The Ordway new era., 1916-05-12

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Sheriff Krisher destroyed abou
$3.50 worth OF liquor at Ouray.
The seventh annual meeting and
banquet of the Missouri Society oi
Colorado Will be held in Denver
May IL
The location of rich iron mine
a few miles north OF sgnilar, by
Everett Lain and MCCOY Grimsley. Is
reported
William ]. Jordan was acquitted al
Cortez in the District Court of the
charge of murder of Dudley Morri'
son at Dolores.
i c. c. Roberts, 4 Rocky Ford junk
dealer, was given a sixty-day sen
tence on the charge OF receiving
stolen goods.
It is stated that ]. o. Miller, the
choice of the progressive Democrats
of Boulder. is to be the new postmas-
ter at that place.
George E. Ledgerwood. 20, who
was stricken with apoplexy on his
roth birthday, died at St Mary's hos
pital in Grand junction.
Harry Owens and Dan Straughter,
colored, were bound over at Rocky
| Ford to await the action OF the Dis
trict Court on statutory charges.
A. A. Peters of Denver was elect
ed secretary of the American Poul-
try Association at the annual con
vention of that organization held in
! Peoria, III.
The report of the city building in
| gpector for April shows that permits
! fer building operations in Denver In
that month reached s3iO.9G0, an in
crease OF s11,370 over April 1915.
The Irish flag was floated from the
top OF one of the tallest pines on the
mountain side that surround the city
of Ouray, when word reached there
OF the outbreak in Dublin.
A bill providing that term of the
Federal Court shall be held each year
in Durango. beginning next October,
recently introduced in the Lower
House of Congress, passed that body.
Another raise of 10 per cent in the
wages of all the G,0O0 men employed
at the Minnequa steel plant in Pu-
eblo was announced. making a total
increase of 20 per cent within a few
months.
Leaving no hint OF the reason for
his action, a young man giving the
name of Charles p. Evans of Denver
committed suicide by drinking poison
in the American Annex hotel in st.
Louis, Mo.
The ore shipments from the Tellu-
ride station for the month OF April
totaled III cars, keeping the record
up in the front rank. All these ship
ments were concentrates, no crude
ere being shipped during the month.
Miss Mary E Teller, sister of
Justice Henry B. Teller, died at the
home OF the widow OF Senator Henry
Teller, in Denver. Death was due to
pneumonia, which she contracted a
week ago. Miss Teller was CO years
old
/ Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, leading
spirit in the militant suffragist move
ment, and mother of Christabel and
Sylvia, is coming to Denver. Eng
lands most famous suffragette will
speak in Denver May 90 She is in
mis- country in the interests of the
Serbian relief fund.
CashiDg forged money orders
stolen with the aid Of an accomplice
from the St Louis postoffice two
months ago. in a dozen cities over
the country, in order to keep up al
D no irn 1fr-tr sat aGts I.
tells. James G. McKeown, 30 years
old. was arrested in Denver by fed
eral and city authorities.
Sentences imposed a year ago OF
Eugene Buchanan. cattleman of Lo
gan county, and eight associates, b,
Federal Judge Robert E. Lewis, TO
interference with homesteader
were nullified in the reversal of In
: lower court by the United state
: MINI. The case was remanded 70
, trial.
; Mrs. Sophie Gertrude CheIlew. VIII
, is suing the Stratton estate for
widows share" of the late minin
kings millions, will not have the OF
| portunity to air her claims before
jury. Judge w. p. Kinney of tn
I County Court in Colorado Spring
: has ruled that jury is not needed t
, try the case. the only question a
issue being that Of heirship.
0 George w. Musser. former chic
. Justice of the Supreme Court, a,
) dressed letter to the chairman I
/ the committee Of the State Bar r,
+ fusing to take part in the nomin,
} ticps by the bar Of candidates to n
the two vacapcies ION the state s,
prsns bench this ~
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