The Ordway new era., 1916-02-11
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union New, Service.
DATES rOR COMING EVENTS.

Feb. la-Meeting Republican State
Central Committee in Denver.
State Central Committee at Denver.
Feb. is-lS-Sports Carnival at Stea"
boat Springs. u
Merchants Associations Food anu
Industrial Exposition at Demves. IN,
April i3-Domocraoic State ConNehtio"
The matter OF canning factory u
being agitated ut Montrose.
A farmers meeting will be held at
Iiotchkiss on Feb IL and II.
The pay of about 1000 employees oil
the Pueblo steel plant has been IN
creased about 10 per cent,
Elemo Capri, 80. steel worker at
Pueblo. was shot while sitting at the
breakfast table in his home.
Governor Carlson was the guest oi
honor at dinner given by the Vet
Grams of Foreign Wars in Denver.
1t is stated that an effort was made
by an unknown woman to kidnap
seven-year-old Daniel Osborne from
the Lovaland school.
George Quinn was hanged in the
state penitentiary at Canon City for
the murder of william r. Herbertson
| in Denver, Oct "a. 1914.
Since the passage of the new pro
hibition law, even the advertising ot
intoxicants in any way, shape Jr
form is strictly prohibited.
Three Denver men accepted year
| each in the penitentiary rather than
support their families when they
| were arraigned in the Juvenile Court.
| John F. Virgins, 81 years old. only
| son of the famous scout and Indian
| fighter, Oliver p Virgins, who died
two years ago, ended his life in Den
yer.
In common with a number of other
cities, Denver is to be made the center
| of an active aviation corps in connec-
tion with the national guard o,sani-
zation.
Charged with being implicated in
the theft of trunk containing silks.
clothing and papers valued at nearly
| $4,000, Charles Robinson, %, WAS ar
rested in Denver.
Human Conservation" was the alb
sorbing theme of the twenty-eighth
annual state convention of Young
Mems Christian Associations which:
met at Greeley.
Motion foE new trial in the New
man will case. made at Littleton, was
denied by Judge Glass, and thirty
days was given in which to appeal to
the Supreme Court.
The directors of the Cripple Greek
Central railroad authorized a dividend
of $40 per share, amounting to $3.50,
900 on its $2,500.O00 common stock, at
the annual meeting.
| Plans were formulated for an active
and aggressive campaign for advertis
ing Denver and the scenic attractions
of the state at meeting of the direc
tors of the tourist bureau in Denver.
All records for the number of hoea
! received on the Denver market in one
month were broken at the Denver
| stockyards in January. The total re.
ceipts were 4S,096 head. as against
3S,614 head in December, 1915.
Eight thousand acres of state Ian j
were sold for approximately $118,00o
| at public auction at the offices of the
| land board in Denver. The average
price per acre was $14.75.- The high
est figure of the sale was $40 per
acre paid for land in Larimer county.
Frank E. Weymouth. supervising en-
gineer of the United States reclama-
tion service at Boise, Idaho, was
named as chief of construction to sue
ceed Sydney b. Williamson by Secre-
tary of the Interior Franklin X. Lane.
He will make his headquarters ia
Denver.
An anonymous letter, threat to
blow up the courthouse unless Ben b.
Lindsey OF the Juvenile Court and
Mrs. Ida h. Gregory, clerk of that
court, are removed from office. was
received by District Attorney Rush OF
Denver and given to the postoffioe in
spectors.
At the annual state convention of
the Y. NJ. C. A. at Greeley. a. subject
OF felicitation was that the associa.
tions OF the state took in 1888 new
members during the year. At last
years convention the slogan was
Two Thousand New Members" The
associations came within two mem
bers Of reaching their goal.
Mrs. Emerson ]. Short of Denver.
former president of the South Side
Woman's Club, has been appointed
Denver chairman OF the enrolment
committee of the womans section Of
the Navy League Of the United States
by Elizabeth Ellicott Poe panerai sac