The Ordway new era., 1917-04-13


A patriotic meeting was held at
Durango.
Loveland voted $4,000 bond issue
for municipal light plant.
| Colorado offered her industrial
plants TO the nation for war purposes.
Receipts OF the Denver postotfice
for March were s20,s3l.S5 greater
| than year ago.
Denver housewives throughout the
! city are beginning to lay in supplies
to last over the summer
| Mrs. Stella Smith, on trial in Den
| yer for the murder of her husband,
| Lawrence Smith, was acquitted.
The Wndhorse Valley OIL company
has an exhibit OF water containing
oil taken from its well in Wildhorse
Park.
Seven persons were injured and
three automobiles and buggy badly
smashed in two accidents at Lu-
cerne
Letters going through the Denver
postoffice are now being stamped
Rocky Mountain National Park
Opens May /. 1911"
W. Hickey. located 20 miles south
OF Lamar. sold his 1916 crop of pinto
beans at cents, total $4,000, and
his broom corn for $4,000.
Harry B. Tedrow. United States dis.
trict attorney, issued a statement ap-
pealing 10 the residents OF Denver and
Colorado TO maintain order.
Development is active in the Grip
pie Greek district. The outlook for
an increased output OF ore as the sea.
son advances is very bright.
Il is now stated that the loss on
the Auckland alfalfa mill. grain and
hay, between Olney and Ordway, was
over $4,000 and insurance $4,000.
The annual report OF the state in.
spector of mines estimated the area
OF the coal deposits OF Routt county,
the Yampa field at 4i0 square miles.
Gustave Dietz OF Leadville com.
mitted suicide by shooting himself
through the head in barn at the real
of 1926 Larimer street in Denver.
All Colorado has awakened to the
need OF men for national defense. and
the war declaration from the nations
capital found an answering echo in
the west
Every possible protection that the
state can give will be extended 10
loyal naturalized Americans OF Ger.
man birth, Gov. Julius C. Gunter an
Hounced.
The first Denver girl to enroll in
the school for wireless telegraphy to
be organized at the Manual Training
High school for recruits, is Miss Irene
Bradbury.
1t is expected that the old Chatau-
qua mine, located in Evans basin. Gun
nison county, will be worked this sea
son. 1t is a high-grade lead-silver
proposition.
Jesse Hallar returned TO Cortez
from Denver. where he spent several
weeks in the interest of his Hallarite.
the welding mineral on his lands
near Cortez-
DR.. c. W. Thompson and DR.. Philip
Work OF Pueblo, members of the
United States medical reserve, re-
ceiyed commissions as lieutenants in
the federal army.
The Big Eight Oil, Gas and Develop
ment company, drilling on the Rock
Canon Dome seven miles west Of Pue-
bio, are expecting to strike oil in the
second Dakota sandstone.
With the first call for a volunteer
army or conscription. Fort Logan will
be made one of the largest recruiting
stations in the West, according to
word which has been received from
Washington.
Cold and a driving snowstorm
failed TO prevent citizens in the vi
cinity Of Bailey. in Platte canon, from
expressing their patriotism at flag.
raising exercise held in the one.room
schooIhouse there.
Five thousand forest rangers, har-
dened through service on the trails.
will be ready to saddle and pack for
duty in the most dangerous branch
OF war-that of scouts-in the event
they are needed. They have been in
training for years
One of the most important under
takings in the history OF the state was
initiated when plans were made for a
statewide commission to finance the
planting of vastly increased crop
areas in Colorado this year to meet
the expanding shortage in food stuff
Denver police and federal author
tiles are understood to be working on
authenticated reports that Mexican,
Jose Mendoza, protesting TO be a Car
rama agent. is working lower Seven
teenth street the employment agency
district, recruiting aliens to go to