The Ordway new era., 1917-02-09

E. c. Englehoff. 80. OF Cheyenne
committed suicide in a Denver hotel.
The postoffice at Bennett, about forty
miles east OF Denver, was destroyed
by fire The damage is estimated at
$4,000.
Colorado has a total area of 66,Sil,-
l2O acres of land, Of which l6,6iS,3Sl
is grazing land, 2,lSo,64o irrigated
land and S24.9s3 acres coal land.
The state OF Colorado has li,sOS,-
l27 acres OF land open for entry
l3,O94 .s7S acres OF forest reserve and
total valuation OF sl.2ll .697,27s.
Mary E. Lathrop has been admitted
TO practice in the United States Su-
preme Court, the first woman attorney
in Colorado 10 receive that privilege,
Articles OF incorporation OF the
Buck Aerial Craft Corporation. capi-
talized at 100000, were filed with
Secretary of State holland in Denver.
Between 100000 and s3,o0o,ooo
will be realized for the building OF
good roads in Colorado as the result
OF action taken in the United States
Senate.
Feeling is running high at Fort Col
Iins over the killing by an unidenti-
fled motorist of A. T. Gilkison, 60, pio-
neer OF this section and widely known
mining man.
Colorado has l,O6O.G97 range cattle.
worth s4I.753, ,O53: l0l, ,232 mich cows
worth s6,723,117; 307,9O2 horses val
ued at s21.7lG.i79, and 1.O5O,105 sheep
worth s5.0S9,S ,S73.
The United States civil service com
mission announces an examination for
the position OF general mechanic" in
the custodian service, to be held in
Denver, Feb. IS.
Depressing effect on the Boulder
and San Juan tungsten fields is pre-
dicted at Boulder as a result OF news
received that Portugal has raised her
embargo on the black metal.
The taking OF evidence in the peti-
ton OF the Colorado Fair Rates Asso-
citation to the interstate commerce
commission, in which the Colorado
public utilities commission Joined,
asking for a readjustment OF the rates
in the Denver territory. have been con-
cluded.
Suits aggregating $4,000 have been
filed in the District Court at Golden
on change of venue from Summit
! county against the Colorado & South
| ern Railway Company for damages al
legged to have been caused four pas
| sengers as a result OF the big snow OF
Dec. 4, 1918.
Charged with the embezzlement of
| s179.93 of the funds OF the Colorado
Tungsten Mines Company, information
was filed in the West Side court of
Denver against DR.. w. NJ. Long, for
mer president, and H. E. Jones, for
mer vice president of the company.
Both defendants live in Boulder.
L. NJ. Kaufman, &c. and Edward
Lee, %, arrested when they attempted
to hold up Night Marshal Virgil Ste
vens at Littleton, were identified by
NJ. NJ. Post and jeremiah Mccarthy,
Denver Tramway trainmen, as the pair
who held them up at the end OF the
Argo car line on the night OF Jan. 20.
Contracts were signed for the deliv-
| cry OF 5000 head of fall lambs at $40
per hundred, the highest price ever
paid for lambs in the history of sheep
feeding in the Arkansas valley. The
order was placed with a Las Animas
sheep grower and as far as known ex.
ceeds any previous contract price for
unborn lambs.
nnA nf ba t-t-a 1,I- l.
bers who held up and robbed the
Stockmen's National Bank at Brush,
| on Dec. IS, and obtained $4,000, at
tempted to commit suicide in the Nor
gan county Jail at Fort Morgan on the
eve of his departure for Canon City to
serve sentence of from twenty to
twenty-five years.
The entangled affairs of Alfred Null
Ter. formerly secretary OF the Nation.
al Jewish Hospital for Consum ptiyes,
whose death in August, 1911, revealed
that for period of almost ten years
he had converted to his own use nu.
merous funds which had been entrust-
ed to him. will again be probed into
bye the Denver courts.
Potatoes have become an actual
rival OF the apple. The retail price
on potatoes has jumped % cents per
hundred weight in Denver. All the
purchaser gets now for a two bit
piece is six pounds. The advance is
from 1926 to $3.50 per hundred
pounds for white and $3.50 to s3.75
for reds. Dealers say the Greeley
producers are receiving s2.s5 per hun
dredweight and are holding out for
more. 1t is predicted that before
prices drop potatoes will go to s. per
hundred in Denver.
The deportation of aliens from the
Denver district has been ordered sus-