The Ordway new era., 1916-03-24
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Newspaper Union News Service.
DATE. ro. COMING EVENTS.

Industrial Exposition at Denver
April l3-Democratic State Convention
May First Congressional District
Republican Convention at Colorado
Springs.
April 2s-Annual Convention Western
Colorado L. o. .. f. at Grand juno
tion.
| May 2-Republican State and Third
and Fourth Congressional District
Convention at Pueblo.
May lS-Democratic State Convention
at Colorado Springs.
Aug. S-DcmoCratic state Assembly h'
Denver.
There are 400 automobiles in Den
yer.
Boulder miners are busy and pros,
| porous
Strawberries are on the Denver
market
Denver will vote on the Mayor form
of government before May "A.
March II was tag day for the or
| phans at Sacred Heart in Pueblo.
Bids will be opened April 6 for
| Loveland's new school building.
| One person in each twenty-seven
in Colorado owns an automobile.
| In the recent reports, Colorado
banks show large increases in depos-
| its.
! There is excitement four miles
south of Salida on account of a tungs-
| ten strike.
| The practice of naming farms IS
growing in popularity. especially in
northern Colorado.
| II is stated that many farmers are
being "stung" in the purchase of seed
for spring planting.
Over 200 Puebloans are ready 20
| form a company and serve the U. 5.
| in its hunt for Villa.
The Georgetown tunnel has now
reached depth of some 500 feet,
and is being steadily driven ahead.
William James Ginniff, who sue.
ceeded Frank Craig as ,superintend-
ent of the Craig Colony, died in Den
YER
Tom Pitts of Montrose, was con
victed of bootlegging, and fined $40
and given ninety days in the county
jail.
Observance of St. Patrick's Day in.
cluded one of the most elaborate pro
grams ever planned by Irishmen of
Denver.
George A. Blinn, county commits,
sioner of Arapahoe county, died at
his home in Clark Colony, from heart
disease.
Five months in the county jail was
the sentence imposed In the West
Side court in Denver upon II. NJ
Roberts. convicted of "bootlegging."
The giant skeleton OF dinosau-,
the most complete one ever found in
Colorado, is TO be exhibited in the
Colorado Museum of Natural History
at Denver City Park.
Sioux Indians from the Pine Ridge
agency, South Dakota. arrived in Den.
Yer to go on the War Path" at the
Pure Food Show at the Auditorium,
which opens in Denver Monday
Four big Denver bond houses may
take, individually or collectively, be.
tween s10,O00,OO0 and $4,000 900 Of
! S75,O0O,O00 per cent bonds Just is.
/ DN Nht Oh ldnaua,
George B. Dodge, for many years a
widely known railroad official in
Colorado. died at the family residence
IN Denver after an illness of three
weeks. He was 81 years old and. d
son OF Col. D. C. Dodge, a Colorado
| pioneer railway builder.
| Cider unless sterilized becomes an
intoxicating liquor and thus falls un-
der the ban of the state prohibition
law. according to a report made bv
John Lynch, state pure food and drug
commissioner, to Attorney General
| Farrar
A committee of fifteen, represent
ing members from each of the patri.
otic societies in the city, met in Dea
yer to make plans for commemor-
alton of the fiftieth anniversary of ths
founding of the Grand Army of the
Republic April G.
Practical efforts are being nut
forth by the Denver Bureau of the
government division of irrigation in.
vestigat!ons maintained by the De
partment of Agriculture to render
tillable again 100000 acres of rich
irrigated lands In Colorado that have
become water-logged principally
through over-irrigation
Denvers five national banks an,
he five principal savings banks have
gained $l.7G9,152 in deposits sine.
Dec. 81. and s20,i69.702 since Marcl
/, last year. according to the state
nents OF condition ON March !. which
we're prepared by the various jnstitu
ions at the order of the comptrolle
the currency at Washington an,
he state bank commissioners.
full and unconditional pardon was