the Montana cavalry
and eighty-one recruits from Fort
Morgan left Denver on special tram
for Douglas, Ariz.
The bond election held in the RIO
G-ande drainage district north oil
Monte Vista resulted in two 10 one
victory for the bonds.
Comptroller OF Currency Williams
authorized the First National bank OF
Pueblo to increase its capital STOCK
from 100000 to 100000.
The Colorado Springs and Denver
branches of the Red Cross have sent
1,O35 comfort bags TO Colorado troops |
at the Golden rifle range.
Nick La Sale. an Italian coal min
er, IS years old, was electrocuted in
the Big Lake coal mine. one and one
half miles west of Lafayette.
A movement TO have s25,0o0,oOo |
bend issue for building roads in Colo
rado was launched at meeting of the
State Highway Commission.
The contract for the construction |
OF three miles OF the lower end OF the |
Durango Silverton highway, in La
Plata county, was awarded for S5,iiO. |
Two women and lo-year-old boy
were stunned by bolt OF lightning
which struck the home of Richard ].
Myers. District Court stenographer, in
Denver
The Helen Gould tunnel is now
over COO feet long. and is driven
through rich looking porphyry very
similar to that found on Breeze hill
at Leadville.
Denver is 10 have a milk conden-
sing plant that will employ between
75 and 100 persons, and which will be
great impetus to the dairy industry
in and near Denver.
A letter from President Wilson,
stating and celebrating at length his
views on the suffrage question, was
read at the Jane jefferson Democratic
Club banquet at Denver.
Silver ore which will assay 1900
ounces to the ton, or 1915 at present
prices, has been uncovered in the
shaft of the Princess mine near Cen
trail gulch at jamestown.
Stewart Cox, lessee of the United
Gold Mines Company, operating the
Hardwood mine at the Damon group
OF claims on the eastern slope of Iron
clad hill, is shipping again.
Arrangements have been made for
public reception for Charles E.
Hughes, candidate for President on
the Republican ticket, on the occasion
of his visit to Denver Aug. 26.
Hugh c. Brown, mining promoter
OF Wilmington, Del, and former post
master of that place. who committed
suicide at the top of Lookout noun
tain, was well known in Denver.
After the Moose convention in Den
yer decided not to name a ticket,
minority got together and desig-
mated state ticket. headed by
John B. Stephen of Denver for COVER
nor.
George Lawrence, 25, of New York
was killed by Colorado Midland
railroad freight train at Palisade
twelve miles east of Grand Junction
Lawrence had been stealing a ride on
| the train.
A secret marriage in Canon City
more than five weeks ago was re
vealed when Mrs. Robert w. Steele
widow Of the late chief justice, an
nounced the marriage of her daughter
Miss Jane steele, to Norman B. Hui
Of Denver.
Secretary of the Treasury William
G.. McAdoo has announced at Wash
ington that he will visit Denver Il
personally consider the contention o
financial interests that one Of tn
government farm loan banks shoul'
be established in Denver.
/ After 4 search Of more than a wee
a Rose and lGollie Mccullough, 1b an
~, were located on ranch nss
lnsightea anA ta1kl1 into custody w