The Ordway new era., 1916-01-28

Denver.
Feb. I2-Meeting Republican state
Central Committee in Denver.
Feb. 16-lS-Sports Carnival at Steam
boat Springs. ,u
Merchants Associations Food ana
Industrial Exposition at Denver.
President Wilson is expected TO
speak in Denver, Feb. Is.
Two persons were swept to death
in snowslide at Leadville.
Fire destroyed five business houses
in Moffat. Loss estimated at $l5'oVo.
The funeral of Mrs. Mary l. Corlew,
80 years old, who died suddenly, was
held in Denver.
A record price was paid by Denver
packers for stock show exhibits oi
cattle, hogs and sheep.
A rich strike of ore struck in the
Acacia group of mines at Cripple
Creek yielded from $50 to $50 per
on.
Louis Boyyin, pioneer logger oil
Colorado. died at his residence in Den
yor of pneumonia. He was IS years
old.
Twelve of Colorado's pony express
messengers of the early COS occupy
Il place in the new Federal building in
Denver.
Il. Fort of Denver was chosen
7ne OF the directors of the Western
Fruit Jobbers' Association at the an
nual conference at Memphis.
One hundred and twenty-five per-
sons attended the annual meeting
and banquet of the Colorado Hol-
stein -Friesian Association in Denver.
The value of products turned out
by manufacturers in Fort Collins in
The year 1914, according to report
by the Bureau OF Census. Department
of Commerce, was $4S9,OO0.
Raymond McMillin, high school
senior at Lamar, was in Denver as
the official delegate of the Good
Roads Organization of the school to
the Colorado Good Roads Associa-
tion.
The Mountain States Lumber Deal
ers Association delegates were
guests at a banquet at which the
Denver Knoll Hole Club acted as
host during their annual meeting in
Denver.
Mrs. Mary Brennan, rs years old, a
widow living at West Thirty-second
avenue and TETON street, Denver, was
painfully burned in fire at her home
The fire was caused by an over
leated stove.
Internal revenue returns for the
first fifteen days of 1916. as compiled
by Mark A. Skinner, internal revenue
collector at Denver, show an increase
of $4,000 over the same period of fif.
teen days in 1915.
Following an operation performed
at st. Joseph's hospital for acute kid
ney Infection. Mrs. Harold Walker,
81, widely known in social litera "
and musical circles in Denver, died
at the hospital, to which she had been
removed from her home.
The Colorado Good Roads Associa
tion wound up its annual convention
in Denver by re-electing E. e. SOM
mers OF Denver president, John y.
Munsou of Berthoud vice president
and W. II. Emmons of Denver, secre-
tary
Freeman L. Loomis of Redcliffe
who Jumped" his bond three months
ago on statutory charges and led the
police and private detectives a chase
of nearly 1000 miles before his cap
ture in Ruskin, Neb., was turned over
to Eagle county officials en- his ar
rival in Denver in custody of Sheriff
]. A. Jones.
A sworn petition calling attention
to the fact that, although Judge Lind
sey has been in Europe for some time
his salary has continued and ask
ing the commissioners to see that it
is stopped in the future was filed
with the city clerk of Denver by
William P. Daniels. who signs him.
self "a citizen and taxpayer"
Reports of huge war order, oh,
tanned by Denver horse dealers, were
prevalent among the buyers at the
stockyards. 1t is understood that a
contract Tor $4,000 animals has been
closed by the Denver firm with the
commission now in Denver represent.
ing England and France, and that
the total amount involved In the deal
Is $2,700,000.
Early days in Colorado were re
called by members OF the Colorado
Pioneers Association at the annual
dinner of that organization in e.
Jebel temple in Denver. Trail-biazers
Of 80. go and 81 told of the hard
ships endured by pioneers that Colo
rado might be the abode of the white
race. The Pioneer Ladies' Aid So
ciety was represented at the gather
ing